From Light, Truth

How Reed transforms lives—and how you can help.

Confronting Drug Use At Reed

Campus tragedy raises tough questions about Reed's approach to drug and alcohol use.

Spellbound

Mutants. Draugrs. Drug lords. Author Nancy Farmer ’63 writes children’s stories that combine fantastic protagonists, bedeviling bullies, and decidedly old-fashioned themes.

By Megan Holden

Sharpening Skills At The DOJO

Students learn from their peers at the Academic Resource Center, named for Dorothy Johansen ’33.

By Romel Hernandez

Deconstructing Wikipedia

Larry Sanger ’91 launched a revolution. Why does he want to start over?

By Chris Lydgate

From the Editor

A confluence of horrifying events. Read more.

Letters

• Ottomar’s Odyssey.
• Channelling Sappho.
• Standing Up for ’75.
• Defending the Citadel.
• Another Roger Sup-Porter.
• Remembering Dick Jones.
• Owlish Impostor?
• Why I Give To Reed.
• Keep It Up.

Eliot Circular

• Hardy Crew
• Senior Nabs Fulbright
• Stauder to Be Dean of Faculty
• Grains of Sand
• Kilkenny Founds Chittick Scholarship
• Gail Kelly Memorial Scholarship Founded
• 64 Squares and Counting
• Reed Welcomes Two New Trustees
• Friends Rally for Andrew Linehan Scholarship
• Garden House Wins Power Struggle
• Miracles and Mountebanks
• Psychology Professor Wins $1 Million Grant
• Three Professors Granted Tenure

Empire of the Griffin

• Reunions 2010
• Back to School—at Reed
• Chapter spotlight: Southern California
• Camp Westwind
• Ultimate Triumph
• Puzzle Corner

Adventures in the First Person

Corals and Tsunami in Samoa by Douglas Fenner ’71

Alumni Profiles

• Back to Basics Dr. Fred Matthies ’49
• Of Cycling and Circumcision Susan McLucas ’73
• Dismal Science Yoram Bauman ’95

Class Notes

Class notes are available on the alumni pages. You can also update your address, submit a class note, make a contribution to the college, and add your email address to the new on-line email directory from our website. This is a protected web site, and you will be asked to enter your last name and Reed ID. Your ID number can be found on your alumni association membership card or on your address label from a Reed mailing.

Reediana

Read about books by Reedies. You can purchase these and other books through Reed’s bookstore.

Apocrypha

Bouncing Off The Walls. Read more.

Back cover: Physics majors Alexa Ross ’12 and Meg Millhouse ’12 root for the departmental softball team in front of Old Dorm Block. Both the opposing team and the final score remain indeterminate.

PHOTO BY MATT D'ANNUNZIO