Video by Steve Bognar

 

 Voices of Recent Antioch College Graduates 1997-2007 : Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

WYSO has uploaded their recordings of the Saturday afternoon sessions of the Antioch University Board of Trustee meetings in Cincinatti. These are almost certainly higher quality than the versions from our streams. Thanks again to WYSO for providing this wonderful resource.

These recordings were found here on WYSO’s audio archives website.

Also Ed M Koziarski posted a great summary of this meeting, I’m including that below

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 Saturday 08/25/07 Afternoon Session #1 [104:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Saturday 08/25/07 Afternoon Session #2 [90:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Thanks to Michael Caselli for recording the meeting in Kelly Hall this morning;

“Stakeholder synopsis of the meetings that took place in Cincinnati plus the announcement of the press release from the BoT agreeing to work collaboratively with the AB based upon what they heard in Cincinnati”

 

 Monday Morning Stakeholders summary & press release announcement: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Just found this link on WYSO’s website with the audio of the Sunday morning meeting of the Antioch University Board of Trustees with former Board members regarding the impending closure of Antioch College.

Podcast friendly link directly to this audio is provided below.

Thank you to WYSO for providing this wonderful resource.

 

 Sun. 8-26- Antioch College Board Mtg. [79:18m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Recordings from the morning of August 25, 2007 at the Antioch University Board of Trustees meeting with ‘Stakeholders’ at the Holiday Inn Cincinnati Airport

Saturday AM Session - Cleaned, Edited & Organized

The following courtesy of Alan Benard ‘92 who cleaned up and edited the entire morning session by speaker. Please drop him a note of thanks for doing all this (and he’s busy working on the Saturday afternoon ones now too).

Pardon any spelling errors, please reply with corrections and I’ll fix them.

• Segment 01 - Art Zucker ‘55, President, Antioch University Board of Trustees
• Segment 02 - Moderator
• Segment 03 -Alumni Board Statement, Catherine Jordan
• Segment 04 - CMs Intro Group 1
• Segment 05 - Jill Becker, Faculty
• Segment 06 - CMs
• Segment 07 - Carole Braun, Faculty
• Segment 08 - Tony Dallas, YS resident and son of former Faculty member
• Segment 09 - Sam Eckenrode, YS Business Owner
• Segment 10 - Amanda, Student
• Segment 11- CMs Intro Group 2
• Segment 12 - Noreen Dean-Dresser (sp?), NY Alumnua
• Segment 13 - Chris Hill, Faculty
• Segment 14 - Howard Cort, Alumnus
• Segment 15 - Amy Peterson, UE 767 (sp?)
• Segment 16 - Michael Jones, YS Resident
• Segment 17 - Entering 1st Year Student
• Segment 18 - CMs Intro Group 3
• Segment 19 - Eric Miller, Faculty
• Segment 20 - Alumnus, Class of ‘94
• Segment 21 - Judith Hempfling, YS Village Council
• Segment 22 - Patty Dallas, YS resident, oral historian
• Segment 23 - Dimi Reber, Emeritus Faculty
• Segment 24 - CMs Intro Group 4
• Segment 25 - Julian Sharp (sp?), Senior student
• Segment 26 - Pat Mische, Faculty
• Segment 27 - Megan Rosenfeld, 2nd generation alumna ‘69
• Segment 28 - Charlie von Holstein, 1st year entering student
• Segment 29 - CMs Intro Group 5
• Segment 30 - Ken Huber, YS resident
• Segment 31 - Mariel Treman, transfer student
• Segment 32 - Ted Goertzel, Alumnus ‘64
• Segment 33 - Peter Townsend, Faculty
• Segment 34 - CMs Intro Group 6
• Segment 35 - Brian Springer - YS resident
• Segment 36 - Alice Robrish, YS resident
• Segment 37 - Larry Rubin, Alumnus
• Segment 38 - Jack Ward, 1st year entering student
• Segment 39 - CMs Intro Group 7
• Segment 40 - Tom Haugsby, Faculty
• Segment 41 - Ben Horlocker, 1st year entering student
• Segment 42 - Moderator closes queue
• Segment 43 - Karen Mulhauser, alumna ‘65, Former Trustee, Former Alumni Board President
• Segment 44 - Hassan Rahmanian, Faculty
• Segment 45 - Judith Wolert-Maldonado, Alumna, YS resident
• Segment 46 - Art Zucker, Closing Remarks

Also Ed M Koziarksi posted a great summary of this meeting and I’m posting that below

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 The entire morning session: Download

Raw unedited recordings from the Saturday meeetings in Cincinatti are available below. There are people working on editing & cleaning/balancing these but they are audible for the most part.

Updated versions will be posted here (as well as links to WYSO’s copies when they are available)

Note - These are currently the raw unedited versions. There were some tech problems at the beginning of the first afternoon session and thus the stream was stopped/started while we were trouble shooting. This affected only the beginning during the introductions.

 

 August 25, 2007 BOT Meeting - Morning: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 August 25, 2007 BOT Meeting - Afternoon#1 [97:29m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 August 25, 2007 BOT Meeting - Afternoon#2: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Yesterday, I sent my own meager bio listing my victories for humanity, but I really want (with her permission) to share the story of one of my best friends from Antioch, who truly embodies every value for which Antioch stands, and who is almost certainly too busy and too shy to trumpet her own considerable accomplishments.

Megan Rosado graduated from Antioch in 1997 with a self-designed major in community organization, based on her interests in social work and peace studies, and took a job with the Chicago Abused Women’s Coalition, which provides shelter services to women victimized by domestic violence. Although this is an emotionally draining and typically low-paying field, it was Megan’s first choice for employment. Beginning at a poverty-level salary, she took on the responsibilities of a Domestic Violence Counselor. Her clients, many of whom had no work history or dealt with substance abuse issues, had ninety days to reconstruct their lives, often leaving behind homes, families, and possessions. Megan labored diligently with each to ensure that they could build a life free of violence, generally working more than sixty hours a week.

An unwritten agency policy dictated that, domestic violence counseling being such a trying occupation, counselors should not hold the position longer than two years, to prevent burnout. At the end of two years’ tenure, CAWC created a new position for Megan, Head Counselor. Megan continued to counsel clients while at the same time overseeing all the other counselors and taking on other organizational duties.

Moving up the administrative ranks, for a short period, she worked as a Legal Advocate, accompanying battered women to court, where they often had to face their abusers, and advising them of their rights. Megan then began her current position, Volunteer Coordinator. In addition to many other essential responsibilities, she took on the recruitment and training of shelter volunteers. The training program, an intensive series of once-a-week workshops, runs for several months at a time. Its focus being to educate not only on domestic violence issues, but also race, class, gender, and other topics of sensitivity and tolerance, these trainings require a great deal of organization. Megan is responsible for dictating the content, and hiring speakers, often leading workshops and discussions herself.

In addition, Megan took a second job counseling abusers at night. When asked to co-facilitate the batterers group, her principles required her to accept. For Megan, it was a matter of putting her money where her mouth was, and after years of advocating court-ordered counseling for the perpetrators of domestic violence, she could not refuse when asked to lead such a program, despite its encroachment on her already limited time.

For ten years, Megan has consistently demonstrated the highest commitment to the work of domestic violence counseling, not only achieving success in her field and helping the people of Chicago, but standing every day on the front lines of the battle for humanity, and every day winning new victories. Megan is a shining example of the best that Antioch has to offer the world, a constant pillar of the community, regardless of what community she is in. If every graduate could move through the world with her intense work ethic and strong moral code, Horace Mann’s vision might be not only a rallying cry for Antiochians past, present, and future, but a global vision communicated through a language of good works.

Growing up on Chicago’s North Shore, I came to Antioch from a place of privilege, rather different from the experience of most of my new classmates. Although I considered myself open-minded, the Antioch community helped me recognize and unlearn racism, sexism, homophobia, and most importantly for me, the classism inherent in my upbringing. Immersion in a community of people who craved social justice taught me about compassion through action. In four years at Antioch, I saw my friends repeatedly challenge the government, the police, and the University, in pursuit of equality. I came to understand that the most marginalized in our society are those in the greatest need of champions, and I learned that all people share responsibility for their world. Without these lessons, I would not have been mentally equipped to help those I met on co-op: mentally ill adults at the Rose Hill Center work-therapy community, or CHINS (children in need of services) in State’s care at the Antrim Girls’ Shelter.

From an isolated individual, I became a person capable of living in and understanding communities, with the knowledge that my actions could affect others in negative or positive ways. In 1998, when I was assaulted on a business trip, my fear might have allowed a criminal to go free. With the support and encouragement of my fellow alums, I found the courage to testify against my attacker, who was sentenced to three years in prison. In turn, my Antioch friends’ attitude helped me persuade another friend to seek justice against a sexual predator in another country.

I can trace a direct line from Antioch to current work in my community. I first studied yoga at Antioch in 1995. In 2004, I became a certified yoga instructor, and although I no longer teach, I have carried with me the practice of karma yoga: active charity. During the school year, I spend three or four afternoons a week with elementary students, providing literacy enrichment for children who often do not see books or hear stories in their homes. Although it feels like a small contribution, my Antioch education has taught me that change is possible, fomented by dedicated individuals contributing what they can to causes in which they believe.

Monica Friedman
Class of ‘96

My name is Judy (Meyers) Cooper, and I graduated from Antioch in 1968 with a BA in sociology/anthropology.   I know that my experience at Antioch had a profound impact on my life – let me see if I can delineate some of the reasons why.

I was an adventurous, independent woman who had come to Antioch from a small town north of Boston.   Antioch “fit” me well – I had various co-op jobs in Florida, Philadelphia,  St. Louis, and Chicago, and spent a year abroad in India as part of the AEA program.   The independent travel, especially in foreign countries at the tender age of 20, taught me a lot about self-sufficiency; it also taught me that people are people, and that no one is “better” than anyone else.   All people have equal worth and dignity irrespective of their race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender orientation, military status, marital status, familial status, political affiliation, financial status, or physical disability.

When I first arrived at Antioch in the summer of 1963, I met with my freshman advisor who advised me to, “take the classes you like, and a major will develop.”   Ah HA – permission to learn, and enjoy learning at the same time.   No more pleasing others by my grades or classes, I was finally allowed to learn for the sheer joy of learning.

I was one of those students that usually attended classes, including the 0800 ones.   The upper level classes were small enough to allow good professor/student interaction.   One of my favorite anthropology professors (I forget his name) taught us critical reading skills – just because something is written down, does not necessarily mean it is true.   That knowledge has stood me well throughout my life – I am still questioning, both that which I do not understand, and that which I disagree with on a moral or ethical basis.

I learned that there is no such thing as “absolute” knowledge (well, excepting maybe the physical sciences) since the history of man taught in both an Introduction to Anthropology class and, I think, an Introduction to Psychology class, differed markedly from one another.

Stephen J. Gould (or his brother – I forgot which one taught the class) taught a mandatory class titled Introduction to AEA.   In that class we self-graded ourselves, and I gave myself a B, to the protestations of Mr. Gould.   He finally looked at me and said, “you perceive yourself as a B person, don’t you?”   I have never forgotten that comment and muse on it occasionally now.   I learned a lot about self-perception from that class.

I had met my husband at Antioch on my return from India; married, had two children, and 20 years later, filed for divorce.   Since the divorce, I have blossomed.   I spent 20 years of my life as a volunteer firefighter/paramedic with a small department outside of Denver, and for the last 12 of these years was the Fire Chief.   The critical thinking skills I learned at Antioch allowed me to creatively problem-solve all the myriad of tasks involved with running a fire department of 66 square miles, 36 firefighters, and over 200 combined medical/fire incidents per year.   The love of learning I had honed at Antioch spurred me to attend National Fire Academy classes; the sense of social justice I had learned at Antioch spurred me to report an instance of sexual harassment (would you believe I took on the Federal Government?   Talk about NAÏVE!!).   I am proud to say that I had an influence, small though it may be, on the National Fire Service by my published article in Fire Chief magazine on the subject.

Since I moved to the Tucson area over three years ago, I have joined the local chapter of PFLAG (Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) and am now on their BOD.   I question when I perceive injustices, and currently am in the midst of “stirring the pot” in this organization since I addressed comments made by the President of this local PFLAG chapter concerning the acceptance of the transgendered community at our meetings.   (I should add that I have both a gay son and a boyfriend who considers himself cross-gendered, since he cross-dresses on occasion).  In life you pick your battles, and this was one area where I felt it was wrong to remain silent.

I have been working as a nurse for the past 15 years, and bring my myriad experience with people to work with me.   I consider that I am now living a life full of purpose, and know that I am a damn good nurse at that.   Everyday I have an opportunity to positively impact the people that I come in contact with, and relish these opportunities.

You know, some Antioch graduates are now Presidents of companies whose sole purpose is to move social change.   Others, like me, do not consider themselves such active “movers and shakers,” but, in our own indomitable way, are carrying on the Antioch tradition.    I know that I have had a positive impact on the national fire service, albeit small that it may have been, and I continue to have a positive impact wherever I go.

I am now nearly 62 years old and figure I have at least another 20 years of my life available to contribute where I can.    (Did I add that I am now a little bored, since I only work two 12-hour shifts per week?)   I believe if I keep an open mind, something else will come along that I can sink my teeth into.

I apologize for the length of this essay, I do get carried away.

Judy Cooper