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...First Crusade. The maimed pilgrim boards a ship at Genoa and then finds his progress stalled. He is captured by pirates and put up for sale at a slave market in Tripoli. His purchaser, a wealthy Turkish merchant, immediately negotiates his freedom and brings him home in friendship to Antioch, that unfortunate city whose destiny lies between the Crusaders and their goal. Looking out at the tents of the besieging armies, the German Jew reflects on the oddity of his position: "I stand on this wall built by a Roman emperor and keep watch on the Franks with a Turkish...
...Affirmative Action Coalition, to bring a legal complaint against the school for discrimination in hiring practices. He doesn't think the complaint will succeed, although he does hope it will also put pressure on the administration to hire more minority professors. He cites administration response at Columbia and Antioch Colleges to similar complaints as precedents for such a move at Harvard Law School...
...impressive on job applications. Antioch, which expanded into an unmanageable national network of 32 experimental institutions, stumbled to the verge of bankruptcy in the 1970s, and is drastically cutting costs to survive. But the spirit of Rousseau flickers on. Rollins, which has sometimes been dismissed as a Florida tennis school, is trying to organize a conference for such like-minded colleges as Bard, Bennington, Sarah Lawrence and Scripps on how best to pursue the goal of "making higher education more personal and developmental rather than formalistic...
...anyone. He continues, "The problem with being an active international scholar, as most members of the Harvard faculty are, is that the professional responsibilities are enormous, and there isn't that much time. There is no way that any of us could be like the best of the Antioch teachers." Not that Antioch was necessarily better, he says, only that students must recognize and accept the differences among colleges and make their choices accordingly...
That political involvement began when Gould, a native of Queens, New York--"way out in Archie Bunkerland," he says--went to Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in the early sixties. Southwestern Ohio, adjacent to Kentucky, still bore the stamp of the South in those days. "When I went there," he says, "most things were still segregated--theaters, bowling alleys, some restaurants. It wasn't like the deep South; segregation wasn't legislated, it was just a matter of custom." So Gould joined with a group of other students to fight the customs, and won. "It was exhilarating...