What if Art is a Car Crash and We’re All Just Rubbernecking
Production still, “We Build Excitement (Pontiac, MI),” digital video, 2013 All four scenes, including three video channels and the fourth wall they’re being projected onto, take place in a parking lot....
View ArticleArbitrary Taste
Dear suppliant, Before I address the question that you did ask, I want to speculate on the questions that you did not ask. You are not wondering how to have a life while still having time to finish...
View ArticleInterview with Adam Groce
New to Reed, Adam Groce is a visiting professor in the Math Department. He currently teaches Math 121: Introduction to Computing and Math 387: Computability & Complexity. Now that you’re here,...
View ArticleSCAPP Beat
Last spring SCAPP (Student Committee on Academic Policy and Planning) sent a memo to CAPP concerning faculty office hours. It outlined concerns brought to SCAPP by students who expressed feelings of...
View ArticleApplied Astrology
For centuries people have looked up at the heavens and attempted to read their future in the stars. From the Sumerians to the Mayans to the column in your local paper, people have been attributing...
View ArticleTouge Fever: An Affliction of Speed
I drive fast. A lot faster than I should on public roads (ostensibly), and likely faster than you. I drive too fast through twisty technical touges* and haul screaming hot fiery ass on open freeways. I...
View ArticleLevi’s: A Remembrance
I never thought I would write about jeans. Trust me, it’s not only about jeans. It’s more than that. Much more. When I was about five, the Levi’s were the pinnacle of my denim wonderland; it was a...
View ArticleComic Review: Locke and Key
A lot of you will soon be headed to the theatre to catch Horns, an adaptation of a book by none other than Joe Hill. Joe Hill is a genius, ya’ll. When I was in eighth grade, my English teacher lent me...
View ArticleCocktail Recipe: Mommy’s Whiskey Sour
The following recipe is a favorite of my Mom’s. For someone who is not by any means a heavy drinker, a whiskey based cocktail is a surprising choice for a go-to drink. This is her preferred ammunition...
View ArticleThe Lutz Report
People criticize Reed a lot but it’s so much better than anywhere else but you don’t realize that until you go into the outside world and realize how awful it is. There are things you can talk about at...
View ArticleStrains of Vapyr: On the Waning of Your Interest
There are two kinds of interest I mean. One is your interest in my articles, which may very well be waning as you think my humility might, though I cannot and will not speak anything against this...
View ArticleSOS Summer Grant Program Prepares to Roll Out Spring 2015
Financial logistics aside, you should know that the Senate has a lump of about $14,000 that we are using for our pilot year of Senate Opportunity Subsidy (SOS) programs. SOS programs are a part of a...
View ArticleNew Dean for Changing System
Santi Alston Steps into new role as Assistant Dean of Student Services Santi Alston, former Program Coordinator for the Multicultural Resource Center, Assistant Dean for Inclusive Community and Sexual...
View ArticleSenate Beat: RKSK Initiation Sparks Debate
Last week, Senate primarily discussed RKSK initiation, and addressed issues relating to honor and expectations of student conduct at both schools. Senate elected to unfreeze money allocated to RKSK for...
View ArticlePacific NW Fossil Fuel Exports in Works, But They Can Be Stopped
Legislators and policymakers in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia hold a key to preventing irreversible human-induced climate change—or at least postponing it. Because plans for fossil fuel...
View ArticleIntroducing The Honor Chronicles
The Night Owls go out every weekend helping to make sure campus is safe, but at the end of the night, Reedies help Reedies all the time—often without any thanks or acknowledgment. We all have a...
View ArticleStrains of Vapyr: Week 11
SKYWALKER OG INDICA-DOMINANT HYBRID THC% N/A PURCHASED AT: N/A METHOD: Vape bowls, 1.1g joint, 2.8g joint TIME: 4:20PM, 8:30PM CONSUMED DAY OF, BEFOREHAND: Dabs MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT: “Take Care of...
View ArticleA Study of the Current Reed Party Scene: LC Cats Invade
Introduction: The Honor Principle is difficult to understand and implement for us Reed students who subscribe to it. Embracing even a sense of it may be impossible to the Lewis & Clark students who...
View ArticleHome on the Range
Walking through the entrance of the white industrial building, I am greeted by refrigerators and wall mounted deer trophies. The warehouse is chock full of appliances of various vintages and every...
View ArticleCocktail Recipe: Tall Paul’s Negroni Campari
The negroni is my brother Paul’s favorite drink. Standing at a healthy 6’6”, he acquired the nickname, “Tall Paul from North Hall,” while attending Whitman. (Any relation to the CSO is coincidental.)...
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