Feb. 29, 08

Happy Leap Year Day from Yazz (David Roger) Allen '66 (Email me directly at YazzAllen@Yahoo.Com):

Here's my "Leap Year Day Statement" about the tragedy announced last week via AU BOT press release that Antioch's REALLY "final days" will come in June 2008! Just what the AU BOT guys and gals stated LAST June 2007...how about that? Some people NEVER change their minds or their ways, and the AU BOT folks are examples of note, and fame!

Hi from Yazz Allen ' 66 (contact YazzAllen@Yahoo.Com)!

If the Antioch College, Ohio residential undergrad program is closed down (as Antioch University Trustees announced in June 2007 would happen by July 2008), a group of adult ed non-residential schools bearing the name "Antioch University" will remain...and these schools may well increasingly provide "University Of Phoenix" type education, even though the "Antioch" name remains.

Here's information about the Unversity Of Phoenix, and why persons interested in Antioch College, Ohio, past and present, should consider the connection between the two educational "institutions."

Michael Casselli, Antioch College alumnus, posted the following message written yesterday (July 20, 2007) by Mary Lou LaPierre, Vice Chancellor, Office Of Development, Antioich University World Headquarters (she's the senior paid PR person for Antioch University Board Of Trustees).

Ms. LaPierre states firmly the Antioch University Board Of Trustees has NO intention of allowing Antioch College to remain open after the announced July 2008 closedown date. The Antioch University Board Of Trustees (Ms. LaPierre is their official, paid spokesperson)) will NOT be moved by all the fund raising going on now.

Unless the Antioch University Board Of Trustees is stopped legally (injunction, removed due to malfeasance, etc.), the closedown will proceed. This closedown announcement is NOT about money, as claimed. It's about power for the Antioch University Board Of Trustees and administrators, and the remaining University Of Phoenix type campuses which will carry the name "Antioch" but will go down in history (unless stopped) as assassins of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, founded in 1852 by Horace Mann.