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The student newspaper of Wellesley College since 1901

The Wellesley News

The student newspaper of Wellesley College since 1901

The Wellesley News

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California’s Fiery Wake Up Call

Lily Herold | November 28, 2018

Structures once grand and imposing lie in heaps of smoldering ash, their looming facades reduced to debris on the cracked, fire-worn earth. A layer of smoke chokes the empty streets, and the sky looms...

Photo Courtesy of Artemisia Luk '21 Digital Editor

Meaningful conversation is ensnared by social etiquette

Lily Herold | November 7, 2018

Incessant communication: an ever-present onslaught of “How are you’s” and “Hello’s”. Colleagues greet you with a smile and a dead-eyed stare; dinner table twaddle avoids the controversial....

Kathy Yeu ’82: from English to entrepreneurship, a Wellesley College Alumna Finds her Voice

Kathy Yeu ’82: from English to entrepreneurship, a Wellesley College Alumna Finds her Voice

Lily Herold | September 28, 2018

Kathy Yeu ’82, now an expert in the field of finances, did not enjoy the economics course she took as a first year at Wellesley. In fact, she despised it. “Although I initially thought it might open...

Remix: Idealization Inspires Disappointment

Lily Herold | September 28, 2018

I stumbled across the foreign word shortly after committing to Wellesley. On a spring evening around 9:03 p.m., I’m lying sprawled across my bedroom floor, my phone screen a dim glow in an otherwise...

News In Brief

News in Brief

Lily Herold | September 28, 2018

Paula Johnson meets with area professors to discuss sexual harassment On Tuesday, Sept. 18, President Paula Johnson spoke on a panel about the unfortunate prevalence of sexual harassment towards women...

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