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Join the Wellesley News Newsletter! Get weekly updates on everything happening at Wellesley College – campus news, student life, major events, and stories from the greater Boston area. Receive breaking news alerts the moment things happen! Stay informed and stay connected. Join by scanning the QR code, or by the following link: https://groups.google.com/g/the-wellesley-newsletter by @wellesley.news
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Nearly 100 Wellesley College students gathered in the Academic Quad on Thursday, Oct. 8, for a rally of solidarity with Jane Doe, a former student at Cornell University who alleged that seven Chi Phi fraternity members raped her in 2024. The event coincided with the Jane Doe Rally at Parkman Bandstand in Boston Commons. Read the full article at the link in bio. ✍️: Janna Rodriguez & Malia-Fay Vazquez 📸: Josephine Buckley by @wellesley.news
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On Sept. 24, the Davis Museum (@thedavismuseum) held its annual opening event, celebrating the two new exhibitions on view for the 2026-27 academic year: “Excavating Antioch: The Archaeology of an Ancient City” and “Shi: Stories in Stone.” Read the full article at the link in bio. ✍️: Elise Kohli 📸: Aziza Diallo by @wellesley.news
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“I am sick and tired of waiting for something to go viral for people to start caring. When I wrote my last article on Sydney Sweeney, I joined a conversation that had already gone viral. It was the perfect opportunity for me to finally speak about something that felt relevant. The article generated important discussions, and many people defended what they believed mattered. Yet nothing fundamentally changed. Now public attention has turned to the resurgence of a reported 2024 Cornell sexual-assault case. It took two years and dozens of social media posts for the story to gain traction. To me, that delay shows how our systems fail survivors when public pressure — not the seriousness of an allegation — determines whether people respond.” Read the full opinion at the link in bio. ✍️: Ellie Walsh 📸: Courtesy of Al Jazeera by @wellesley.news
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At Wellesley College, you don’t need to ask someone what they think of the Trump administration’s recent proposal — you already know that they oppose it. You don’t need to ask about their local midterm elections — you already know they are against the conservative candidates. You definitely don’t need to ask them what their political affiliation is. And so on and so forth. It isn’t because Wellesley’s politics are less liberal than they look. It’s because their responses would reflect how most students are simply uninformed about the politics they claim to care so much about. Sure, they can regurgitate common liberal talking points: trans kids deserve to live, stop funding a genocide in Palestine, Black Lives Matter and so on. Their congressional district, though? Their gubernatorial election, their senator’s name or their state legislature races? Good luck finding someone who can rattle that off. Read the full opinion at the link in bio. ✍️: Valerie Schmitt 📸: Noufeesa Yahyaoui by @wellesley.news
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When I first came to the Northeast, this season brought about a specific soundtrack - a mix of 90s grunge and 'sad girl indie.' But I personally have no time nor want for sad music anymore. The sweet addictive melancholy got old. Maybe it's the state of everything, or the five classes I'm taking, but I am desperate for energy. Enter Babe Dylan, made up of roommates Bella Marguerite and Esther Violet McGrade. Read the full article at the link in bio. ✍️: Nita Kelly 📸: Photo courtesy of Andie Kirby, Genius by @wellesley.news
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On Monday, Oct. 5, about 50 students gathered at College Government Senate for a presentation and Q&A from Wellesley College administrators on the newly-installed campus security cameras. However, certain questions remain unanswered, including when exactly cameras will be activated, when camera footage will be accessed and when it will be used in Honor Code proceedings. Read the full article at the link in bio. ✍️: Josephine Buckley 📸: Margot Buehler, Noufeesa Yahyaoui, Iris Zhan by @wellesley.news
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On Sept. 9, President Paula Johnson announced what is described as “a bold, breakthrough commitment” in the Wellesley Tuition Promise. This policy raises the tuition-free family income threshold to $200,000 for current and prospective students starting in fall 2027, marking a significant increase from the current cap at $150,000. Universities can use overly complicated language to describe the financial support they provide, and oftentimes students are the ones responsible for deducing what is included and what is not. Although the Wellesley Tuition Promise will help alleviate some students’ financial burdens starting next year, the invisible costs of attending Wellesley are still remarkably high. A student’s room, meals and mandatory student activities fee are estimated to range from $0 to $26,000, according to the College. While a college’s decision to raise the family income threshold for free tuition is worth celebrating, the continued increases in tuition and costs of attending Wellesley mean that we will need to keep pushing for even broader, more inclusive financial support for students. Read the full opinion at the link in bio. ✍️: Alicia Zhang 📸: Noufeesa Yahyaoui by @wellesley.news
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In 2022, Junbei Chen ’27 sat in her Maine high school’s conference room during lunch, preparing to open her QuestBridge Match results. Upon opening the letter with a couple friends, she saw a stream of confetti pop on her screen: she had earned a full ride scholarship to Wellesley College. Read the full article at the link in bio. ✍️: Mina Yun 📸: Courtesy of Wellesley College by @wellesley.news
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As a gentle wind starts to beckon through the leaves in suburban towns around New England, many students search for fall media to brighten their semester. The 2014 animated miniseries “Over the Garden Wall” is one worth discussing. With its endless foggy forests, pumpkin patches and two lost kids, this miniseries is a 10-episode-long collection of autumnal fairy tales. “Over the Garden Wall” tells the story of Wirt and Greg, brothers who get lost in the forest while walking home. Each episode is 10 minutes long and finds the two characters facing a different challenge. The older, melancholic brother Wirt begrudgingly takes responsibility, while the younger Greg enthusiastically does anything he wants. The story itself is written as a knot that unties itself as it goes on, with the true context only revealed towards the end. As the leaves change color and everyone heads off on their own new journeys, Wirt and Greg can be there for comfort, fun or just plain company. Maybe the unknown really can be so beautiful. Read the full article at the link in bio. ✍️: Idil Barlo 📸: Courtesy of Hulu by @wellesley.news
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Olivia Mota ’29 opened the door to Severance Hall’s “Dungeon of Fun” (DOF) this September expecting to find the clashing colors, political statements, drawings and names that generations of Wellesley College students had sprawled across the walls over the years. Instead, she found white. Located on the ground floor of Severance, the DOF has served as a living canvas of student life since the early 2000s. For decades, students gathered there for parties, organization meetings and late-night hangouts, filling the walls with fragments of their lives, layering messages and drawings over one another as the years passed. When students returned to campus for the 2026-27 academic year, however, they found that the College had repainted the walls completely white without notifying students beforehand. Read the full article at the link in bio. ✍️ & 📸: Khanh Vu by @wellesley.news
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Finding one’s place at Wellesley College is not always a straightforward journey. But for some students, that path leads away from campus entirely. Whether driven by academic, social or personal reasons, some students decide to transfer out of Wellesley each year. The Wellesley News reached out to several former Wellesley students to discuss what led them to transfer. Read the full article at the link in bio. ✍️: Amanda Wang 📸: Wellesley College Website, Dylan Burmeister, Noufeesa Yahyaoui by @wellesley.news
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