Launched at the beginning of this academic year, Wellesley’s Career Education is a newer model of what was formerly known as the Center for Work and Service (CWS). In addition to a name change, the new...
About 45 percent of the junior class elects to study abroad for a semester or a full year, but this does not mean that students from other years or students who cannot take the time to study abroad for...
Compared to apps like Yik Yak or Whisper, Facebook is one of the social media giants less associated with anonymity. The anonymous use of Facebook has also dropped since the company announced its controversial...
For many Wellesley students, one of the principal complaints they have about college life is the fact that living and working on campus is vastly different than a home environment. But for students who...
In the past few semesters, open mic nights have popped up as a type of event on campus, offering students the chance to voice their opinions and experiences on a variety of topics.
Wellesley Out Loud,...
Fishing is one of the world’s oldest industries, and for the most part, the technology used today is still the same as it has been for hundreds of years. Outdated technology such as pen and paper recordkeeping,...
Many Wellesley students go about their day ignoring the handicapped signs, ramps and elevators that are sprinkled around campus. But for a small percentage of the community, these accommodations, along...
Irked by students who hit “reply all” while responding to school-wide emails and augment the already excessive number of emails that the general population receives daily, a group of students has formed...
The political science department hosted a lecture by Sue Gordon, Deputy Director of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), which gave students both a perspective on high-level government...
'Re-Orientation' provides administrative and social support
A new unconstituted org called the Re-Orientation group was created this year to provide administrative and social support for students who...
This mailbox recently appeared in the Lulu Chow Wang Center near Mail Services. It is part of the “deliver me” project, started by five Olin College of Engineering students, Gaby Clarke, Marie-Caroline...
The Wellesley College student government began on Feb. 18, 1876, after the College had been open only one year as a way to police academic violations.
In 1887, faculty and students began preliminary...
***Editor's Note: This article was published as part of the satirical April 1, 2015 issue
Aya Takalat ’16 has a plan to bring male voices to campus, but not in a social or political capacity. Instead,...
At the start of the International Women’s Day celebration last Sunday, Tishman Commons was packed with people there to see the spoken word poet Andrea Gibson. By the end of the event, the number of participants...
The Harvard Women in Computer Science group hosted its second Women Engineers Code conference (WECode) at Harvard University on Feb. 7 and 8. The event was packed with keynote lectures, lightning talks...
Classics society revived on campus
Wellesley’s Alpha Kappa Chi seems an unlikely mix of old and new. An old society that is now being revived also focuses on classics and antiquity, and hopes to be modern...
Tony Matelli’s Sleepwalker statue caused a furor on campus last year that launched Wellesley into both national and international news. It was not, however, the only outdoor sculpture on campus. Many...
Renovations to the Keohane Sports Center (KSC) Fieldhouse began in March, and the construction remains on schedule, which means that the Fieldhouse will likely be open for second semester this year as...
The woman in front of me looks just like any other Wellesley student. Young, with hazel eyes, short blond hair and a can of Coke. At 27, however, she is older than the typical Wellesley student. Her name...
Holding classes, having office hours, hosting events and helping students with their conversation and grammar skills are roles that many students associate with professors, but all of these duties may...
Recent events in the archives seem like a plot of a mystery novel: Friends of Nancy Corcoran, the Catholic chaplain, found an annotation in a Hawaiian memoir that led to a search for a tree that Queen...
The Advisory Committee on Library and Technology Policies reached out to students last month to get student feedback on a proposed project to re-examine the use of academic commons. The library staff also...
