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Teaching. Reaching. Inspiring.

By Romel Hernandez

Seven professors with a faculty for igniting ideas

Stepping Up

By Amanda Waldroupe ’07

How do you help disconnected students succeed in school and life?

Assembling the Freshman Class, One Student at a Time

By Chris Lydgate ’90

Editor's Note

• The Telling from the Trivial

Features

• Teaching. Reaching. Inspiring.
• Stepping Up
• Reaching Higher
• Assembling the Freshman Class, One Student at a Time
• Life Beyond Reed

Reediana

• There Are No Birds in the Nests of Yesterday
• I’ve Never Done This Before
• Reediana Briefs

Eliot Circular

• Protest Amplifies Discussion of Race on Campus
• Reed Welcomes Two New Trustees
• Catch the Spirit
• Riggs Hailed for Working Weekend
• Character Sketch
• DC Reedies Talk Americanah
• Prof Wins Awards to Pursue Work on Radical Theatre
• Reed Runners Raise Cash for Public Schools
• Anthro Students Sprout New Organ

There are no birds in the nests of yesterday,
by Roland Dahwen Wu ’13

More meditation than documentary, Roland Dahwen Wu's short film There Are No Birds in the Nests of Yesterday centers on Lino, a master of a linguistic magic trick native to the Canary Islands called Silbo Gomero.