Antioch College - Towers Yearbook (Yellow Springs, OH)

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N li ,f Xl ANTIOCHIAN HE Azztiochian, tossed for many years from editor to editor like a hot potato no one can hold, finally cut a more respectable niche for itself in the gallery of ' Antioch institutions with the decision of the com- munity government in March, 1930, to convert the editorship into a C Special job paying ten dollars a week. Added to the new dignity of having a paid chief was the promise of an oliice in the basement of the main building. i The Antiochiarfs course during the school year, 1929-30 included the usual violent ups and downs. A wild scramble for an Alnzioclzian editor at the beginning of the first Division A brought a reluctant acceptance of the responsibility from Iohn Howard. Paul Munson followed, though forewarned by five weeks of editorship the preceding spring. During this second division, Iohn Frye, dynamic managing editor, made up a six column sheet which put a decided crimp in student wails over the low estate of their paper. Opal Davis, succeeding to the editorship in the second Division A, maintained the six- column size with Frye again as managing editor. Munson re- turned to the editorship following Christmas vacation, to be succeeded, after resigning in company with the key-men of his staff, by Opal Davis. After five weeks of editorial difficulties and successes, Opal Davis gave over the journalistic reins to William B. Lloyd, editor at the time this book goes to press. T45

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f 'S .5 xy l . I A I, 1 5' -3 -f 'Y ,I THE BLAZE HE Blaze is an informal organization of students who are drawn to ether b their ver differences its-si .. ,g 2 Y . of opinion, leading them into an unceasmg and 1 e L ever-stimulating warfare of ideas. A marked pen- chant for independent thinking is the only characteristic corn- mon to all members of the Blaze organization. But the Blaze exists, not in the atmosphere of Oxford, but in that of Antioch. It is therefore to be expected that the independent thinking of most Blaze members should be fused with a certain degree of moral purpose. Hence the dual function of their organization: to give solidarity to their cornpanionshipg and to create organs through which their ideas may receive a wider publicity. In its present form the Blaze organization consists of a directing and policy-forming council, and of five administra- tive departments, magazine, forum, bulletin-board, extramural contact, and business. It is of the magazine, however, that the Blaze group is especially proud. All colleges have their news- papers and joke-papers, and a few maintain literary or liberal journals of vacillating publication and still more vacillating standards. But as far as we know the Blaze is the only college periodical, appearing regularly, which publishes nothing but critical essays and creative Writing, imaginative as well as ideational. 147 D if , f .. tg Q Q