<p>Do Willamette students interact w/ Reed + Lewis & Clark students?</p>
<p>Is it common for students of these campuses to meet up for any reason (even without a car) or is there a relative social distance?</p>
<p>Willamette is just a bit too far away to have much socializing with Reed or L&C students.</p>
<p>I suppose the “Willamette bubble” is real after all.</p>
<p>Berkeley and Stanford are closer than Salem and Portland, and apart from the occasional sports event, the students don’t socialize. MIT and Harvard are only a 35-minute walk apart, but their students don’t socialize either. My daughter just graduated MIT and will attend Harvard this fall, and she feels like she’ll be entering a new world. My niece graduated from Lewis & Clark, but even though Reed is in the same city, she never socialized with students from Reed.</p>
<p>It’s not a “Willamette bubble,” it’s just that apart from sports, you’d have to search for organizations that would would bring you together with students from other colleges. Think community service, internships, hiking/outdoors clubs, and so on.</p>
<p>I was namely wondering about intercollegiate relationships because each college is affiliated with [the Oregon Independent Colleges Association](<a href=“http://www.oicanet.org/”>http://www.oicanet.org/</a>) and it seemed that with so few universities in the state, there would be some joint activities.</p>
<p>I think that’s mainly an association for administrators.</p>
<p>Vonlust: Thanks for that, I was unsure myself until checking out the Yahoo! map. Anyway, that is an interesting point about the OICA.</p>
<p>CalAlum: Although that may be true, there are many universities in CA and MA, so I would not assume that students of different colleges would not interact. I was under the impression that with a state like OR, one which holds far fewer institutions of higher education, that there would be some mixing of the student bodies, especially private schools becuase often times they are in the same academic alliances with each other (see OICA).</p>
<p>Now I was wondering if students tend to hang out in the same areas during their free time; the music scene in Portland, possibly in offices for intersnhips, shops, etc.</p>
<p>Granted, it’s been many years since I attended Willamette, but I don’t recall any interaction with Reed or Lewis & Clark students. Salem is distant enough that it’s not really practical.</p>