<p>Tetra, I’m glad to learn that Reed has changed so much for the better. Free food? A tutoring center? When I was there, beer was free, during the socials in Commons, but food was limited, and not very good. Free food would have attracted the sizeable proportion of Reedies who lived off campus, without board contracts. Back when there were more students than dorm spaces–the Cross-Canyon dorms (Sisson, Chittick, etc.) were the newest dorms–sophomores were generally obliged to live off campus, while many others did so to save money. Trying to keep a stock of free food publicly available would have been as ongoing and difficult a task as trying to keep the water out of a pit dug in the sand next to the ocean. Does Peoples’ Food Store still exist? Off-campus Reedies got their yogurt, granola, rice, bread and cheese there. Free food? Reed really has changed. But it’s still underfunded, and the four-year graduation rate is still low.</p>