Here follows the second section following our article on The Freedom Project last week.
Since Laura Kipnis’ talk on Mar. 8, the controversy around the Freedom Project has continued. At her talk, Kipnis...
There is a Black Bachelorette and I am thrilled. Rachel Lindsay is a 31-year-old lawyer from Dallas who specializes in insurance law. Aside from that, in typical Bachelorette style, she is gorgeous with...
Beginning in the 2017 Spring semester, Wellesley College started offering Middle Eastern Dance, a physical education dance class that meets Tuesdays and Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and from 9:50...
In a desire to be professional, the journalists at the Wellesley News have been dancing around a sentiment that resounds in the hearts and minds of a majority of our campus, not to mention 65,844,954 Americans....
After several novels and short story collections about South Asian immigrants to the United States, Jhumpa Lahiri rose to prominence for her beautiful and award-winning writing. While race is crucial to...
“I support Obama,” my grandfather said, putting aside a copy of Newsweek magazine with the candidate on the cover in 2012. “If I were American I would vote Democrat” he said emphatically. This...
On Nov 9, two students from Babson College, Edward Tomasso and Parker Rander-Ricciardi, drove around Wellesley College shouting slogans from Donald Trump’s campaign and harassing students. Most notably,...
PHIL 267: Nihilistic Aspirations
This course will fulfill the epistemology and cognition requirement for aspiring hipsters who want to have a semblance of thinking deep thoughts. Students will learn how...
On Tuesday Nov 8, Wellesley College gathered to watch the 2016 Presidential election as a community. Alumnae, students, faculty, and visitors flooded to campus for the historic night.
In order to celebrate...
To the Wellesley College Community:
We, the editors-in-chief and members of the editorial board of The Wellesley News, would like to update the student body about some changes we’ve implemented in the...
[This interview has been edited for clarity and length].
Q: At the rally, you mentioned that this election was the most important of your lifetime; how has your experience in this campaign been different...
The eleventh president of Smith College, Kathleen McCartney completed her undergraduate education at Tufts University and received her master’s and doctoral degrees in psychology from Yale University....
Senator Elizabeth Warren spoke at President Paula Johnson’s inaugural ceremony on Friday, September 30th and we had the privilege of speaking with her prior to the event. Warren is the current United...
Hello,
I know everyone has been waiting with bated breath for my response to the recent news. My ex-husband, heartthrob Bradley Pitt and his most recent wife Angelina Jolie has filed for separation....
Upon leaving for PiYo, I lamented to a friend that I was woefully out of shape. “It’s ‘Pilates- Yoga’! How hard could it be?” she responded. Although I was encouraged by those words at beginning...
It seems as if sexual discrimination is one of the contexts in which blatant racism is still considered acceptable. Cloaked in the phrases “preferences” or “types” racial biases are often excused...
Kanye West truly dazzled his audience during his “The Saint Pablo Tour” on September 3rd at T.D Garden. Boston fans were first treated to a pop-up shop on Boylston Street on August 19th. The store,...
“Look around, look around at how / lucky we are to be alive right now!” sing the Schyler sisters in the musical “Hamilton,” a sentiment that has been echoed by many a theater kid for years....
With the drop of “The Life of Pablo” and the release of the third season of “Yeezy,” Kanye West seems posed to fully dominate the artistic world — if it weren’t for Twitter. West has a long...
On Thursday, Feb. 11, the College announced that the selection committee appointed Wellesley’s 14th president, Dr. Paula Johnson, who will begin her tenure on July 1. The announcement was made without...
Near the end of the fall semester, terrorist attacks and tragedies in Paris, Beirut and Baghdad prompted Slater International House and the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life to host a vigil as a moment...
ML: So what made you want to become the president of Wellesley College?
PJ: First of all, I just want to say it is such a tremendous honor and privilege to be the 14th President of Wellesley. I’ve really...
Across the Wellesley social media scene are photos of groups of women in business-formal attire posed against the stereotypical Wellesley blue background. Some of the students are giving presentations...
Wide-eyed underclassmen are split among eight or so tables in Anderson Forum on a Thursday evening. They have notebooks out, listening to upperclassman with the kind of rapture that every professor wishes...
Athletes looking for a new form of exercise should try to integrate rock climbing into their fitness regime. Rock climbing is perfect for the intellectual fitness enthusiast because it combines strategy...
As an emigrant of a cricket playing country, trapped in heathenous America, I am often asked “Cricket? urgh, that’s like baseball right?”. I am here clear up this idea and to officially bring the...
Quinoa Challenge
Ingredients
1 Cup of Quinoa
1 Cup of Curried
Chickpeas
Olive Oil Pepper
Cumin Black
Beans Onion
Broccoli Carrots
In a salad bowl, mix a cup of quinoa and...
Boston Calling is a particular festival in that it catches a culture of Boston that most people forget. There are no revolutionary war heroes or sports fanatics at Boston Calling. Boston is, in large...
After 14 years of organizing exhibitions and famous events including the Met Gala, Harold Koda is resigning as head curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is to be replaced...
In recent years, the cultural cache of musical festivals has risen exponentially. These music festivals usually take to wide open spaces in the Southwest or California where the weather is more conducive...
As of Sunday, April 4, cable television suddenly exploded with the premieres of many beloved favorites including HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” “Silicon Valley,” “Veep” and AMC’s “Mad Men.”...
***Editor’s Note: This article was published as part of the satirical April 1, 2015
Feeling excluded from the cultural orgs on campus, many white students on Wellesley’s campus have banded together...
***Editor’s Note: This article was published as part of the satirical April 1, 2015
Local Wellesley student Caroline Lyons ’18 was recently invited to MIT student Ben White’s dorm room to watch...
***Editor’s Note: This article was published as part of the satirical April 1, 2015
With the spring season fast approaching, Wellesley students have been slowly emerging from that one corner of their...
While most people get their exercise from a variety of workouts through running, cardio classes or the elliptical machine, it can be incredibly beneficial to mix up your cardio routine with a workout in...
Netflix’s new comedy “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” is an incredible example of the changing format and delivery of television. Created by Robert Carlock and Tina Fey of “30 Rock”, “Unbreakable...
“The Duff” is a new teen movie starring Mae Whitman as Bianca Piper, a senior in high school told by her hot childhood friend that she is “the Duff” in her friend group, the designated ugly fat...
My first instinct when watching a one-woman show is to be wary. The thought reminds me of awkward platitudes with low production values and Maureen Johnson from “Rent: The Musical”. However, Anu Yadav’s...
The third installment of The Hunger Games trilogy, “Mockingjay,” starts with Katniss Everdeen crouched in the corner chanting, “My name is Katniss Everdeen, and I’m from District 12. I was in the...
With “1989,” Taylor Swift casts off whatever semblance of country influence she has ever had. In this album named after her birth year, Swift casts away her Nashville roots for the glamour of New York...
It’s incredibly hard to review a memoir without reviewing the person who wrote it. Most memoirs just amplify whatever conversation already exists about the author. For example, Mindy Kaling’s “Is...
Any arts lover imagines themselves as a frequent attendee of museum exhibits, plays, operas and gallery openings. However, those events tend to not only be expensive, but also a bit stodgy for the traditional...
Romance: People are going to bang, and we’re going to talk about it.
Watch: “A to Z”
NBC, premieres Oct. 2
Thursdays at 9:30 p.m.
I’m a little nervous to recommend this because it comes off as...
A week ago, a mysterious hacker released dozens of private pictures of various celebrities—some nude, some simply selfies taken for their own personal benefit. For one, to call this person a “hacker”...
