Watching masses of people heaving clubs at one another during the Portland Juggling Festival last weekend, one wonders: How exactly did Reed College, an exclusive liberal arts college tucked away in the Woodstock neighborhood of Southeast Portland, become a destination for jugglers and other circus artists? It’s hazy. The best I could figure was this: In the '80s, Stuart Celarier, a Reed student who got into juggling after reading a book called Juggling for the Complete Klutz, took Reed’s juggling class for his PE requirement. After he got credit, kept going week after week, just because he thought it was fun and wanted to keep getting better.

The class, which still goes down every Wednesday at 7 pm in Reed’s gymnasium, currently under Celarier’s direction, was and is a strange public cla

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