Skip to Main Content
The student newspaper of Wellesley College since 1901

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

Joanne Kim ‘27

The noise around us: A commentary on rhetoric

Ellie Walsh, Staff Writer | April 30, 2026

As my first year at Wellesley comes to an end, I think back not just to the people and places, but also the sounds. The waves by the lake, music in the Quint, and the clatter of plates in the dining hall...

Margot Buehler ‘28

The invisible price of SHIPs

Melody Chen, Staff Writer | April 28, 2026

Wellesley’s Short Internship Projects (SHIPs) are marketed as a low-friction bridge to the professional world. By offering 60- to 80-hour remote work projects specifically for first-years, the college...

Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

The human cost of college closure

Hannah Bates, Staff Writer | April 28, 2026

Hampshire College, a small liberal arts college in western Massachusetts, recently announced its closure, finally succumbing to the financial problems it has been facing for years. Students set to graduate...

Iris Zhan '27

Saxbys: Creation of a corporate co-op

Ellie Walsh, Staff Writer | April 16, 2026

The long-awaited opening of Saxbys, following a barrage of pubbing, has finally arrived. I sat with my friends at a table while the cafe's opening was set up. There were a few other early arrivals like...

Dylan Burmeister '29

The passivity of hope

Ya-Hsin Dittrich-Tilton, Staff Writer | April 14, 2026

Sitting down to write an article about the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, I began to think about how I wanted to approach another critical political issue. To briefly summarize, the Act...

Photo courtesy of Uroburo via Wikimedia Commons

Why we love art heists

Sarah Kang, Staff Writer | April 13, 2026

In another stroke of dumb luck and with a bit of skillful daring, a successful museum heist in the northern Italian countryside has proven to us, once again, that the people yearn for cartoonish crimes....

Load More Stories