Reed Alumni Conference on the (Utne / New ) Cafe  History

Intro/Background

• Where did it start, where did it go, where's it going?

• Howard Rheingold's Beginning Post
• Support from the Alumni Board

Expansion

• More participants, more frequent postings
• Diversification of topics
  • Reed-related
  • Serious
  • Motifs and Mythology
• Participation by current students (and a student-to-be)

Vandalism and expulsion

• (How explicit do we want to be here?)
• (no mention of names or other identifying information?)

Decoupling and the new charter

First F2F at the Reunions

Sources

• Internet Link #1
• Internet Link #2
• Book Source #1
• Book Source #2

Ideas for the paper

• Thesis found here?
  • No, it's in fnord Thesis Tower
• Direction you want to take the research/paper
  • North, I like to go North.
• Need to do any interviews for primary sources?
  • Howard!
  • Other old timers -- JS, TR?
  • All former hosts (especially those who became inactive)