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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

Wellesley’s administration is forcing students to pay for their own mistakes

Wellesley’s administration is forcing students to pay for their own mistakes

Riannon Last, Opinions Managing Editor | March 27, 2025
The college has willingly decided to threaten students with losing their financial aid or visa status if they do not attend scab lectures or replace their current lectures with completely unrelated courses that are halfway through their content.
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Sex and the suburbs: the worst icks

March 6, 2025

Sex and the Suburbs is a weekly column covering the struggles of Wellesley social life. To submit reader thoughts and comments to our columnist, you can use the following link: https://forms.gle/EyrwCGXidxdhkMuj8 Welcome...

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Editorial: Disjointed and dishonest: Wellesley’s Honor Code

Wellesley Administrators claimed last November that students are not “living the Honor Code” as students have in the past because they are ill-informed. How are students ill-informed when there is...

The Wellesley student’s case for a union strike

The Wellesley student’s case for a union strike

Avery Finley | March 4, 2025

In my six months working in the Provost's Office, the ongoing negotiations between the Wellesley Organized Academic Workers (WOAW) union and the College have never come up. Though a student assistant is...

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Democratic burnout

Claire Wu | March 4, 2025

Many people consider being informed about the news to be their civic duty. A morning routine typically consists of getting ready, making coffee, and listening to the morning radio, or eating breakfast...

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ADR, AI is not an accommodation

Anika Sridhar | March 4, 2025

During the Jan. 27 Senate meeting, students discussed how Wellesley’s Accessibility and Disability Resources (ADR) office has started to use an AI note-taking software instead of employing student note-takers....

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Sex and the suburbs: icks

Rebecca Birnbach, Columnist | February 20, 2025
Sex and the suburbs columnist Rebecca Birnbach covers icks. "Some are much easier to overlook while others will leave you with an everlasting visceral feeling of repulsion."
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TikTok and the future of social media censorship

Avery Finley | February 19, 2025

Whether the reinstatement of TikTok with President Trump's name attached constitutes propaganda is a rhetorical question. Trump formerly crusaded against the app and then, not 24 hours after its disappearance,...

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A televised revolution: Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show

Teesta Kasargod | February 18, 2025

On the evening of Sunday, Feb. 9, I, along with 133.5 million viewers, tuned in to watch Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show. While I was excited to see the 22-time Grammy-winning artist perform...

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Public service to private profit: Why Trump’s federal funding cuts attack us all

Janaki Kapadia | February 18, 2025

News media the last few weeks has been dominated by the avalanche of actions the Trump administration has taken in its first four weeks of office, which have attacked nearly every institution in American...

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You don’t have to dread Valentine’s Day

Riannon Last, Opinions Managing Editor | February 14, 2025

A common sentiment held throughout the College’s student community is that Valentine's Day is a capitalistic holiday with no real value or worth. Many who are single feel that it is a holiday to make...

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Editorial: No New Women’s Prison: A Call for Justice and Accountability

TW: discussions of violence and sexual assault Less than twenty minutes down the road from Wellesley College’s campus sits MCI-Framingham, the oldest operating women’s prison in the United States....

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