<p>I agree it is offensive humor and truly (probably literally)“sophomoric” journalism. It is poor judgment to choose this kind of topic for an attempt at parody because it ends up demonstrating the authors/editors poor judgment to a large audience and reflecting poorly on a larger group and to a much larger audience than probably ever intended. I also think this is something that happens quite frequently in high school and college journalism–often with a painful and steep learning curve from which the authors/editors benefit. </p>
<p>It would be very sad, however, i think to remove Reed from a student’s range of options, based on this alone. The Reed admin and admissions office do not control this publication (and in a free country probably shouldn’t) and I would bet that the authors have had some very direct and personal confrontation about their poor judgment in the aftermath. That is where the instruction happens. You could certainly get onto campus and do some work to explore whether there was any evidence to support the suggestion here that the college culture was anti-Semitic. But usually this kind of parody in this kind of setting is written by naive, idealist liberal youth who are astonished anyone would not “know” they didn’t “mean it” that way(after all they were "just"making fun of Lewis and Clark and college rivalry is “all American”… So things like this are disturbing when read, but I bet are more about immaturity than immorality. Don’t we wish they would all grow up faster.</p>