Reed
Why Write?
I pressed my eyes to the ceiling and flailed my hands around over the long wooden table in a classroom in Eliot Hall. “I’m not reporting on any of you,” I said. “This is supposed to be, like, a personal account of my personal experience at Alumni College. So, I’m not going to be writing about you.” “Don’t worry,” Debra
Digging Up Evidence of Mass Extinction
For David Fastovsky ’77, trekking to the remote Gobi Desert has been the pinnacle of a career in the trenches of dinosaur hunting. As a child, he was enthralled by the Roy Chapman Andrews book, All About Dinosaurs, which detailed the author’s adventures collecting fossils in that exotic Mongolian land in the 1920s. As a professional paleontologist, Fastovsky has been
Teaching African American History Through Art
During Black History Month (February) at Reed College, the art department mounted an exhibition of the work of renowned African American artist Jacob Lawrence. The artwork included museum prints from the Harlem Renaissance-era painter’s “Migration if the American Negro” series, as well as an original silkscreen held by Reed’s Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, which depicts the 1965 civil
Is Honor Dead?
Just after Thanksgiving, more than 100 students and faculty members gathered in Vollum lounge to attend a Reed Union (a gathering of the community) to discuss the honor principle. Fall semester 2006 brought changes to campus, including the largest entering class ever, a plethora of national media attention, and a few blatantly dishonorable violations. All of which has led some