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The Wellesley News

The student newspaper of Wellesley College since 1901

The Wellesley News

The student newspaper of Wellesley College since 1901

The Wellesley News

Valida Pau, Editor-in-Chief

Valida Pau ’25 is a double major in History and Economics from Hong Kong and San Francisco, CA. She previously served as Digital Managing Editor and Features Editor at the paper. She interned at Bloomberg News and CNBC.

 

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Near 90% of Wellesley students vote for Harris, TWN poll finds

Near 90% of Wellesley students vote for Harris, TWN poll finds

Valida Pau, Editor-in-Chief | November 19, 2024

An overwhelming majority of Wellesley students voted for Vice President Kamala Harris, an anonymous survey conducted by The Wellesley News found. This comes as former President Donald Trump defeated...

Wellesley students gathered to watch live polling results.

Wellesley students react to deadlock presidential race, shocked by Trump’s lead

Jessica Chen, Ruby Barenberg, and Valida Pau | November 5, 2024
As the first polls close on Tuesday, around 150 students gathered at watch parties around campus to follow the live polling results for one of the closest presidential elections in US history.
An outdoor view of the campus center. Photo courtesy of the Massachusetts Office Of Travel & Tourism on Flickr

Wellesley endowment nears $3 billion in fiscal year 2024

Valida Pau, Editor-in-Chief | October 26, 2024
Wellesley College’s endowment grew to $2.982 billion after the Investment Office posted a 7.8% return on its investments in fiscal year 2024. 
Image Credit: The Wellesley News

Wellesley’s unionized faculty are negotiating with the College. How much progress has really been made?

Valida Pau, Ruby Barenberg, and Christina Ding | October 2, 2024
The Wellesley Organized Academic Workers (WOAW) union is six months into bargaining for their first contract with the College and still far from one. 
Image Credit: The Wellesley News

Wellesley falls to lowest U.S. News ranking in a decade

Valida Pau | September 24, 2024
Wellesley dropped to No. 7 in the U.S. News & World Report’s annual Best Liberal Arts College rankings, marking the first time the College fell out of the top 5 schools in a decade.
Image Credit: Echo He

Black and Hispanic enrollment drops in first Wellesley class without affirmative action

Valida Pau | September 6, 2024
Wellesley’s class of 2028 saw an increase in Asian and white students and a dip in Black and Latine enrollment since the Supreme Court barred universities and colleges from considering race in admission.
Photo of modular buildings on Gray Lot

Photo Courtesy of Echo He

Pendleton East closure displaces social science departments

Valida Pau | February 8, 2023

In Spring 2022, Pendleton Hall East is closed for critical repairs. Social sciences departments, which include economics, political science, sociology, education, and anthropology, have mostly been relocated...

Wellesley College’s Endowment Declines by 9.6%

Valida Pau | December 6, 2022

Wellesley College’s endowment return fell by roughly $291 million in the 2022 fiscal year, the first year of negative return since 2017.  The 9.6% endowment decline, which brought the endowment’s...

Is Anti-Intellectualism Democracy’s Downfall?

Is Anti-Intellectualism Democracy’s Downfall?

Valida Pau | October 19, 2022

According to Éric Fassin, professor of sociology at Paris 8 University, intellectualism and democracy along with it, is under attack. He encourages us to engage in critical thinking to fight fascism. From...

Diana Dizoglio '10, candidate for Massachusetts State Auditor. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Wellesley alum eyes Massachusetts State Auditor position

Valida Pau | October 19, 2022

Content Warning: Sexual harassment  Wellesley College alumna Diana DiZoglio ’10 is running for Massachusetts State Auditor. DiZoglio graduated from Wellesley College as a Davis scholar and majored...

Photo Courtesy of Renée Remsberg

Global Languages Come Together at Freeman Hall

Valida Pau | May 4, 2022

Starting next academic year, language learning corridors, including Italian, German, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and Hindi/Urdu, will no longer be in different dormitory buildings, but...

Photo courtesy of Valida Pau.

Japan Club’s Hana Matsuri Celebrates Spring

Valida Pau | April 20, 2022

As cherry blossom trees grew beautiful flowers on Wellesley’s campus, the Japan Club celebrated spring and Japanese culture with its flower festival, Hana Matsuri, on April 17.  “We used to have...

The El Table signage inside the co-op. Photo courtesy of Hannah Hirsch

El Table opens for the first time in two years

Valida Pau | March 18, 2022

In the basement of Founders, for one day last month, you could find El Tablers zipping back and forth from the grill to the coffee pots again. On Feb. 23, 2022, the student cooperative El Table reopened...

Students on Remote Wintersession Language Courses

Valida Pau | February 9, 2022

After COVID-19 infection rates surged in December, the College announced the decision to hold Wintersession courses remotely, leaving students to reconsider their plans less than 2 weeks before they began. Wintersession...

Pashtana Dorani joins the WCW

Valida Pau | December 8, 2021

Amid a period of political instability in Afghanistan, Wellesley recently welcomed Pashtana Dorani to join the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) for two years as a visiting fellow. Dorani is an Afghan...

A Wi-Fi router in the Clapp Library. Photo courtesy of Ann Zhao.

Persistent Wi-Fi disruptions frustrate students

Valida Pau | October 27, 2021

Since the start of the semester, affirmation posts manifesting a stable Wi-Fi connection have circulated on Instagram. Students have expressed their frustration with Wellesley Secure and Guest networks’...

Amanda Zhu will be the 2025 class co-president, along with Sooahn Lee. Photo courtesy of Amanda Zhu.

Meet the 2025 class council

Valida Pau | October 16, 2021

The 2025 Class Council was recently elected by the Green Class. Consisting of Co-Presidents Sooahn Lee and Amanda Zhu, Vice President Naomi Weisner, Secretary Quinn Pruiksma and Co-Treasurers Emily Zhu...

Emma Romeu is a new visiting lecturer in the Spanish department. Photo courtesy of Emma Romeu.

New Faculty Acclimate to Campus

Valida Pau | October 4, 2021

The new faces on campus this year aren’t just limited to first-years and previously remote sophomores, but also faculty members such as Aditi Sahasrabuddhe, Benjamin Schaefer and Emma Romeu.   Professor...

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