News Archive
Yellow Springs Village Council mandates wearing masks downtown
The Yellow Springs News reports that a special Council meeting was held on Wednesday, July 8, during which two new laws were passed. The most significant law was passed unanimously and rules that facial coverings must be worn in places where physical...
Alan Brownstein ’69: Down With The Traitors And Up With The Stars
Alan Brownstein '69 expresses his view on Trump and the debate about American symbols and monuments in an opinion piece published by The Hill on July 7, 2020. "During the national debate about American symbols and monuments, Donald Trump makes two...
Mary Mann to Nathaniel Peabody
One of the best first-hand sources on life at Antioch College in its earliest days was the wife of its first president, Mary Peabody Mann. Her frequent letters home to her family in Boston, held by Antiochiana because of the tireless collecting...
Eric Rhodes ’16 Examines Ohio’s Confederate History
In an article for Belt Magazine, Eric Rhodes ’16 writes about Ohio’s long and complicated relationship with the confederacy. He leads us on a journey through history in order to examine why Ohio, a historically blue state, has recently voted against...
Yellow Springs Council Declares Racism a “Public Health Crisis”
On June 15, the Village Council has declared racism a public health crisis and made a commitment to taking “meaningful action” in response to the “death, trauma and injury caused by institutional racism.” As the Yellow Springs News reports, “The...
House Democrats Pass DC Statehood Bill
House Democrats have approved a bill to admit Washington, D.C., as a state on Friday, June 26, 2020. As reported by CNN, The bill, introduced by DC's nonvoting House member, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, would shrink the federal capital to a small...
10 Day Challenge: My Love Can Change My World
My Love Can Change My World is a ten-day challenge created by Nzingha Dalila, Director of Counseling Services. Are you up for a challenge? The 10-Day My Love Can Change My World Challenge was created by Nzingha Dalila, Director of Counseling...
Black Student Union Awards
Filmmaker and alumna Julia Reichert '70 will be the College’s Commencement speaker at its virtual ceremony to be streamed on Saturday, June 20, 2020 at 1 PM ET. The livestream will be available to view by the public on the College’s Commencement...
Week 1: Building a Mud Oven
As part of their Resilience in the Anthropocene: Natural Building course taught during the Spring of 2020, Beth Bridgeman and Marianthe Bickett ’15 had planned to build a mud oven together with their students. Unfortunately, due to COVID-19, they had...
Terri Windling ’79 Announces Bumblehill Press
On her blog, Myth & Moor, Terri Windling '79 has recently announced that she will be dipping her toes into the water of publishing with the establishment of Bumblehill Press. Their first publication is The Color of Angels. The Color of Angels...