“Why Not Us?”: Missing White Woman Syndrome and the Erasure Of Missing POC

By Grace Woodruff, Valerie Tseng, Hannah Anderson On September 11, 2021, 22-year-old travel vlogger Gabby Petito was reported missing by her family following a months-long cross-country road trip, which ended with Petito’s partner Brian Laundrie returning home to Florida without her. Petito’s case was highly publicized, with nightly news shows and Twitter threads alike reporting […]

Race at Wellesley

by Rachele Byrd, Shivani Dayal, and Molly Hoyer   We would like to believe that our education system is a meritocracy—that those who are most deserving will be offered a spot at the nation’s most prestigious institutions. That ideal, however, has hardly ever been the reality of the matter. Over the centuries, various ethnic groups […]

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