The Antioch Record: Printing & Contributing Costs

The Record is Antioch College’s student-run newspaper. For nearly 100 years, The Record has served the information needs of the community, documented the history of the college, and has been an instrument for education in civic and journalistic responsibility, and now it is in need of your help.

My name is S. Quinn Ritzhaupt. I’m a fourth year at Antioch College, studying archives. I’m also the print editor of The Record, alongside my best friend and colleague Loretta Philip '24 who serves as the layout editor. I always wanted to write for The Record; when my older sibling was attending Antioch, I had hoped to contribute to the school paper when I got there. By the time I started in Fall 2019, The Record had ceased to exist.

After my short stint at the Yellow Springs News as a freelance journalist, coupled with Loretta's high school graphic design education, we felt we had the skills needed to revive The Record from its early grave. With the support of the newly-reconstructed Record Advisory Board and the Yellow Springs News, Loretta and I produced the first new Record in over three years in Spring 2021. Since then, we’ve been publishing The Record quarterly, with just the two of us as continuing staff. We run on Community Council funding, which helps us pay for printing costs, as well as fair payment for freelance contributors. Loretta and I were paid through the Antioch Works program, meaning we made $10 an hour, 10 hours a week for our work on The Record.

Recently, Antioch College has fallen upon some hard times financially. We’ve lost a lot as a school, including The Record budget. Winter 2023 was the first quarter we were unable to put a paper out in almost two years, which has come as a great disappointment to both readers of The Record as well as Loretta and me, who have spent so much time caring for the paper and navigating the highs and lows of being a two-person editing team.

With my graduation in June fast approaching, we had hoped to put out one last Record before a shift in editorship took place. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like the college will be able to provide the funds needed for us to create a paper, compensate people for their contributions, and have physical printed copies, as is our norm. This is why we are making this GoFundMe, in hopes that someone has some spare change to toss our way.

We’re starting by asking for $2000. This $2000 would go directly to The Record, as it will be allocated to printing costs and contributor costs. Anything helps – this is an aspirational number, but we can and will make do with anything we receive.

You can read The Record online at https://recordonline.org/.