Problems with the pipes
Students received a rather cold welcome back from break when showers across campus failed to run hot water. While not all students were not affected, many in the Quad and Tower...
The first time I had chocolate babka was three years ago at a bakery in New York — I have not been able to get it out of my mind since. Over winter break, I decided to take on the Herculean task of making...
Since mid-June of 2022, people in Pakistan have been dealing with historic flooding as a result of climate change. According to UNICEF, as of early October, 33 million people were displaced by the floods....
In an email on July 22, 2022, members of the Senior Leadership team announced that Wellesley would be dropping several of its COVID-19 policies for the 2022-2023 year. Many of the new guidelines provide...
In the past 16 years, the College has posted photos of the 9 ¾ platform on its official Facebook account at least seven times. The origin story of the drawing on the outdoor staircase in the Academic...
The precarious nature of a non-tenure track position keeps Professor Erin Battat up at night. Although originally in a tenure track position at Pennsylvania State Harrisburg, Professor Battat moved to...
The Elementary Teacher Licensure Program (ELTP), a program offered in the education department for students pursuing certification in early elementary education, will be phased out in the next three years....
College Government Elections results
After a week of active campaigning, occurring in-person for the first time since March 2020, on March 8, 2022, Wellesley students elected their 2022-2023 College Government...
Dean’s Corner
Dean of Students Sheilah Shaw Horton announced at Senate that new COVID-19 regulations would be sent to students later in the week. The email was sent on Feb. 23. Additionally, Horton reminded...
For Wallis* ’24, quarantining for two weeks in Dower felt like living in a dystopian novel. In the span of a day, they were forced to make “the walk of shame” from their cozy Tower Court complex...
CW: This article contains discussions of transphobia, ableism and anti-abortion views.
On Oct. 14, posters titled “The Future is Anti-Abortion” began to appear around campus advertising a guest speaker...
After trying for months to unsuccessfully obtain a visa, Maria Vitória Moura ’24 had to do her Fall 2020 semester remotely from her country of residence, Brazil. The stressful term system, coupled with...
For Tarini Sinha ’22, the residential dorms were not a safe place. She always felt like she needed to shrink herself down, to take up less space. It was not until she moved into the feminist cooperative...
For the past few weeks Veeksha Madhu ’22 has been promoting her fundraiser to raise money for those affected by COVID in India, advocating for more support for South Asian students at Wellesley and dealing...
On April 21, Academic Council voted 84-13 to carbon reducing measures developed by the Sustainability Committee (SUST). The proposals were created in parallel with those developed by the ECON/ES 199 class,...
On March 10, two days before the one year anniversary of the day students were forced to evacuate campus due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus in the United States, College President Paula Johnson...
Board of Trustees to vote on divestment in late April
While many previous student organizers had hoped that Wellesley College would be a leader among other universities and colleges in divesting from fossil...
On Jan. 14, 2021, President-Elect Joe Biden announced that his administration would seek to permanently raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour as part of its coronavirus relief package. Although the bill...
On Feb. 9, Wellesley College President Paula Johnson sent out an email to staff and faculty with updates on the College's plan for vaccination rollout. In the email, President Johnson wrote that the inconsistencies...
As Wellesley students return to campus during the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccinations are on the forefront of almost every conversation. Several universities in the Boston area have already...
Four new cases of COVID-19 have been reported on campus in the past week, unsettling some of the 42 students residing in Munger Hall over winter break. The uptick in cases occurred just as a new, more...
Wellesley prohibits off campus guests; new restrictions enforced
A new positive COVID-19 case was reported on campus Sunday, Oct. 25, escalating fears that cooling temperatures and the week-long break...
The rumors began spreading through social media on the evening of Oct. 7: someone had tested positive for COVID-19. The entire block was infected, some said. The case was on East Side, or maybe there...
"It's a minefield for racism. It’s going to happen, it’s just a question of when:" Lack of Indigenous representation sparks student concerns.
This article was written on the ancestral, traditional...
Across the world, Wellesley students are packing up their belongings and flying, driving or taking a train back to Wellesley for the hybrid on-campus Fall 2020 semester. Today, Aug. 17, marks the first...
"At this time, President Johnson and Senior Leadership do not see a compelling reason to change our plan"
On Aug. 5, Smith College President Kathleen McCartney announced three weeks before an estimated...
On March 27, the College sent a school-wide email rejecting a student proposal to change grading for this semester from mandatory credit/credit non/credit with distinction (denoted as MCR/MCRD/MNCR) to...
When construction is completed in spring 2022, the new Science Center will offer a variety of necessary accommodations for students, including modern equipment and newly designed lab spaces. Included...
For many Wellesley students, the amount of emails they’ve received this semester has substantially decreased as a result of the termination of Google Groups, which allowed any student on campus to email...
A recent report from USA Today ranked Wellesley 17th out of the 25 most diverse schools in the country, and among the top three in Massachusetts. According to the article, which used data from the U.S....
When Michelle Caruso-Cabrera ’91 first arrived at Wellesley College she was a fish out of water. Coming from a small town, she felt out of place among the “sophisticated,” mostly affluent women from...
After nearly a year of planning, Japan Club held its annual Yuki Matsuri festival on Feb. 15, bringing together students of all backgrounds and grade levels to celebrate the club’s biggest event. Yuki...
Too Close to Home
“Did you go to China over break?”
When Anne Jiang ’23, a Chinese-American student from Los Angeles, California, returned to campus after winter break, she was swamped with questions...
After over 50 years of assisting in Wellesley College’s incoming student application process, the Academic Council voted to dissolve the Board of Admissions (BOA) in response to concerns over the fairness...
On Nov. 25, members of Wellesley’s upper administration sent a school-wide email announcing the release of the new policy on demonstration and free expression on campus, which has been in the works since...
On Nov. 14, Wellesley College, which lies on unceded land that belongs to the Massachuesett people, broke with the town of Wellesley when the Academic Council voted to officially recognize Indigenous Peoples’...
College Government Votes
Two amendments to the College Government constitution passed in Senate regarding changes to the Committee Organizing Resource Collective (CORC) and Student Organizations Funding...
The student organization Renew Wellesley is currently working on a proposal that advocates for Wellesley to “ethically and responsibly” divest its endowment from the fossil fuel industry. They also...
Construction Updates
Associate Dean of Students Carol Bate provided updates on two of the main construction projects the school is currently undertaking. She reported that the accessible front entrance...
CORC Constitution Amendment
The Community Organizing Resource Collective (CORC), a College Government (CG) committee which works to facilitate equality and inclusion on campus, is proposing change...
Wellesley hosts 8th hackathon
Wellesley College held its eight annual hackathon this weekend, WHACK, bringing together over 300 students from colleges around the Northeast. The event is a nationwide phenomenon...
International Financial Aid Presentation
Dean Joy St. John, the Dean of Admission and Financial Aid, presented information on Wellesley’s international student aid and debriefed the Committee...
Committee constitution amendments
Both the Applied Representatives Committee (ARC) and Schneider Board of Governors (SBOG) presented updates to their constitutions, which are scheduled to be voted...
Student Town Hall Tatianna Ivy Moise ’21 announced the formation of a student coalition to promote the discussion of ten campus-wide issues including student housing and maintenance, academic support,...
