Voter Turnout In US Elections Not Increased By Early Voting Measures Dec 6, 2007
The research, conducted by Paul Gronke, , and Peter A. Miller (all of Reed College), is entitled Early Voting and Turnout and appears in an election reform symposium in the October issue of PS: Political Science & Politics, a journal of the American Political Science Association. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)
Blasts from the Past Nov 26, 2007
President of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, since 2002, Colin Diver made recent headlines by refusing to allow a national magazine to include the progressive liberal arts institution in its annual college rankings ... Reed and Portland are "laidback, more free spirited," he says, and "you obey traffic signals, both as a driver and as a pedestrian." Most of all, at Reed College, Diver found, "you don't wear your ambition on your sleeve. You have to be a little apologetic for being ambitious."... (Boston Globe)
Expedition charted plants, animals as well as land Nov 25, 2007
Dalton a professor of biology at Reed College interprets them from a modern perspective to show how advances such as DNA research, understanding of proteins and the latest laboratory methods provided new information about them. The book is written in nontechnical language and contains numerous surprises for readers, including why the explorers experienced gastric distress from some foods. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
MISTAKEN IDENTITY Nov 13, 2007
"We put more faith in eyewitness identifications than we should," said Daniel Reisberg, a professor of cognitive psychology, perception and memory at Reed College in Portland, Ore. He testifies in court as an expert in these areas. (Modesto Bee, CA)
Sign up now for permanent early-vote list Nov 11, 2007
The new option makes Arizona one of only five states to offer a permanent list, according to Paul Gronke, a professor at Reed College in Oregon who specializes in early-voting research. Oregon has gone one step further. (AZCentral -- News)
OSU gets B-minus for sustainability Nov 10, 2007
Reed College C-plus. University of Washington A-minus. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Pitney Bowes turns mailing savvy into election security Nov 5, 2007
Some 29 states allow no-excuse absentee voting, meaning that any registered voter may cast a ballot through the mail without providing a reason, said Paul Gronke, professor of political science at Reed College in Oregon and a consultant to Electionline. org, a nonpartisan voter and election information provider. (Stamford Advocate)
Solomon: Memoir Interview Nov 3, 2007
I went to Reed College. I drove westward on the first Earth Day, spring 1970. (Zmag.org)
Who needs Primary Election Day when you can vote early? Oct 13, 2007
At least 34 states now offer some form of early voting, according to Paul Gronke, who directs the Early Voting Information Center at Reed College and works with electionline. org, part of the Pew Center on the States. (Keokuk Daily Gate City, IO)
Ladies Pie Society cooks up sweets for free in Portland Oct 11, 2007
The group started as a Reed College club and grew into an unorthodox catering company, serving cost-free dessert everywhere from festivals to fundraisers. But, at quarter of 10, disaster strikes. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
The New York Times Magazine / mtvU Poll Advises High School Seniors to 'Chill Out' over Choice of College Sep 29, 2007
Separate online surveys conducted by The Times during the summer polled more than 1,300 graduates, most in the class of 2002, from three institutions: the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League school; Reed College, a small liberal arts school in Portland, Ore. and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, a state university. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Portlands Public Gardens Sep 24, 2007
It is located near Reed College at Southeast 28th Avenue and Woodstock Boulevard. A small entry fee is charged during spring and summer. (Suite101.com)
The Cougar Lounge - nm Sep 24, 2007
Then there are schools like Reed College in Portland, who could give a hoot about athletics, cheerleaders and mascots [we will reserve comment on big hair as it may be found in an un-enhanced state - under the arms of some of the women] but who, unlike Ohio State, place their emphasis on academics and learning, according to the most recent edition of the best colleges ... They were not the only ones upset with Princeton Review, of course, some people did not take kindly to Reed College being... (Washington State Sports -- Rivals.com)
University scholars receive distinguished, named professorships Sep 21, 2007
He received his B.A. in physics from Reed College and his Ph. D. in physics from the University of California, San Diego. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Why are we here? Sep 17, 2007
At Reed College in Oregon, freshmen are required to take a yearlong humanities course, for which they prepare by reading Homer's "Iliad" the summer before. Columbia University has a core curriculum consisting of four courses devoted to the masterpieces of Western literature, philosophy, music, and art. (Boston Globe)
Newswatch, Police/Fire Sep 10, 2007
D. and master's degree at Cornell University and his bachelor of arts from Reed College. Police, Fire, Courts Star-Bulletin staff. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Obama hits familiar themes during Portland stop Sep 9, 2007
He s so dynamic he seems like the most genuine candidate, and he s been honest about his past, said Greg Given, a student at Reed College in Portland. He s been on The Daily Show, chimed in his friend, Cory Aron, a student at Lewis and Clark College, who said plenty of his friends watch the tart, tongue-in-cheek newscast on Comedy Central to keep up with world affairs. (Ontario Argus Observer, OR)
The Return of SDS Aug 22, 2007
"SDS in the 1960s was real; SDS in 2007 is a fraud," says Maurice Isserman, a professor of history at Hamilton College and a former SDSer at Reed College. As early as 1965, SDS was organizing national anti-war demonstrations that attracted over 20,000 participants, and a national office with a regular newspaper kept individual chapters connected. (Time.com)
What exactly is life? Aug 20, 2007
A philosophy professor from Reed College in Oregon, Bedau is also the chief operating officer of the synthetic biology firm ProtoLife in Venice, Italy. His team and others are trying to make single-cell organisms from chemical components, creating a genetic system that multiplies and a metabolism that takes in energy from the environment. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Rags To Riches Billionaires Jun 27, 2007
Jobs dropped out of Reed College when he couldn't pay the tuition; his net worth today could support nearly 40,000 students at Reed for four years. Three others, including Ralph Lauren, are also college dropouts. (Forbes -- Business)
Calif. absentee vote: way early Jun 10, 2007
California is one of five states where more than 25% of voters routinely cast absentee ballots, said Paul Gronke, director of the Early Voting Information Center at Reed College in Oregon. The others are Washington, Texas, Tennessee and Iowa, though absentee voting doesn't apply to the in-person caucuses. (Los Angeles Times)
Pa. to consider vote-by-mail ballot system to increase turnout Jun 2, 2007
There is mixed evidence regarding how much Oregon's system has improved turnout, but it has been relatively free from the controversies that other absentee ballot systems have encountered, according to a 2005 study by the Early Voting Information Center at Reed College in Portland, Ore. Vote-by-mail legislation is currently pending in 18 state legislatures, according to the Election Reform Information Project in Washington, D.C.. (NEPA News, PA)
Tod H. Mikuriya, 73; psychiatrist who championed legal medical marijuana May 25, 2007
He graduated from Reed College in Portland, Ore ... Memorial contributions may be made to Reed College. (Los Angeles Times)
Greg Djerejian, May 24, 2007
As there is no medieval rack involved, nor "wedgies or swirlies, the various enhanced interrogation techniques are deemed totally acceptable, and it can only be preening moralists or hysterical anti-American leftists that could possibly be opposed to use of same. From this flawed premise, millions of Americans are now endorsing actions that are tantamount to war crimes (by a plain reading of applicable international treaty law, Article III of the Geneva Convention, and constitutional... (Harper's Magazine)
Club honors THS Rotary Scholars May 17, 2007
Elisabeth Garry, who will attend Reed College. Albert Gutierrez, who will attend Texas State University. (Taylor Daily Press, TX)
Charlotte Sagoff, was activist against pollution in Acton; 92 May 13, 2007
where he taught at Reed College. The couple also worked as teachers and advocated for those detained in a Japanese internment camp in California during World War II.. (Boston Globe)
New book traces love of redwoods Apr 19, 2007
A 19-year-old junior at Reed College, Steve Sillett, decided as a lark to climb a redwood, and somewhere past the yellow jackets, the bowel-loosening panic and the 120-foot mark, a spark went off in his mind that has burned brightly ever since. He felt "as if he had gone inside the body of a living organism, with uncounted other organisms living inside it," Preston writes of this epiphany. (Daily Triplicate)
Friday to Friday Apr 19, 2007
Chanticleer, 7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium, Reed College ... Chamber Music Northwest: Daedalus String Quartet, 8 p.m., Kaul Auditorium, Reed College. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
College rankings backlash grows Apr 7, 2007
Reed College in Portland, Ore. quit doing so years ago; the magazine's researchers gather necessary data, much of which is reported publicly, independently. (USA Today)
Indulging passion for music Mar 26, 2007
Inouye s early educational experience included undergraduate work at Reed College in Oregon and then a Ph. D. in biology with a major in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)
The College Rankings Revolt Mar 23, 2007
When Reed College stopped complying in 1995, the magazine assigned the lowest possible value to the missing statistics; in one year, Reed fell from the second quartile to the fourth. (Since then, the iconoclastic school has suffered no shortage of qualified applicants. (Time.com)
Early voting could upend presidential primary season Mar 22, 2007
Paul Gronke, a political science professor at Oregon's Reed College and the director of the Early Voting Information Center there, said the early voting trends combined with the Feb. 5 primaries are a boon for the "well-funded, well-known campaign. You have to begin your mobilization efforts so much earlier - you simply cannot ignore those absentee voters.". And with minds being made up earlier, experts say, there's less chance that a late-breaking event, like a surprisingly strong finish in... (Concord Monitor)
Books in brief Mar 6, 2007
Countryman is a recent graduate of the master s program at Reed College, and has taught creative writing in the continuing education program at Clark College. Laing has recently retired from 25 years of working as a counselor for children. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Top Ten Tips for Improving Your Intranet Mar 3, 2007
Clients include Duke University, Carnegie Mellon University, MCG Health Systems, PGP Software, Reed College, and SCOREGolf Magazine. Cummings founded Hannon Hill in 2001. (IntranetJournal)
David Horowitz: Liberal Dogma Corrupts U.S. Schools Mar 1, 2007
At a Reed College debate, Horowitz was aggressively rebutted by the Dean who had little to say about the Academic Bill of Rights but smeared Horowitz as a "political pornographer.". In this case the dean's unprofessional tirade was so repulsive he was forced to apologize by the college president, but that was an exception. (Newsmax)
Read More... Feb 27, 2007
I've since discovered through some Web sleuthing that my Boswell was a student at Reed College named. Subsequent reader edits added to Epstein's original a few more professional and personal items from my rsum that, like the earlier details, were readily available online. (Disinformation)
READ MORE > Feb 24, 2007
They have also given master classes at Eastern Michigan University, Reed College, and high school music programs throughout the state of Iowa. Formed in Ohio in 1998, the quartet takes its name from the famous Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, home to a wealth of artistic and cultural institutions. (Sioux City Journal)
Lubrizol Announces Director and Officer Changes Feb 20, 2007
D., age 58, serves as a member of the board of directors of Albemarle Corporation, as a trustee of Reed College and as a member of the Dean's Advisory Leadership Council at Harvard University's School of Government. At the end of 2006, she retired as a partner from Wellington Management LLP, where most recently she held positions as senior vice president and global investment manager. (PR Newswire)
Whatever It Takes Feb 9, 2007
According to Darius Rejali, a professor of political science at Reed College and the author of the forthcoming book Torture and Democracy, the conceit of the ticking time bomb first appeared in Jean Lart;guy s 1960 novel Les Centurions, written during the brutal French occupation of Algeria. The book s hero, after beating a female Arab dissident into submission, uncovers an imminent plot to explode bombs all over Algeria and must race against the clock to stop it. (New Yorker)
WALNUT CREEKLifting up Tibet's women Feb 6, 2007
" Other changes have been less tangible but just as lasting. "When I was growing up, there were more boy students than girls," said Pagbatso, 23, by phone from Portland, Ore., where she is a sophomore at Reed College. "There's still an idea that it's not important for girls to get an education. Tibetan girls are really shy, but I started to speak up in gender studies class and then I felt a little more comfortable to speak up in other classes. (San Francisco Chronicle)
In brief: Time Warner CEO speaks at OSU Feb 5, 2007
Douglas Fix, a professor of East Asian history and Chinese humanities at Reed College in Portland, will give a talk titled The Issue of the Colonial in Taiwan s History. The speech begins at 4 p.m. in Memorial Union room 208. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
FULL HIGHLIGHTS Feb 3, 2007
Ehrenreich graduated from Reed College in 1963 with a degree in Physics and she received a Ph. D. in cell biology from Rockefeller University in 1968. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Art helps woman recover Jan 30, 2007
Southers, a graduate of Reed College currently residing in Corvallis and working as a McMenamins prep cook, started taking photography classes at the Craft Center in 2000. One of Weber s first students, she commuted weekly from her home in Cloverdale to study. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Snow brings street cleaning problems Jan 24, 2007
Moberly Monitor - News. Tuesday, January 23, 2007. (Moberly Monitor-Index, MO)
'We've Been So Selfish' Jan 11, 2007
"I just looked at my parents in their cashmere sweaters and thought, 'Who am I to go to an elite liberal arts college and spend all my time reading while, in the real world, thousands of kids my age are sacrificing their lives for our country?' It's not right." Added Grace: "Whether I agree with the war or not, our president needs us, and I'll be damned if I'm going to let our least advantaged citizens bear the brunt of this awesome burden." At the on-campus temporary recruitment table at Reed... (Ocnus.net)
iPhone unites disparate corporate cultures of Apple, AT&T Jan 11, 2007
The liberal Reed College dropout is one of the best showmen in corporate America, rarely glancing at scripts and quick with off-the-cuff jokes. (On Tuesday, he stayed cool even when his electronic pointer went on the fritz. (Fresno Bee -- State)
Critical Issues in America Series Examines Torture and the Future UCSB, Jan. 09 Jan 10, 2007
Darius Rejali, professor of political science at Reed College and author of "Approaches to Violence: A Citizen's Toolkit" (Princeton University Press, 2006) and "Torture and Democracy" (Princeton University Press, 2005). George Hunsinger, of Princeton Theological Seminary, organizer of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, and author of "Disruptive Grace: Studies in the Theology of Karl Barth" (Wm. (University of California Newswire, CA)