“Witness Bahrain”
Photo courtesy of witnessbahrain.comFires break out in Pearl Roundabout after invasion of Bahraini troops. Photo courtesy of witnessbahrain.com On Friday night the Reed Socialist Alternative hosted a...
View ArticleLeo Eats Liver, Receives Oscar
Leensa Gheneti/The QUEST Two years ago, during my freshman year at Reed, a Random House upperclassman let me into her dorm room to watch the Academy Awards. We weren’t too close, but she knew that this...
View ArticleJozwik’s ‘Psychosis’ Balances Coherence, Chaos
Lily Harris in a scene from 4.48 Psychosis. Photo courtesy of Somerset Thompson. This Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights, thesis candidate Jordan Jozwik (as director) and Lily Harris (as the sole...
View ArticleZamanfou: Beastiary
Beastiary illustrated by Skye Binegar. Part of the Zamanfou series.
View ArticleBrowsing With Brandon
Descender Volume 1: Tin Stars cover provided by Image Comics. Reviewed as “your new sci-fi obsession,” it’s no surprise that I felt like some higher power was drawing me to the recently published epic...
View ArticleThis Week’s Top Music Picks
PIMP, PIMP: HOORAY! An hour or so before midnight on Thursday, March 3, Kendrick Lamar dropped a surprise album aptly titled untitled unmastered, providing an unexpected, but much-needed source of...
View ArticleCycles: Three Poems
Cycles: three poems I. erosion she palms the space she is in for living forms of twin matter sullying the water with her fingers she whispers to the Bluefin tuna on the shoals feeds them...
View ArticleFuck the Poor: The Gentrification of Reed College
The fact that summer housing for this year has been raised by 43 percent without notifying the student body speaks loudly of the bureaucracy at Reed College. The students who tend to stay on campus...
View ArticleNot the Trees!
Photo Courtesy of Quest Writer David James. In 1922, Beatrice Olson wrote in The Griffin that “the most distinctive feature of the permanent structures on the Reed College campus is their subtle...
View ArticleSenate Beat
Last week’s Senate meeting focused on a proposal to implement a restorative justice process for sexual misconduct cases. As was announced by Student Body President Lucas Binion prior to the start of...
View ArticleStudent Opportunity Subsidy Grants
Updates: “The deadline has been extended to March 27th so apply while you still can!” (Austin Magleby ’19). For those students looking to broaden their academic or employment horizons this summer,...
View Article“Do You Want Us Here or Not?”
Posters taped on Quad exit of the Gray Campus Center. Photo provided by Quest Editor Laura Dallago. UPDATE: Student Body Vice President, Josh Cox ’17, recently announced that the Summer Housing cost...
View ArticleMorning Rituals Of Vaguely Grotesque Baby
Illustrated by Hannah Looney and Josh Gancher.
View ArticleMarch Madness
March is for underdogs. As the weather turns warmer, the basketball court begins to look like a ballroom. Cinderella goes to the dance and has a shot at the crown, despite her beginnings and status....
View ArticleFoundations
I am peeling ginger and carrots over the sink alone with my anatomical cadence a homebody to my candor earlier this morning I tugged these roots from wet soil with my cut fingers which now sting under...
View ArticleBrowsing With Brandon
Photo courtesy of paperkeg.com Content Warning for the graphic novel Ghost World: Cursing, Pedophilia, Anti-Semitic Comments, Homophobic Statements, and Potentially Triggering Discussions on Loss Of...
View ArticleThe Times, Buildings, They Are A-Changin’
Photo courtesy of Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects Photo courtesy of Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects Photo courtesy of Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects Photo courtesy of Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects...
View ArticleSenate Discusses Housing Crisis, Students in Outrage
An Overview of the Problem Senator and Residence Life Liaison Chase Doremus opened the conversation by outlining three primary issues with Reed housing. First, the monthly rent for on-campus summer...
View ArticleLetter from the Editors
Historically, students with disabilities have received favorable cohort numbers in the housing lottery to ensure that they would receive on-campus housing with appropriate accommodations. However,...
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