What's your college's slogan/saying or whatever you call it?

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<p>^ [Reed</a> Magazine: What’s so funny 'bout communism, atheism, and free love? (7/8)](<a href=“http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/summer2007/features/C_A_FL/7.html]Reed”>Reed Magazine: What's so funny 'bout communism, atheism, and free love? (7/8))</p>

<p>And if you can’t be bothered to read the article, here are the important points:

Variations on “communism, atheism, free love,” were bandied about in the national press throughout the 1910s and ’20s, mostly as conservative shorthand for perceived threats to the American status quo, especially those posed by liberal institutions. The word “atheism” was often linked with “communism” as a disparaging qualifier of Marxist ideals. “Free love” originated in the mid-nineteenth century to challenge the rights of ownership and authority exercised by men over women in marriage. By the early twentieth century the term had evolved to stand for a range of sexual freedoms for women.
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Soon after the Russian Revolution, radicalized workers such as the Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World) took to the streets, calling for a socialist or anarchist revolution. A red terror spread throughout the country—except at Reed. There, a prominent leader of the Socialist Party of America was invited to campus to discuss the revolution’s potential impact on militarism, emancipation of women, and ending the persecution of Jews.
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As Portland grew increasingly hostile toward the college, the Reed community circled the wagons and turned inward. Ellen Knowlton Johnson ’39, daughter of longtime Reed physics professor Tony Knowlton, grew up on campus. She told me that during the 1920s, the Reed community reclaimed “communism, atheism, free love” from local critics as a tongue-in-cheek slogan.

It’s ironic. Reed is that hipster.</p>