By Lexi Chitwood SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, Madison Vegan Fest welcomed over 2,000 attendees at Madison College’s Truax Campus. Until this year, Mad City Vegan Fest was the premier, large-scale gathering for vegan food and culture in Madison. When organizers announced that the Fest would not be returning in 2018, Mollie Stolbov and Bethany Mehta […]
By Maddie Smith Edgewood College students had the opportunity to combine photography and environmental studies by visiting Iceland this summer as part of their class, Exploring Iceland: Art and Science. The class taught the basics of photography, as well as environmental topics such as climate change and landscape ecology. Students were able to directly use what they learned in […]
BY ALYSSA ALLEMAND Greetings, Edgewood College community! My name is Alyssa Allemand, and as of this fall 2018 semester, I am the editor of On The Edge News. Though this position is new for me and I am still learning the ropes, I have an incredible amount of dedication and enthusiasm! We make this campus, and […]
BY SHANZEH AHMAD Edgewood College has been working to abide by updated diversity and inclusion practices stemming from steps outlined by Student Senate in April. This is in response to acts of hate and racism on campus earlier this semester. Ana Jimenez-Diaz, 2017-2018 president of Student Senate, said in an email that after they organized […]
BY ALEXIS DEMINTER Edgewood College is implementing complex, technical software to organize and track campus misconduct complaints from students and faculty. In addition to the new software, the dean of students plans to update the Student Code of Conduct. Heather Harbach, interim dean of students, said the Dean of Students plans to make the Student […]
BY MIMI WELLS Edgewood College is considering new meal plan options for students through dining services company Chartwells, which is based in Rye Brook, N.Y. Edgewood is considering three-to-four meal plan options. These plans would be All-You-Care-To-Eat plans that other colleges across the country are offering, including Beloit College and Cornell University, which is located […]
BY SHANZEH AHMAD | PHOTO FROM TOM HOLUB Tom Holub, a professor in the School of Education at Edgewood College, is renewing a grant after 10 years working with his graduate students at schools across the state through his team and family empowerment course. Holub’s grant, funded by the U.S. Department of Education and the Wisconsin […]
BY FRANKIE RATH | PHOTO FROM MAIL CENTER Edgewood College is having difficulty maintaining its status as a paper saving campus because of a recent overload of bulk mail. Elizabeth Reuter, director of the Edgewood College mailing department, has seen first-hand the amount of unnecessary mail the college receives. Although Reuter said this isn’t necessarily a […]
BY LINDSEY HAZLETT | PHOTO BY SHANZEH AHMAD After taking an Environmental Justice course at Edgewood College, three students- Lauren Downs, Alyona Guns, and Kristel Renn- stepped forward to share the changes they’ve implemented on campus. “Initially it was just a class with a project, but then we wanted to get everyone else involved within […]
BY FRANKIE RATH | PHOTO FROM GOSHEN COLLEGE In the early part of the 20th century, Catholics in America were persecuted by the majority of Protestant people in power and the higher society of American social class, according to Dr. Eboo Patel. Patel’s father was one of the first Muslim-Americans to attend the University of […]
