A House Divided: How Antioch College Fell Into Straits It Could No Longer Ignore

By SCOTT CARLSON

Yellow Springs, Ohio

On a recent Friday morning, the grounds of Antioch College were littered with white body bags. The campus was ghostly quiet. Men with guns, in full SWAT gear, crept around the college's crumbling buildings, looking for imaginary terrorists. Actors, covered in fake blood, writhed on the ground and wailed for help.

The disaster drill came three days after the college said it would close. The coincidence wasn't lost on Antiochians. Signs