Reed College News

Crystal Williams was a finalist for an Oregon Book Award for poetry this year for her book "Troubled Tongues." At the ceremony, she saw only three African Americans -- herself and two friends who came to support her.

Parents of high school seniors across the country have hired me as an admissions consultant.

What's a "regional artist"? Perhaps the best definition is an artist who is especially connected to the place he or she lives and works.

A Portland Public Schools' subcommittee hears a proposal Monday afternoon for a local hip hop charter school.

Polly Peachum shares a tender moment with Mack the Guitar . It's Friday night and Portland's Old Town is swingin'. On the sidewalk outside the Someday Lounge, dopers and boozers shuffle by.

Carla Mann and Jim McGinn in "Exquisite Corpse," "Exquisite Corpse" What: Carla Mann and Jim McGinn dance performance When: 7 and 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m. Sunday Where: Reed College Sports Center, Southeast 28th Avenue and Southeast Botsford Drive Tickets: $10-$20 brownpapertickets.com ; 1-800-838-3006 Web site: ...

Sarcasm is a dangerous path to tread in a society that is increasingly humorless and increasingly given to finding objection in the slightest possible slight.

The two big classical music bicen-tennials this year are Haydn's and Mendelssohn's , and it seems like every other classical music institution in the world is performing their music in tribute.

It's time to put the so-called "climate debate" to rest and talk about the real uncertainties that pertain to global warming, says Juliane Fry, an assistant professor of chemistry at Reed College.

When the same kind of politics or world-view invades a small off-Broadway theatre group and a small Oregon student newspaper, I really get worried.

What was intended as a spoof article in a Reed College newspaper is turning into a nightmare for Reed College officials and the editor of a campus humor publication.

Oh I would be curious when Mike McKeon was in Hawaii trying to recruit, wasn't Fr.

Reed College's president and the student editors of a campus humor newspaper are apologizing for one of its articles.

A refugee from Cambodia, Kilong Ung self-published his memoir about surviving a slave labor camp.

Student editors of a Reed College humor publication are taking heat for a fake news story saying Lewis & Clark students rounded up and gassed all the Jews on their campus.

New Jersey voters are marking ballots for the Nov. 3 election now in the comfort of their homes.

Darius Rejali, a leading expert on government interrogation and torture who is frequently interviewed by media outlets around the world, will share his insight with the Colgate community during a public lecture at 7 p.m. Oct.

The show "Nickel and Dimed" may have been written more than 10 years ago, but the story is still powerful, given the current economic distress the country is going through.

Rabbi Mark Loeb, who led Beth El Congregation in Pikesville for 32 years until his retirement last year, died Wednesday in Italy, according to a statement on the Beth El Web site.

The ginkgo tree is renowned for its hardiness -- a few even survived an atomic bomb -- but it may be undone by another trait -- its smell.