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Patterns of Power

By Randall S. Barton

How fashion reveals—and enforces—the hidden hierarchies of society

What is a Successful College Education?

By President John Kroger

Adapted from a talk to Reed parents in November

Sculptor of the Surreal, Whacker of Flowerpots

By John Sheehy ’82

The high-wire life of Xenia Kashevaroff Cage ’35

Editor's Note

• The Birth of a Galaxy

Features

• Patterns of Power
• What is a Successful College Education?
• Life Beyond Reed
• Sculptor of the Surreal, Whacker of Flowerpots
• Loosen Up. Festoon.
• The Geometry of Quilting
• The Borderline Geographer
• Email Got You Down?

Reediana

• David Lukas ’93: Language Making Nature
• Reediana Briefs

Eliot Circular

• Zeroing In on the Plane of Existence
• Students nab prize for work on “hunger hormone”
• Your Lying Eyes
• Childcare Center Opens at Reed
• Physics major builds a better brick
• Performers Win Kahan Fellowship
• Pumpkin Lands in Kroger’s Office

VIDEO: 14: The Geometry of Quilting

Prof. Irena Swanson ’87 adds a new twist to a mathematical art form.