Editing Reed College (section)

===Unofficial mottos and folklore===
An unofficial motto of Reed is "Communism, Atheism, Free Love", and can be found in the Reed College Bookstore on sweaters, T-shirts, etc. It was a label that the Reed community claimed from critics during the 1920s as a "tongue-in-cheek slogan" in reference to Reed's [[Nonconformist (Protestantism)|nonconformism]]. Reed's founding president William T. Foster's outspoken opposition against the entrance of the United States into World War I, as well as the college's support for feminism, its adherence to academic freedom (i.e., inviting a leader of the [[Socialist Party of America]] to speak on campus about the [[Russian Revolution (1917)|Russian Revolution]]’s potential effect on [[militarism]], emancipation of women, and ending the persecution of Jews), and its [[nonsectarian]] status made the college a natural target for what was originally meant to be a pejorative slur.<ref name="cafl">{{cite journal |last=Sheehy |first=John P. |date=Summer 2007 |title=What's so funny about communism, atheism, and free love? |journal=Reed Magazine |url=http://web.reed.edu/reed_magazine/summer2007/features/C_A_FL/7.html |access-date= December 18, 2007}}</ref><ref name="caflquote">{{cite journal |date=Summer 2007 |title=Ripped from the Archives: All you need is communism, atheism, and free love |journal=Reed Magazine |url=http://web.reed.edu/reed_magazine/summer2007/features/C_A_FL/8.html |access-date= December 18, 2007}}</ref>
[[File:ReedCollege-FauxSeal-bw.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Faux Reed Seal]]
The faux Reed Seal has changed over the years. In its original form the griffin was holding a hammer and sickle in its paws. Later versions had the griffin wearing boxing gloves.

One of the unofficial symbols of Reed is the [[Doyle Owl]], a roughly {{convert|280|lb|kg|adj=on}} concrete statue that has been continuously stolen and re-stolen since about 1919. The original Doyle Owl (originally "House F Owl" after the dormitory named House F that later became Doyle dormitory) was a garden sculpture from the neighborhood stolen by House F residents as a prank (there is a photo of House F residents around the original owl that has been made into a T-shirt). The on-campus folklore of events surrounding the Doyle Owl is sufficiently large that, in 1983, a senior thesis was written on the topic of the Owl's [[oral history]]. The original Doyle Owl was destroyed many years ago; the current avatar is Doyle Owl number 13, plus or minus 11.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/december2011/articles/features/almanac/almanac1.html|title=The New (Olde) Reed Almanac|website=Reed Magazine}}</ref>  At the present time only one Owl is being shown.<ref>[http://www.reed.edu/apply/about_reed/doyleowl.html Admission/The Doyle Owl.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140509001544/http://www.reed.edu/apply/about_reed/doyleowl.html |date=May 9, 2014 }} [retrieved from Reed College website, 3 September 2012]</ref><ref>[http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/december2011/articles/features/jobs/jobs.html This article has a photo of Steve Jobs with the Doyle Owl][retrieved 17 September 2013]</ref>