Student Senate Proposes Increase in Student Body Activities Fee
The Student Senate began discussions of increasing the student body activities fee, during their public meeting on Thursday February 26. The fee, currently $260 for the entire year for each student,...
View ArticleSCAPP, Student Diversity Committee, and DiversIfY Talk Collaboration
The Student Committee for Academic Policy and Planning (SCAPP) touched base with Student Diversity Committee member Flavia Bortoleto and DiversIfY liaison Sabrina Smith about ways in which the student...
View ArticleFaculty Push DHSM Vote to April
On Thursday February 26, the faculty called an impromptu meeting to discuss further edits to the draft of the Discriminatory Harassment and Sexual Misconduct Policy (DHSM) that was scheduled to be...
View ArticleFaculty Hears Reports on Admissions and Diversity
President’s Report President John Kroger presented new data from the Office of Admission this term. This application term has seen an 80 percent increase in the number of applicants from two years ago,...
View ArticleJupiter Ascending: Treat Yourself
Ignoring the massive privilege of going to a college as nice as Reed — let alone going to any college — it can be difficult to be a Reedie. Classes start out slow, but as each semester drags on,...
View ArticleSpring 2015 KRRC Schedule
Monday 12 a.m. A Declaration “Pop music is fun.” 12 p.m. Nasty Tasty “Mmm gross” 1 p.m. Isabel Lyndon 2 p.m. Taylor Holdaway 6 p.m. Cosmic Fern “House/Grime” 7 p.m. DJ Dancers “Ice cool jams” 8 p.m....
View ArticleA Proposal for Bon Appetit
When you walk into Commons the first thing you approach is the menu, which sets you up facing away from the soup and salad and towards the dessert table. You then wend your way to the grill or daily...
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Doyle Owl Release
Doyle Owl Commandments [reprinted from Douglas Squirrel]: In the last days ye shall find the great [stone?] OWL, whose name shall be DOYLE. And he shall pass through the water, yea, and the flame...
View ArticleStudent Body Position Stipends Could Be Need-Aware
Students brainstormed ways in which student body position pay could be more need-aware, during last week’s “spooky” Senate meeting. Though Senate has marked out this time for discussion of the planned...
View ArticleSenate Spring 2015 Budget
Senate is responding to a request at our last public meeting to publish our semester budget. We know that some of these categories and numbers might be confusing, and there’s a lot more detail that we...
View ArticleHonor at the Doyle Owl Fight
Last semester, Honor Council held a forum for the community to discuss honorable behavior at owl fights. We received feedback, ideas, and concerns from both students and members of Community Safety,...
View ArticleWhat is a Healthy Relationship?
“What does a healthy relationship look like?” asked one of my residents halfway through a healthy relationships workshop. As college campuses across the country (have been forced to) join the battle...
View ArticleFreshman Excluded from Conference, Petition Sparks Controversy
On Wednesday, March 18, Jeremiah True ’18 sent the Reed Facebook group ablaze with a link to his Change.org petition entitled, “Restore Jeremiah Josias Luther George True to His Humanities 110...
View ArticleProtected Free Speech: A Guide for the Perplexed
By now, most Reed students are probably acquainted with what has become this year’s Spring Crisis: Jeremiah True ’18 was permanently ejected from Pancho Savery’s Humanities 110 conference because,...
View ArticleOn Recent Events in Oklahoma
Some members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity at the University of Oklahoma chanted the following words: “There will never be a nigger at SAE. There will never be a nigger at SAE. You can...
View ArticleAmerica: God, Gold and Golems
America is weird. America is really, really weird. I have lived now in two weird parts of America and I still think that America is weirder than any other part of the world, partly because it is so big...
View ArticleHits From the Cong
2015 is a precarious year for rock music. Barring the naturally long-awaited Sleater-Kinney reunion, only three of Pitchfork’s most anticipated releases of 2015 could be considered rock in anything...
View ArticleCinderella: It’s Ella now I guess?
It was probably Ella all along. I just never thought about which name most easily lends itself to adding “Cinder” to the front of it. I felt really dumb. Cinderella made me feel dumb the entire way...
View ArticleIt’s Faculty Evaluation Time Again… But This Time It’s Different
At least for many of you. This semester over half of the student body will see a difference in the way that faculty evaluations are done. The questions asked remain the same, and we hope that your...
View ArticleWage Review Board Recommends Senate Double Wage Spending
After surveying over two hundred students, the Wage Review Board has made its final recommendations to Senate. We recommend that Senate almost double the amount of money it spends each semester on...
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