In reflecting on our final editor’s corner, your very own Editors-in-Chief started thinking back on our four years at Wellesley — all we did and didn’t do, and the path that led us here. We also...

This past weekend, Wellesley hosted two Admitted Student Days, welcoming many new members of the Class of 2030 to campus. I’ve had the pleasure of showing several prospective Wellesley students around...

There was a time when official government statements were treated as a reliable account of what happened. Aside from the occasional conspiracy theory, government accounts, even on social media platforms,...

On Nov. 27, the University of Oklahoma chapter of Turning Point USA went viral on X for claiming that a student, Samantha Fulnecky, received a failing grade for “quoting the Bible in her essay.” After...

On Feb. 27, 2023, College Government Senators unanimously passed the Gender Inclusivity Ballot Question, giving students the opportunity, through a non-binding referendum, to indicate their stance on policies...

Over the past few cycles, we have focused our editors’ corner pieces on the topics of free speech and college journalism, expressing our commitment to students’ freedom of expression and the value...

This past week, Indiana University’s Media School fired its director of student media and ended the Indiana Daily Student (IDS) print medium. For the first time in 158 years, the Indiana Daily Student...

As student journalists, we write with the knowledge that freedom of expression is not a given, but rather something that must be actively defended. And while many of us in the U.S. grew up assuming that...

Notifications sent  At 7:00 AM on Thursday, Mar. 27, the Office of the Provost announced that many non-tenure-track courses would be reduced in credit from 1 to 0.5. Provost Courney Coile’s plan...

The Justice Department announced in a press release on Feb. 3 that they would be establishing a task force to investigate claims of antisemitism on college campuses. The Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism...

Last Tuesday night, students rushed to dorm rooms and academic buildings to watch the high-stakes debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. Students organized...

College Government elections for the 2024-2025 year took place on Tuesday, March 5, with contested elections for President, Vice President, and Secretary-Treasurer, write-in candidate Mia Cadena ’25...

The question of whether to make ballot question and ballot initiative analytics public has been a topic of conversation among Wellesley students for months, notably in spring semester 2023 when the ballot...

After a search for a new tenure-track hire, Wellesley’s English department will welcome Professor Kelly Rich in the upcoming 2024-25 school year. Professor Rich currently teaches at Harvard University...

Professor Nina Tumarkin to deliver Distinguished Faculty Lecture  President Johnson announced via email on Feb. 22 that Professor Nina Tumarkin, the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Slavic Studies...

On Feb. 4, Taylor Swift announced that she would be releasing her 11th album, “The Tortured Poets Department”, on April 19, during her acceptance speech after her Grammy win for best pop vocal album....

Wellesley College Government passed CG Resolution No. 003 at Senate on Monday, Feb. 12, which will add CG as a signatory to the MIT Undergraduate Association Public Affairs (UAPA) Proposal on Unpaid Internships....

As students across the country react to events in Israel and Palestine, Wellesley students are no exception. Although other Boston-area colleges and universities, including MIT, Northeastern, and Brandeis,...

Students arriving on campus have noticed sweeping changes to some familiar spaces on campus, namely Tower Court West and Severance Halls. The dorm renovations, whose goals ranged from aesthetic upgrades...

After a hiring process that began in Aug. 2022, the Wellesley College computer science department has hired three new assistant professors: Vinitha Gadiraju and Alexa VanHattum, who will join the department...

On Feb. 6, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck parts of Türkiye and Syria. As of Feb. 16, 42,000 people were killed, and a million displaced. NPR has reported that in Kahramanmaras, improvised relief efforts...

COVID-19 affected nearly every aspect of Wellesley College, and many of its effects are still lingering. One of these areas was various foreign language departments. The College’s foreign language requirement...