Wellesley College Senate bus

The Wellesley College Senate bus, known colloquially by some local students as the Fuck Truck, is a shuttle bus service that connects Wellesley College to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.

History

Until November 1966, transportation at Wellesley consisted of a shuttle to the Woodland MBTA Green Line stop in the nearby city of Newton. At this point, college president Ruth Adams approved expansion of the transportation system and the Senate bus began operations. The shuttle service was originally named for the Wellesley College Student Government Senate, which lobbied in favor of having such a route from here to there.

Service

The Senate bus is operated by the Wellesley College Department of Housing and Transportation, running Friday through Sunday every week. After leaving Wellesley, stops are made at Harvard Square, MIT's Kresge Auditorium, and Commonwealth Avenue in Boston.

The service is not to be confused with the "exchange bus", which transfers cross-registered students between MIT and Wellesley during the week.

Media coverage

Students at MIT, Harvard, and Wellesley have sometimes referred to the shuttle service as the Fuck Truck. The term gained national notoriety when it was mentioned in a 2001 Rolling Stone article entitled "The Highly Charged Erotic Life of the Wellesley Girl",<ref...
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