On the morning of April 2, 2024, Wellesley students received an email pertaining to the summer housing application. In the email, the Office of Residential Life and Student Housing detailed that students...
Emergency contraception on Wellesley’s campus will become more accessible and affordable by the end of the 2023-2024 school year with the addition of an emergency contraception vending machine, a project...
One student name in this article is a pseudonym to protect the anonymity of the interviewee who fears retaliation and harassment.
Wellesley Drag, an ensemble of queer and trans students on Wellesley...
Trigger warning: brief mention of SA and violence when describing statistics.
Wellesley, MA, has a relatively low crime rate compared to surrounding areas. The Federal Bureau of Statistics reports that,...
In an email to the Wellesley community on Jan. 23, 2024, Dave Chakraborty, assistant vice president of Facilities Management and Planning, announced that a Freon leak had occurred around 8:30 a.m. in the...
Living in a communal environment can prove challenging for college students, and Wellesley College is no exception.
“I feel like some people don’t know this [space] is communal,” said Nic Wong ’24....
Wellesley students have grappled with the policy changes that COVID-19 has brought for the past four years. The spring semester of 2020 brought the first of the changes – the college officially closed...
Provost Shennan Stepping Down
Andy Shennan, Provost and Lia Gelin Poorvu ’56 Dean of the College, announced in an email on September 14, 2023, that he will be stepping down after 25 years in the Dean’s...
Bodies swayed in a strange, arrhythmic motion as sporadic shouts of lyrics were heard from the crowd. Yet there was not a single song heard aloud. Instead, Wellesley students were donned in glowing headphones...
Sustainability Sale Canceled
On Aug. 29, 2023, the Office of Sustainability announced that their annual sustainability sale, popular among sibs on campus for purchase of refrigerators, lamps, mirrors,...
As the campus reopened for the fall semester of 2023, students received interesting news from Sheilah Shaw Horton, vice president and dean of students. In Horton’s first bi-weekly newsletter, it was...
College Pulse was founded by Dartmouth students to gain insight into college students’ attitudes and mental health. The 2023 Campus Climate Survey polled 39,942 respondents from over 150 colleges and...
ChatGPT, an AI text generation program that launched in Nov. 2022, caught the attention of Wellesley students and faculty in the 2023 spring semester. Carolyn Anderson, assistant professor of computer...
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Surprise Lake Day Announcement
On the morning of Sept. 28, 2022, President Paula Johnson announced that classes were canceled to celebrate Lake Day. Lake Day began as a tradition in the early 1980s and...
