The Wellesley Film Society has reestablished its presence on campus this semester thanks to efforts from its new e-board members. According to Co-President Breanna White ’22, the Film Society has a long...
Nhi Dang DS ’22 first learned that the water in her dorm, Simpson West, was contaminated with lead through an email sent to the entire student body by Piper Orton, vice president for finance and administration...
Content warning: (Reclamation of) lesbophobic slur, discussion of suicide
Upstage, Wellesley’s student-run theater company, put on a production of “Fun Home” this past weekend from March 10 to 13....
Slater International Student Organization put on their annual Winter Festival on Sunday, Feb. 27 in Tishman. Students played games, ate snacks and made crafts at booths hosted by Slater and various...
Khameleon Productions, a British company focused on promoting diversity in the arts, visited Wellesley on Feb. 15 as part of their “Uprooting Medea” tour. Khameleon’s founder, Shivaike Shah, is visiting...
Willa* ’25 knew returning to campus after break would be hard. As an international student from India, she would have to get a negative COVID-19 test within 24 hours of her departure to be able to fly....
Three weeks after graduating from Wellesley, Aminah Praileau ’21 began working professionally at the College’s Office of Admission, where she is now the assistant director of admission. However, she...
In late October, news began spreading first on Facebook, then Yik Yak and Twitter, that the CVS Pharmacy location in Wellesley Square — also known as the Ville — would be closing in the coming months.
The...
On June 11, Tiff Fehr and the rest of her team at the New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the pandemic, but when she graduated from Wellesley in 2000, she never anticipated working...
Students are permitted to work off-campus again after last year’s ban due to rising COVID cases.
“We had to take steps to protect the Wellesley ‘community’ and limit outside interactions,” Joy...
Kyra Deehr-Lewis ’24 was disappointed when Freeman Hall, her first-choice dorm, ran out of rooms before she even began her housing selection. When it came time for her 11:50 a.m. time slot, she focused...
When Cassiana Robinson ’22 decided to return to campus this spring, she was met with unexpected health challenges despite the College’s efforts to minimize COVID risk: she suffered a severe asthma...
The Class of 2025 received their Regular Decision acceptances on Saturday, March 20. They join Early Decision I and II enrollees to join a total of around 1267 admitted students. Sixteen percent of the...
Houghton Chapel did not host Flower Sunday or any of its other traditions this year, but students gather there weekdays for Russian, mathematics and chemistry, among other classes. The chapel is one of...
Coming off of folklore, it was hard not to expect too much from Taylor Swift. In December, however, she surpassed everyone’s expectations when she announced the midnight drop of a new album, evermore....
Tea-ing, the process organized to acquaint students with societies they might apply to join, looks different this semester. The tea season, which started the first week of March, is now entirely virtual...
With students sitting six feet apart and professors lecturing to half empty rooms, in-person classes look very different this year. Some of Wellesley College’s new precautions include holding classes...
