#Wellesley

[inthedarktrees]

Wellesley College, Life, Oct 10, 1949 | Nina Leen

#wellesley college #1940s #1940s fashion #life magazine #nina leen #vintage fashion #wellesley #student #dorm life #university #college #vintage #photography #black and white #photo restoration #students

[oneterabyteofkilobyteage]

original url http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/Garden/4153/ last modified 2007-01-18 01:31:19

#Wellesley #2007 #Explorer6 #WindowsXP #800x600

[yz]

Foggy train station. Wellesley, MA

#travel #wellesley #fog #foggy #pond #train station #transportation #train tracks #massachusetts #new england #fall #autumn #yzshot #reflection #hipstamatic

[cctvarchive]

WELLESLEY, UNITED STATES.

#wellesley #usa #glitch #insecam #security camera #oldweb #liminal

[wellesleybooks]

Friday night sunshine in Wellesley Square.

#new england bookseller #wellesley #Wellesley Books #march #bookstore #spring

[aclaywrites]

I have no idea what this question is asking. ‘Scoping?’ Is this a Wellesley phrase for checking them out? Hitting on them? I’ve read a bunch of dictionaries looking for a nuance I’ve missed, but this is the only interpretation I can find so I’m going from there.

I don’t know if there’s a political problem with hitting on straight women while they’re out with a heterosexual date, but it’s creeper behavior and pointlessly dumb. How would this predatory pestering make them comfortable with lesbians in any way at all? What is wrong with you two? How would a question like this even come into your heads? The value in contact with straight men lies in the nature of the contact. I have straight men doing electrical work on my house right now! But I’m not trying to scope their females because what the actual fuck.

#lesbian queries #lesbian query of the day #lesbian #lesbian history #herstory #dykes to watch out for #gay shit #butch #dykes of tumblr #dykes please interact #wtf lesbians #wellesley #lesbian art

[blackswaneuroparedux]

I hope to God that I have fought my last battle. It is a bad thing to be always fighting. While in the thick of it, I am much too occupied to feel anything; but it is wretched just after. It is quite impossible to think of glory. Both mind and feeling are exhausted. I am wretched even at the moment of victory, and I always say that next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained. Not only do you lose those dear friends with whom you have been living, but you are forced to leave the wounded behind you. To be sure one tries to do the best for them,but how little that is! At such moments every feeling in your breast is deadened. I am now just beginning to retain my natural spirits, but I never wish for any more fighting.

- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington  

#wellesley #arthur wellesley #duke of wellington #quote #war #battle #napoleonic warfare #britain #military leadership #carnage #cost of war #society #europe

[ancaporado]

#SHITPOST #HISTORY #waterloo #napoleon #wellesley #wellington #meme

[flintandpyrite]

Old trees at Wellesley College. The two oaks predate the founding of the college in 1870. The tulip tree was planted in 1935 but is only a baby by tulip tree standards, which can live 500 years and grow over 150’ tall. The tallest tree in Eastern North America is a actually a tulip tree in the Great Smoky Mountains measuring 191’ (58m) tall but I don’t know if anyone knows how old it is. The weeping cherry and weeping birch had no data on when they were planted but I’d bet it was in the 1930s as well. The weeping cherry was particularly impressive because they are slow growers—this was by far the largest one I’d ever seen. I bet it’s amazing in the early spring.

#tree thoughts #Wellesley #new england tag #shocker: this group of trees actually WAS a public park #or well at least open to the public with free parking for one (1) hour #so I did not have to tresspass even a little for these photos

[topoet]

City of Valleys 61

Another June Steven Steven unlocked his front door. The light he had left on in the kitchen was burned out. It went on when he tried it. He must have forgotten to turn it before he left.  Church Street had been thick with fags and dykes and far too many couples. Still the crowd energy reassured him. He was no longer the one queer in the world. There were thousands of them out there who enjoyed…

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#Church St. #City of Valleys #entertainment #gay romance #novel #Ontario #photographs #Pride #serialization #street dance #TOpoet.ca #Toronto #Wellesley

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

#Wellesley #Wellesley College #Transgender #Trans

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original url http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/Veranda/5697/ last modified 2005-12-02 15:21:05

#Wellesley #2005 #Explorer6 #WindowsXP #800x600

[kuromxs]

monthly drag shows… yall.. i WILL be DANCING AT THE PINK POMY CLUB!! IM GONNA KEEP ON DANCING AT THE PINK PONY CLUB!!!!

#wellesley #starting a wellesley tag actually #live laugh lesbian #chappell roan

[fawnvelveteen]

“Fluttery In The Stomach”: Capturing The First Weeks Of College”, Life Magazine, 1951.

Harvard students examined a Wellesley, student directory to determine which girl to ask out, 1951.

Lisa Larsen/Life Pictures/Shutterstock

#Harvard students #Harvard #student #Wellesley #1950s #1951 #college #lisa larsen #life magazine

[wellesleyunderground]

Wellesley’s Inaccessibility Fails All Students, Not just Disabled Ones

Anon Wellesley ‘24

With reunion providing a space for current students to voice concerns to alums, accessibility continues to come up as an issue time and time again. As a collective letter to alums noted, Wellesley’s campus is inaccessible regardless of disability. From laundry only being accessible through narrow staircases (thank you, Claflin Hall, for the increased knee strain that provided) to consistent elevator breaks (such as an elevator in the Science Center remaining stuck in an open position on the ground floor for several days in December 2022), the physical environment is not ideal.

The good news is that, technically, the campus is becoming more physically accessible as buildings are updated. Through the capital projects update from Fall 2022 (accessible only through a Wellesley login), Severance Hall should become ADA-compliant after the summer, and (some of, based on the “LR only” note) Tower will be ADA-compliant in 2024. However, the update doesn’t indicate some dorms, such as Claflin, Munger, Beebe, and Shafer as becoming ADA-compliant. While, hopefully, these would mean these buildings are already compliant (although the Claflin laundry and the Quint’s tiny elevators make me doubt it), the lack of information is concerning.

In this update, they say “Extensive deferred maintenance on the Wellesley campus is a long-standing problem.” This results in massive, expensive repairs needing to be done that take buildings out of commission for extended periods of time, which could have been avoided with general maintenance when needed. When I discussed this with some faculty, though, I was told that maintenance gets deferred, in part, because of the intensive changes that would need to be made for ADA-compliance, such as Clapp’s shelves needing to be replaced so that they are at least 36 inches apart (2010 ADA 403.5.1), even though 42 inches would be better. Founders is (allegedly) also an example of this deferred maintenance, where braille can be found worn down to the point of illegibility.

Of course, ADA-compliance doesn’t technically work this way, and buildings are intended to be compliance even if no other alterations or additions are made, but there is a lot of language around allowances being made if the accessibility-oriented alterations aren’t readily achievable, which is a rather subjective definition. At least, that’s what I and some other students I know thought. Upon further research, however, the real loophole comes with the safe harbor of the 2010 ADA Standards, which lets buildings that meet the 1991 ADA Standards avoid updating their compliance … provided the safe-harbor-applicable elements haven’t been updated. With this, the College can continue being ADA-compliant without much work, as long they don’t modify the parts of the building that aren’t compliant with the 2010 standards. I haven’t the legal knowledge nor the mental capacity to read through the entirety of both the 1991 and 2010 standards for Title III to fully note which precise complaints I’ve heard would fall under this safe harbor (which is on an element-by-element basis, adding to the complications for a layperson), but this aligns what I’ve heard from faculty. A common cycle I’ve heard about is Accessibility and Disability Resources (ADR) receiving accessibility concerns and being told it’s a maintenance problem, only for maintenance to be told or tell students that it’s an ADR problem, continually giving one of the smallest offices (alongside the LGBTQ+ and sustainability offices, interestingly enough) the short end of the stick.

Even when already in place, accessibility features mean nothing when they are not consistently functional. For example, the lift in Tower West that provides access to the dining hall from the entrance near the Grey Lady was unusable for several days, first with the door broken then entirely removed.

Tower, in general, is centered around the Great Hall, which, while pretty, is blatantly inaccessible. I have spoken to RAs and students who have mentioned that student organizations would refuse to have events there due to the inaccessible entrance, directly impacting Res Life’s ability to foster community in Tower. Part of the problem with the Great Hall is the runner, which extends to the stairs on both entrances, which I was told administration didn’t want to obstruct because it was a gift to the College.

Even new(er) buildings such as the Science Center are inaccessible, from the accessible entrance on the far side near the dumpsters that requires a walk uphill either on the street or on a poorly paved path to the several occasions I was stuck on a floor of the building, forced to miss class because the elevators were broken. I remember mentioning this to a professor, who told me that it felt like a way of continually beating down students. Even when functional, Sci has an elevator problem — I remember having to wait up to 15 minutes alongside groups of up to 30 other people for an elevator on multiple occasions.

And all of this — over 700 words — is just regarding physical accessibility without any additional context. Swaths of community life has been made inaccessible for scores of students with the decreased COVID-19 guidelines, which were often framed as being due to a lack of positive cases. This framing, however, ignored the fact that they shut down one of the testing centers, leaving College Club (which is so far from the rest of campus that I had to stop going despite wanting to be tested) open three days a week, primarily during class periods; it was no wonder that testing went down, and positive cases lowered as a result despite the many students I saw who were sick and instead had to resort to the free (but expired) rapid tests the bookstore gave out or having other students source rapids, if they were the kind to care about COVID-19. These changes being reversed caught non-coronavirus concerns in the crossfire as well, such as the active prohibiting/discouragement of Zoom classes, which was highly beneficial for students that couldn’t always physically attend class.

ADR was told they were unable to give students COVID-19 accommodations, and that they could not require masks at their events because they are part of administration. This, while a notable point, is only one of many issues with the office. ADR is chronically underfunded, currently running on a single director and an administrative assistant who works for both ADR and PLTC. These two faculty members are supplemented by an array of Student Access Advocates (SAAs), who have become semi-inactive with the resignation of the former assistant director, who left after about a year. The SAAs do what they can, but a lack of funding and structural power prevents action. There’s often a feeling of both resignation and anger when it comes to ADR, a feeling that it should not be the way it is and must improve, but also that the office will never change. However, ADR can change with better transparency, funding, and staffing, alongside the willingness to actually listen to and give more power to the SAAs and to work with other students such as SAW and Active Minds.

Wellesley College is structurally flawed when it comes to accessibility in almost every area. Students should not be forced on medical leave due to normal mental health issues. Several students I know have said that the Stone Center is largely ineffective at best and harmful at worst. At least one of my classes required I enroll in Willow, a depression prevention project by the Wellesley Centers for Women, which to me was bleak. I have several disabilities, both physically and neurologically/mentally, and was told by my major advisor that Wellesley is not necessarily able to accommodate my needs as it stands currently. I know of several students who had to transfer or drop out because of their disabilities.

All of this, paired with the constantly increasing cost of attending, makes it hard to justify Wellesley. The community is often amazing, although I and many others have experienced ableism from our peers, but the administration is hard to push through. When you are not just disabled but queer and/or trans, or a person of color, or FGLI, or any combination of the above, it is increasingly more difficult to feel that you have a place at Wellesley or that you are even welcome. This is why disabled voices need to be centered and amplified, and alums need to make their voices heard. Many of us (current students) know that alums often do not get to see the state of the College, especially when the College is technically ADA compliant, but we are here, ready to talk about it to anyone who will listen to provide better circumstances to current and future students.

#wellesley underground #disability accommodations #wellesley

[forwhomtheteasteeps]

Doing yard work today

Me: I can take the huge rake now

The spouse: ok, here’s Lord Wellington

#duke of wellington #arthur wellesley #wellesley #things the spouse says #i’m convinced #the key to a good partnership #is dumb jokes