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...match, but I was about able to bounce back like I did in the conferences.” “In this tournament, losing in the first round is like the kiss of death,” Weiss said. “You get behind the eight ball and it’s not easy to recompose yourself and fight back, but he stormed back like the leader he is. It shows what kind of character this team is made of.” Sophomore Louis Caputo became an All-American for the first time in his collegiate career...

Author: By Tony D. Qian, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Three Wrestlers Earn All-American Status | 3/18/2007 | See Source »

...loose for a week of liberal-minded debauchery. On the heels of an April 7 concert to promote choice, fronted by a lesbian-led rock group at its Lulu Chow Wang campus center, Wellesley College’s GBLSTA group Spectrum plans to host its annual Dyke Ball on April...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein | Title: Wellesley Exposed | 3/18/2007 | See Source »

...recent years, the Dyke Ball has been the Wellesley institution most scrutinized by the media. Articles most often document Wellesley social life as revolving around this event, a campus-wide fête celebrating non-normative sexualities. It has achieved semi-mythical status among the Boston frat crowd, with the “creative black tie” dress code interpreted to mean, “dress as scantily as possible...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein | Title: Wellesley Exposed | 3/18/2007 | See Source »

...Dyke Ball, 11 students were hospitalized for alcohol poisoning. The media used these hospitalizations as an excuse to publish scores of eroticized, disapproving reports of Wellesley life. The Boston Herald went so far as to grace its front page with the headline, “Wellesley Girls Gone Wild: college students end night in ER after lesbian bash.” By contrast, only pitiable coverage was provided by local media when, months earlier, more than 25 students were hospitalized for alcohol poisoning at the Harvard-Yale football game...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein | Title: Wellesley Exposed | 3/18/2007 | See Source »

...titled “The Highly Charged Erotic Life of the Wellesley Girl.” This oft-cited article stereotypes undergraduates at Wellesley as nothing short of promiscuous floozies, propositioning themselves to any man who steps foot on campus. The article’s description of the Dyke Ball is snarkily crafted to tap into male carnal lust, best exemplified by the Animal House scene in which John Belushi secretly observes a naked, sorority pillow fight. In the article’s words: “Women arrive nearly topless, or wearing only Saran Wrap or body paint (which...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein | Title: Wellesley Exposed | 3/18/2007 | See Source »

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