Letter: Housing Accomodations at Reed
My name is Leilani Ganser. I am a first year at Reed and I have been disabled since I was 14. I have a rare disease called CRMO, or Chronic Recurrent Multifocal Osteomyelitis, wherein my own immune...
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Darkmatter Performs at Reed
Performance art duo Darkmatter showcases their particular blend of poetry, performance art, comedy, and politics.. Photo courtesy of The Daily Northwestern. It’s not often that Vollum lecture hall is...
View ArticleOther People’s Stories, And, Eventually Our Own: On The Importance Of Role...
Growing up in rural Australia with dial-up internet and a school size of 400, I would have probably lost it without books. I read a lot — and like pretty much else in life, some of the stuff I read...
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DanceSafe Pursues MDMA Education Policy
Dose-effect probability relationship of MDMA with adverse and desirable effects. Reed scored another point for its staunchly progressive attitude towards drugs this Wednesday, as SSDP took over PAB 320...
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This Week’s Top Music Picks
Need album suggestions? So fed up with music than you need an entirely new genre? Read below. A Laced Odyssey Brooklyn-based rappers Flatbush Zombies released their much-awaited debut studio album last...
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Browsing With Brandon
Photo courtesy of mycomicshop.com CW for The Killing Joke: Violence, Assault against Women, and Frightening Scenes. “All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That’s how far...
View ArticlePutin and Liberal Arts: Closer Than You Think
This past weekend Reed saw the rare convergence of some of the most influential scholars of Russia. The event, titled “Understanding Putinism: Illiberal Russia through the Liberal Arts,” was an...
View ArticleSenate Beat
In an unusual move, the senate meeting this past Friday was moved from its home in the SU. In the wake of the shocking reappearance of the giant glowing orb that occasionally occupies the sky once in a...
View ArticleNatural History
Alan Sonfist is a member of the Land Art movement and grew up in the concrete desert of the Bronx in the 1960s. He writes: “[Going to school] I passed smoldering garbage. There were no trees...
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OWL FIGHT 2016
Reedies tussle for cement bird on lawn in front of Eliot. Hoot hoot! Photo taken by Staff Photographer Bri Dobson. This is a satirical piece and not meant to hurt anyone’s feelings (but I still hate...
View ArticleAlumni Auditors: Friend or Foe?
It’s 3:08 p.m. and students are trickling into classrooms on the top floor of Eliot. In 414, sitting front and center, with her notebook, pen, and textbooks at the ready, Edith* has been waiting...
View ArticleThe Art of Tarot
With a new understanding of the divination process after Synchronicity Tarot Club’s April 7 event, I felt it only appropriate to initiate this discussion by reading a one-card spread to offer...
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Kookie Kollective
Smorgasbord of cookies available to hungry Reedies on Nitrogen Day. Photo taken by Bri Dobson. Kyra Gutierrez, a first-year student, is single-handedly baking hundreds of cookies — and distributing...
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How Homer’s Hut Stacks Up Against Woodstock Grocers
This table compares prices of various “college student products,” like Ben & Jerry’s and kombucha, so you can be better informed for your next grocery trip. In the “difference” columns, positive...
View ArticleThe Lost Tradition of Glow Opera
Traditions typically come and go, and although Reed retains a culture of tradition, some things eventually fade away. In Renn Fayres past, students put a ‘Glow Opera,’ which was “a play we put on...
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Beyond the Borders of the Reed Bubble International students make up about ten percent of the Reed student body. That’s one out of every ten people. And they’d like to get paid for off-campus work....
View ArticleOff-Campus Opportunities Unavailable to International Students
As Reed careens towards summer break, heavy on many students’ minds is the question of summer internship and employment. For those lucky few who land paid internships, the road ahead might as well be...
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Hum Play Cancelled
To ease the pain of the recent cancellation of Hum Play, the directors inaugurate the Toga Tree, newfound rival of the Naked Tree. Photo taken by Kiana Poorfard. In a tragic and unexpected turn of...
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26 Kinds of Mac and Cheese: Learn From My Mistakes
Score A represents my feelings towards the mac as I was eating it. Score B represents how I felt about myself and general life choices afterwards. The average of the two is the final score. Price...
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