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Ivy, Fiddle, and Pressed Cider Marks Canyon Day 2013
A grand Reed tradition, Canyon Day, continued to thrive last Saturday with gloves, wheelbarrows, shovels, and Otto’s scrumptious sausages. Students, alumni and community members all devoted their day...
View ArticleSmall Fish Story Shows Human Failure
“Everything is connected to everything else,” Zygmunt Plater, a professor at Boston School of Law, declared on Thursday night in Vollum Lecture Hall, in a lecture about the endangered snail darter....
View ArticleLetter on Sustainability
A fresh movement for sustainability at Reed is building momentum, but students are the only soldiers in the fight. While the Sustainability Committee and Environmental Studies program are supported by...
View ArticleThesis Christ: Shantanu Chatterjee
When we talk about things that we must do, we are talking about actions that are prescribed. What is it that prescribes these actions? In philosophical literature, people refer to norms and normativity...
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Two Freshmen Win $5,000 in Lottery
The odds proved very profitable for two freshman in the start of this fall semester. Last month, Freshman Jack Lent and his friend (who would like to remain anonymous) won $5,000 from a single...
View ArticleCommons Dishes Disappear at Uncommon Rate
Since the end of September every commons dish sitting abandoned in the rain or hidden in the cupboard of a Birchwood has been eating into Reed College’s precious funds. Every year Bon Appetit covers...
View ArticleLetter: Goings-on in “Green” Town
Reed students are working in all venues to engage with issues of sustainability, environmental justice, and the dirt. I’ve collected some recent activities, both associated with the academic...
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The Secret Life of Rene Descartes
René Descartes is best known for coining the philosophical phrase cogito ergo sum: I think, therefore I am. Although this is what he is known for, this is obviously not his only significant thought,...
View ArticleLetter: Carl Bernstein Talk Squandered?
Last Thursday we squandered a great opportunity. The great opportunity being Carl Bernstein giving a talk followed by a Q&A. How we squandered it? By focusing our questions on and asking him to...
View ArticleParadox Plagued by Theft
An unidentified person or persons stole from the Paradox’s Olde Shop on Monday night, leaving employees with an empty cash register the next morning. This theft comes on the heels of several other...
View ArticleDr Demento Reminisces on Reed, Radio
There are a few events that, here at Reed, we mark our calendars by: Renn Fayre, Spring/Fall, RKSK, and for those of us on campus during Paideia, alum Dr. Demento’s Paideia speeches. After graduating...
View ArticleOther People’s Stories, And Eventually, Our Own: Remembering Louise Rennison
This past Tuesday, Louise Rennison died. A prolific author—and former member of Women with Beards, an all-female feminist cabaret group—her most famous books were the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson...
View ArticleMadrid Indie Band Hinds Plays Portland
It’s Saturday night, and like millions of concertgoers across the country, I’m lining up outside a 21 and over club, hoping desperately that my underage friend will get in. She’s borrowed a fake for...
View Article“The Boatman’s Call,” Nearly Twenty Years On
Nick Cave cuts a fine figure, storming through the world in black, fervent emotion—and the dyed black hair and funereal suits to match. Together with his band, the Bad Seeds, he’s released a remarkable...
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A group of students who contacted the Quest claimed to have witnessed a...
The students arrived outside of President Bilger’s office shortly before 3:19 PM (Quest reporters arrived at 3:22), and took several photographs of the meeting and what seems to be an agenda written...
View ArticleThe meeting reportedly took place in Eliot 314, directly opposite President...
This is the same space in which the Quest later found the message “living wages for all staff” written on the whiteboard. The meeting agenda had been erased by the time the Quest arrived. The space...
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The Quest has previously covered staff pay issues, including staff discontent...
In Staff Pay Explained, Declan Bradley does his best to clarify what the proposed changes would have meant for staff across Reed’s campus. In Staff Continue Objections to Proposed Pay Changes, Declan...
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