Hello from Yazz Allen (aka David Allen), Antioch '66! Email me direcly at YazzAllen@Yahoo.Com.

A 1997 Antioch College graduate named Ed Koziarski wrote a letter to the editor of the CHICAGO TRIBUNE which they published, and gave great prominance to. He protested the TRIBUNE's wrong coverage of the Antioch 2007 reunion, and stated Antioch College isn't dead as the TRIBUNE reported, but is very much alive with good chances of surviving the current crisis.

His words, his manner of expressing his point, were and are quite brilliant and wonderful. Koziarski succeeded in making a short, easy to read statement which at once states the overall case for the great value of Antioch College, shows a plan is underway which will relieve problems Antioch faces, and also disowns the Antioch University BOT and subordinate administrators who perpetrated this whole mess to begin with.

The "Koziarski Statement" could really be used to rally and unite the various disconnected Antioch alumni groups around the country and outside it now meeting. If it is circulated and adopted as the Antioch College alumni "Declaration Of Independence," the present disunity and confusion among the many who object to the closedown announcement might be overcome.

Here is the "Koziarski Statement" from Ed Koziarski as published in the Chicago Tribune yesterday