The Signs as Quest Pitches Nobody Ever Wrote
Aries
Med School Acceptance Rate Drops
Issue 12, Fall 2024
Institutional Research reports that between 2014 and 2023, only 42% of Reed alumni who applied to medical school were accepted, while from 2011 to 2020 the acceptance rate was 68% (cross-referencing current version of https://www.reed.edu/ir/medschool.html with Internet Archive).
Taurus
PRPL Division Considers Disbanding
Issue 12, Fall 2024
Last semester the PRPL division voted to disband and let its constituent departments continue existing individually, but didn't reach quorum.
Gemini
Oregon Right-to-Repair Law
Issue 2, Fall 2024
Oregon has passed a right-to-repair law obligating manufacturers of electronic devices to provide the resources necessary to fix their products instead of obligating consumers to rely solely on them. The law also bans parts pairing. Will this affect Reed's computer repair services, which were already Apple-authorized?
Cancer
Reed Declines to Divest
Issue 1, Spring 2025
Following over a year of student protests, Reed officially refused to divest from apartheid Israel and the military-industrial complex at the end of the fall semester.
Leo
SE Steele St. Anti-Homeless Arson
Issue 1, Spring 2025
Just after midnight on Saturday, Dec 7, somebody burned down one of the RVs on Steele St. bordering campus and left anti-homeless graffiti telling occupants to "move or die." The Bee carried some limited coverage of this, but it's otherwise gone largely unreported (OPB ignored me when I sent them lots of info). Reedies in the Garden Park Apartments may be able to help piece events together, along with any remaining RV residents.
Virgo
Response to racist graffiti
Issues 9–11, Spring 2025
Multiple instances of racist and antisemitic graffiti have been found on campus this semester. The PCCC has given several proposals, including installing cameras in GCC. What is actually being done about this?
Libra
Trillium Balcony Locked
Issue 5, Spring 2025
Res Life and/or the CSOs have locked the Trillium balcony following alleged excessive smoking by residents.
Scorpio
IT Vulnerabilities
Issue 10, Spring 2024
Our anonymous source says that it is still possible to obtain Reedies' IDs and make fake swipe cards from them. Additionally, Reed's email system still contains a vulnerability which allows anyone with minimal technical knowledge to spoof email addresses (as demonstrated by our source with a fake email from Steve Jobs). Both these vulnerabilities are allegedly known to IT.
Sagittarius
Oregon Continues Backlash Against Drug Decrim
Issue 11, Fall 2024
16 of 17 Oregon municipalities with referenda on medical psilocybin voted against it, continuing the backlash against drug decriminalization in Oregon that also included this year's repeal of Measure 110.
Capricorn
Toilet Paper USA
Issue 3, Fall 2024
Somebody from the far-right campus group TPUSA tried to table outside of Eliot during the Student Engagement Fair and got kicked off campus by the CSOs, then came back the next Thursday misrepresenting themselves as a Reedie and claiming they had founded a new campus club. What was the deal with that?
Aquarius
Substances Criminalized Again in Oregon
Issue 1, Fall 2024
Oregon's state legislature has passed HB 4002, which rolls back portions of Measure 110 (the 2020 ballot measure that decriminalized most drug possession in Oregon). How will this affect Reed?
Pisces
RV removal on Steele
Issue 1, Fall 2025
Over the summer, barriers have gone up on Steele blocking where RVs used to park on the north side of campus, after sweeps of the RV area rose last year.