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...would like to address this letter to Rebecca A. Jeschke '92, the author of the feature about the Wellesley College Senate Bus ["Enduring a Boring Trip for City's Excitement," February 26]. As a Wellesley student and a passenger the night Jeschke rode the bus, I found the article not only derogatory, but also in poor taste by the paper...
Although Jeschke seemed on the verge of turning the article into an informative and realistic portrayal of the bus and the reasons that Wellesley students ride it, she immediately downshifts into a gripe session that she calls journalism...
...attempt to become the unobstrusive, all-observing Maury Pauvich, Jeschke conveniently stereotypes the Wellesley student as a "giggling and chattering," "self-absorbed" woman with a fetish for hair spray, high heels and strong perfume. We as Wellesley students are offended by having ourselves, along with 2200 other Wellesley women, lumped into this brainless and wanton image so vividly portrayed in this unnecessarily long article...
...Crimson is so interested in finding out what Wellesley student life is like, or how Wellesley students view Harvard, perhaps the editors should send their reporters out to the Wellesley College campus rather than make these rising journalists forgo an entire Friday evening riding a crowded bus like a "punished Sisyphus...
...those who dare not venture Jeschke's "triangular trade route," we would happily offer to drive. Elaine Wong Beth Diamond Wellesley College...