Senate, Granger Announce Plans to Update Implementation of Emergency Response System
Five years ago, before Justin Bieber sold over 4.5 million records and when Pink actually had cultural significance, the Reed Senate decided to make the new Emergency Notification System opt-in for all the student body. This meant that to get emails, text messages, or phone messages sent to you from the CSO Office during an [...]
Read MorePrinting Fees Drop
Beginning this semester, we’ve decreased printing fees by 20 percent, lowering the cost from 10 cents to eight cents per side. Wait, what? Can that be right? In this economy, with prices rising for… everything? Ever since Reede was Olde, printing has been charged at 10¢ per side. Why change it now? Well, there are [...]
Read MoreBlue Like Jazz Crew Shoots on Campus
The cast and crew of Blue Like Jazz arrived on campus last week to a bittersweet surprise: sun. Saturday was one of Portland’s rare breaks from the winter gloom, a perfect day of blue skies, near-warm weather, and vitamin D. For those of us back from winter break, it was a glorious (if deceptively optimistic) start to the semester. For director Steve Taylor, however, the bright skies came with a dose of irony — on its first day filming at Reed College, the crew of Blue Like Jazz had to make its own rain.
Read MoreGranger Responds to Recent Jabs, Increase in AODs
Is CSO-in-Chief Gary Granger out to terminate the Honor Principle? “Why would I be the terminator?” asks Granger, looking quizzically at a satirical leaflet hung up on his wall. The leaflet in question, which states that Gary Granger is “a cyborg assassin sent back in time to terminate the Honor Principle,” has been circulating around [...]
Read MorePortland While You Were Gone
While most of you pretty young things spent your winter break at home kickin’ it with your homies/parents/grandparents/dog/sofa, all sorts of interesting things happened in this great state of Oregon. Here are some highlights of what you missed: • A former CIA agent who was serving a 23-½-year sentence after being imprisoned as a Russian [...]
Read MoreThe Missing Pieces: A Review
The Portland Playhouse’s production of Nick Zagone’s The Missing Pieces is a playful, heartfelt tale of a boy’s search for a father figure. The production is not perfect, but director Brian Weaver certainly puts on a damn good show. When the lights come up, it’s 1980. Mt. St. Helens has just erupted and Portland is [...]
Read MoreForthcoming Blue Like Jazz Movie to Paint Reed as Intellectual, Wild
“Movie stories don’t live well in the middle of human experience,” he says as the camera pans over extras dressed as Renn Fayre participants, decked out in animal costumes and sparkly wigs. “When [the protagonist] goes away to [Reed] College, it’s not kind of a liberal college, it’s the most godless campus in America.” That’s [...]
Read MoreVideogame Consoles Stolen, Honor Principle feels Violated
On Monday, Dec. 7, Andrew Choi and Rebecca Richman reported three video game consoles belonging to Reed’s resident video game collective, Handling Controllers Collaboratively (HCC), stolen. Choi and Richman were in the middle of arranging a video game rental program with the campus bookstore at the time of the theft. If all went according to [...]
Read MoreMany Ways to Communicate with CSOs, One Result
In his first year at Reed, Director of Community Safety Gary Granger has spent a lot of time repeatedly emphasizing one point: communication with him and/or his CSO staff will help ease students’ concern about CSO engagement. If you don’t communicate with them, there’s no way Gary will be able to know how you feel. [...]
Read MoreReed’s Namaste Kathmandu Seeks Volunteers
Erica Boulay
Ten-year-old Asmita wanted to go to school, but her mother couldn’t afford to continue sending her.
At the local private school, tuition was free, but books and supplies were not. Asmita, a bright little girl with pigtails and a huge smile loved school more than anything else. She wore her uniform even on days off. At age nine, she had already read through half of her science book by teaching herself at home. Forced to drop out at age ten, Asmita came to my second grade classroom
Read MoreA Sock Drive to Benefit Portland Street Population
Wiggle your toes, then take a look outside. Aren’t you glad you’re cozy inside, with a good pair of socks to protect your extremities from the cold and wet when you do venture outdoors?
Read MoreCIS Considers Switch to Google Apps
Reed’s Computing and Informational Services department is in talks with Google to implement Google Apps for Education on campus, with the focus currently on Google Calendar and Google Docs. The transaction between the schools and Google involves much legal review, which is underway. Along with other colleges with similar concerns, and their attorneys, the language [...]
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Four Loko Canned: College Students Everywhere May Start to Remember Their Saturday Nights
Facing mounting pressure from the FDA, outspoken government representatives, and concerned citizens groups, makers of the popular malt beverage Four Loko announced on Tuesday that they will pull the caffeine from the convenience store staple. The current formula for each standard can contains 12% alcohol, 660 calories, and a caffeine, guarana, and taurine stimulant cocktail [...]
Read MoreCommons Announces Marked Drop in Dish Expenditures
Bon Appetite – the catering company that serves us food in the family room we call Commons – is contractually required to buy $6,500 worth of new dishes every year. In the past years, however, this cost has been much higher. Last year was the worst yet: the total cost for replaced commons dishes was [...]
Read MorePolice Shut Down Dance Party
Neighbor’s Noise Complaint Ends Reedies’ Fun The La Resistance dance party in the Student Union was shut down around midnight Friday Nov. 12 when a neighbor called the Portland Police after complaining to Reed, said Gary Granger, director of community safety. Daft Ball, the Daft Punk-themed party held the following night, however, did not disturb [...]
Read MoreProspie Profs Battle for Tenure-Track Positions
Members of the political science department have just returned from a meeting that has lasted for hours and are arguing about dinner. Left with only beer and tortilla chips for an entire afternoon, they complain to each other about the lack of edible compensation on behalf of the department. “This is one of the problems [...]
Read More“Reedies for Reed” Plan Second Scholarship for Students by Students
The search has begun to rename the “Class of 2010 Scholarship,” an on-campus fundraiser to establish a scholarship for an incoming freshman. Meetings have only just begun for the new campaign
Read MoreParadox To Increase Prices
Espresso drink prices rise $0.25 The Paradox Cafe, Reed’s in-house coffeeshop, has been forced to raise blended coffee prices for the first time in years as the result of recent increased price rates in the coffee industry. Effective November 10th, espresso drinks (espressos, americanos, macchiatos, lattes, and mochas) will cost 25 cents more. Stumptown Coffee [...]
Read MoreGray Fund Calls On Superstars
Reel Big Fish is just the beginning—Common, The Decemberists, Neil Patrick Harris, Modest Mouse are all proposed names for Gray Fund’s coming semesters. “Every year we try to bring in big names. Relative to the other years, this year, especially with the big music acts, is definitely more of a pop culture type of thing,” [...]
Read MoreCommunity Safety Releases Rules of Engagement, Seeks Feedback on First Draft
It seems two documents, the Alcohol and Drug Policy and its implementation plan, are not enough to guide the treatment of drugs at Reed. A draft of Rules of Engagement for community safety officers dealing with drug and alcohol violations have been released by Gary Granger, director of community safety, in order to draw comments [...]
Read MoreKeith Todd Joins Reed as Dean of Admissions
“How are your classes?” Keith Todd, dean of Admissions, asks me as he leads me into his office. Despite the formal feel of his cherry-wood office the conversation retains the usual comfortable feel. This comes as a warm surprise considering his impressive background. Starting as an admissions officer for Stanford, he moved east to become [...]
Read MoreRichmond Clinic Offers Lowest-Cost Healthcare
Reed Alumna Jessica Glenn ‘06 had just lost her health insurance and didn’t know where to turn. She had been divorced, and even though she was a healthy thirty year-old, insurance companies
Read MoreReed Forms StarCraft Team, Techs to Intercollegiate League
Mattias Lehman paces around the McKinley common room, scratching his chin. “I used exclusively zerglings up until Gold tier, but above that, that strategy begins to fail.” He turns his attention to other things. “What I’d really like pull off next match is the Medivac Ultralisk Ball. Or Zealot Hydra Medivac.” Don’t worry if none [...]
Read MoreRuck Maul Pillage and Burn, Ruck Maul Pillage and Burn: Eat the Babies!
The Badass Sparkle Princesses are known around campus for two things—being one of the most intense sports teams at Reed and eating babies. The women’s rugby club has been around since the 1980s
Read MoreConservative Bloggers Attack Reed Alumna, Congressional Candidate Suzan DelBene
During a particularly tight political race in Washington this fall, the media has pulled out all the stops in getting dirt on candidates. Unfortunately, multiple conservative bloggers have taken to criticizing Suzan DelBene – Reed trustee and alumna – by using her affiliation to the College as a means of attacking her candidacy. Running as a Democratic candidate for Washington’s eighth congressional district this year, DelBene’s ties to Reed have been the subject of much excoriation from the Republican community.
Reed Awaiting Large Donations, Hoping to Broaden Donor Pool
President Colin Diver is unable to predict whether Reed’s fundraising effort this year will prove successful. The money, however, already has a purpose: Reed needs the funds to finance yearly expenditures.
Read MoreReed Alum Clears Streets for Locomotion
Wide streets, smooth, flat roads, beautiful weather along the Pacific Ocean, and hardly a drop of rain in the sky. It is the sort of climate anyone on a bike would dream of. Perhaps no city is better made for the fixie ride dream than Los Angeles. At least that’s what Bobby Gadda thought. After [...]
Read MoreThe Paradox Stabilizes, Has Options Available
One of the places where Reed students get their daily dose of caffeine, the Paradox Café embodies the sort of ethic and energy that defines the Reed experience. The art on the walls is student made (and for sale), pastries are on many occasions made by Reed students, and drip coffee is sold via honor [...]
Read MoreReed Ski Cabin Renovated and Open For Business
Will Symms Reed’s ski cabin in Government Camp will open its doors for reservations on Friday October 15 after undergoing a significant remodel. The cabin’s renovation, intended to increase long-term functionality, was provided for by a generous alumni gift. Among other considerations, the plumbing was in need of updating, the bathrooms were in structural disrepair, [...]
Read MoreDawn Thompson Begins Transition to Executive Assistant Position
Jacob Canter The job application for the Executive Assistant to the President is three pages full of expectations and duties. The final responsibility is perhaps the most important, and facility in this area is what makes someone with this job truly effective. “[One must] perform other related duties as assigned,” Kathy Rose remarked, as she [...]
Read MoreNew Student Committee on Diversity at Reed
Senate Formally Addresses Issues Student Senate unanimously voted to create a student diversity committee at a meeting Tuesday, October 12. The ten-student committee will present issues pertaining to diversity and inclusion to Student Senate, and will write a report on the state of diversity at the college every semester. “The committee should be charged with [...]
Read MoreStudent Grants Now Available
The Undergraduate Research Committee has Initiative Grants available to assist student research and thesis activities. Some examples of eligible expenses include but are not limited to conference travel to present papers, equipment and supplies purchases, and travel to field sites and performances. Proposals are not to exceed five pages in length and should contain a [...]
Read More/uncommons/ Tantalizes Reedie Palates with Haute Cuisine
6:10 pm, Sitka kitchen. It is twenty minutes to show time and Bryan Nakayama ‘10 is frenzied. As his cohorts set up the aesthetic — one best characterized by knitted tablecloths and porcelain dinnerware — Nakayama is still at the counter, chopping up garlic. “We’re not ready,” he says rather nonchalantly. “And I’ll be drunk [...]
Read MorePortland Fashion Week: Locals Dress to Impress and Strut Their Stuff
When someone mentions Fashion Week, the cities usually associated with the biannual event are New York, Paris, Milan, London, Tokyo, and other large, hyper-metropolitan cities known for producing design houses famous worldwide. Every fall and spring, the who’s-who of the fashion world don their finest threads and hobnob with celebrities as they watch the upcoming [...]
Read MoreTrustees Shoot Down Greywood Proposal
The plans to rebuild the Greywood building have been put on hold. The Board of Trustees, who met this weekend, decided that a new Performing Arts building remains a greater priority than the reconstruction of Greywood. President Diver sent out an email to the Student Body on Monday informing the community that the building of [...]
Read MoreReed Adopts Statement of Diversity
In a significant decision Saturday October 2, the Reed Board of Trustees approved the college’s first official Statement of Diversity at their annual fall summit. The positive vote from the trustees heralded the final hurdle for a document nearly two years in the making. While the Statement underwent a number of revisions before finally reaching [...]
Read MoreKRRC Streams Online, May Yet Lose License
Unlike Olde Reed, KRRC is not dead. Open your computers and turn to KRRCfm.com. Reed has a student radio station and it’s streaming online, said station signators Alexa Ross and Jack Diboise. Yet not all is rosy with KRRC; though the station is professionally equipped and has more than seventy shows scheduled, station managers found [...]
Read MoreGreywood to Be Rebuilt, Unify Admin Offices
The Greywood building, which now houses Career Services and Alumni Services, will be closed come Winter Break. The proposel, which is to be approved by the Board of Trustees at their October meeting, plans for the new building to house academic support services, the language lab, bike storage, and a staff lounge in the basement. [...]
Read MoreCentennial Planning Underway as Reed Turns 100
Reed turns one hundred in fall of 2011, and it’s going to party all year long. The celebration officially starts at Reunions 2011 in June, and runs until Reunions 2012; in between Reed will throw two huge parties, publish three books, and complete a $200 million fund-raising campaign. The first classes at Reed opened on [...]
Read MoreStudents Cast Their Internets Wide, Pirate Copyrighted Material
Five weeks into the semester, Reed has received five takedown notices as a result of students using the school’s Internet network for illegal file sharing. From the ’07-’08 to the ’09-’10 school year, takedown notices increased fourfold. Gary Schlickeiser, Computer User Services’ Director of Technology & Infrastructure Services and the person in charge of the [...]
Read MoreGranger Uses Campus Map to Pin Down CSO Involvement
Gary Granger is a visual learner. “I process things visually,” Granger says, pointing a large map situated in the middle of his office. This map, referred to by Granger simply as ‘the board,’ tracks incidents pertaining to drug, alcohol, and bike theft across campus. Granger codes these incidents with three different color pins: green, representing [...]
Read MoreTrustees to Talk Greywood at Fall Meeting
The Reed Board of Trustees will convene for their first meeting of the 2010-11 fiscal year on Friday, October 1. The trustees will spend Friday afternoon in committee meetings, followed by dinner with Reed administrators and the student body president and vice president. On Saturday they will come together for a series of formal plenary [...]
Read MoreJuggling Fest PDX Comes to Reed
A girl dressed in bright neon clothing balances on a unicycle. “This is easy,” she says. Unphased by the crowed of people watching her, she thrusts three plastic knives into the air, gracefully catching each of them. Upon witnessing her own success—and the roaring applause—she sighs in relief. “Actually, I’ve been practicing that for weeks.” [...]
Read MoreGranger Uses Campus Map to Pin Down CSO Involvement
Gary Granger is a visual learner. “I process things visually,” Granger says, pointing a large map situated in the middle of his office. This map, referred to by Granger simply as ‘the board,’ tracks incidents pertaining to drug, alcohol, and bike theft across campus. Granger codes these incidents with three different color pins: green, representing [...]
Read MoreIntro Bio Accomodates Extra Students
Student enrollment in Introductory Biology has seen a dramatic increase, forcing a bit of reorganization on behalf of the Biology department. According to the Office of the Registrar, enrollment for BIO 101 (including lecture and lab component) has increased by 53 students for the 2010-11 school year, resulting in a total enrollment of 244. This [...]
Read MoreFinancial Aid Rides Out Recession, Continues to Help Reedies
Last year the New York Times focused a story on Reed College faring in the face of the recession. A year later, the country’s economic recovery has slowed, and likewise, so has Reed’s.
Read MoreTwo Honor Council Positions Open After Appointees Opt Out
As you may have noticed – thanks in no small part to heavy advertisement and persistent email notifications – there are two Honor Council positions open this semester. The vacancies are the result of two students, both sophomores, deciding to decline the position for personal reasons. Vasishth Srivastava was offered the opportunity to continue working [...]
Read MoreMaking Cents of Commons Pricing: A Look at Discrepancies Between Board Points and Commuter Cash
Ben Williams A Bon Appétit hamburger: a patty of shoulder meat from a humanely treated, 100 percent true-blooded American, grass-fed organic cow that never had a drop of growth hormones in its life, a slice or two of tomato, pickles and onions to taste, ketchup and mustard. The price of a Bon Appétit hamburger: $2.68. [...]
Read MoreNew Semester Brings Shift in AOD Enforcement
The beginning of the semester has seen changes to the enforcement of Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) Policy on campus. As a result many students have expressed uncertainty regarding the policy and its enforcement, causing rampant speculation. “I’ve been hearing about students getting busted in sally port, which really surprised me,” one student said. “Last [...]
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