Independent Groups

Union of Independent Groups

Any Community member can start or restart an Independent Group (IG) at Antioch. Some groups only exist when there is student interest. Others have developed a permanent presence on campus. If you have an idea for an IG, come to the CG office. We can help you with organizing, events, fund-raising, publicity, and brainstorming The group must register with Community Government each term and provide the name of a person who will serve as the group's coordinator for the term. Independent Groups can petition the Community Funds Board to support programs, publicity, and the operation of an office. Additionally, CG provides one FWSP for every IG. All of the current IGs have offices on the second floor of the Union.

For any information on IGs, feel free to contact Ona Harshaw, Diversity Advocate pbx 1154 or Danny Solis, Community Government Operations Manager,pbx 1050.

Antioch Environmental Group

The Antioch Environmental Group (AEG) is an Independent Group that works to address environmental issues both on and off campus. Our goal is to see Antioch’s progressive ideas concerning the environment moved to fruition through education and practical changes. AEG works closely with the Campus Greening Committee, the group that coordinates campus greening on an administrative level, along with the Organic Garden, the Commons Restoration Crew and the Environmental Studies and Science students and faculty. AEG also works to align with Antioch’s radical vision that links environmental degradation with racism, classism and sexism, and many of our activities compile social along with environmental concerns.

By Any Means Necessary (BAMN)

BAMN’s purpose is to establish a stable union of students, staff and faculty that represent a part of the African Diaspora: Creating a Union that enhances cultural awareness, political awareness, social events, educational opportunities, and provides support for the Antioch community. BAMN stresses and works toward student involvement in campus issues, current world issues focused around African peoples, coordinating activities that promote cultural awareness, providing assistance to our development in dealing with social, cultural, and educational goals at Antioch College.

Kehilla

Kehilla was formed to provide a safe space for self-identifying Jewish community members and those of Jewish heritage to discuss issues of importance to ourselves as well as to educate ourselves and others. In order to follow and expand on that mission, we hope to create a permanent set of resources and supplies – books, magazines, and even artwork that is informative about Jewish culture and religion. Kehilla also organizes celebrations of Jewish holidays and festivals.

Queer Center

The Queer Center is open to self-defined lesbians, gay men, bisexual, transgender, and queer people. Among the many objectives of the Queer Center, its primary purpose is to provide a support group and network for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer population at Antioch. We understand that one of the ways in which prejudice is eradicated is through education, thus the Queer Center frequently offers various types of community outreach.

Queers of Color

Queers of Color is dedicated to creating spaces in which community members that identify as queer persons of color, can gather together and learn from one another. We recognize the inherent contradictions that come from being a queer person within communities of color and a person of color within queer communities. Given the double consciousness that this situation creates within us, Queers of Color (QoC) seeks to merge our distinct identifies into a holistic person. QoC offers cultural and educational events for its members, as well as the larger Antioch community.

Third World Alliance (TWA)

The Third World Alliance sees as its primary objective the unification and organization of all Third World students at Antioch College, so as to ensure that the College institutes those academic programs which the Third World student body finds necessary, to maintain sufficient financial aid awards, and to continue the recruitment and admission of Third World people to Antioch. In addition, TWA provides cultural and political activities for the benefit of the entire Antioch community. TWA, founded in 1974, is Antioch’s oldest Independent Group.

Unidad

Unidad is the campus organization for empowerment of Latino and Native American students. As the voice of the Latino and Indigenous community at Antioch, we feel a responsibility to serve the needs of students as an intermediary between their needs and campus administration. We wish to serve students, faculty and staff, but also the larger, surrounding Indigenous and Latino communities of Ohio. We’re involved with efforts including but not limited to immigrants’ rights, education, housing, restoration, and reclamation issues.

Womyn’s Center

The Women’s Center is a resource center for women; its goal is to provide support, assistance, and opportunities for sisterhood to women at Antioch.

Various workshops, activities, and cultural events are organized by the Center. They cover a wide range of topics and issues that concern women such as women’s health, birth control, feminist theory and analysis, women in science, women’s spirituality, mother/daughter relationships, sexual harassment, body image, eating disorders, and women’s sexuality.