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Readers's Forum
Antioch Staff

Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. This is accomplished through their overseas and so-called Year-Abroad program.
At the same time that they are covers for domestic and foreign intrigues, these institutions, using the same rationale of the Nixon Administration which under the phony guise of budget and management reorganization is systematically eliminating much needed social programs, are undermining and rooting our what internal democracy remains and gradually moving towards authoritarian rule. Antioch College is a case in point.
The Washington Center (now the Horace Mann Bond Center) of the Antioch Graduate School of Education has experienced since its inception (February 1969) a kind of deceit and undermining unparalleled in the history of American higher education. 
In June, 1969, an attempt was made to close the Center and distribute its equipment and materials before it was allowed to begin functioning. The alleged reason was that no internships or teaching positions had been developed by the Center. The underlying reason was that Antioch had lost credibility in the Washington, D.C. community due to its poor management of the Morgan Community School Project which led ultimately to Antioch's being asked out of the school by the community.
At the meeting called by the Graduate School Administration to officially close the Washington Center, it was made known that the Center had thirty completed applications, the majority of which were from interns and experienced teachers from the Morgan Community School, a failure which had served only to create unnecessary contradiction between the old and new teachers as well as Black and white in the school.
The Antioch College Administration is using devious means to make its effort to close the Washington Graduate Center look like "purely an administrative matter" involving unpaid student tuition.
The college created this alleged deficit by charging the Center for the bills of the students who were previously enrolled prior to the present center administration's taking over in the 1969-70 academic year. Thus, each year we have had to absorb this amount within our current budget, insuring both the fact that we would not have an adequate budget to further develop, and to assure that the Center would not incur additional deficits.
The real truth of the matter however, is that Antioch College is at the crossroads and it will

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