News in Brief – 9/28
College introduces new director of nondiscrimination initiatives and Title IX/504 coordinator On Sept. 22, 2022, President Paula Johnson announced that…
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The HistoryMakers Digital Archive brings a more inclusive history to Wellesley
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How “Don’t Worry Darling” Lost the Plot and Became a Fixture of Celebrity Controversy
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Elvis Presley Told by Austin Butler and Tom Hanks: Everything right, wrong, and amazing about it
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I have never been more interested in fish fossils
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“Lessons in Chemistry”: Good Story, Bad Feminism
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News
Senate Report – 9/26/22
Dean’s Corner During the Dean’s Corner, Dean of Students Sheilah Shaw Horton spoke on the purpose of her role in…
College implements new COVID-19 guidelines
In an email on July 22, 2022, members of the Senior Leadership team announced that Wellesley would be dropping several…
Features
SAW Combats Updated COVID Policy
In preparation for the new school year, Dean Sheilah Shaw Horton announced that the College’s COVID-19 protocols would be relaxed…
The HistoryMakers Digital Archive brings a more inclusive history to Wellesley
In Spring 2021, Professor Liseli Fitzpatrick contacted librarians Karen Storz and Sarah Moazeni about adding a new subscription to Wellesley’s…
Professor Smitha Radhakrishnan Publishes “Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India”
Smitha Radhakrishnan, the LuElla LaMer professor of women’s studies and professor of sociology, is a feminist qualitative sociologist with a…
Opinions
The Wellesley News calls for the liberation of Palestine
Since Wellesley was chartered over 150 years ago, each generation of students has found their own way to speak out…
The News in Conversation: Wellesley Against Mass Incarceration
Welcome to the fourth edition of The News in Conversation. In every iteration of this column, The Wellesley News will…
Editorial Board calls for keeping up trans flag murals
The Board of Trustees and administration have had to be reminded time and time again that transgender and nonbinary students…
Arts
How “Don’t Worry Darling” Lost the Plot and Became a Fixture of Celebrity Controversy
In 2019 Carey and Shane Van Dyke wrote the spec script that writer and producer Katie Silberman would later rewrite…
Elvis Presley Told by Austin Butler and Tom Hanks: Everything right, wrong, and amazing about it
The Warner Bros. “Elvis,” is a biopic about Elvis Presley (Austin Butler) and Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks), directed by…
I have never been more interested in fish fossils
Welcome (or welcome back) to Books Before Boys, a misnomer of a book review column (“Books Before Literally Anyone Because…
Sports and Wellness
February Student Athlete of the Month
Those competing in the Winter athletics season know how this time of year can bring its own set of challenges….
Athletics Update
Swim & Dive Wellesley Swim & Dive placed sixth at the 2022 NEWMAC Championships hosted by MIT last weekend. Wellesley…
Victoria Garrick Speaks on Mental Health
On Feb. 8, the athletes of Wellesley Blue attended an event hosting Victoria Garrick. Former Division I athlete at the…
Online
President’s Column: The Butterfly Effect
If things never really stop changing, then I, and you, and all of us, have yet to see our darkest hours. But we have also yet to see our brightest days.
Administrators shocked to learn that students dislike being left in dark
Wellesley College administrators were shocked to learn this week that students disliked being left in the dark about subjects like…
50 Lies You Tell Yourself in Order to Survive Until Graduation
I will wake up early to do my readings before class tomorrow I do not turn into one of those…