Working on a San Francisco Bay Area Antioch Alumni Database

Well just last Sunday I attended a gathering of Bay Area Alumni. Which I have to say was a good turn out. What I didn't expect was to get drafted into build or creating a Bay Area Alumni database. I feel bad for the Antiochians they are really trying to put there heads together. It's CG all over again but without being face to face. I stayed away from CG when I was a student. It was fustrating to watch people bang there heads for day or months and have little if anything to show for it.

For my part of I have most likely haven't helped much since I don't think anyone is really listening, at least on the mailing list. Everyone is so focused on saving Antioch and so far the only solutions they have seems to be raise money, create website, create user database, and save Antioch. Multiple people including myself have made sugestions on what software to use for the user database and money rasing. CiviCRM seems to be the choice other people have used. Sure with the right skilled people they could build there own too, if someone has the time to work for free. There is even a company that can provide all of that for Free or a monthly cost of $50 (thats $600 for a year and then the College doors close anyway if they can't raise the money).

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Taking the BOT to court MUST be considered!Add this to the list!

The list of "ways to save Antioch" in your post about the Bay area alumni didn't include facing the BOT head on in court, using raised money for lawyers, trying to remove them or scare them.

The current discussion accepts the WRONG BOT claim that Antioch cannot survive without more money or in it's current "poverty."

That's just not so, yet people accept it, and have allowed the BOT to "frame" the discussion and define it. They (you) are playing right into the BOT's hands doing this.

Fight 'em...don't try to make nice with them. Nice guys and nice Anitoch alumni will finish last, and THAT is what the BOT and the Antioch U. leaders (Dr. Toni Murdock) want.

Best,
Yazz Allen '66 (not the same as Yazz Atlas '97)