Antioch Heroine

One sure way to rile an alumnus of Antioch College is to call his alma mater a trade school. Every Antioch student alternates work and study. For five to ten weeks he plugs at a liberal arts curriculum on the campus at Yellow Springs, Ohio. Then for an equal period he works in an office, store, factory, newspaper or at any job which appeals to him. Antioch's President Arthur Ernest Morgan (now on leave as chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority) thinks of the work periods as a preparation for a full life and a substitute for the farm chores which bred resourcefulness in an earlier generation.

Heroes of Antioch are the students who do not rely on the college to find them jobs but go out and get their own. Early last month Undergraduate Anne Sibley climbed into a bus, started East. Since self-sufficient Undergraduate Sibley refrained from telling her Chicago parents where she was going, the Eastern Press was soon conducting a search. Last week the search ended on a barker's platform outside a Coney Island freak show. Undergraduate Sibley's job was to stand dumbly but alluringly beside the freaks while the barker was spieling. She worked from noon to midnight, earned $15 a week, lived with the tattooed lady.

Said the show manager: "She is just the type I need--tall, blonde and stately, with an air about her." Heroine Sibley: "This has been worth a year at college. I'm never going back."

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