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Sculpting the City

By Randall S. Barton

Prof. Gerri Ondrizek challenges her students to reinvent urban spaces

Muckraking through the Ages

By Katelyn Best ’13

An anthology of investigative reporting shows the power of journalism to expose injustice.

Tales of the Thesis Tower

Disaster on the Danube

By Rick Peterson ’15

The fate of Europe hung in the balance when the Ottoman army besieged Vienna in 1683

Editor's Note

• Return on Investment

Features

• Sculpting the City
• A Life in Counterpoint
• Library of Leaves
• Muckraking through the Ages
• Keys to the Kingdom
• The Selling of Modernism
• Disaster on the Danube

Reediana

• Michael Schein ’76: John Surratt
• Roger Porter: Eating Words
• Reediana: Books, Music, and Film

Eliot Circular

• Class of ’19: Sharp, Diverse, and 426 Strong
• Take Scientific Claims with a Chunk of Salt
• Attack of the Parasitic Wasps
• Astrophysicist is Orienteering Star
• Bike Co-Op Named for Mark Angeles ’15
• Reed Hosts Masters

Empire of the Griffin

• Letter from the Alumni President
• Alumni Board Nominations
• Sheldon Wins Babson

ARCHIVAL VIDEO: THE HUMAN HAMSTER WHEEL

Students assemble a gargantuan feat of engineering in the Student Union.