Monthly Archives: May 2019

  • David Young retires despite everyone not wanting him to
    Posted in: News

    By Alyssa Allemand and William R.K. Lund May 14, 2019 David Young has been a professor in the English Department at Edgewood College for 25 years. He taught classes in creative writing, literature, and journalism. He offered the department’s first courses in Irish Literature and Literature of the American West. “I enjoyed teaching those two courses […]

  • Edgewood College sends three presenters to Omaha convention
    Posted in: News

    By Nikole Jaramillo  Edgewood College students Sadie Cordova (senior), Jena Emmert (junior), and Carly Oeding (senior) were accepted to present their research at the Central States Communication Association (CSCA) Convention, which took place April 3-6 in Omaha.   Cordova and Emmert were given spots in the President’s Undergraduate Honors Research poster session. Oeding presented on the panel “Dialogue through Mediated Portrayals.”  According to […]

  • Residence halls are 30 percent vacant
    Posted in: News

    By Jacob Gomoll Edgewood College’s residence halls have a gross maximum capacity of 680 people; but they are only currently housing 473.  This means that the residence halls are currently 207 below the maximum capacity of students.  And that means that the college is losing a large sum of money by not filling up to […]

  • Speaker re-tells story of 1955 murder of Emmett Louis Till
    Posted in: News

    By William R.K Lund   Keith A. Beauchamp has been speaking and giving lectures on the 1955 murder of black teenager Emmett Louis Till in Mississippi for over 20 years. He retold the grisly story again at Edgewood College for the 12th annual Hatheway Lecture on April 10   Beauchamp spoke about the life and death of Till and the injustice that surrounded it. “If we […]

  • Weather delays Edgewood College softball team spring break trip
    Posted in: News, Sports

    By Santi Elbow   The Edgewood College softball team only played six of their 10 scheduled games at the Tucson Invitational Games over spring break in March.   Mackenzie Hoffman, a freshman on the team, said originally they were supposed to play 10 games. “Our break got cut a little short due to some weather conditions, so we ended up only […]

  • LGBTQ+ panelists call for student and administrative action
    Posted in: News

    By Annika Lundgren  LGBTQ+ students at Edgewood College say fellow students and the administration need to improve their efforts to make the campus genuinely inclusive.   On April 2, Sadie Cordova, a senior at Edgewood College, organized a panel of LGBTQ+ students who spoke about their experiences on campus.   Cordova said that she wanted “to create a space […]

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