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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

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Going home, or a good book

Ella Knight | February 7, 2024

There is a movie about where I grew up. Denzel Washington is a football coach and everyone speaks with an accent. The older people from my hometown are usually very interested in this movie taking place,...

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English classes need to assign better books

Ella Knight | November 29, 2023

I remember realizing the day had arrived like a villain rolling into town in a western. But there was no Clint Eastwood or John Wayne to make things right. I was thirteen and about to read “Lord of the...

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On Self-Knowledge

Ella Knight | October 25, 2023

Long ago, I wrote in a Google Document about a disappointing 19-year-old guy and came to the conclusion that one can only achieve self-knowledge when they realize they are very emotional people. Then,...

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Not a girl, not yet a woman, or however it goes

Ella Knight | October 4, 2023

Do you know what it is like to overthink about the patriarchy? I do. It is, of course, a slippery slope. “It” being that one time, you remember the one, when you were dress-coded in high school, but...

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