In the video announcing that Massachusetts State Representative Liz Miranda ’02 was going to be Wellesley’s 2021 commencement speaker, the representative urged students to embrace “joy as resistance.”...
As a graduating senior, I feel the need to impart advice like the obnoxious elderly man that I am. And, academically, if there’s one piece of advice I wish my younger self could hear, it would be this:...
As Wellesley entered Wintersession last month, a major change in the representation of transgender students at the college quietly occured: Siblings, a community building and organizing group for transgender...
On Friday December 6, approximately 50 students, faculty and staff gathered on the Jewett steps to protest the school’s investment in fossil fuels. Additionally, due to targeted outreach on behalf of...
Yesterday, Chair of the Committee on Curriculum and Academic Policy (CCAP) Ann Velenchik announced to the College via email that the health and society minor would be suspended indefinitely. The five-unit...
On Nov. 12, President Paula Johnson announced that Wellesley would be taking on a new coordinator for Title IX and 504 coordinator, Kate Upatham. Upatham will now be responsible for dealing with Title...
Students for an Accessible Wellesley holds ASL basics workshop
On Monday, Nov. 18, Students for an Accessible Wellesley, an organization formed last year to advocate for the needs of disabled Wellesley...
On Nov. 16, Congressman Joe Kennedy made a stop at Wellesley College for an hour long conversation hosted by the Wellesley College Democrats while campaigning for his 2020 U.S. Senate race. Kennedy, a...
Boston LGBTQ advocates welcome Chick-Fil-A after policy change
Chik-fil-A has announced that the two anti-LGBT charities that it has previously supported are no longer on their donation list. “If in...
Yalitza Aparicio visits Wellesley
On Tuesday Nov. 12, acclaimed actor Yalitza Aparicio, who ascended to fame after playing the lead in the film Roma, visited Wellesley. Professors Irene Mata (Women and...
Every campus tour mentions Wellesley’s undeniably most important feature: our ice cream endowment. Though we have not been able to officially confirm that this specific endowment exists, we do know that...
On Oct. 29, students packed the library lecture room for an event called “What’s going on in Hong Kong?” The event was led by a group of three students, two of whom are from Hong Kong and another...
Alberta Born-Weiss has only been back to her home state of California twice since graduating high school, but has spent the past several weeks anxiously communicating with her mother, who currently lives...
Albright Institute celebrates 10 years at Wellesley
This week, Wellesley celebrated 10 years of the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Research. Named for one of Wellesley’s most celebrated...
Discover Wellesley Weekend brings high school students from around the world to campus
This past Sunday and Monday, Wellesley hosted Discover Wellesley Weekend, a chance for prospective students from around...
Each year, dozens of Wellesley students take MIT classes and participate in MIT lab research through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities (UROP) program. So when news broke last summer that professors...
Ann Velenchik, dean of Academic Affairs and professor of economics, will be stepping down from her post as dean at the end of this academic year. President Paula Johnson and Provost Andy Shennan made the...
Cafe Hoop Introduces Card Payment System
Cafe Hoop, the go-to for late night food spot for Wellesley College students, introduced a card payment system this week. The payment system will accept debit...
Sama Mundlay ’20 “was a revolutionary,” according to her friend Ashley Wang ’20. Mundlay passed away last August in a vehicular accident in Amsterdam. Her death sent shockwaves through the Wellesley...
With about four million people participating in the global climate strike, Sept. 20 became a momentous day for climate change activists. Over 2,500 events were scheduled in at least 163 countries on all...
There is one moment in the film “Hustlers,” which came out last week, that sticks out in my mind: when the gang of money-laundering strippers, who we have been rooting for, are all arrested. Lorde’s...
On April 24th, Wellesley student Aurorah Arndt ’21 posted a video on Facebook in which she detailed a recent interaction she had with Health Services and campus police. In the video, Arndt claimed to...
Each spring, a select group of Wellesley students receive emails from the Donor Relations Office, a subsidiary of the Wellesley College Development Office (which controls fundraising for the college) requesting...
Wellesley professor runs the Boston Marathon
Adam Van Arsdale, associate professor of anthropology, was among thousands of runners and wheelchair athletes who crossed the finish line at the Boston Marathon...
In mid-February, a large group of Wellesley community members –– including several Wellesley College students –– convened outside of Wellesley Town Hall to petition the advisory board of Wellesley...
At the beginning of this semester, new messages from Health Services were broadcasted on TV screens in dining halls and taped up as posters in dorms. Throughout campus, a series of puns such as, “LET’S...
SHE’s run Sexuality Education Week
This week, the Wellesley student Sexual Health Educators (SHEs) are bringing their yearly Sexuality Education Week to campus. This year’s event offerings will include...
On Feb. 19, the Student Organizations and Appointments Committee (SOAC) chairs and College Government Vice President Saafia Masoom ’19 announced that they were considering a proposal to split SOAC into...
Over the past few months, bright and attention-grabbing advertisements have appeared all over Wellesley’s campus televisions. All the ads employ the same overused pun, “Let’s be blunt: edibles are...
On Feb. 28, as part of a three day opening for the new $1 million MIT Schwarzman Computing Center ––– a college focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) development ––Former Secretary of State...
In 2017, a report came out that said that between 2007 and 2017, the number of college students seeking mental health care had jumped from 22 percent to 36 percent. Wellesley College is no exception, with...
Ilhan Omar, America’s first Somali congresswoman — and, along with Rashida Tlaib, one of the first Muslim congresswomen — became the target of online criticism after tweeting the song lyric “it’s...
ICE detainees in Boston go on hunger strike
Dozens of people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are on hunger strike inside a Boston jail this week, activist groups say. The hunger...
Winter Carnival Returns
On Feb. 8, the Wellesley campus tradition of the Winter Carnival returned for the first time in 20 years. The event featured hot cocoa, a miniature ice skating rink set up in the...
Elizabeth Warren officially declares presidential run in Lawrence, MA
Elizabeth Warren, the senior senator for Mass., has been gearing up for a presidential run for a couple months now but officially...
Dean Horton announces update on demonstration policy procedure
“Last semester, Provost Shennan, myself and Carolyn Slaboden met with a group of students that you all had put together and refined the...
On Jan. 30, the weather was blisteringly cold and snow was coming down from the sky. That failed to stop the group of approximately two dozen people gathered in front of Wellesley Town Hall that night,...
Wellesley College, along with the town of Wellesley, is built on unceded land belonging to the Massachusetts people, who since the 1600s have seen their territory taken away by force by European colonizers....
Student groups respond to speaker by teaching debate skills, holding safe space for surviors
Two years ago, when the Freedom Project — the Koch-money backed effort to bring “promotion of freedom of...
This is not a new idea, but it is one that I believe needs to be reiterated at Wellesley frequently. One sort of cultural competence that I have found to be sorely lacking on campus is the consciousness...
On Oct. 29, President Paula Johnson announced to the school that the Power4Women Committee, a group composed of six trustees, the President, the CIO, one environmental studies professor, one economics...
Last week, the greatest mass shooting of Jewish people in United States history occurred at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The sole suspect, Robert Gregory Bowers, had posted hateful...
This week, two more organizations on campus implemented Safer Space policies. Those organizations, Café Hoop and Regeneration Student Farm, have both signed on to versions of a policy that was created...
Tanner Conference 2018 Goes Green
The Tanner Conference, Wellesley’s yearly conference where students present about their internships, volunteering jobs, or other learning experiences they did over...
On Sunday, Oct. 14, a court case with wide-ranging implications for admissions at elite colleges began: Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. Led by conservative lawyer Edward Blum, a group of...
On Wednesday, October 10, an unlikely trio of women gathered in the Multifaith Center. Wellesley alumna Anisa Mehdi ’78, a former broadcast journalist, brought two activists living in the area to speak...
On Wednesday, Sept. 26, the Task Force on Speech and Inclusion held their first town hall. The Task Force was created after President Johnson’s call last April for the formation of a task force to make...
Boston rallies against Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court
Hundreds of protesters gathered at Boston City Hall on Monday, Oct. 1, to protest the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to...
Shortly before their training began, residential life student employees received a new offer: In exchange for a higher rate of pay, Resident Assistants (RAs) would begin to run Community Engagement hours...
Wednesday Sept. 19, the day this paper comes out, is the holiest day of the Jewish year. That means that many of your Jewish friends will be fasting, as is traditional―that means no food, no drink for...
At 11 p.m. on Friday night, the Wellesley campus was still full of light and laughter. It was Remix night––the biggest on-campus party of the year so far––and the campus was transformed into something...
Changes come to the Greater Boston public transit system
The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) is expected to be putting 24 new Green Line cars into operation this September. In addition, those...
At Senate on April 23, College Vice President and Dean of Students Sheilah Horton announced that the Peter Pan bus contract will be reconsidered, though it was unclear what that reconsideration will look...
The town government of Wellesley is currently creating a housing production plan that would stave off 40B housing proposals, which are for affordable housing developments. Three 40B plans are currently...
Emily Hamilton ’18 wins hoop rolling
Emily “Emmy” Hamilton ’18 was the first to finish in Wellesley’s 123rd hoop rolling contest. Hoop rolling is an annual Wellesley tradition in which graduating...
“Slam is silly,” said Bella O’Connor ’21, one of the five members of Wellesley’s competitive spoken-word poetry team, which just placed fourth out of 66 teams from around the world in last week’s...
From Sunday, April 8 through Tuesday, April 10, about 500 prospective students swarmed Wellesley’s campus, and we as current students were faced with the question of how best to represent our school...
Wellesley Political Science and Environmental Science Professor Beth DeSombre is a woman who approaches life from many perspectives. She’s a professor, a musician and now a writer and uses each of these...
On March 6, the Project for Public Leadership and Action, a group of Wellesley faculty interested in public scholarship and engagement, held the first in its new series of teach-ins, in which professors...
The mass shooting that occurred on Feb. 14 in Parkland, Fla. sent shockwaves across the nation, inspiring activism and solidarity, particularly among students. On March 14, Wellesley College faculty, staff,...
On Wednesday, March 28, the Committee on Inclusive Excellence held the first of its series of town hall meetings to take on the issue of making academic achievement at Wellesley more accessible to students...
Many Wellesley students choose to continue their education after their four years here. Eighty percent of Wellesley graduates, according to the school’s website, attend graduate or professional school...
On Feb. 13 at 7 p.m., Dr. Alice Dreger spoke in the Clapp Library Lecture Room as part of the Freedom Project’s speaker series. The lecture, which was attended by about 50 Freedom Project fellows, students...
On Feb. 2, an external review committee, comprised of three rabbis—Tuft University’s Jeff Summit, Colby College’s Rachel Isaacs (Wellesley class of ‘05) and former Wellesley Hillel co-president...
Clare Egan becomes Wellesley’s first U.S. Olympian
Clare Egan ’10 competed in the biathlon at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics this year. The biathlon event, which combines cross-country skiing and...
On Nov. 27, Raíz, the Latinx advocacy group at Wellesley, sent out a campus-wide email addressed to President Paula Johnson, bringing her attention to the termination of Temporary Protected Status...
Search for Director of Student Involvement and Director of Residential Life is ongoing
Dean Horton explained that, though the interview process for the Director of Student Involvement began...
This past weekend, a cast of eight students performed the musical “Working” at Wellesley. This musical is unusual in that it has no plot — it’s simply a series of vignettes in which people tell...
In the second season of Stranger Things, Millie Bobby Brown’s character Eleven gets a classic 80s makeover. The socially-isolated middle school girl with supernatural powers takes on a punk-rock look...
When Julianna Poupard ’21 was filling out the religions interest form before she arrived at Wellesley, she felt thrilled when she saw that one of the options was “pagan.” At her middle and high schools,...
Back in 2014, the city of Ferguson made national news. We all know the tragedy: a white policeman named Darren Wilson killed an unarmed Black man named Mike Brown. Darren Wilson was not punished, and he...
Anicia Gillespie ’21 has an Instagram account that looks like a model’s. Her aesthetic?
“People would say it’s provocative, which it kind of is,” she said. “It’s really sexy. My look I’ve...
According to spam displayed across campus, Resident Assistants (RAs) and House Presidents (HPs) were promised by an unnamed individual that they would be paid the first of four installment of their stipend...
The Mission Hill Afterschool program (MHAP) is the largest and oldest student-run afterschool program in the Boston area, according to their website. It is one of dozens of programs run by the Phillip...
