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Prior days' news: By date | Search This week's print issue Back issues: By date | Search June 12, 2007Antioch College Will Close Its Main CampusAntioch College, a 155-year-old liberal-arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio, announced today that it would “suspend operations” in July 2008 because of a budget crisis spurred by declining enrollment, a small endowment, and an overwhelming dependence on tuition revenue. In a news release, the college said that it hoped to raise enough money to reopen by 2012, and that its four satellite campuses would remain open. As part of the plan, the college’s Board of Trustees declared a state of financial exigency, which will allow the entire 160-member faculty to be laid off. —Andrew Mytelka Update: A Chronicle article provides more details and reaction. Update: A Chronicle article has more background, history, and analysis of the news. Posted on Tuesday June 12, 2007 | Permalink |Comments
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From the moment I set foot on Antioch’s campus, I knew it was the college for me. The bookstore proudly sold tee shirts proclaiming Antioch as the “Bootcamp for the Revolution” and bragging about the school’s lack of a football team. I received an incredible education at Antioch College, including five eye-opening co-ops with organizations like the Indigenous Women’s Network and K-12 Gallery for Young People. I took challenging, enriching classes with extremely devoted faculty members. While a student, I learned to write well, think critically, speak out, appreciate archives, enjoy exercise, and maintain friendships despite long distances. As Loren Pope wrote in his 1996 book, Antioch College changed my life. Very sad news indeed.
— -Liz MacDonald, Antioch College ’04 Jun 12, 07:25 PM #
It is virtually impossible for tiny schools such as this (500 students) to survive in the modern academic climate.
— professor at small school Jun 12, 08:53 PM #
I grew up in Yellow Springs; my father taught English at Antioch. It was and is a unique place for learning. It can’t be allowed to die.
— Richard C. Pillard Jun 12, 10:53 PM #
My son Bryan attends Antioch College. It was always his dream to attend Antioch. He started to research the school while in high school in Madison, (Malcom Shabbazz High School)Wisconsin. He graduated from an alernative high school that had a similiar learning model to Antioch. My son has always loved Antioch’s focus on Human Rights and Social Justice, self designed majors and shared student governance. Bryan a history buff, loved the rich history of Antioch. This is the alma mater of Corretta Scott King. My question is, how will this affect the community of Yellow Springs, Ohio?
I am in shock. But, I will never forget visiting Byran at Yellow Springs and taking a tour of the campus, sadly but profoundly on the same weekend as Mrs. King’s funeral services. I felt her presence and was strongly moved to stand on sacred ground. I was standing in the place where she and her sister attened school. I was proud that my son attended such a school that has always had a culture of progressive thinking.
Perhaps, Antioch has paid the price for standing alone out side the status quo.
We are not wealthy. We are a struggling family. I am a single parent, working a temp. job. But Bryan and I know adversity. And, we will overcome and grow from this experience. And, so will Yellow Springs and its beloved Antioch.
We love the community. I attended an AA meeting there. I am a recovering Alcoholic.
I know that this too shall pass and life will go on. I am grateful for the experince and I will be present for my son.
May the God of your understanding, Bless you all
— Kathy Utley Jun 13, 08:09 AM #
I am a 1987 Antioch College alumnus. I registered to attend next week’s alumni reunion. I learned of the news this morning when I clicked on the college’s website to see if any of my classmates had registered and was told that the reunion would go forward despite the “sad news” of yesterday. I will be in Yellow Springs next week.
To be fair, I have spent much of the last 20 years deeply reflective about my decision to attend Antioch and often wondered about what might have been if I had gone to a more conventional place. And, to take my own individual share of the larger blame for what has come to pass, I was not an active alumnus due in part to some extremely aggravating and invasive personal experiences which I endured there where I believe the administrations intrusions on my own privacy hardly reflected the thinking of a “progressive community.” Writ large, these sorts of experiences cannot be denied as a contributing factor toward the college’s physical and structural decline that was already amply in evidence even when I attended there. Prior to learning this news, my decision to attend the Reunion was really more of a personal journey toward closure than an expression of unconditional love for my alma mater.
Yet, there must be a place for the Antiochs of the world. The very fact that no one who goes there made an easy or popular choice stands for the notion that a place like this must survive. Whatever my own difficulties, the freedom I had to pursue what I enjoyed intellectually and vocationally was something I could not experience anywhere else. Yes, I could have gone elsewhere and possibly had a less angst-ridden three years. But there is a large part of me that is different than others today that would not be easily observable if I hadn’t gone there.
I suppose I will have a first-hand look on campus next week to see whether President Lawry’s stated goal of reviving the College in 2012 is a genuine project or a public relations statement intent on cushioning the fall for its dedicated faculty (who like its students could easily work elsewhere and do much, much better for themselves) and the surrounding Yellow Springs community. Clearly, the road Antioch was going down institutionally at the time I was there – and apparently since – cannot possibly be repeated if this vision is ever going to be realized. But like an estranged child who may be aggravated by the faults of a parent, I am still an Antiochian. And I always shall be. Let’s see what can be done. And not finger-point in the process.
— Shadrach A. Stanleigh Jun 13, 12:08 PM #
What people may not know is that Antioch has closed before. It did so during the Civil War, and also due to financial difficulties. It’ll bounce!
— James Brammer Jun 13, 02:17 PM #
I have the honor of serving as president of Antioch University Los Angeles (and previously as Dean and Interim President at Antioch New England).
Antioch is a unique and essential presence on the US Higher Ed landscape today. I hear testimonials on a daily basis from students and alums of how this iconoclastic institution has changed lives and enriched communities. Our collective roots are in the passion, history, integrity and conscience of Antioch College.
For the present, that legacy lives in all of us at the campuses that are not directly affected by the undergraduate college’s suspension of operations.
I agree wholeheartedly that there must always be an Antioch – and believe, as I know my fellow presidents do, that Antioch College will be reborn, more vibrant, purposeful and spirited than ever before.
— Neal King Jun 13, 04:37 PM #
Be honest. In recent years the student culture at Antioch has degenerated into a sad ghost of it’s former self. Many of the students exploited and abused the freedoms they were given. The loudest, most ignorant and most disturbed were given free reign and unparalleled power. They were the people that drove the good students away and that is what mortally wounded the institution. I wish only the best for the village of Yellow Springs and have the deepest and most sincere respect for the faculty of Antioch. Take care. May your futures be bright. 04
— -------- ---------- Jun 14, 05:04 AM #
As an alumnus (“52) who attended Antioch in its heyday I am somewhat saddened but not totally surprised. In the late 40s and early 50s the school was as much renowned for its academic excellence as for its social awareness. To cite but a few examples Antioch routinely showed up among the top ten schools in the country in a survey conducted by the American Chemical Society (ACS) based on the number (not percentage) of students who went on to graduate school. Two students were among first recipients of National Science Foundation graduate fellowships; this was out of a total of 126 awarded for all science majors in the entire US. By 1985 Antioch’s chemistry department was no longer accredited by the ACS. Academic excellence was not restricted to chemistry. The conductor/composer David Epstein and the science historian Everett Mendelson of Harvard were fellow classmates. Recall too that Stephen Jay Gould who graduated in 1962 got his start at Antioch. The school seems to have lost its way sometime along the 1970s coincident with nationwide student unrest. Academic excellence seemed to have been left behind just about that time
In the mid-1990 a group of Alumni started a movement to try to detach Antioch College from the so-called University. The effort was abandoned in the face of a refusal by the powers who ran the latter to engage in serious discussion.
Dan Lednicer ‘52
lednicer@verizon.net
301-581-0343
— Dan Lednicer Jun 14, 09:55 AM #
My daughter attends Antioch, and I have been impressed by the transformation in her world view over the past year. She has become more sensitive than ever to opression and exploitation, and she has learned how to take steps to challenge individuals and systems that demean others. As a professor at a small liberal arts university, I’ve often felt discouraged over the complacency and materialism of my students. Hearing details of my daughter’s education at Antioch has renewed my enthusiam for educating students to act justly.
— Cynthia Magistro Jun 14, 01:37 PM #
While the reputation of Antioch declined through the 80’s, the number of students who have gone on to graduate school has remained about the same. Of the 11 Bachelor of Science graduates from my year, I will be at least the fourth to get a PhD. I only realized the strength of the academic preparation I received once I took classes at other schools. The evaluations are a harder grading system than learning to work the curve of the letter system. I learned to be a harder grader of myself than any professor I’ve ever come in contact with since graduating. Some of my fellow graduates have gone on to become faculty at research institutions or liberal arts colleges. I am saddened to hear of the schools closing. Antioch has had a profound impact of who I have become as an adult. To know that no other students will have the chance to grow the way I had feels to be a great loss.
— Kyle Bennett '95 Jun 14, 01:41 PM #
Does Antioch College have any chance of reopening in service to its historical mission? A slim one, but only if alumni ask the hard questions. As a former member of the board of trustees, I would start with this one: Can Antioch College take all its property, including the small endowment, and find itself a new Board of Trustees that represents the college?
Antioch College’s recent problems are real, but they were only symptoms. It’s true that the College has been in decline for three decades. But it’s also true that during that time there have been many heroes teaching and working there, and many graduates who went out into the world inspired to win victories for humanity.
And, for the past three decades, Antioch College has been largely mismanaged by a Board and Chancellors who represented not the College but the University. Many of them were hostile to the College. They hired incompetent administrators, did not adequately supervise the finances (I was on the Board’s finance committee, so I observed this firsthand), and starved it of resources. Finally, they committed to raise money to implement the Renewal Plan — and then broke their commitment.
There are good people on the Board, but the power imbalance for decades now has left Antioch College floundering. If the current Board is left in charge of the college, it will never reopen as the Antioch we loved. The assets will be — dare I say it? — plundered for use by the rest of the University.
Antioch College has risen from the ashes before. Are there enough fearless and committed champions to help it do so again? Now that would be a victory for humanity.
— Laura Jun 14, 01:43 PM #
I am an Antiochian from 1951. The news of the college closing struck me as if I’d heard of the death of a close friend. I have felt for some time that the college was struggling to reinvent itself too often and indeed I ceased to be a regular contributer when the newest ‘rebirth’ was started. Nevertheless Antioch was a vital portion of my life andalso had a ystrong impact on my son who graduated from Antioch in the 80s. I doubt that it can rise again but would like to communicate with those who think it can.
— Anne Gross Feldman Jun 14, 02:27 PM #
I graduated in 1961 from Antioch, one of the best schools in the country at that time. Antioch gave me the orientation towards service which informed my career and an expectation of continued education and growth that led me to want to share what I’d learned with the students and teachers with whom I worked. I had a richer life as a teacher than I probably would have had I a less rigorous more ordinary education. Antioch was a tough school to get through, and so worth it. I saw it losing its way a long time ago and attribute some of that, if not all, to the so-called university. It is ironic that the heart of Antioch should be scrapped while the colonies that sucked the blood from it remain.
I do hope Antioch can rise out of the ashes and become the wonderfully difficult place I left more than 45 years ago.
— Lucy Wollin Jun 14, 07:08 PM #
There’s a theme that goes through the blogs thus far—saddened but not surprised. And I too reacted the same way when the college’s e-mail to its alumni arrived. Like nearly every one of my classmates (I finished in 1950 though didn’t get my degree until the next year), I felt that Antioch shaped my mind and many of my attitudes to life. As one of the many Antiochians of my time who entered the academic profession (I taught literature at Stanford for most of my career), I observed from afar how the college, beginning about the late 1960’s, gradually abandoned its traditional mission, which had balanced intellectual and social values in a healthy and productive way. As it changed its orientation, the intellectual rigor that was once an essential part of this mission was lost. No educational institution can long survive a change of this sort. Add to this the financial irresponsibility that accompanied the college’s ill-advised expansion into a university, and you face almost certain disaster. The wonder is that the patient took so long to die. Yet, like my fellow student and friend Anne Feldman, I still feel that somebody who was once central to my life has died, and I mourn its loss.
— Herbert Lindenberger Jun 14, 09:54 PM #
I celebrated my nephews 16th birthday on Sunday, and remembered that was the age when I first visited Antioch. Since I received the disturbing news, I have had flashbacks bringing me right back to my first prospective visit in 1984. I knew when I visited, admittedly very weird; this was a place for me. The authentic feeling I received that I had the power to dream, reason and think was in the air, you could just smell and feel it. Yes the buildings were in dis-repair and I often had to nag facilities to have my dorm in President’s Hall cleaned (a bit of a neat freak, what a culture shock it was for me) but, I really loved Antioch, this didn’t matter. I would take walks in fall, winter and spring around campus and feel so empowered to think beyond the black and white constraints learned up until that time by my blue collar upbringing. This place was magical to me. Also, I will never forget Bob Parker’s generosity in allowing me to work my college work study in addition to my California Coastal Commission co-op job (paid near nothing) while in pricey San Francisco as he knew I had no money. I will never forget Antioch’s generosity on the financial aid front either. Perhaps decisions like these were portending the college’s fate, but it this act of kindness went beyond this and into the classroom. I look forward to devoting my time and financial resources or whatever it takes to get Antioch back in the world. Antioch is a part of me, just like my childhood home in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. I’m shocked, hurt and somewhat not surprised. Antioch’s soul is eternal and this gives me hope we will all chip in and make our beloved school stronger out of this epoch mis-management crisis. It’s been a horrible week.
Tom Callahan, ’89
San Francisco, CA
tpcallah68@yahoo.com
— Tom Callahan, 89 Jun 14, 09:58 PM #
Like tom Callahan, as soon as I got to Antioch (I had been having a nervous sort of breakdown all on the way on the bus) I knew it was the place for me. it was WILD enough, the graffiti in the union was huge and very feminist, outspoken etc. The woman who interviewed me was fantastic, and it was more like a therapy session than anythign else. I wandered in the glen. I went to the school for 2 years and ultimately felt dissapointed-by my idea of the promise of “community” rather than simply a college, by my partying classmates, and yes, somewhat of a depressing feeling on campus. also i felt some of the teachers were pretty burnt out. over the years since leaving i have had so many dreasma btou being back at antioch. i have also received the recent flyers from the school and felt sort of disturbed abotu which direction the school seemed to be going. i feel bereft in a way taht this is happening, and betrayed too. i couldn’t understand over and over for instance the new presidents-and they alwasy seemed to be new middleaged white men…so i feel very upset. i have been always so proud to have gone to antioch, and it is sucha part of me, as i suppose many people feel about their colleges…but it was such an a mazing place. no, i have no faith in all these “trustees” and chancellors, i never did when at the school and i certainly dont now. and i really think it’s bullshit this idea that students only go to a place for its facilities…that’s absurd. and totally petty. i hear that some other wellknown artsy fartsy socially minded schools like antioch are going down another path- of recruting rich kids and they are losing their souls in the process…i wouldn’t wish that on antioch either…will it exist only in our minds? i can’t be there for the ‘reunion/demonstartion’ but please let me know if i can write letters where to send them…be well…
redbexxa@gmail.com
— becca shaw-glaser 96-98 Jun 14, 11:40 PM #
As the mother of a recent Antioch graduate, I am saddened and angry at the news of Antioch’s closing. At a time when many colleges and universities turn away thousands of qualified students and amass huge endowments, a college that adds diversity to higher education and offers opportunities to students who would not — though they could — attend more structured and competitive schools should not have to close for lack of students and resources. For all of its counterculture kookiness, Antioch proved a caring, responsive and academically demanding institution that allowed, even forced, our daughter to grow in many ways. She learned to think and write more critically and to speak up and speak out “even when my lips quivered,” she told me. It seems that the more well-endowed and sought-after colleges and universities could — and should — dip into their pockets and share their money, time and expertise to keep the bright thread of Antioch running through the fabric of American higher education.
— Mary Maushard Jun 15, 09:47 AM #
Coming from a traditional suburban high school environment, the Antioch experience broadened me in a thousand ways. I felt like a different person
when I graduated in 1962—confident but
sensetized in many new directions. Moving on to graduate school and an academic career was another big adjustment, but ultimately I felt much richer because of the Antioch experience—in contrast with my academic colleagues who did not have the opportunites of cooperative education or study abroad.
It is a sad day, both in Yellow Springs as well as the greater world which Antioch touches. Let us hope that the ideas of Horace Mann and Arthur Morgan can be revived and implemented into a new version of Antioch, under the guidance of forceful and visionary administrators.
— mark pinsky Jun 15, 03:35 PM #
Around 2000, Antioch College was regularly getting new classes in the high 180s, and our FTE was well over 600 students. Not thriving, perhaps, but we were not so far from fiscal sustainability. And the culture felt good, energetic, rich.
So why did seven years kill us? We were Renewed to death.
I hope some reporter writes the story of that plan—badly conceived, badly implemented—and what it did to our school.
— faculty Jun 16, 08:10 AM #
Too bad about Antioch, really. It takes some doing to drive a population of 2000 down to 400 in a generation, though. Idealogue faculty who indoctrinate rather than educate can do that. Feminist graffiti on a wall is still graffiti, a notice of intolerance writ large. No doubt, the community clung to self-identified moral high ground and believed they had to “stand for something!” I suppose they did—moral posturing that divided permitted attitudes from unpermitted attitudes, and a firm grasp of exactly who would make that distinction. I hope that is some solace while 160 of them look for work. Reading these blog entries, one is struck by how many alums identify their best experiences at Antioch to have been off-campus—study abroad or internships. So those can be easily duplicated elsewhere. As for the nurturing environment that stifled diversity of thought, the number of customers who needed or wanted such education was approaching zero; students took their tuition dollars where they could not only examine values, but develop their own, instead of being forced to subscribe to the community’s narrow requirements. “Education” means “change,” and open inquiry searches for truth: Antioch ultimately embraced a philosophy that demanded rigid adherence to a set of values, expulsion from the community for deviance from those values, and refusal to acknowledge that those values could not be forced upon non-believers. They “stayed away in droves,” and when the faculty-student ratio reached 1:3, it was time to call the patient. Shame on the faculty for not allowing a more open culture; shame on the administration for lacking the courage to lead the community in a viable direction; shame on the trustees for not cashiering the lot of them soon enough to save the institution; sympathy to alumni who have only fond memories.
— Perry Glasser Jun 16, 09:30 AM #
I am too very distressed that Antioch College is Closing. I graduated with a B.S. in Environmental Studies (one of the 1st colleges in the country to have this interdisciplinary major) in 1975. The President at that time was either a visionary (the “university” is very successful) or an totally Crazy guy on an Ego trip. At any rate, spending the endowment was a very upsetting thing that happened when I was there, leaving the College impoverished. I have never been able to feel good about the University.In 1974 there was a student strike in part because Nixon had cut out all the student aid. At any rate, this was when the numbers dropped from 2000 to 500 students. Of course this was particularly unfortunate because the College needed tuition more than before. The beginning of the end. That fact that the College has lasted more that 30 years more is a testiment to it’s greatness. I went on to Medical School graduating at the top of my class. I have always attributed my sucess there and later at my Psychiatric Residency at Stanford to the lessons I learned at Antioch, i.e. that efforts to be competent and do well are more important than grades. My graduating class had the second highest persentage of applicants that got into medical school—only Harvard had a higher percentage. I learned the same things about global warming as Al Gore did, and even though I’m younger than him, I learned it in the same time frame. The work-study and independent study aspects make it so there is no other place that teaches the self-reliance as Antioch and it will be a great loss if it isn’t opened again with the same core aspects.
— Michelle Indianer Jun 17, 04:41 PM #
Anyone who is surprised by the closing of Antioch College has been living with his head firmly planted in the sand for years. Antioch died as a result of its own arrogance, an arrogance that led it to believe that, because of its reputation for innovation, it was somehow immune from the rules of business. The faculty has repeatedly blamed the board for this demise. Yet, Antioch boasts the most liberal systems of community governance in which the faculty had a huge influence on major decision affecting the campus and its program. They were fully aware of the ever tightening budget and the ever declining enrollment and the ever decaying academic program. You cannot operate a College without students and 300 students is not enough of a critical mass to efficiently run a residential liberal arts college. If the academic product they were selling was inferior, the faculty have noone to blame but themselves.
— Collin Jun 18, 09:30 PM #
No Antioch, No Way
Trustees Must be Turned Around or Locked Out
Vision & Stature
For many, and not just alums, Antioch College has been a crown jewel, perhaps even the crown jewel, of college education in this country and perhaps beyond. Number three among colleges in Macarthur genius awards. Long among the highest in Graduate Record Exam standings, among many other academic as well as broader standards of liberal arts education. Current postings show Antioch has even been very highly rated in scientific education. As the first, and perhaps still, the unique liberal arts college in use of work-study programs, it contributes in myriad ways to our nation and the world. Its gender and racial equality policies go back far beyond even the Arthur Morgan era of the 1920s and 1920s. Despite the disastrous over-reaching attempts over the recent decades to spawn off-shoots, there is not one sign of a replacement.
Tradition & Decline When some of us attended Antioch the ratio of applicants to admissions was one of the highest in the nation. The impact of the total Antioch experience on students and their life work has been imponderable. The production of broad-minded and vigorous liberals was without parallel. Only the mush-brained liberalism of those who oversaw the hijacking of the College, leaning far over backward for students who should never been admitted and apparently the professional avarice of Trustees who, we are now informed by former Trustees, disdain the College in favor of their satellite so-called University operations can explain the new Antioch College, a sad ‘ghost’ of its former preeminence.
Social Ferment & Social Chaos
Since the 1930s increased concern for economic as well as social progress in the great advances for labor and civil rights expressed in the Franklin Roosevelt New Deal, Antioch has been a national college, with substantial recognition from California to New York and a student body to match. But families and their prospective students from major urban centers have not been conned by the mushy-brained liberalism of recent years and shifted their application focus to second choice colleges, as my sons did, one to Harvard and his brother to another Ivy League school. Proper investments in staff and facilities rehabilitation as well as balanced attitudes toward students is urgently needed to reverse that grotesque decline, graphically depicted in Michael Goldfarb’s Op Ed article in the New York Times yesterday, June 17.
Outrage & Action
Time for whining about decay and maudlin recollection is over. The modest endowment was over $60,000,000 and it is still reported to be $30,000,000, not chicken feed, if enough to whet the appetite of carnivorous satellites. It must be used to restore the College, not continue to bleed the College dry in favor the questionable satellites, which cannot possibly compare in their significance to the College. It is vainly but devoutly to be wished that the current outrageous Trustee pronunciamento is merely a ‘clever’ bid for contributions. But more likely, effective action must be taken to reverse the decision, by court injunction if necessary, and replace the Board of Trustees with those concerned about the College, not just the so-called University. Very simply, it clear the Trustees failed both in their most basic substantive obligations as well as in decent and transparent process. Even in this era of indulgent corporate malfeasance, such actions bring jail terms. I’m getting a bit old for civil disobedience but surely some could hang and/or burn in effigy the malefactor Trustees.
Perhaps all good things end, but the current national nightmare demands more, not less, Antioch education.
Surely the so-called Right Winger pols, pundits, and related Neros are celebrating this grotesque event. Is it possible there is more than money involved, or more behind the money problem? The abrupt action others document suggests guilty manipulation now common in our federal executive offices. My wife and I, as well as classmates, found our life roles absolutely transformed to enable manifestation of Horace Mann’s dictum. Three of my children did not attend but now, well into their very different careers, they have also fulfilled that vision.There may not be a lot of Arthur Morgans out there, but Bob Devine or some nominee of his must be drafted to restore some decency to this essential institution.
The hijacking must cease. As our only elected Bush president, Bush 41, used to say, ‘This will not stand.’
BobBogen@hotmail.com
— BobBogen Jun 19, 02:02 AM #
“For the 2008-09 academic year, all students will be offered degree completion opportunities at Antioch University McGregor which is moving to a new facility in Yellow Springs in September, 2007.”
Sounds like the McGregor school will have an empty college campus available right around that time! How convenient for things to fall together like this.
— Lee Azzarello Jun 19, 01:40 PM #
What a sad demise to such a proud institution; I was unprepared for the shock although, after reading comments of others, I should have been. I had mailed a check to Antioch the day before I heard the news. Would I have done it otherwise? The news brought on nostalgia. I entered Antioch in 1940 and joined the flood of returning vets in 1946. I shared a temporary barracks with (Judge) Leon Higgenbotham, knew Coretta Scott (King), Rod Serling, Arthur Morgan and many other well known people. It was a heady time. George Geiger, Basil Pillard and others. I worked in the Tea Room under Kenny Hamilton, had co-op jobs all over the country. I look back on those years as some of the happiest in my life and they really changed the outlook of a small town guy. Let’s hope we are not just reading an obituary!
Gerry Harwood ’49 gerryhwd@comcast.net
— Gerry Harwood '49 Jun 19, 04:25 PM #