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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

Jessica Chen, Junior News Editor

Jessica Chen ’28 is a prospective Economics and Computer Science major from Princeton, NJ. In her free time, she likes to go on runs and take in the beauty of Wellesley’s campus. She was previously the editor-in-chief of her high school newspaper, The Tower. 

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“The rest is the future”: an inspiring conversation with Janelle Monáe

Jessica Chen | December 3, 2024
Janelle Monáe, writer and 10-time Grammy-nominated artist, stepped onto the Alumnae Hall stage last Friday evening to speak about her Afrofuturist anthology, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer.
“A time of terror": Wellesley students react to a second Trump term

“A time of terror”: Wellesley students react to a second Trump term

Jessica Chen and Ruby Barenberg | November 11, 2024
An atmosphere of shock and anxiety settled upon Wellesley students after Donald Trump officially became the new president-elect on Wednesday morning. Trump has won both the Electoral College and the popular vote, the first Republican to do so since 2004.
Wellesley students gathered to watch live polling results.

Wellesley students react to deadlock presidential race, shocked by Trump’s lead

Jessica Chen, Ruby Barenberg, and Valida Pau | November 5, 2024
As the first polls close on Tuesday, around 150 students gathered at watch parties around campus to follow the live polling results for one of the closest presidential elections in US history.
Tower Court dining hall

Food theft on the rise in Tower Court

Jessica Chen | October 29, 2024

On Sept. 30, after Ilana LeVine ’27 spent an entire day in urgent care, there was one thing she wanted to do: eat her Trader Joe’s soup dumplings.  She had put them in the communal fridge, labeling...

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COVID-19 in its fifth year: a look into current resources and advocacy

Jessica Chen and Ruby Barenberg | October 17, 2024

Rylie Zhang ’28 called Health Services after testing positive for COVID-19. While she expected an answer to her question about the current COVID-19 policies, all she received was the answer that “they...

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Wellesley water tested positive for E.Coli

Jessica Chen | October 14, 2024
Wellesley College found E.coli in an untreated groundwater sample from one of the College’s wells, according to an email sent to students and faculty on Friday evening.
Image Credit: Echo He

First Pluralism Initiative event encourages open dialogue on Israel and Palestine

Jessica Chen | October 7, 2024

The views expressed in the article do not represent the views of the author or The Wellesley News. As the past year of the war in Gaza has thrust college campuses into ideological divisions, Wellesley...

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