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Earlier this month, the House voted to cut $39 billion over 10 years on the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) and Food Stamps.

On Monday, September 30, the Wellesley community will engage in discussions about diversity on campus, promoting a celebration of and improved understanding of multicultural and multifaith spaces on Wellesley’s campus—by converging on key spaces in a group stroll.

Wellesley is excited to welcome the more than 480 family, friends, and alumnae coming to campus for Homecoming and Family & Friends Weekend.

The second annual Wellesley Night Lights takes place September 26, with most of the Wellesley Square merchants staying open late, offering specials to students, and welcoming them in their shops with snacks. This is the first year that it features student performers “busking” near the participating merchants.

In May, Wellesley College announced the first four massive open online courses (MOOCs) the College will offer. The first of those courses, Introduction to Human Evolution, will be taught by Assistant Professor of Anthropology Adam Van Arsdale.

The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities Fall 2013 Distinguished Writers Series kicks off September 24 with a reading by poets Yusef Komunyakaa and Bill Tremblay.

This week, Wellesley’s Jewish community celebrates the holiday of Sukkot, and invites the entire College community to join in the spirit of thanksgiving, remembrance, and festivities that is the hallmark of this Jewish holiday.

The Schneider Board of Governors (SBOG) hosts Lake Day with a different theme each year, but its date is top secret until the night before. The invitation was a Game of Thrones-style map of the campus inviting all and sundry to gather on Severance Green at high noon.

On September 18, Wellesley released a new college cost estimation tool that promises to revolutionize the college-shopping process for thousands of prospective students. My inTuition: Wellesley’s Quick College Cost Estimator, invented by Phillip B. Levine, Katharine Coman and A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics, was created in response to a growing need for clarity in college affordability.

Last month, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Alden Griffith and his summer research assistants, Tania Ahmed ’16 and Shivani Kuckreja ’16, spent a week conducting ecological research in the mountains of Montana’s Glacier National Park.