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38 The GUIDE to YELLOW SPRINGS 2019 – 20 YELLOW SPRINGS NEWS Veterinary Associates Animal Hospital 937-372-9978 1920 US 68 North, at the junction of US 68 North and SR 235 www.VeterinaryAssociatesHospital.com We are a mixed animal practice offering traditional medical care to pets and farm animals. Acupuncture and chiropractic is available by Dr. Brett Ellis, diagnostic ultrasound is available by Dr. Lacey Sharp, chiropractic and sports medicine/surgical rehabilitation therapy is available by Dr. Deanna Clark. Monday, Wednesday 8 a.m.– 7 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Friday 8 a.m.–6 p.m. Saturday 8 a.m.–2 p.m., Sunday Closed Jon H. Ellis, DVM Brett F. Ellis, DVM, VSMT, CVA Deanna Clark, DVM, VSMT, CCRT Jodi Moorman, DVM, Lacey Sharp, DVM Please call for appointments Elegant and Functional Glass - Ceramic - Wood Vintage Style for Home and Off ice Rose & Sal Co. 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In March, students presented a list of demands to college administrators seeking additional layers of accountability and new leader- ship to handle SOPP investigations and the resulting disciplinary action. The demands were sent via email and signed, “Most of the Student Body.” Some students did not attend their classes in support of the demands, and the college later said they had come to terms on the demands. Excerpts from articles written by Evelyn La Croix and Megan Bachman. PHOTO BY HANIFAH SHOATZ-BEY COURTESY OF ANTIOCHIANA, ANTIOCH COLLEGE 1991 Antioch College Womyn’s Center members, from left, BACK ROW: Steffi Hoffman, Idealla Burmiester and Drea Brown; FRONT ROW: Bethany Saltman, Juliet Brown and Chrystelle Evans. SOPP practice Continued from page 37 By MEGAN BACHMAN ‘R acism: The Nation’s Most Dangerous Pollutant.” “African Communism.” “Populist Revolt.” “Forms of Money.” “Colonization of America.” The lecture titles from the Afro-American Studies Institute, or AASI, a student- run college-within-a-college founded at Antioch College in 1968, offer a glimpse into the short-lived program’s revolutionary curriculum. Addressing the AASI’s significance, Kevin McGruder, now the college’s vice presi - dent for academic affairs, said in a 2018 interview, that in addition to having classes taught by black faculty and a dormitory, the institute owned a bookstore, gas station and several houses, among other efforts. “It’s a much bigger initiative that’s not really well known beyond those who were participants,” McGruder said. Another highlight of the program, part of the larger black student movement of that time, was the involvement of major figures such as Cecil Taylor and LeRoi Jones. A product of black and Latino student advocacy, the AASI used college funds to hire instructors and develop a curriculum, according to McGruder. But the project Revolutionary curriculum quickly became controversial on campus. One college board member resigned, and a student concerned that it excluded students who weren’t black reported a possible civil rights violation to the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. At Antioch’s 2018 reunion, a panel of former AASI participants discussed the program’s history. Addressing the AASI in a 1970 speech to the national meeting of the American Ortho- Psychiatric Association, longtime Antioch College professor Jewel Graham shared her thoughts on the larger purpose of black studies: “The hope that a black studies program offers for the ultimate defeat of racism is the willingness of white people to listen care- fully, and to heed the message — that the society is racist, that it is so pervasive as to be taken for granted like the polluted air we breathe, and that it must be recognized and rooted out — by them.” She continued: “Racism can disappear, if it does, when people’s natural differences are not arranged on hierarchical structures — when white people refuse to put them- selves at the top, and more importantly, when black and brown people refuse to be put at the bottom. That, I think, is what black studies is about.”  ♦ YS NEWS ARCHIVE PHOTO Jewel Graham was an Antioch College professor for 30 years and founded its social work program. She was also the president of the world Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) from 1987–1991, becoming the second African-American woman to hold that position. At Antioch she also worked as an administrative faculty member in the Antioch Program for Interracial Education.