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133 AN T I OC H CO L L E G E C L A S S O F 19 6 5 5 0 t h A N N I V E R S A R Y B O O K A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z R O B B I N S via Facebook. After I dropped out of Antioch the second time, I had a love-hate relationship with the college: its un- conventionality had its own con- ventions, which irritated me; but its co-op program had given me the confidence to drop out and construct my own life. I was aware when the college changed its name to “University,” and of course tried to defend the college over the “sex- ual consent policy” furor (which we now see was prescient). Over the years, I ran into Antiochians: Vicki Hochberg, in women’s liberation; Sarah Kolodny, while our kids were taking the test for the competitive public high schools;Vince Aletti and Eliot Fremont-Smith, at the Village Voice ; Cynthia Fuchs, while getting my M.A. at CUNY; Manuela Dobos, while working with NEWW; Barbara Winslow, when copy editing the Feminist Memoir Project (to which she contributed); Robin Rice, at an alumni gathering; Joni Rabinowitz, at various alumni gatherings, and others as well.When Robin was on the alumni board she raised my in- terest when Jim Crowfoot was fired in 1996.When Sylvia Law won the Horace Mann Award the next year and organized a mini-reunion I went back to the campus for the first time in 23 years and joined the newly formed alumni email list.When the college was closed in 2007 I went to meetings, sent money, and told ev- eryone I knew about attempts to re- open the college.And I finally went back for a reunion in 2013 to see the new college. I’m looking forward to seeing friends and classmates at the 50th anniversary in 2015. Even if I’m not technically an Antioch graduate, I definitely feel part of the Antioch community.