thesis parade 2008!

OK, I screwed up a few things so some of these look really funky. Pretend they don't?

Context for the uninitiated: Every Reed student spends his or her senior year writing a big fancy thesis. Twice a year (i.e., in the spring for regular students and in the fall for those who started their theses in the spring) there's a Thesis Parade, at which the seniors (identifiable by their plastic laurels) dance and scream and make out with everyone and ritually burn copies of their completed theses while the rest of us spray them with champagne. Then they march through the library, across the lawn, and up to the registrar's office to submit their theses.

Photos from previous Thesis Parades: fall '05, spring '06, fall '06, spring '07, and fall '07.

Congratulations, seniors!


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Picters

Here's another Renn Fayre tradition: Picting. A bunch of Reedies strip naked and paint themselves blue, then run around campus chasing and hugging other students and, especially, professors. Then there are the anti-picters, a clothed group armed with water guns full of red paint; the two groups try to smear one another with their color of paint.

The picters said they were fine with my posting these, but just in case: If you're a picter in one of these and you've changed your mind, e-mail me (gingrasm at reed).


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assorted pictures from today

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