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The Wellesley News

The student newspaper of Wellesley College since 1901

The Wellesley News

The student newspaper of Wellesley College since 1901

The Wellesley News

Nurturing leaders to fight inequality

Nurturing leaders to fight inequality

Dierderique Van Der Knaap | April 8, 2015

With increasing unemployment and unrest in the European Union and  the rise of sensational books such as Thomas Picketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” there couldn’t be a more exciting...

Reinstating a philosophy queen: Conversations on women and ancient philosophy

Reinstating a philosophy queen: Conversations on women and ancient philosophy

Dierderique Van Der Knaap | March 11, 2015

What do you envision when you think of a philosopher? Maybe you imagine a stuffy old man in a messy office buried in archaic books ranging in subject matter from inapplicable to useless. Most of us don’t...

One ring to rule them all: adventures in pure mathematics

One ring to rule them all: adventures in pure mathematics

Dierderique Van Der Knaap | February 26, 2015

What exactly does a mathematician do? According to associate professor of mathematics Alexander Diesl, it involves a lot of scratch paper and is similar to art in that it requires creativity and flexibility. ...

Faculty Focus: For peace and justice, ‘keep on keepin’ on’

Faculty Focus: For peace and justice, ‘keep on keepin’ on’

Dierderique Van Der Knaap | February 4, 2015

A pacifist and literary scholar, Lawrence A. Rosenwald is probably the only phone-tax resister on the faculty at Wellesley. He serves as the director of the Peace and Justice Studies department and is...

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