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P.J. Huffstutter of the Los Angeles Times is reporting this week from Yellow Springs:
“Lawn signs and bumper stickers around town still rally support for Antioch College — an academic icon of the 1960s counterculture and the civil rights and antiwar movements that ran out of money and closed more than a year ago.
“The dream of bringing the college back has never wavered among the residents of this Ohio village of 3,800. The school and its owner, Antioch University, were among the largest employers in Yellow Springs, and many alumni have never left: At least 1 in 5 people attended the college or had family that did.
“I haven’t talked to anyone who doesn’t want the college back,” said Tom Gray, owner of Tom’s Market, the village’s grocery store. “It’s a part of the town’s identity. Losing it was like losing a limb.”
A group of alumni has raised nearly $6.2 million to purchase the 1,300-acre campus and plans to open the school again in 2011 with a freshman class of 120.
The deal is expected to close by the end of the week. The college will retain the Antioch name but will no longer be part of the Antioch University network, which includes campuses in Culver City; Santa Barbara; Keene, N.H.; and Seattle. Read more
About the image: Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, which was founded in 1852, was one of the nation’s first coed institutions of higher education. It closed last year. [Photo by Skip Peterson/AP/LA Times]
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