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December 2011
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Just out of curiosity, and inspired by my entire family's lurking of all online publications out of Princeton since my sister's acceptance last week, why is there not a consistent or popular online blog/presence associated with The Quest or the College in general? Shifting into the online sphere with archives, and having a Tumblr is a great start, but I must admit that I'm kind of sad not to have anything even remotely comparable to the more popular publications of other institutions available.
The answer is layered. The following points lie at the bottom-most layer:
- The Quest lacks the institutional continuity of other college publications.
- Reed doesn’t have a journalism program.
- Reed is small. We have less news to cover and fewer people to help us cover it.
We agree with you: the lack of a strong online presence is a weakness of The Quest. We plan to improve the website in the spring. However, there are still obstacles:
- Reedies (editors, writers, photographers, and potential contributors alike) are busy.
- The Quest doesn’t have many contributors, regular or not.
- Queditors may have vision, and we can manage a WordPress, tumblr, and Facebook account, but we aren’t web designers. The framework we inherited is (almost) adequate, but not excellent.
- It’s quite time-consuming just to prepare articles for physical publication. If we move to a rolling online publication schedule, it is more work. This is something that we plan to do, nonetheless.
If you want to change this, contribute to The Quest and encourage others to do so! We’ll be working on our side of this issue this coming semester. We’ll be revamping the site as soon as possible. Bookmark it or add it to your homescreen; reedquest.org has its own pretty icon on Apple devices.
why are you some of the shittiest queditors i've seen in a very very long time
Oregonian Article: At Reed College, the debate on sexual assault continues →
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Lev’s recent op-ed on sexual assault has attracted attention off-campus.
Can we submit "Ask Mike" questions here for the new semester?
We don’t see why not.
Lev Responds to “An Optimist’s Response” →
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Lev Navarre responds to an op-ed written in response to his op-ed about sexual assault.
Outrage over Pamphlette: Article accused of transphobia →
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Many students reacted angrily to an article in this week’s issue of The Pamphlette. The article, written by Jeff Blum ’12, tells the awkward story of Ken explaining his lack of genitalia and ignorance about sex to Cindy, a woman he’s dating. Many copies of The Pamphlette were written on with red marker, with messages like “GENITALIA ≠ GENDER” and “THIS IS THE KIND OF RHETORIC THAT GETS PEOPLE KILLED.”
A Mission for the New Senate →
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Over the past few months, Reed has made significant institutional changes in the way it handles sexual assault, but none of us should be content with how much progress that has been made thus far. There are still changes that need to happen.
Reed Graduation Rate Surges →
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New data shows that the four-year graduation rate has jumped ten percent—rising from 60 percent to 70 percent—for the class of 2010 to the class of 2011. Graduation rates have been increasing, but Mike Tamada, Director of Institutional Research at Reed, finds “a jump this big a rare thing.”
