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  • Jewel Freeman Graham

    By YS News StaffDecember 10, 2015

    Precious Jewel Freeman Graham, retired professor of social work at Antioch College, died at her home in Yellow Springs, Ohio, on Nov. 30.

  • Local business— Take Yellow over Black Friday

    By Dylan Taylor-Lehman

    Despite an overall decrease in dollars spent for the second year in a row, Black Friday shopping unfolded pretty much as expected nationwide: fistfights broke out in two separate malls in Kentucky, a woman in Virginia attacked a man with the chair she was using to save her place in line, and customers stampeded for TVs at a Walmart in Texas, resulting in a melee in which one shopper was caught on video trying to punch a police officer.

  • Presidential send-off

    By Diane Chiddister

    Students Sarah Goldstein and Ozrick Sullivan earned a thumbs-up from Mark Roosevelt. (photo by Diane Chiddister)

    Several hundred people from the Antioch College and Yellow Springs community gathered last Thursday at Herndon Gallery to honor outgoing president Mark Roosevelt and his wife, Dorothy.

  • Dr. Arthur Lewis Solomon

    By YS News Staff

    submitted photo by Jonathan Solomon

    Dr. Arthur Lewis Solomon, 97, a former college professor, actor and poet, died in his home in Federal Way, Wash., on Nov. 23, 2015.

  • Ruth Holyoke

    By YS News Staff

    Ruth Holyoke, of Yellow Springs, died Tuesday, Dec. 8, at Friends Care.

  • Bulldog Sports Round-up — Dec. 10, 2015

    By Dylan Taylor-Lehman

    Sports — Dec. 10, 2015

  • Lakelynn Sheley

    By YS News Staff

    Lakelynn Ayers Sheley, who was with us on this earth for three hours, passed away on Sunday, Nov. 29, 2015, at Mary Rutan Hospital.

  • Roosevelt tenure: healing wounds, raising the college

    By Diane Chiddister

    Mark Roosevelt, the first president of the revived Antioch College, is leaving the job after five years to become president of St. John’s College in Santa Fe, N.M. Roosevelt and his wife, Dorothy, will be honored Thursday, Dec. 3, from 4 to 6 p.m. at Herndon Gallery. The event is open to the community. (submitted Photo)

    When Mark Roosevelt was a newly elected Massachusetts state legislator in 1986, he was asked to be lead sponsor of a bill that would prohibit housing and employment discrimination against gays and lesbians. If passed, the state would become only the second in the nation to protect homosexuals.

  • Conference on diversity— Seeing the whole person

    By Carol Simmons

    A screening of the documentary film “Invitation to Dance” will kick off the local Valuing Diversity: Reframing Disability conference next week at Antioch University Midwest. The film will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 9, and a panel discussion will follow, both in AUM’s Media Room. The day-long conference will open the next day, Dec. 10, at 8 a.m. with a keynote talk by Julie Williams, of Wright State University’s School of Psychology. (Submitted Photo)

    “Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance,” writes attorney and diversity consultant Vera Myers.

  • Antioch’s next president sees big promise in college’s challenges

    By Audrey HackettDecember 3, 2015

    Thomas Manley spent a few days on the Antioch College campus last week after being announced as the second president of the revived college on Wednesday, Nov. 18. Manley will begin his tenure in March, 2016. He comes to Antioch from Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, where he’s served as president since 2003, revitalizing and transforming the college. (Photo by Audrey Hackett)

    Antioch College’s next president, Thomas Manley, has a quiet, even gentle voice. He’s not afraid of the thoughtful pause, both before and after speaking. He weighs his words like the student of poetry that he is — Kenneth Rexroth is a particular love.

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