Editor:
Jocelyn Robinson

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Contributing Writers:
Rachel Moulton '97
Crystal Kelliher '03
Fred Kraus
Jocelyn Robinson
Callie Cary '84

Photography:
Dennie Eagleson ’71
Jack Palmer
Joe Neal
Shalini Deo '03
Jocelyn Robinson

Around Campus

Kristin Anderson, Assistant Professor of Psychology, has a forthcoming article in the journal Childhood Education entitled “Pop Culture or Parents? Children’s Heroes and Role Models at the Millennium.” The article, a collaboration with Donna Cavallaro at Santa Clara University, explores race and gender as factors in children’s choices of role models. Along with students Jessica George ’03 and Jessica Nease ’03, she also recently finished a project analyzing gender stereotypes in parenting books, and the trio has submitted a manuscript for publication. Additionally, Kris is working with SSC faculty member Melinda Kanner on a project that examines the representation of lesbian and gay characters in teen prime time dramas.

Tom Ayrsman ’79, Assistant Professor of Botany and Environmental Science, had a paper entitled: “The Use of the College Campus as an Environmental Science Laboratory” accepted for presentation at the September 2001 national conference “Greening of the Campus 4” at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. He has also been appointed to Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) Faculty for the 21st century. PKAL is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Education, and encourages professional development and teaching in undergraduate science education. Tom has also organized and participated in the 5th annual North American Alliance for Green Education (NAAGE) national conference. NAAGE is an association of 12 private undergraduate liberal arts colleges that have a significant environmental curriculum. He assisted in conference planning, articles of incorporation and accepted nomination to the Board of Directors, and accepted appointment as Executive Director for a second term. He presented a paper on “Ecological Restoration” at the organization’s August 2001 conference.

Anne Bohlen, Associate Professor of Film/Communications, received a $10,000 grant from the Ohio Arts Council for her new documentary, “Toxic Tours: Out Here in the Outback,” a tragi-comic new millennial road trip through the landscape of Ohio, where she grew up and now lives. Using satire and irony to expose the paradoxical reality of living in a beautiful area that has an extremely toxic undertow, Anne is hoping to raise awareness of the situation that has led to Ohio having the worst air and the second worst water in the nation, and over 34 major Superfund clean-up sites with many more under consideration. With the additional support of a four-month sabbatical from the College last spring, and the assistance of Antioch Communications graduates Diane Froelich ’99, Ann Theis ’99 and Seth Mulliken ’00, Erin McAvoy ’01 and Chad Johnston ’01 and current students, Leilah Weinraub ’04 and Laura Lincoln ’02, Anne was able to expand the research and development efforts, and begin shooting and preliminary editing. Antioch Environmental Studies students were instrumental in documenting the health situation of a neighborhood in Columbus near a Georgia Pacific plant with a history of violations, and their work is currently supporting a class action suit against the company. Anne hopes to include that story once the litigation is resolved. In the coming year, Anne will be fundraising and continuing production with an eye to a 2003 release date.

Andrew Carpenter, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, has written numerous reviews, including several for the upcoming issue of the Antioch Review 59 (2001). He has also presented papers on “Davidson’s Externalism: Neither Social Nor Perceptual,” delivered to the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2001; and “Three Theses from Kant’s Empirical Psychology,” delivered to the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, San Francisco, California, March 2001.

Bob Devine ’67, Professor of Communications, has written a retrospective article on public access for the summer 2001 edition of the journal Community Media Review on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Alliance for Community Media. The article, entitled “33 Years Later: Why Access?” discusses the role of Antioch College faculty and students in the development of public access during the 1960s and 1970s, and the principles and directions that have emerged from more than a quarter-century of change-oriented media education.

Dennie Eagleson ’71, Assistant Professor of Photography, was invited to review portfolios of photographers, both students and working professional artists, at the national conference of the Society of Photographic Educators (SPE) held in Savannah, Georgia in February of 2001. SPE is the primary professional organization for college level instructors of photography and artists working in the medium. In May, Dennie was invited to accompany Top Brass, a Dayton based brass ensemble to a week-long trip to Sarajevo, Bosnia. The group did a residency at the Srednje Music School and concerts at the American Embassy and a public concert hall, and a live television performance. Top Brass had organized a shipment of instruments and computers for use in the school, which arrived in January of 2001. Dennie created a document of the trip in still photographs which will be exhibited in the Dayton area. The trip was supported by grants from the NEA, Ohio Arts Council, and Dayton’s CultureWorks. While in Eastern Europe, Dennie took the opportunity to fly to Istanbul, Turkey to visit former student and Antioch alum, Perihan Sharpe ’91, who is working as a therapist in the city and recently married Tolga Tuzun, a Turkish jazz pianist and composer.

Ann Filemyr, Associate Dean of Faculty, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry for Skin on Skin, a book of poetry published in summer 2000. She has also had poetry published in the jazz issue of Urban Spaghetti and in New Song; was accepted for a Writers Residency at the Mary Anderson Center for the Arts; invited as a guest professor/lecturer for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee American Indian Studies field program on Beaver Island; accepted to give a presentation at the Race & Gender Symposium at Miami University; and invited to give a presentation at the annual T.E.A.M. Conference in Chicago (Teachers of Experiential and Adventure Methodologies). Ann has had essays and poetry published in Community Journal of Community Service, Inc. and continues to serve on their advisory board. She also directed the very successful second Antioch College Summer Writing Institute this past summer.

Robert Fogarty, Professor of History and editor of the Antioch Review, has published two articles in Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History, Volume III. One article, “Journals of Opinion,” describes the origins and development of such influential magazines as The Nation, The New Republic, Dissent, and National Review from the colonial era until the present time. Another article, “Literary Reviews and ‘Little Magazines’” is an analysis of the various types of literary journals that appeared during the twentieth century.

Chris Garcia, Assistant Professor of Visual Arts, traveled this past summer with his wife and two students to Nicaragua for a two-week studio arts course. He coordinated a class, Environmental and Cultural Workshop in Art, that involved the creation of work based on the overwhelming beauty and mystery of the island of Ometepe in Lake Nicaragua. They also developed artwork through the study of Pre-Columbian culture, as well as the art and society of present day Central America. The environment was sometimes challenging, but always inspirational.

Coming back to Ohio, he returned to his electric and gas kilns and Soldner mixer, pre-cleaned bagged clay and electric wheels. The experience at Ometepe revolves in his mind, edging him forward into new work.

Ohio Campus Compact has awarded a $2,000 Community Engagement Grant to Jahwara Giddings, Assistant Professor of African/African American Studies, for faculty to partner with a community-based organization or school to work together to meet an identified community need. This summer, students in Jahwara’s block course on local African American history produced a brochure on African American cultural resources in the Miami Valley as a community service project. Students who participated include: Chiara Bruckner ’03, Jennifer Doscher ’03, Melanie Griffin ’03, Donee Howard ’04, Edward Njoroge ’05, and Quasu Thwaites ’03. In addition, Jahwara is working with Dr. Frank Eguoaroje of the National Afro-American Museum and Center in Wilberforce, Ohio, to present a symposium this fall on human migration patterns in Africa and the Diaspora. The symposium will kick off planning for an international conference to be held at Antioch next spring.

Chris Hill, Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Arts, received a grant from Artslink/CEC International Partners in April 2001 to organize a symposium in Prague in conjunction with the FCCA (Contemporary Arts Center) Prague. Called “Performing the Archive,” the symposium will highlight artists using media archives and new media art in East Central Europe and will take place October 7-8, 2001. In March 2001 the Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio, published her essay “Marking Time at Shifting Cultural Borders” in the “Crossing Over” catalog. The “Crossing Over “ project, directed by Iliyana Nedkova and Nina Czegledy, presented video art produced in five workshops held in Sofia (Bulgaria), Novi Sad (Serbia), Ljubljana (Slovenia), and Columbus, Ohio from 1996-2000.

Adam Howard, Assistant Professor of Cooperative Education, has recently published a number of articles, some in collaboration with other Antioch colleagues, including “Examining Poor and Affluent Students’ Understandings of Academic Achievement” in Academic Exchange, Summer 2001; with Pat Linn: “Cooperative Education within a Liberal Arts Tradition” in Academic Exchange, Summer 2001; “Socioeconomic Context of Teaching and Learning” in “Insights for Changing World,” March 2001; “Changing Lives Through Teaching” in The Victory News Journal, March 2001; with Liz England Kennedy: “Transgressing Boundaries Through Learning Communities” in Journal of Cooperative Education, Winter 2001. He also presented “Allowing Children to Have Wonderful Ideas” to the Breakthrough Program, Wright State University, June 2001.

Melinda Kanner, Associate Professor of Anthropology, presented the annual Antioch College faculty lecture on April 12, 2001. Her topic was “Exotics, Eccentrics and Others: How Anthropology Takes a Public Beating and Why You Should Care.” Melinda’s queer theory reading and ethnographic study of audiences of the nationally aired, prime-time television program “Will and Grace” has been recognized by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) in the form of a grant awarded in January 2001. Melinda has also been conducting research on the implicit knowledge that underlies the native category of “butch” in the lesbian community.

Cheryl Keen, College Professor, has been practicing what she preaches and converted all her courses to include significant community service and collaborative action research opportunities in the community, specifically in Springfield, Ohio. This effort was complemented by her co-coordinator role with the Antioch Literacy Corps. She has been active with Ohio Campus Compact, leading workshops for campus community service directors and VISTA volunteers and overseeing two small grants to link Antioch with community agencies, also in Springfield. She spoke at and consulted regarding community service at Juniata College and Allegheny College. In the fall she and her students gave a presentation on “Learning Gains on a Democratic Campus” at the Institute for Democratic Education conference in Athens, Ohio. Other conference workshops included: National Society for Experiential Education, the National School to Work Conference, and the Coalition of Essential Schools. She completed an article with Adam Howard entitled “Experiential Learning in Antioch College’s Work-Based Learning Program as a Vehicle for Social and Emotional Development for Gifted College Students,” which will appear in Journal of Secondary Gifted Education next summer. She continues to research the impact of a four-year developmental model on scholarship students on 25 campuses who are supported in doing community service by the Bonner Foundation. She is also principal investigator with Pat Linn of a federal school-to-work grant which was renewed this year to further promote work-based learning in five Ohio high schools and to promote the advantages of attending a co-op college.

Pat Linn, Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies/Dawson Professor of Cooperative Education, apart from her grant work, has published numerous articles and continues to work on a book with colleagues Adam Howard and Eric Miller. Recent presentations include “What I became when I grew up: Co-op jobs and career-long employment patterns” at the annual conference of the Cooperative Education Association, Atlanta, Georgia in March; and “High school/higher education school-to-work partnerships,” presented at the annual conference of the National Society of Experiential Education, San Antonio, Texas in October. She was named Research Committee Chair of the Cooperative Education Association, and provided “From Research to Assessment,” invited remarks for a panel at the Practice Oriented Education Conference, Northeastern University, Boston, April 27. Pat participated in the founding and incorporation, and serves as board member for a grassroots organization providing services for Spanish-speaking residents of western Clark County, which grew in part from her summer block course, which focused on children of migrant laborers.

Nevin Mercede, Assistant Professor of Visual Arts, exhibited her work in two solo exhibitions over the past academic year, at the Hypotenuse Galleries, Sinclair Community College, Dayton, Ohio, and at Denison University Library, Granville. She is coordinating a panel for the upcoming College Art Association conference in Philadelphia, and serves on the editorial board of FATE (Foundations in Art Theory and Education). Nevin serves as the Director and Committee Chair of the Herndon Gallery, where she also curates most of the exhibitions.

Richard Peterson, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, received several grants supporting his research in East Africa this summer, including an Andrew Mellon Foundation/Global Partners Project Research Travel Grant; a Faculty Fund Trustees Professional Development Grant from Antioch University; and Dean’s Office Professional Development Support. Richard is widely published on human rights and environmentalism in Africa. Recent lectures include “The Animals Have Gotten Their Independence: Biodiversity Conservation and Human Rights in Congo’s Rainforests,” at Denison University’s International Studies Invited Lecturer Series, Granville, Ohio February 27, 2001; and “Immigrants, Emigrants, and Eco-Justice: Socioeconomic, Cultural, and Ethical Considerations Confronting Conservation in Congo’s Ituri Forest,” a Guest Lecture for the Environment Program, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont February 20, 2001.

Louise Smith ’77, Associate Professor of Theater, received an Ohio Arts Council Artist Fellowship in the spring of 2001. She also began work with Ann Hamilton and Merideth Monk on Mercy, a piece that will be performed nationally in the coming year. After playing the title role of Medea at the Antioch Amphitheatre this summer, she performed two solo works at the Fringe Festival at Illusion Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

An affidavit produced by Peter Townsend, Professor of Geology, for a case before the Ohio Environmental Review Appeals Commission, caused a proposed eastern Ohio large swine Confined Animal Feeding Operation (swine CAFO) to fold. Peter’s affidavit was a hydrogeologic and geotechnical evaluation of the use of reclaimed coal strip-mined land for storing large volumes of animal wastes in lagoons. It asserted that Ohio strip mined land is unacceptable for CAFO’s due to catastrophic drainage of the lagoons, a feature of strip mined land. His findings were so convincing that the CAFO operator couldn’t get financing, much less approval by the state, to site the CAFO. In March, Peter brought alumnus Martin Helmke ’94 from his dissertation research in Iowa to help work on opposition to siting a landfill over a large aquifer. Martin and Peter produced a hydrogeologic evaluation of the landfill site, which they presented to the Ohio EPA and Peter’s clients, a citizens group in Springfield. Peter and alumnus Gabe Richter ’99 conducted borehole geophysical studies to help in exploration of new water wells or well fields for the Ohio municipalities of Canal Winchester, Montpelier, Columbus School District, and Coshocton, as well as the Honda Motor Company Marysville Plant.

Robert Whyte, Executive Director of the Glen Helen Ecology Institute, presented “Sustainability in Higher Education, Experiences from the United States” at a Special Symposium of the Baltic University Programme, Hamburg, Germany in March of 2001. He also serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education and the Village of Yellow Springs Wellhead Protection Committee.

Jill Yager, Professor of Biology and Environmental Science, has been awarded a Fulbright grant to conduct research in Mexico, the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced recently.

The grant will allow Yager to conduct a comparison of the water chemistry and faunal composition of coastal, water-filled, limestone caves (termed anchialine caves) in Quintana Roo, Mexico.

The grant will enable Yager to trace and document the animal life present in and the chemical composition of the cave water over a period of nine months in at least three specific caves.

Yager was also recognized last year by two organizations, the Women Divers Hall of Fame – into which she was inducted – and the Karst Water Institute, for her contributions and work in science and cave exploration. Karst named Yager “Cave Scientist of the Year.”

Earlier this year, Yager was featured in Diving Cuba’s Caves on the National Geographic Cable Channel. She has also appeared on “The New Explorers” with Bill Curtis, “Smithsonian World” (featured alongside the globe- traversing Voyager aircraft and the Hubble Space Telescope), and “3-2-1 Contact.”