tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29361741.post7534521254599312124..comments2023-12-30T05:22:27.108-05:00Comments on The New York Crank: Antioch College is dead, thanks to its untrustworthy trustees. Is the wonderfully quirky town of Yellow Springs, Ohio, next?The New York Crankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04489472134701718697noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29361741.post-91409911049657861562011-01-07T04:26:01.308-05:002011-01-07T04:26:01.308-05:00Good Information.. Thank You For Sharing..Good Information.. Thank You For Sharing..ASA Collegehttp://www.asa.edunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29361741.post-51404555641978153622008-03-20T10:07:00.000-04:002008-03-20T10:07:00.000-04:00Robert, I have absolutely no idea what in the name...Robert, I have absolutely no idea what in the name of Horace Mann you're talking about.<BR/><BR/>"Reach out to the rest of the community for support and organizing?" The rest of the community is what decided to close Antioch. And yes, management was most certainly poor. The trustees and university management organized Antioch College into failure over a period of three decades. It was the same management that was managing everything else under the Antioch University umbrella.<BR/><BR/>The alums raised $8 million – not much for some colleges, but a veritable fortune by Antioch standards – and did it in a heartbeat. The reaction of the trustees was to in effect tell them to go screw themselves and to close the college.<BR/><BR/>I suspect you were smoking loco weed before you sent in your comment, Robert. That also would be very Antiochian, but not much help. And it most certainly would explain your fuzzy logic.<BR/><BR/>Yours very crankily,<BR/>The New York CrankThe New York Crankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04489472134701718697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29361741.post-91147011912234837862008-03-19T19:20:00.000-04:002008-03-19T19:20:00.000-04:00The college was poorly managed. The true Antioc...The college was poorly managed. The true Antiochian thing to do would have been to reach out to the rest of the community for support and organizing. Yet supporters decided instead to scapegoat the other campuses - adolescent. A lost opportunity.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08661288111632496357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29361741.post-23052822385312620452008-03-04T01:52:00.000-05:002008-03-04T01:52:00.000-05:00Dont they teach evolution at Antioch? Sounds like ...Dont they teach evolution at Antioch? Sounds like natural selection to me:<BR/><BR/>http://www.dirckthenoorman.com/?p=517Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06575003706432714000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29361741.post-19230314427232561092008-02-25T18:10:00.000-05:002008-02-25T18:10:00.000-05:00We have such a strong art community here and such ...We have such a strong art community here and such a fun interesting village that I think we will still attract quirky people, just not on the same scale. Depends if those quirky people can get a local job too.<BR/><BR/>Still it is very very disheartening to see how this has progressed and it is a terrible loss :(jafabrithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04490900607853203086noreply@blogger.com