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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

Ivy Buck, Associate Arts Editor

Ivy Buck ’25 is an English major at Wellesley College from Burlington, Vermont. She serves as an Associate Arts Editor at the Wellesley News and interned in the News and Politics department of Slate Magazine in Summer 2024. She also performs editorial work in the Wellesley Italian department and with Wellesley’s Committee for Political Engagement.

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The value of turning to art amidst political chaos

Ivy Buck | November 15, 2024
Turning towards art is not an excuse to become politically ignorant, but history has shown us that art is both a tool and a reprieve, to be used for the political and the personal. During times of nationwide change and political uncertainty like this current moment, prioritizing creation is all the more valuable.
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Wining & Dining: Candy corn doesn’t deserve our hate

Ivy Buck | November 1, 2024

On the day before Halloween in 2020, The New Yorker magazine published its daily cartoon, and as you might expect, the sketch honored the fast-approaching spooky season. Crafted by cartoonist Johnny...

Kamala Harris on Alex Cooper's "Call Her Daddy" podcast

Kamala Harris on Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy” podcast

Ivy Buck | October 22, 2024

I guess I live under a rock in the podcast world. Until last week, I had only heard of Alex Cooper’s ultra-famous show “Call Her Daddy” in passing, until I discovered that Vice President and current...

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Emerson Stage concludes its run of hilarious bitch-positive play “POTUS”

Ivy Buck | October 4, 2024

From Sept. 25 to 28, the word repeated across the Emerson Greene Theatre stage was, to the probable horror of the few 60 or 70-somethings scattered throughout the audience, “cunt.” Not just in its...

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