By: LISA SNIDER ’11

When Danes ask “Hi, how are you?” they actually expect to sit down for a good ten or 20 minutes and hear how you’re doing, whereas for Americans, it is a greeting in passing....

By: CHRISTINA GOSSMANN '11

A gigantic disco ball in the middle of the Jardin de Luxembourg, an abandoned DJ stadium with neon lights playing electronic music, red waterfalls behind a lawn of golden cardboard discs like stars fallen from the sky, a field of opened-up, spread out red...

By: Deirdre Offenheiser '11

I find myself walking down the street to a chorus of “Welcome to Egypt!” — sometimes in a variety of European languages...I’ve become used to the idea that this feeling of relative otherness is a part of living within another cultu...

By: ESTHER GONZALEZ ’13

Even though WZLY has been a part of Wellesley’s history for over sixty years, many Wellesley students don’t even know that it exists (or why they should care).  The answer lies in the very nature of radio – the connection between th...

By: KIMI KILLEN '10

The best part of the Tanner? I got to make apple tarte tatin, coconut tart and pumpkin cupcakes with maple cream cheese frosting....

By: KATIE COLANERI ’10

On Thursday evening, Antonella Sorace, professor of Developmental Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, spoke in Pendleton about her research on bilingual children in her lecture, “One Brain, Two Languages, Many Advantages.”...

By: HANNAH TOWNSEND ’11

Beyond Twilight: the role of recreational reading on campus....

By: JENNIFER YANG ’12

On June 5, 2009, 625 seniors will graduate from Wellesley. These seniors, armed with the knowledge of their impending departure, will have ties to break with Community (the forum, not the people), eclectic dining options, and the comforting dinginess of t...

By: HILLARY CLEVENGER ’12

“Hey Hill, how would you like to go to Europe for two weeks?”  Those were the words that Papa Clevenger nonchalantly asked me when he came home from work one day. Now my father is not one for surprises, or for being remotely spontaneous a...

By: DEBORAH DUNSMORE ’11

In February, I embarked on a journey to find the best cupcake in the Wellesley area. I tried numerous cupcakes from four different bakeries near campus....

By: ALICE LEE '10

Park, who presented a Transgender 101 workshop last Tuesday in the Harambee House, has an extensive history of such Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) advocacy to her credit, most of which make her one of a kind in the realm of queer activism....

By: KIMBERLY KILLEN '10

Hands Across the Water is a non-profit organization that targets two problems: domestically, it battles the excess amount of books going to landfills, and internationally, the scarcity of books in needy regions....

By: LIBBY PROPP '10

March 19, 1931 Indoor Meet to be held by department of hygiene. The indoor meet sponsored by the department of hygiene and physical education and by the athletic association will take place in the gym on Thursday, March 26 from 3:45-5:30. Teams selected b...

By: Farah Ahmed '11

The Widows have changed since that first meeting almost 60 years ago. The octet has expanded to a thirteen-to- fifteen voice ensemble, and their clothes have evolved from flapper dresses to a sophisticated all-black look to reflect the Widows' musical sen...

By: LIBBY KANE ’10

The odd rumor reaches their ears about a stolen laptop during a high-traffic weekend, but they are reassured that it was the work of nefarious off-campus guests (i.e. boys) and that the Wellesley community has been violated....

By: HANNAH TOWNSEND ’11

One of the many drawbacks of midterms is the inevitable disconnect from reality that they create. Instead of nuclear winter symbolizing the “end of the world,” an unfinished p-set becomes a far more daunting event....

By: CHARLOTTE KIANG ’13

The question remains: how much should rankings really matter in the college search? Is admission to the “elite” echelon of society an inalienable social privilege, or does it cripple students more than they know?...