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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

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Wellesley’s residential life continues to fail students

Riannon Last, Opinions Managing Editor | May 1, 2025
As of today, at least 40 students are left without assigned housing for the 2025-2026 academic year. However, this is not the first time Wellesley’s residential life has dropped the ball on housing placement.
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Sex and the suburbs: boyfriends on campus

Rebecca Birnbach | May 1, 2025

At Wellesley, few things stir up more online discourse than berry brunch lines, housing lotteries, and, perhaps most controversially, boyfriends on campus. The first time I mentioned I had a boyfriend,...

Students caught in crossfire as strike abruptly ends

Students caught in crossfire as strike abruptly ends

Teesta Kasargod | April 30, 2025

From the window of the Senate floor on Thursday, April 24th at 1:34 pm, the end to the WOAW-UAW strike was officially declared to the Wellesley community. The students who were chanting and supporting...

The housing selection process is flawed

The housing selection process is flawed

Caitlin Donovan | April 30, 2025

This morning, I received a flurry of messages about this year’s housing selection. My roommate and I had written down a list of 12 rooms we wanted, and by 10 a.m., our first six choices were gone. As...

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A defense pact for the preservation of historically women’s colleges

Avery Finley | April 29, 2025

It is unsurprising that “wokeness” and “left-wing indoctrination” are the targets of the Trump administration’s attack on higher education given the president’s recent string of conservative...

A Critical Look at Wellesley’s Latin Honors

A Critical Look at Wellesley’s Latin Honors

Avery Finley | April 17, 2025

As a Wellesley first-year and an English major, I selfishly want the Latin honors system to remain in place until I graduate.  Humanities majors have historically received Latin distinctions more often...

Credits May Be Divided, But We Will Not Be

Credits May Be Divided, But We Will Not Be

Anika Sridhar | April 17, 2025

On the morning of March 27, the Office of the Provost emailed all students that students will receive 0.5 credits for courses taught by striking NTT faculty, and students falling below the three credit...

Wellesley’s administration is forcing students to pay for their own mistakes

Wellesley’s administration is forcing students to pay for their own mistakes

Riannon Last, Opinions Managing Editor | March 27, 2025
The college has willingly decided to threaten students with losing their financial aid or visa status if they do not attend scab lectures or replace their current lectures with completely unrelated courses that are halfway through their content.
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Sex and the suburbs: the worst icks

March 6, 2025

Sex and the Suburbs is a weekly column covering the struggles of Wellesley social life. To submit reader thoughts and comments to our columnist, you can use the following link: https://forms.gle/EyrwCGXidxdhkMuj8 Welcome...

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Editorial: Disjointed and dishonest: Wellesley’s Honor Code

Wellesley Administrators claimed last November that students are not “living the Honor Code” as students have in the past because they are ill-informed. How are students ill-informed when there is...

The Wellesley student’s case for a union strike

The Wellesley student’s case for a union strike

Avery Finley | March 4, 2025

In my six months working in the Provost's Office, the ongoing negotiations between the Wellesley Organized Academic Workers (WOAW) union and the College have never come up. Though a student assistant is...

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Democratic burnout

Claire Wu | March 4, 2025

Many people consider being informed about the news to be their civic duty. A morning routine typically consists of getting ready, making coffee, and listening to the morning radio, or eating breakfast...

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