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  • Advice from a public health insider
    Posted in: News

    By Mandy Scheuer Oct. 27, 2020 COVID-19 is still spreading despite the Center for Disease Control’s guidelines.  Doctors, nurses and other essential healthcare workers are doing their best.   I chose to write this article because I know an employee at UW Health. He’s my dad and is the director of materials management, responsible for insuring clinicians and support staff have the medical/surgical supplies […]

  • College’s alternative tailgate gets mixed reviews
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    By Anna Hansen Oct. 27, 2020 Edgewood’s Office of Student Inclusion and Involvement (OSII) hosted a Badger football tailgate party Oct. 24 that some students said was unsafe The event, featuring a root beer keg and bean bag toss in Predolin’s Recreation Area, sought to divert Edgewood students from the potentially hazardous activities of downtown […]

  • Residence Life, OSII attempt to combat sense of isolation with programming
    Posted in: News

    By Rebecca Dickman October 22, 2020 As the Pandemic wears on students, Residence Life and the Office of Student Inclusion and Involvement are staying creative and finding new ways to keep students engaged on campus and maintain a connected college community. Programming has taken many different forms this year, according to Claire Mand, Director of […]

  • MFT Rocks walks for mental healthcare awareness
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    By Pierce Doyle October 19, 2020 On what was a particularly beautiful fall afternoon, Edgewood College’s student organization, MFT (Marriage and Family Therapy) Rocks took to “the streets of campus” to raise awareness for mental health care, and to raise funds for The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). This year’s Annual NAMI Walks Your […]

  • Manion: “Everything we’re doing is playing the odds.” COVID town hall addresses academic breaks, symptom monitoring
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    By Anna Hansen October 19, 2020 Edgewood’s Student Senate, accompanied by Edgewood President Andrew Manion and Vice President for Student Development Heather Harbach, hosted a town hall Oct. 13 to discuss the effects of COVID-19 on campus. Harbach said that Edgewood’s residence hall protocols, which include distanced seating areas and mask requirements, were based on […]

  • BREAKING: On-campus voting to be available at Edgewood College
    Posted in: News

    By Nora-Kathleen Berryhill Oct. 10, 2020 UPDATE: clerks can no longer email ballots to voters. Edgewood College will offer on-campus voting and voter registration on the first floor of the Oscar Rennebohm Library on Election Day (Tuesday, Nov. 3). Early voting will also be available Oct. 26 through Oct. 30 outside of Predolin Humanities Center […]

  • Brave new world: the lives of freshmen and transfer students during a pandemic
    Posted in: News

    By Rebecca Dickman Sept. 30, 2020 Edgewood’s freshmen and transfer students this year are dealing with not only the typical concerns of new environments and classroom expectations, also sanitizing regulations, online classes, and quarantines as dictated by the COVID-19 pandemic. After an abrupt end to their senior year, the incoming class of 2024 along, with […]

  • Editorial: Why Debate is Essential—On Our College Campus and Beyond
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    By Nora-Kathleen Berryhill Sept. 30, 2020 It’s easy to associate the word debate with the imagery of a specific brand of hyper-partisan, petty bickering: the kind where no one really seeks to reach consensus at the end, and where neither hands are shaken nor post-debate pleasantries exchanged. This characterization of debate is both overly broad […]

  • Edgewood athletics on “two-week moratorium” due to spike in COVID-19 cases
    Posted in: COVID-19, News

    By Nora-Kathleen Berryhill Sept. 30, 2020 A spike of COVID-19 cases among Edgewood student athletes has placed the Edgewood athletics teams on a two-week hiatus until October 4. All team members have been advised to shelter in place, attend classes remotely, and avoid unnecessary travel during this period. Morgan Koss, a sophomore on the softball […]

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