Reed Launches Centennial Campaign

In the midst of the deepest recession since World War II, the college launches the most ambitious campaign in its history. Madness? You be the judge.
By Chris Lydgate

Dancing Across Borders

Professor Minh Tran brings new rhythm to Reed’s dance department.
By Chris Lydgate ’90

The Way We Weren’t

Playwright Lee Blessing ’71 talks to an old classmate about social amnesia, the amorality of the eye, and his new play, A Body of Water.
By Martin Rosenberg ’71

Nine from ’09

Straight from the chambers of thesis hell—meet some of the most interesting members of the Class of 2009 as they ascend to the glorious rank of alumni.
By Chris Lydgate ’90

How the Humanities Saved Reed

The trustees’ appointment of president Norm Coleman in 1924 touched off a faculty revolt, ultimately resulting in the humanities curriculum that would become one of the college’s most important intellectual legacies.
By John P. Sheehy ’82

Winter 2009

In the Eye of the Media Storm

During the 2008 presidential election, political science professor and early-voting expert Paul Gronke seemed to materialize on just about every media platform in the country. How does a conscientious scholar boil reams of data into a ten-second soundbite?
By Zach Dundas

To Hell and Back

Religion professor Ken Brashier takes us on a macabre tour through the afterlife of imperial China, complete with gruesome torments, sinister magistrates, and an infernal bureaucracy run amok.
By Chris Lydgate ’90

Defending the Citadel

In the late 1960s, a bitter dispute over Reed’s core curriculum split the campus down the middle. The outcome would shape the college’s identity for decades to come.
By Laura Ross ’98

Radical Treatment

The Portland chapter of the Black Panthers struck a blow against a century of racism by starting their own heath and dental clinics—with the help of a handful of Reedies.
By Martha Gies

Autumn 2008

Building Community

How do you make a dorm come to life? That’s the puzzle Reed faced in turning five new residence halls into homes away from home.
By Romel Hernandez

Lost & Found

A recovered 1956 recording of Pulitzer Prize winner Gary Snyder ’51 reading to an audience at Reed contains the earliest-known audio of some of his major poems.
By John Suiter

Tales from the Underground

The college’s history is preserved—and sometimes discovered—deep in the basement of Hauser Library.
By Gay Walker ’69

Living with #29

Painter David Reed ’68.
By Charles Rhyne

Lives of Paintings

The Cooley’s David Reed exhibition brings together paintings from the last three decades.
By Stephanie Snyder ’91

First Books

So you want to write a book…Crib notes on getting published.
By Megan Holden