Losing Antioch

For those of you who may remember my posts from last year about the closing of my college, Antioch College, here’s a very sad update from The New York Times.
This is the worst thing that could have happened. I have often told myself that one day I would publish books and I would give back [...]

What You Love

It would never have occurred to me, years after graduating college, that the place would mean as much to me as it does now. College was good, sure, but I had always thought that graduate school was where my real-life happiness began, where I wrote fiction full-time, where I edited the journal, when e came [...]

Yes! Yes! Yes!

Listening to Nonstop Antioch streaming live right now. Just announced we are staying open! With a new Board of Trustees just for the College to be formed!
I am !!!!!!!!!!.
I am !!!!.
And !!!!.
They’re explaining details. But all I can think is !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

Limbo

No answer yet, and none expected for one, two, three (?) days. As a writer, I am all too familiar with this state of waiting. Someone says they have an answer for you, but they don’t know when. It could be good, they hint, but they don’t say it outright, which brings to mind the [...]

Waiting…

This afternoon members of the Antioch College community are expecting (hoping) for a decision from the university Board of Trustees announcing that the college can stay open past the spring of 2008. The Alumni Board has raised more than $18 million to that end.
We want a yes.
As you can see, signs have been put up [...]

Ohio, Here I Come

Please please please let Antioch College stay open. I’m headed to Ohio now. (Pictured here is an image I remember from my admissions brochure.)
I’ll be on campus shortly, to return to the place where I:
had my eyes opened • had my ideas and views challenged • found inspiration • found my voice • studied harder [...]