July 17, 2008
Hi from Tex Allen, Antioch College Ohio alumnus (Email me directly at TexAllen@Hotmail.Com):
Even though Antioch College Ohio is now closed down (as of June 30, 2008), several Antioch College Ohio interest websites continue to keep memories and discussion about Antioch College Ohio alive.
The oldest is WWW.AntiRecord.Org (est. 1998) and other have followed.
One other site called THE BLAZE was started by the BLAZE COLLECTIVE (contact information below) and that site has requested contributions and writing pieces for its site.
What follows is a reply I wrote to the Antioch College Ohio alumni chatline to a message posted by THE BLAZE COLLECTIVE today, July 17, 2008, urging Antioch College Ohio supporters and others to provide writing contributions to ALL Antioch College Ohio cyberspace and other publications so discussion and memories of Antioch College Ohio will be kept alive, even though the school currently (July 2008) is closed down:
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Support THE BLAZE cyberspace publication and other Antioch College Ohio watchdog/ interest websites, and non-cyberspace publications if / when they exist and arrive (cyberspace could disappear overnight if/ when the phone companies which connect the world's computers crash or end for any reason...this could happen, and it would be baaaaaaaaaaaaaack to mass produced paper communications of the sort which started with Gubenberg and dominated mass communications until the 1990's!...Never entirely abandon the "bombshelter mentality" or REALLY believe, with Dr. Pangloss from Voltaire's CANDIDE, that this is "the best of all possible worlds.")
ALSO support OTHER Antioch College Ohio interest/ watchdog websites and communications efforts. Contribute writing, research, communications to 'em all!
The OLDEST of these is WWW.AntiRecord.Org Antioch College Ohio interest/ watchdog website started in 1998 by Daniel Thomas "Yazz" Atlas, Antioch '97, who became a computer pro of great and high accomplishments after Antioch (see his impressive computer pro resume by searching WWW.Google.Com and hire him for well-paying computer comsulting jobs often!). The WWW.AntiRecord.Org site first had the controversial and dramatic title: WWW.AntiochSucks.Com and for a long time was the ONLY truly independent (i.e. NOT controlled by Antioch on-the-payroll workers/ officials) Antioch College Ohio website open to all commentators, friends or foes of Antioch College Ohio.
Contribute to the WWW.AntiRecord.Org site and keep the memory and outrage about the wrong closing of Antioch College Ohio alive and out there in cyberspace. Articles which appear on the WWW.AntiRecord.Org site ALL get indexed and in time are available to search engines such as WWW.Google.Com sites available to researchers and others who want the truth about Antioch College Ohio unlikely to be provided by "official" voices controlling the school, or what remains of it.
Subjects and personalities part of the Antioch College Ohio saga and story can be researched via WWW.Google.Com type search engines using only names or subject phrases as search terms once a substantial and well designed Antioch College Ohio interest/ watchdog website gets information, publishes it, and that information finds its way to search engines.
All this keeps Antioch College Ohio ALIVE and REMEMBERED even though the bad guys have shut down the school, closed the buildings, kicked out the people, and turned the Antioch College Ohio campus we attended (alumni like me) and loved into a "has been" place.
Again, good luck to and support THE BLAZE website and cyberspace publication, AND IN ADDITION support and never forget OTHER Antioch College Ohio interest websites available for YOUR words of wisdom and important information...including WWW.AntiRecord.Org Antioch College Ohio interest/ watchdog website, founded by and still managed by prominent California computer pro Daniel Thomas "Yazz" Atlas, Antioch '97 (site established in 1998...the oldest one!).
Best wishes always,
Tex Allen,
Antioch alumnus and frequent contributor to WWW.AntiRecord.Org
PS....The above was a reply to the Antioch Alumni Chatline publication of the following communication from the Antioch College Ohio interest/ watchdog group called "The Blaze Collective"....their communication was sent July 17, 08 to Antioch alumni and others, and appears below:
> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:58:38 -0400
> From: theblazecollective@blazenews.org
> To: acan@antiochians.org; communications@antiochians.org; organizers@antiochians.org; alumni-chat@w3.antioch.edu
> CC:
> Subject: [Alumni-chat] Thanks Guys!
>
> Hey Y'all,
>
> We have had over 100 visit The Blaze since the last article "And the Oscar
> Goes to…: Barbara Danley's Tenure: The Irreverent, Close-Enough, Razzie
> Edition" (http://blazenews.org/47/and-the-oscar-goes-to). That's a new
> record for us!
> Here at The Blaze, we are very excited about all this attention!
>
> I just want to take a moment to remind everyone that we are always very
> excited about getting more submissions. So if you have an article, or an
> idea for an article, that seems appropriate for publishing in The Blaze please
> drop us a line at submissions@blazenews.org we'd love to hear from you!
>
> Armed and Dangerous,
>
> The Blaze Editorial Collective
>
> --
> The Blaze Editorial Collective
>
> blaze@blazenews.org
> http://blazenews.org
>
> "In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should
> afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably,
> contentedly, even happily wrong."
>
> - John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
