Editing Wellesley College (section)

==Student life==
Approximately 98% of students live on campus.

[[File:Punch's Alley.jpg|thumb|A behind-the-bar view of a busy night at Punch's Alley]]

For more than 50 years, Wellesley has offered a cross-registration program with [[MIT]]. Students can participate in research at MIT through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP).<ref>{{cite web|title=UROP for Wellesley College Students {{!}} MIT Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program|url=https://urop.mit.edu/research-exploration/urop/options/urop-wellesley-college-students|access-date=2020-11-16|website=urop.mit.edu}}</ref> In recent years, cross-registration opportunities have expanded to include nearby [[Babson College]], [[Brandeis University]], and [[Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering|Olin College of Engineering]]. The college also has exchange programs with other small colleges, including [[Amherst College|Amherst]], [[Connecticut College]], [[Dartmouth College|Dartmouth]], [[Mount Holyoke College|Mount Holyoke]], [[Smith College|Smith]], [[Trinity College (Connecticut)|Trinity]], [[Vassar College|Vassar]], [[Wesleyan University|Wesleyan]], and [[Wheaton College (Massachusetts)|Wheaton]].<ref name=":0">{{cite web|title = Opportunities at Other Schools|url = http://www.wellesley.edu/academics/theacademicprogram/otherschools|website = Wellesley College|access-date = 2015-06-25|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150626133643/http://www.wellesley.edu/academics/theacademicprogram/otherschools|archive-date = June 26, 2015|url-status = live}}</ref>

===Organizations===
The college has approximately 180 student organizations. WZLY is the college's campus radio station. It is entirely student-run and plays on 91.5 FM. Founded in 1942, it holds claim to be the oldest still-running women's college radio station in the country.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2016/01/05/investigating-some-contenders-for-the-oldest-womens-college-radio-station/ |title=Investigating Some Contenders for the Oldest Women's College Radio Station - Radio Survivor |date=January 5, 2016 |access-date=December 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181218010740/http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2016/01/05/investigating-some-contenders-for-the-oldest-womens-college-radio-station/ |archive-date=December 18, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wellesley.edu/news/stories/node/18346 |title=Wellesley Student Radio Station Turns 70 &#124; Wellesley College |access-date=December 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181218010806/https://www.wellesley.edu/news/stories/node/18346 |archive-date=December 18, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Publications on campus include ''Counterpoint'', the monthly journal of campus life;<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9GvgAAAAMAAJ&q=counterpoint%20journal%20wellesley |title=Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Academic Discussion Lists |year=1996 |pages=119}}</ref> ''The Wellesley News'', the campus newspaper; ''International Relations Council Journal,'' the internationally oriented campus publication; ''The Wellesley Review'', the literary magazine;<ref>{{Cite book |last=Field |first=Andrew |url=https://archive.org/details/nabokovabibliogr00fiel/mode/2up?q=%22Wellesley+Review%22 |title=Nabokov, a bibliography |date=1973 |publisher=McGraw-Hill |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-07-020680-9 |location=New York |pages=141}}</ref> ''GenerAsians:'' the asian writing review,<ref>{{Cite book |last=DiMaggio |first=Paul |url=https://www.google.at/books/edition/Art_in_the_Lives_of_Immigrant_Communitie/uHJprl1xkmUC?hl=de&gbpv=1&dq=GenerAsians+wellesley&pg=PA151&printsec=frontcover |title=Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States |last2=Fernández-Kelly |first2=María Patricia |date=2010 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=978-0-8135-4757-2 |pages=151 |language=en}}</ref> and ''W.Collective'', the fashion and lifestyle magazine.

There are also several social organizations on campus, called "societies," which each have a unique academic focus. In order to join, students must attend "teas" where they can learn more about the focus of each society. Societies that are active on campus include the Shakespeare Society (theater), Society Zeta Alpha (literature), Tau Zeta Epsilon (arts and music), and Agora Society (politics).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Merchant |first=Sanika |title=The Tea on Wellesley Societies |url=https://thewellesleynews.com/16260/features/the-tea-on-wellesley-societies/ |access-date=2024-12-02 |website=The Wellesley News}}</ref>

===Athletics===
[[File:Wellesley logo from NCAA.svg|thumb|left|120px|Wellesley athletics logo]]
Wellesley fields 13 [[varsity sports]] teams – basketball, crew, cross country, fencing, field hockey, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field, and volleyball.  Wellesley does not have a mascot in the traditional sense – its sports teams are referred to both individually and collectively as "the Blue" (the school colors are [[royal blue]] and white). Wellesley is a member of the [[NCAA]] [[Division III (NCAA)|NCAA Division III]] and the Eastern Conference Athletic Conference (ECAC) and competes primarily as a member of the [[New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference]] (NEWMAC).

[[File:Setting up for Quidditch, Wellesley College, Wellesley MA.jpg|thumb|Preparations for a spring game of [[quidditch (real-life sport)|quidditch]]]]
The Wellesley College Crew Team, affectionately known as "Blue Crew", was founded in 1970 and was the first women's intercollegiate rowing team in the country. In 2016, Blue Crew won the [[NCAA Division III Rowing Championship]] as a team for the first time in Wellesley history, with its first Varsity 8+ boat placing first and second Varsity 8+ boat placing second. This historic win marked the first time a team from Wellesley College won a national championship and the first time a women's college won the NCAA Rowing Championships. In 2022, Blue Crew won the [[NCAA Division III Rowing Championship]] as a team for a second time, with both its first Varsity 8+ and second Varsity 8+ boats placing second.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2022-05-28 |title=Wellesley Crew Wins the 2022 NCAA DIII Rowing National Championship |url=https://www.wellesleyblue.com/sports/wcrew/2021-22/releases/20220528nhpzbk |language=en}}</ref>

In 2023, Blue Crew again won the [[NCAA Division III Rowing Championship]] as a team, with its first Varsity 8+ boat placing first and second Varsity 8+ boat placing second.<ref>{{cite web |url-status=live |archive-date=Jul 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718004947/https://www.ncaa.com/news/rowing/article/2023-05-27/wellesley-wins-2023-ncaa-diii-rowing-national-championship |location=[[Pennsauken Township, New Jersey|Pennsauken, New Jersey]] |date=May 27, 2023 |website=[[National Collegiate Athletic Association]] |language=en |access-date=6 August 2023 |title=Wellesley wins 2023 NCAA DIII rowing national championship |url=https://www.ncaa.com/news/rowing/article/2023-05-27/wellesley-wins-2023-ncaa-diii-rowing-national-championship}}</ref>

Wellesley also fields club teams in archery, alpine & Nordic skiing, equestrian, ice hockey, rugby, sailing, squash, Ultimate Frisbee, and water polo. Squash was originally a varsity sport but was downgraded to a club sport status in 2017 when the college left the proper division.<ref>{{cite journal|date=2017-03-22|title=Wellesley College Squash To Compete As A Club Sport Beginning In 2017-18|url=https://www.wellesleyblue.com/sports/wsquash/2016-17/releases/20170320nev8r0|access-date=2020-11-16|website=Wellesley|language=en}}</ref>Recently, ultimate frisbee competed at nationals and ranked 2nd (2022) and 7th (2024). 

From 1943 to 1946, [[Judy Atterbury]] won multiple national [[NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championship#Singles and Doubles Championships (1922–1982)|intercollegiate women's tennis championships]] in both singles (1943, 1946) and doubles (1943, 1944).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tennisforum.com/threads/pre-ncaa-womens-collegiate-tennis.1378268/|title=Pre-NCAA women's collegiate tennis|website=Tennis Forum|access-date=25 May 2021|via=Newspapers.com}} (''Boston Globe'', 1929-1953. ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'', 1954-1963.)</ref> [[Nadine Netter]] won the Eastern Women's College Tournament in 1962, and was the Eastern Intercollegiate Champion and New England Intercollegiate women's Tennis Championship winner in 1965.

====Crew====
In both 2016 and 2023, Wellesley College's first Varsity 8+ boat became a national champion in its event at the NCAA Rowing Championships. Wellesley College Crew Team's head coach, Tessa Spillane, was voted the NCAA Division III Rowing Coach of the Year in 2010–11, 2015–16, and 2021–22.  Additionally, Wellesley College Crew Team's coaching staff received the 2015–16 and 2021–22 CRCA NCAA Division III National Coaching Staff of the Year awards.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2022-07-08 |title=Blue Crew's Spillane, Muller, Ball Named CRCA Division III National Coach and Staff of the Year |url=https://www.wellesleyblue.com/sports/wcrew/2021-22/releases/20220708ofvu32 |language=en}}</ref>

===Traditions===
[[File:Wellesley College Library.jpg|thumb|upright|Wellesley College Library]]
[[Hoop rolling]] is an annual tradition at the college that dates to 1895.<ref>{{cite press release | url = http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Releases/2009/042509.html | title = Susan Wang Wins Wellesley's 114th Annual Hoop Rolling Contest | date = April 25, 2009 | author = Wellesley College Office for Public Affairs | publisher = Wellesley College | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100516033729/http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Releases/2009/042509.html | archive-date=May 16, 2010 }}</ref> Each senior has a wooden hoop, often passed down to them from their "big". Before graduation, the seniors, wearing their graduation robes, run a short race while rolling their hoops. In the early 20th century, the winner was said to be the first in her class to marry; in the 1980s, the winner was said to become the class's first CEO; and since the 1990 Commencement speech by then-[[First lady|First Lady]] [[Barbara Bush]], the winner has been said to be the first to achieve success, however she defines it.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wellesley.edu/Welcome/Traditions/hooprolling.html |title=All About Hooprolling |work=Wellesley.edu |access-date=2010-02-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100108110054/http://www.wellesley.edu/Welcome/Traditions/hooprolling.html |archive-date=2010-01-08 }}</ref>The winner is also carried by their classmates and thrown in Lake Waban. 

The Wellesley campus sits just before the halfway mark on the [[Boston Marathon]] course, and students come out to cheer runners in what has become known as the "Scream Tunnel".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.runnersworld.com/boston-marathon/wellesley-scream-tunnel-cheers-kisses-and-funny-signs|title=Wellesley Scream Tunnel: Cheers, Kisses, and Funny Signs|date=2017-04-17|work=Runner's World|access-date=2018-04-29|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180430051140/https://www.runnersworld.com/boston-marathon/wellesley-scream-tunnel-cheers-kisses-and-funny-signs|archive-date=April 30, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> Student have been cheering on runners since the first running of the marathon.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wellesley.edu/about/collegehistory/traditions/marathonmonday|title=Marathon Monday|website=Wellesley College|language=en|access-date=2018-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180430113839/http://www.wellesley.edu/about/collegehistory/traditions/marathonmonday|archive-date=April 30, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1966 the school heard word that a woman was running in the race and turned out in numbers in cheer her on.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.runnersworld.com/boston-marathon/first-lady-of-boston|title=First Lady of Boston|date=2016-04-06|work=Runner's World|access-date=2018-04-29|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180430051150/https://www.runnersworld.com/boston-marathon/first-lady-of-boston|archive-date=April 30, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>  Once women were officially allowed to register for the 1972 race, the campus cheer tradition became more popular.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.boston.com/sports/boston-marathon/2018/04/12/kissing-posters-and-so-much-screeching-a-history-of-the-wellesley-college-scream-tunnel|title=A history of the Wellesley College Boston Marathon 'Scream Tunnel'|date=2018-04-12|work=Boston.com|access-date=2018-04-29|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180430050004/https://www.boston.com/sports/boston-marathon/2018/04/12/kissing-posters-and-so-much-screeching-a-history-of-the-wellesley-college-scream-tunnel|archive-date=April 30, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>This day known commonly as "MarMon" (Marathon Monday) is the one day students can count on a break from academics as the campus celebrates the runners and each other in jolly fashion.