Reed College is an independent liberal arts college in southeastern Portland in the US state of Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential campus with a campus in the Eastmoreland neighborhood of Portland, featuring an architecture based on the Tudor-Gothic style, and a canyon nature reserve in its center.
Reed is known for his academic rigor, a compulsory humanities program, a senior thesis, and an unusually high proportion of graduates who continue to earn doctoral degrees and other postgraduate degrees. The college has many prominent alumni, including over a hundred Fulbright Scholarships, 67 Watson Fellows, 3 Winston Churchill Scholars, and 32 Rhodes Scholars - the second highest number of any liberal arts college. Reed is ranked fourth in the US from all colleges for the percentage of graduates who continue to earn PhD degrees.
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The Reed Institute was founded in 1908, and held its first class in 1911. Reed was named for the Oregon pioneer Simeon Gannett Reed (1830-1895) and Amanda Reed (died 1904). Simeon is a businessman in trade on the Columbia River. Unitarian Minister Thomas Lamb Eliot, who knew Reed from the church choir, was credited with Reed convincing of the necessity of "the eternal legacy, a 'Reed Institute of Lectures,' and joked that 'need a mine to run it.' "Reed will suggest his wife can" devote some of my possessions to generous objects, or to the cultivation, illustration, or development of art in the city of Portland, or to some other suitable destination, which will be a permanent value and contribute to the beauty of the city and the intelligence, prosperity, and happiness of the population ". Reed's first president (1910-1919) was William Trufant Foster, a former professor at Bates College and Bowdoin College in Maine.
Contrary to popular belief, universities do not grow out of student rebellion and experimentation, but because of a desire to provide "a more flexible and individual approach to rigorous liberal arts education". Established explicitly as a reaction to "the prevailing model on the East Coast, Ivy League education", the lack of university college athletes, fraternities, and exclusive social clubs - as well as coeducational, nonsectarian, and egalitarian status - gave way to becoming highly academic and academic intellectuals whose purpose is to devote himself to the "life of the mind", that life is understood primarily as an academic life.
Colleges have a reputation of political liberalism.
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Distinguishing features
According to sociologist Burton Clark, Reed is one of the most unusual higher education institutions in the United States, featuring a curriculum of liberal arts and traditional natural sciences. It requires new students to take the Humanities 110, an intensive introduction to the Classics, which includes ancient Greece and Rome as well as the Hebrew Bible and ancient Jewish history. His program in science is also unusual with TRIGA research reactor making it the only school in the United States that has nuclear reactors operated primarily by students. Reed also requires all students to complete the thesis (a two-semester long research project undertaken under the guidance of the professor) during the senior year as a graduate prerequisite by successfully completing the junior qualifying exam at the end of the prerequisite year to start the thesis. After completing a senior thesis, students must also pass an oral exam that may include questions not only about the thesis but also about any courses taken beforehand.
Reed maintains a 9: 1 student-to-faculty ratio, and his small classes emphasize a "conference" style in which teachers often act as mediators for discussion rather than lecturers. While the major lecture classes were there, Reed emphasized smaller lab and conferences.
Although the value of the letter is given to the student, the value is not emphasized on Reed and the focus is placed on the narrative evaluation. According to the school, "The value of conventional letters for each course is recorded for each student, but the registrar's office does not distribute the value to students, provided the work continues at a satisfactory level (C or higher). Unsatisfactory value is reported directly to students and student advisors Papers and exams are generally returned to students with long comments but no grades posted. "There is no list of deans or honors list per se, but students who maintain a 3.5 or above GPA for one academic year receive academic awards at the end of the spring semester recorded on their transcripts. Many of Reed's students graduate without knowing their cumulative GPA or grades in an individual class. Reed also claims to have experienced very little classroom inflation over the years, noting, for example, that only ten students graduated with a perfect 4.0 GPA in the period 1983-2012 (The transcript is accompanied by a card that explains Reed's relatively difficult judgment system so as not to punish students applying to graduate school.) Although Reed did not award a Latin degree to graduates, he awarded several awards for academic achievement at the beginning, including naming students to Phi Beta Kappa.
Reed has no fraternity or association and some NCAA sports teams even though physical education classes (ranging from kayaking to juggling) are required for graduation. Reed also has several interollegiate athletic clubs, most notably rugby, Ultimate Frisbee, and the football team.
Reed's code of ethics is known as "The Honor Principle". First introduced as an agreement to promote ethical academic behavior with the ultimate goal of freeing the faculty from the behavior of police students, the Principle of Honor is expanded to cover all aspects of student life. Though inspired by the traditional honor system, Reed's Honor Principle is different from these things because it is a guide to the ethical standard itself and not just its enforcement. Under the Honor Principle, there are no rules governing rules of conduct. Conversely, responsibility exists on students individually and as a community to determine which behavior is acceptable and what is not.
Discrete cases of grievance, known as "Honor Cases," is decided by the Judicial Council of twelve full-time students. There is also an "Honorary Board" of students, faculty, and staff who educate the public on the Principles of Honor and mediate conflicts among individuals.
Academic program
Reed categorizes his academic programs into five Divisions and Humanities programs. Overall, Reed offers five Humanities programs, twenty-six majors, twelve interdisciplinary majors, six double degree programs with colleges and other universities, and programs for pre-medical and pre-veterinary students.
Division
- Art Division: including Art (Art History and Studio Art), Dance, Music, and Theater Department;
- Division of History and Social Sciences: including History, Anthropology, Economics, Political Science, and Department of Sociology, as well as International and Comparative Policy Studies Programs;
- Literature and Language Division: including Classical Class, Chinese, English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish, as well as the Creative Writing and Public Literature Program;
- Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences: including Departments of Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics, and
- Divisions of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics: including Department of Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, and Linguistics.
Humanities program
Reed President Richard Scholz in 1922 called the overall education program "an honest effort" to ignore the historical rivalry and the long-time hostility between science and art, between professional and cultural subjects, and,... a formal chronological division between graduates and attitudes of the mind of the scholar ". The Humanities Program, formed in 1943 (as a combination of a two-year course, one in "world" literature, the other in "world history") is a manifestation of this effort. One of the changes to the program was the addition of a course in Chinese Civilization in 1995. The Faculty also recently approved several significant changes to the preliminary syllabus. These changes include expanding course parameters to include more material on urban and cultural environments.
Reed's Humanities Program includes a new mandatory course of Introduction to Western Humanities that includes ancient Greek, Roman, historical, artistic, religious, and philosophical literature. Sophomores, juniors and seniors may take the Early Modern Europe which includes Renaissance thought and literature; Modern Humanities which includes the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and Modernism, and/or the Chinese Civilization Foundation . There is also the Senior Symposium on Humanities.
Interdisciplinary and double degree programs
Reed also offers an interdisciplinary program in American Studies, Environmental Studies, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Chemistry-Physics, Classics, Dance/Theater, Historical-Literature, International and Comparative Policy Studies (ICPS), Literature-Theater, Mathematics- and Mathematics-Physics.
Reed offers a dual-degree program in Computer Science (with University of Washington), Engineering (with Caltech, Columbia University, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Forestry or Environmental Management (with Duke University), and Fine Arts (with Pacific Northwest College of Art).
Academics
Reception
For Autumn 2016, Freshman class has 357 students. 10% are their best middle-class students and 2% are salutators. 32% in the top 5% of their class. The median scores on their SAT test were 680 maths, 710 verbals, and 680 posts, which put them in the 96th percentile. Classes are taken from the largest pool ever - 5,705 applicants - and the most selective in Reed's history, with a reception rate of 31%. To increase student enrollment from historically under-represented minorities, Reed offers a complete "Reed All-Inclusive Breeding Program", to non-whites and permanent residents.
School and financial fees
The total direct costs for the academic year 2018-19, including tuition, fees and room-and-board, are $ 70,550. Indirect costs (books, supplies, transportation, personal expenses) may be charged at $ 3,950 more. For the academic year 2017-18, the average financial aid package - including grants, loans, and employment opportunities - is approximately $ 45,325. "In 2017-18 about half the students received financial assistance from college. In 2004 (the latest data available), 1.4% of Reed graduates fail in student loans - below the average Cohort National Rate average of 5.1%.
Reed's fortune on June 30, 2014, is $ 543 million. In the economic downturn beginning in late 2007, Reed's total contribution has dropped from $ 455 million in June 2007 to $ 311 million in June 2009. By the end of 2013, however, the endowment surpassed the $ 500 million mark.
Ratings
In 1995, Reed College refused to participate in the US. News & amp; World Report Ranking "best college", making it the first educational institution in the United States that refused to participate in the college rankings. According to Reed's Acceptance Office, the school's refusal to participate was based on a 1994 disclosure by the Wall Street Journal of agencies manipulating real data to rank in the US. News and other popular college guides. US. News stating that their ratings are "a perfectly legitimate tool for gaining a certain level of knowledge about college."
In 2015, the Money magazine ranked Reed College 196 among US colleges with an overall C score based on its aggregate score on the size of the quality of education, tuition, and post-graduate alumni income.
Reed ranks as being tied to the 93rd best liberal arts college by US. News & amp; World Report ranked 2016, and is tied for 18th rank in middle school counselor, though the first one has been harshly criticized by the college.
In 2006, the magazine Newsweek named Reed as one of the twenty-five "New Ivies", lists it among the "elite universities of the nation." In 2012, Newsweek ranked Reed the 15th "tighter" college in the country.
Reed College is ranked at the bottom 6% of the four-year national academy at the Brookings Institute rankings in US colleges with an additional impact on alumni income 10 years after registration.
Academic Awards
Reed has produced the second highest number of Rhodes scholars for each liberal arts college - 32 - as well as over fifty Fulbright Scholars, over sixty Watson Fellows, and two MacArthur (Award winners "Genius"). Most of Reed's graduates continue to earn PhDs, especially in the fields of science, history, political science, and philosophy. Reed is the third in percentage of his graduates who continue to earn PhDs in all disciplines, after only Caltech and Harvey Mudd. In 1961, Scientific American states that the second after Caltech, "This small college in Oregon is far and more productive for future scientists than any other institution in the US" Reed is the first in percentage in biology second in history, foreign languages, and political science, fourth in science and mathematics, fifth in physics and social sciences, sixth in anthropology, seventh in the field and ethnic and linguistic studies, and eighth in literature and English medicine.
Reed's debating team, which had been there for two years at the time, was awarded first place draw trophy for the Second Division school at the Northwest Forensic Conference final tournament in February 2004.
Loren Pope, former editor of education for The New York Times, writes of Reed at the Life-Changing College, says, "If you are a true intellectual, live the life of the mind, and want to learn for the sake of learning, the place most likely to empower you is not Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Chicago, or Stanford.This is the most intellectual campus in the country - Reed in Portland, Oregon. "
Reputation
Drug use
Since the 1960s, Reed has had a reputation for tolerating open drug use among his students. The Insider's Guide to the Colleges, written by the Yale Daily News staff, notes an impression among students of the institutional permissive: "According to students, schools do not deceive students for drug use or alcohol unless they cause damage or embarrassment to other students. "
In April 2008, student Alex Lluch died of a heroin overdose in a dorm room on his campus. His death prompted the disclosure of several previous incidents, including a heroin overdose near the deaths of other students just months before. College President Colin Diver said, "I do not know honestly," whether the death of the drug is an isolated incident or part of a larger problem. "When you say Reed," said Diver, "two words often come to mind, one of them is the brain, one of them is drugs." Local reporter James Pitkin from editorialized newspaper "Willamette Week" that "Reed College, a private school with one of the most prestigious academic programs in the US, is one of the last schools in a country where students enjoy almost unlimited freedom to experiment openly with drugs, with little or no interference from authorities, "although Willamette Week stated the following week about the Pitkin editorial:" At the time of the press, nearly 500 responses, many expressed harsh criticism of < i> Willamette Week , was posted on our website. "
In March 2010, another student died of a drug cause at his off-campus residence. This led to The New York Times concluding that "Reed... has long been known almost for the very permissive atmosphere of a very strict academician." Law enforcement authorities promise to take action, including sending secret agents to Renn Fayre Reed's annual celebrations.
In February 2012, the Reed government chose to call the police after the discovery of "two to three pounds of marijuana and a small amount of ecstasy and LSD in a two-junior apartment on campus." After the campus debate, Reed's president at the time, Colin Diver, issued a letter to students and staff, saying the campus would not tolerate illegal drug use on campus: "Such behavior jeopardizes the health and welfare of the entire community, attracts potentially dangerous criminals. on campus, undermines college academic missions, and violates college obligations under state and federal law. "Government-approved arrests send" scary messages ".
Politics
Reed has a reputation as a political liberal.
During the McCarthy era in the 1950s, then President Duncan Ballantine dismissed Marxist philosopher Stanley Moore, a permanent professor, for his failure to cooperate with the investigation of the US House Committees (HUAC). According to an article in college alumni magazine, "because of the decisive support expressed by Reed's faculty, students, and alumni for the three beleaguered teachers and for the principle of academic freedom, Reed College's experience with McCarthyism is separate from most others American colleges and universities , elsewhere in the academic world, both professors who are tied and unattached to accused or accused communist party ties, are fired with a relatively small commotion or protest. At Reed, however, the opposition to the teacher's political interrogation is so strong that some believe campuses in danger of closure. "A" regret "remark by the Reed government and the Supervisory Board was published in 1981, formally revising the guardian's decision in 1954. In 1993, then President Steve Koblik invited Moore to visit the College, and in 1995 the last surviving member of the Council to fire Moore yatakan regret and apologize to him.
Reedies Against Racism
On September 26, 2016, students organized a boycott of all college operations in participation with National Boycott Day, the day of national protest proposed by Isaiah Washington actor on Twitter in response to police brutality issues against African-Americans. After the boycott, students create an activist group called Reedies Against Racism (RAR) and present a list of demands for college on behalf of students from a marginalized background. The main request pertaining to the Reed's Humanities course is mandatory, proposing that the course be changed into a more inclusive world and classical literature or should be made not compulsory. One element of the class considered insensitive by demonstrators was the use of Steve Martin's 1978 song "King Tut" in a discussion of cultural deprivation. Students initiate a silent protest campaign against the curriculum by sitting during a lecture with signs with quotes from African-American and non-white academics. Some of the protests also included attempts to shout the speakers, including Kimberly Peirce after he was accused of profiting from transphobia while filming Boys Do not Cry . The group eventually focused on Reed's banking relationship with Wells Fargo, based on the allegation that the bank had invested in the Dakota Access Pipeline project and the private prison industry, and occupied Reed's Eliot Hall.
There were some opposition to the lecture protests, especially by Reed English professor Luca MartÃÆ'nez Valdivia, who claimed that protests during his lecture at Sappho would reinforce a pre-existing PTSD case. In November 2017, Chris Bodenner of The Atlantic wrote about the growing hatred of students against RAR tactics. In January 2018, Humanity 110 Chairman Libby Drumm announced in a campus wide email that the course curriculum would be restructured in response to student feedback as well as input from an external review committee composed of humanities faculty from other institutions, adopting the "four structure-modules" that would includes texts from America and allows for greater flexibility in the curriculum to be integrated starting from autumn 2018.
Campus
The Reed College campus was founded in a southeastern Portland tract known in 1910 as Crystal Springs Farm, part of Ladd Estate, formed in the 1870s from the original land claims. The campus location includes 116 acres (0.47Ã, km 2 ) adjacent land, including a forest wetland known as Reed Canyon.
The Portland architect, A. E. Doyle, developed a plan, which was never fully implemented, modeled at St. University. John's College in Oxford. The original campus building (including the Library, Old Dormitory Block, and what is now the main administrative building, Eliot Hall) is a Tudor Gothic brick building in a style similar to Ivy League campuses. In contrast, the campus science department, including the building of physics, biology, and psychology (originally chemistry), is designed in a Modernist style. The Psychology Building, completed in 1949, was designed by Modernist Pietro Belluschi architect at the same time as the Equitable Building which is celebrated in downtown Portland.
Campus and buildings have undergone several growth phases, and there are now 21 academic and administrative buildings and 18 dormitories. Since 2004, Reed's campus has been expanded to include adjacent properties beyond its historical boundaries, such as the Birchwood Apartments complex and former medical administration offices on both sides of SE 28th Avenue, and Parker House, across from SE Woodstock from Prexy. At the same time, Willard House (donated to Reed in 1964), opposite the college's main entrance at SE Woodstock and SE Reed College Place, was transformed from a faculty housing into an administration. Reed announced on July 13, 2007 that they had purchased Rivelli's farm, a 1.5-hectare (0.61 acre) estate south of the Garden House and west of Botsford Drive. Reed "immediate plans for the acquired property include housing a small number of students in Rivelli's former home during the 2007-08 academic year." Long-term, college anticipates that it may seek to develop a northern part of the property for additional student housing ".
Residence hall
Reed houses 946 students in 18 dorms on campus and some college-owned homes and apartment buildings on or adjacent to campus. The residence on campus ranges from traditional (ie, Gothic Old Dorm Block, referred to as "ODB") to the eclectic (eg, Anna Mann, a Tudor-style cabin built in 1920 by founder Reed AE Doyle's arch, originally used as a female hall ), language houses (Spanish, Russian, French, German, and Chinese), "temporary" housing, built in the 1960s (Cross Canyon - Chittick, Woodbridge, McKinley, Griffin), to more recently built dormitories Bragdon, Naito, Sullivan). There are also themed dwellings including everything from free material life to Japanese culture to music to dormitories for students interested in outdoor activities (hiking, climbing, cycling, kayaking, skiing, etc.). The least preferred college complex (as measured by College housing lottery applications), MacNaughton and Foster-Scholz, is known on campus as the "Asylum Block" because of the postwar modernist architecture and its interior spaces are dominated by long, straight corridors lined with doors which is identical, said by the students to resemble a mental hospital. Until 2006, it was estimated that this dormitory was designed by architect Pietro Belluschi.
Under the 10-year Master Plan Master adopted in 2006, Foster-Scholz is scheduled to be dismantled and replaced, and MacNaughton will be rebuilt. According to the master plan, "The College's goal is to provide housing on or adjacent to a campus that holds 75% of the full-time student population.Currently, the College provides on-campus housing for 838 students".
In the spring of 2007, the College started building a new rectangular construction called Grove with four new Leed certified boarding houses (Aspen, Sequoia, Sitka, Bidwell) on the northwest side of the campus, which opened in autumn 2008. New Spanish residence completed built. Together, five new dwellings add 142 new beds.
Reed also has off-campus housing. Many homes in the Woodstock and Eastmoreland neighborhoods of Portland are traditionally rented to Reed's students.
On February 21, 2018, Reed announced the construction of "the largest residence hall in its history." To be completed in Autumn 2019, this home will accommodate an additional 180 students, increasing Reed's residential capacity to nearly 80% of the total number of students, up from 68%. This will ensure housing for new students and coeds, since students previously were charged the housing lottery after the first year. The new building is also designed to meet the "LEED Platinum standard," and Reed is currently evaluating proposals for installing solar panels on the roof.
Reed Canyon
The Reed College Canyon, a natural area and a national wildlife reserve, divides the two campuses, separating the academic buildings from many dormitories (called the "cross-canyon room) . This canyon is filled by Crystal Creek Springs, a natural spring that flows into Johnson Creek.
Canyon Day, a tradition dating from 1915, is held twice a year. In Canyon Day and Reed students, neighbors join the crew canyon workmen to spend a day helping with restoration efforts.
A landmark from the campus, the Blue Bridge, stretches across the canyon. The bridge replaced the unique cantilever bridge that served there between 1959 and 1991, which "showcased the plywood beam emphasized - the first time this construction has been used in this size range: the straight bridge is 132 feet (40 m) long and 15 feet high (4 , 6 m.) It attracted great architectural interest during its lifetime. "
The new pedestrian and bicycle bridges that stretched across the canyon opened in autumn 2008. The bridge, nicknamed the "Goyang Bridge" or "Yellow Bridge" by the students, is 370 feet (110 m) long, about a third longer than the Blue Bridge, and " connect the new northern campus quad [s] to the Gray Campus Center, student unions, libraries, and academic buildings on the south side of the campus ".
Douglas F. Cooley Gallery
Reed's Cooley Gallery is an internationally acclaimed contemporary art room located at the entrance of Eric V. Hauser Memorial Library. Founded in 1988 as a result of a gift from Susan and Edward Cooley in honor of their deceased son. The Cooley Gallery has exhibited international artists such as Mona Hatoum, Al Held, David Reed, and Gregory Crewdson as well as the contemporary art collection of Michael Ovitz. In pursuit of its mission to support the art curriculum, art history, and humanitarian program at Reed, the gallery produces three or four exhibitions each year, along with lectures, colloquia, and artist visits. The current gallery is under the director Stephanie Snyder, who succeeded in establishing director Susan Fillin-Yeh in 2004.
Food service
The canteen, known only as "Commons," has a reputation for ecologically sustainable food services. The commons dining hall is operated by Bon Appà ©  tit, and meals are purchased on an item-by-item basis. Offering student body, vegan and vegetarian dishes rely heavily on menus. Currently the only cafeteria on the small campus, with the exception of Caffe Circo (formerly Caffe Paradiso), a small cafe on the other side of the campus which is also operated by a points board. Scrounging is a long tradition at Reed College that allows students to offer unfinished Commons meals to students without board points from their trays when they return for washing.
The Reed College Co-ops is a theme community residing in Farm and Garden Houses, after years on the first floor of MacNaughton Hall. This is the only campus dormitory independent of the school board plan. They traditionally throw an alternative "Thanksgiving" celebration that sometimes includes a square dance. Co-ops students who buy and prepare food together, share assignments and conduct weekly meetings based on consensus. This is a close community that values ​​sustainability, organic food, consensus-based decisions, self-government, music, and crops.
The Paradox ("Est. In the 80s") is a student-run coffee shop located on campus. In 2003 Paradox opened a second coffee shop, calling it "Paradox Lost" (a reference to John Milton's Paradise Lost, ) at the southern end of a biological building, in a space called "Bio Fishbowl." North campus dormitory which opened in autumn 2008, featured another small cafe, originally nicknamed "Cafe Paradiso," thus providing three coffeehouses within a campus of 116 acres (0.47 km km 2 ). The recent addition of circus-themed mural to cafés encourages name change, and now operates as Caffe Circo. This third store does not belong to the students, but is operated by Bon AppÃÆ' Â © tit. Bon AppÃÆ' Â © tit has a monopoly on food service on Reed because they are the only ones receiving board points; written into their contract is a ban on food carts on campus.
Student icon and life
Griffin
Reed's official mascot is a griffin. In mythology, griffins often pull the train from the sun; on canto 32 of Commedia Commedia griffin is associated with the Knowledge Tree. The Griffin was featured on the coat of the founder of Simeon Reed and is now in the official seal of Reed College. School colors
Reed's official school color is Richmond Rose. Over the years, the institutional memories of this fact have faded and the colors that appear in school publications and merchandise have become dark for maroon colors. The most common example of "Richmond Rose" is a satin ribbon that secures a degree certificate in a Reed College diploma.
School songs
The school song, "Fair Reed," was sung for a popular 1912 song, "Believe Me, if All Their Endearing Young Charms." It may replicate Harvard's "Fair Harvard," which is also sung for the song "Believe Me, if All Those Charming God Charms." It was composed by former president William Trufant Foster shortly after Reed's establishment, and is rarely heard today.
An unofficial Reed Alma Mater, "Epistemology Forever," sung for the song "The Battle Hymn of Republic," has been sung by Reed's students since the 1950s.
Student nickname
Reed students and alumni refer to themselves as "Reedites" in the early years of college. This term faded in favor of "Reedie" which is now everywhere after World War II. Around the campus, prospective students are called "prospects."
Unofficial motto and folklore
Reed's official motto is "Communism, Atheism, Love," and can be found at Reed College Bookstore in sweaters, t-shirts, etc. It was a label recognized by Reed's community of critics during the 1920s as a "tongue-in-cheek slogan" referring to Reed's nonconformism. Reed's founding president, William T. Foster, strongly opposed the entry of the United States into World War I, as well as college support for feminism, his adherence to academic freedom (ie, invited a leader of the American Socialist Party to talk about campuses about the potential impact of the Russian Revolution on militarism, women's emancipation, and ending the Jewish persecution), and its nonsectarian status makes college a natural target for what was originally intended to be a humiliating insult.
Fake Reed Seals have changed over the years. In its original form, the griffin holds a hammer and sickle in the sole of his foot. The newer version has a griffin that wears a boxing glove.
One of Reed's unofficial symbols is the Doyle Owl, a 280-pound concrete statue (130 kg) that has been stolen and stolen since about 1919. The original Doyle Owl (originally "House F Owl" after the dormitory was named House F which later became Doyle's dormitory ) is a statue of a park from the neighborhood stolen by House F residents as a joke (there is a photo of the resident House F around the original owl who has been made into a T-shirt). The folklore on the campus surrounding Doyle Owl is large enough that, in 1983, a senior thesis was written on the topic of Owl's oral history. The original Doyle Owl was destroyed a few years ago; Current avatar is Doyle Owl number 13, plus or minus 11. At this moment only one Owl is shown.
Paideia
Every January, before the start of the second semester class, the campus holds an interim period called Paideia (taken from Greek, meaning 'education'). Initially understood and approved by the faculty in 1968 for unstructured independent study or "UIS," Paideia ran during the full January of 1969-1981, overseen by faculty, staff and student committees. This learning festival takes the form of classes and seminars prepared by anyone who wants to teach, including students, professors, staff members, and outside educators who are invited on campus by Reed Community members. The classes are meant to be informal activities, but intellectuals are free of the usual academic pressure endemic to Reed. Many such classes are explicitly trivial (one long-standing tradition of holding an underwater basket assembly), while others are academically trivial (such as "Gnome Giant Concrete Construction," a class that, by chance, builds a monolithic gnome, includes some content associated with the construction of a pre-Christian monolith). More structured classes (such as martial arts seminars and mini classes on unclear academic topics), tournaments, and film festivals complete different schedules each year. Paideia's goal is not only to learn new things (maybe not useful), but to alter tables to students and encourage them to teach.
In 2005 college began the start of Stanford, founder of Apple Inc. and Reed dropout Steve Jobs credited Reed's calligraphy class taught by Robert Palladino for his focus on choosing the types of quality fonts for the Macintosh. While the full calligraphy course is no longer taught at Reed, Paideia usually has a short course on the subject in addition to informal, weekly meetings (currently held every Thursday night) from aspiring calligrapher fans.
Renn Fayre
Renn Fayre is an annual three-day celebration with a different theme every year. Born in the 1960s as a true renaissance fair, has long lost all connections to anachronism and the Renaissance, despite his name has survived. The event was initiated by a senior procession throwing their thesis notes in a large bonfire after completing the proposed thesis.
Reed Arts Week
Reed Arts Week is a week-long art festival at Reed. It features music, dance, film, creative writing, and visual art.
Student organization
According to Reed's website, each semester, a $ 130 student body fee "is collected from every full-time student by the business office, acting as an agent for the student senate.This fee publishes student newspaper publications and extracurricular activities, and partially supports student unions and ski cabins. "Student student funds (a total of approximately $ 370,000 per year) are distributed each semester to groups that place among the top 40 organizations in the semester fund. Polling funding uses a voting system in which each organization provides descriptions rated by every student body member with 'top six', 'approve', 'no opinion,' 'disagree,' or 'top six'. The ratings are then tabulated by setting the numbers for each rank and summing up all the voters. After that, the top forty organizations presented their budgets to the student body of senate during the Funding Circus. The next day the senate made a decision about every budget in the process called Funding Hell.
The school's managed newspaper, The Reed College Quest or just Search, has been published since 1913, and its radio station, KRRC has been broadcast, with some annoyance since 1955.
Although some who partner with outside groups such as Oxfam or Planned Parenthood are more structured, most organizations are very informal. There is no formal process for forming student organizations on Reed; a group of students (or one student) announcing themselves as or just considering themselves as student organizations is enough. Groups that want funding from the Office of School Student Activities or Student Agency Fees, however, must register with Student Activities or through the Student Senate. The Reed archive of comic books and graphic novels, MLLL (Comic Book Reading Room), enters the fourth decade, and Beer Nation, the student group that organizes and manages beer gardens throughout the year and during Renn Fayre, has been around for years. Some organizations, such as Motorized Couch Collective - dedicated to installing motors and wheels to furniture - have been Reed's myths more than a reality in recent years.
Reed has many recreational facilities on-campus, ski cabins at Mount Hood, leisure clubs such as Reed Outing Club (ROC), and Club Sports (with college coaches), including late frisbee, soccer together, rugby, basketball, and squash.
Crime
According to the Washington Post federal campus security data analysis from 2014, Reed College has 12.9 reports of rape per 1,000 students, "the total number of reports of rape" per 1,000 students from each college in the country on the main campus.
In 2012, Reed College has the third highest level of sexual violence among US colleges and universities. It is unclear whether this high level of reporting arises from an environment that further supports reporting by crime victims or because of higher levels of sexual harassment. by 2013 there have been 19 sexual offenses reported among about 1,400 students on campus. In 2011, a member of Justice Board member Reed resigned over the handling of cases of sexual violence on campus. The investigation by the Center for Public Integrity found that those found to be responsible for sexual violence cases often face several consequences, while the lives of the victims are left in chaos.
Famous people
Reed's famous alumni include Tektronix co-founder Howard Vollum (1936), businessman John Sperling (1948), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder (1951), fantasy writer David Eddings (1954), pioneer of distance learning John Bear (1959), socialist and feminist activist and writer Barbara Ehrenreich (1963), Dr. Radio's personality. Demento (1963), programmer, software publisher, author and philanthropist Peter Norton (1965), former US Navy Secretary Richard Danzig (1965), computer engineer Daniel Kottke (1976), and Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger (1991 ).
Among those present but not graduated from Reed were Academy Award nominees, Hope Lange, chef James Beard, and founder and CEO of Apple Steve Jobs.
Reed's famous faculty from the past and now includes former US Senator from Illinois Paul Douglas, and physicists Richard Crandall and David Griffiths.
See also
References
Further reading
- Sheehy, John (2012). Friends of the Quest: Oral History of Reed College . Press Oregon State University. ISBN: 978-0870716676.
- Sheehy, John; Walker, Gay. "Reed College". Oregon Encyclopedia . Portland State University and the Oregon Historical Society . Retrieved 2015-04-14 .
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