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.
Wellesley’s $3 billion endowment and financial future are at risk as Republicans are gearing up to hike endowment taxes of Wellesley and other wealthy colleges and universities.
The endowment tax...
Less than a week after his inauguration on Jan. 20, President Donald Trump signed sweeping executive orders aimed at higher education institutions, which could affect Wellesley College and its student...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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’...
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...
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...
