Over at freepress.org there is a nice column and written by Bob Fitrakis. I quoted a few bit to tease you into reading the full article.
You can't generally hold a writer responsible for a headline, usually written by an editor, but you can take issue with it. The headline "Antioch's sunk itself by refusing to evolve," in the June 17 Columbus Dispatch over a Mike Harden column, suggests that the new corporate college and university model is in some way a step forward for humanity.
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From the beginning, Antioch ran deficits, close to 40% of its budget between 1857 and 1859. In 1862, the college closed until the end of the Civil War. Had the college held more "evolved" ideas such as racism, sexism, and capitalism, they would have no doubt taken care of their budget problems with funds from understanding plutocratic donors.
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As the country jack-stepped to the Right in the Reagan era, and became corporate Democrats under Clinton, it was Antioch students who fought the good fight, not hidden away at Yellow Springs, but here in Columbus. It was Antioch students who were victims of police brutality and viciously beaten by Columbus' finest for peacefully demonstrating against cuts in student loans at the federal building in the mid-90s.
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Most excellent article
Thanks for finding that. It cheered me up.
If Antioch isn't a cause celebre in the nationwide progressive community, then the progressive community has failed. At least, in Ohio, it's getting some props.
Alan Benard, '92
When I was in high school
When I was in high school looking at colleges, I found information about one in Kentucky that served a poor, Appalachian population whose students worked, to maintin the college. Antioch, of course, Antioch has a good union and there's CWSP, but I wonder if there might alternatives to reliance on 28,000. FTEs to keep the college alive.