Divestment Movement and Trustees Finally Meet Face to Face
Members of the Divest Reed campaign met with President John Kroger and the Board of Trustees on Friday, February 7 to discuss the potential for Reed to divest its endowment from fossil fuels. A group...
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Senate Attempts to Dodge Faculty Showdown in Smoking Policy Debate
Senator Andrew Watson (center) speaks at the special February 14 Senate meeting on smoking policy in the Chapel. Senate made a subtle gamble to tip the legislative scales in its favor on Tuesday as it...
View ArticleOne of These Things is Not Like the Other
I’m writing this article to investigate what we mean when we talk about the exclusion of non-community members at Reed. There are multiple contexts in which this occurs; in a conversation earlier this...
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An Obscure Home for Advanced Computation
Tucked on the outskirts of Reed’s campus, past the DoJo and the Arts building, sits a modest, seemingly displaced house. Set apart from the neighborhood surrounding Reed, its purpose is unclear; a...
View ArticleNew Seasons Is Coming to Woodstock
For Reedies unsatisfied with Safeway as a source of sustenance, New Seasons, the locally owned grocery store featuring organic and healthy foods, will soon make itself at home in the Woodstock...
View ArticleLetter: Making Good Citizens
Vollum Lecture Hall, November 14th 2013 — At the strategic planning committee meeting, Professor Nathalia King voiced a compelling and heartfelt claim: that the goal of a Reed education is to produce...
View ArticleLetter: Refund Request for the Officers and Trustees of Reed College
To Whom It May Concern, With the tenth anniversary of my graduation upon us, and your constant solicitations for money ever since, I think a full refund of tuition circa 2002-4 is long overdue. Higher...
View ArticleLetter: Handling Sexual Misconduct by Visitors to Reed
Events at parties, including Bad Bitches Ball last weekend, have raised some questions about visitor misconduct. I’ve been here a month. I don’t know this campus well yet. But I can make some...
View ArticleSaVE Act to Significantly Impact Adjudication of Sexual Assault Cases
A change in Federal law, the introduction of the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination, or SaVE, Act will force the college to amend its Discriminatory Harassment and Sexual Misconduct Policy, adopted in...
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Update: Senate Accepts CAC’s Last-Minute Smoking Policy Concessions
Senate voted at its February 23 meeting to disapprove the CAC’s smoking policy draft and to approve its own version. Senate voted 6 to 3 today to approve a set of smoking policy concessions offered by...
View ArticleLetter: The Risk Of Being The Coolest College In Town
Since fall of 2013, Community Safety Officers (CSOs) have documented no less than ten incidents of Lewis & Clark students at Reed who have engaged in various and sundry mischief, including getting...
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VVEED: An Introduction
Weed, the “every day” term for a “variety of senses” is a surprisingly flexible concept, (can lead to confusion) and no one minds the blanket term, Weed. It’s all about not being like other plants in...
View ArticleNot-So-Gray Area: Gray Fund and Honor
Let me first admit that I was a bit disappointed that the Gray Fund calendar for this semester had no hiking trips to the Gorge. I love wildflower hikes, and the Gorge is one of the most beautiful...
View ArticleSenate Beat: New Animal Policy
Senator Adrian Dannis ’14 introduced a new Animal Policy draft at the Senate meeting Tuesday that would allow Community Safety and Facilities to designate off-leash areas for dogs and expand current...
View ArticleSmoking Policy
Preamble We, as a community, believe in the right of all members of the Reed College community and all visitors to campus to be able to conduct their affairs without unwillingly being exposed to...
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Title IX Complaint Prompts KRRC to Erase Select Graffiti
Student members of the KRRC spent the weekend painting over pieces of graffiti in the KRRC studio and record library in response to a Title IX complaint filed at the end of last semester. The...
View ArticleVVeed: Literature and Relevancy
By a VVeedie She went to bed high so that she wouldn’t dream. In the morning she woke up and looked at tweets on her phone in bed. After several minutes completely mediated by the screen, she thought:...
View ArticleFaculty Meeting: New Smoking Policy Passes
SMOKING A new smoking policy passed last Thursday at the Faculty meeting when quorum was not met, effectively allowing the policy approved by the Community Affairs Committee and Senate to pass. The...
View ArticleSpring Break GCC Mural Installation
This spring break, the mural proposed last spring by student artist Santiago Leyba and later approved by the Art Collection Management Committee and the student Senate will be installed in the Gray...
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Paradox Loses Hundreds of Dollars to Thievery
Thieves have stolen hundreds of dollars this semester from the cash register behind Paradox Manager Anna Baker (right) and employee Chloe Truong-Jones (left). An unidentified thief stole approximately...
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