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...Angelica W. Nierras ’09, who transferred to Harvard in the fall of 2006 after her freshman year at Wellesley College, said that reducing the number of transfer students could increase the pressure on high school students...
Perhaps the most exploitative article ever to chronicle the social life of Wellesley women was published by a 2001 Rolling Stone, 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...
Some journalists have even extended their unfair characterization of Wellesley as a weapon to level ad hominem broadsides at alumnus Hillary Clinton. In the 2005 book “The Truth About Hillary,” author Edward Klein tries to damage Clinton politically by pointing to Hillary’s time at Wellesley, the bastion of radical feminism and lesbianism, as evidence of her lesbianism...
...quite disheartening that in a few weeks time, the media will likely again portray Wellesley with what it brands as subversive secularism and sexual depravity. Such coverage provides the public with a skewed, sexually fetishized image of campus life. It also gives false hope to the hoards of desperate males from Harvard and MIT that work up the courage to brave the Senate bus—a.k.a. “Fuck Truck”—to Wellesley every weekend in the quixotic pursuit of a one-night stand or to witness wanton acts of lesbianism...
...summer day at Wellesley College in 1969, the president of its student government walked to the commencement podium. A young woman from middle-class Park Ridge, Illinois, she was the first student ever to address a Wellesley graduating class. She was traveling on a route no one had ever traveled before...