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A Rottweiler was rescued from Lake Waban in Wellesley on Saturday morning after it got away from its owner, chased a group of geese into the water, and began having trouble swimming, police said. Two Wellesley College boats went into the water to rescue the dog, and eventually the dog was reunited with its family and was not injured, police said. “The geese managed to elude the Rottweiler without incident,” police said.

Catherine Sneed (Wellesley ’25) witnessed the Georgia dock collapse that killed 7. Sneed, 22, of Savannah, was inspired to attend the festival after working on a college project about the Gullah Geechee community. After the collapse, she heard a woman scream, “I can’t swim, help me!” Ms. Sneed reached out and held onto the woman for about 15 minutes until a life jacket appeared. On the ferry, Ms. Sneed offered up her navy blue Wellesley College sweatshirt. She visited the woman in the hospital on Sunday and found her recovering well. They held hands. “I just hugged her,” Ms. Sneed said. “I told her I loved her and we prayed.”

There is racial inequality in America, and some people are distressed over it while others are not. “Some White Folks: The Interracial Politics of Sympathy, Suffering, and Solidarity” by political science professor Jennifer Chudy is a book about white people who feel that distress. For decades, political scientists have studied the effects of white racial prejudice, but Dr. Chudy shows that white racial sympathy for Black Americans’ suffering is also a potent force in modern American politics.

Wellesley College professor Rebecca Selden examines how various fishing communities can change their fishing habits in order to adapt to climate change.

Senior Lecturer Emerita of Psychology Linda Carli: “The Democratic Party’s choice of Harris as its presidential nominee, together with Harris’ effective debate performance against Trump, has electrified Democrats, inspired young women and elicited considerable unease among Republican politicians. Yet, the wild card in this election is Harris’ gender, which affects voting above and beyond the policies favored by the candidates.”

Journalists Heather Long (Wellesley ’04) and Sergio Peçanha’s editorial series on urban revival won the Loeb Award for Commentary. Their entry, "How to Revive America's Comatose Downtowns," explored how cities can make the best of a once-in-a-generation chance to rebuild, revive and repopulate post-Covid.

Actors From The London Stage visit Wellesley.

Harlem became home to Black artists, musicians, authors and socialites of all sexual stripes... Novelist Nella Larsen was known to socialize with women who love women, said Octavio Gonzalez, assistant professor of English at Wellesley College. “If she wasn't purely queer, she was, I think, very open sexually or romantically to both men and women.”

Lessons in leadership and citizenship at Civic Action Lab.