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 […]
BY SANTI ELBOW | PHOTO FROM ST. VINNY’S FRIENDS Student organizations play a significant role in getting the student body and community working together. The Friends of St. Vinny’s Food Pantry, Edgewood College’s student organizations, is one example of this type of collaboration. The organization began in the spring of 2016. St. Vinny’s Food Pantry […]
Lisa King, professor and co-director of women’s and gender studies, reached out to On the Edge to publish a statement that a number of faculty at Edgewood signed. The statement is in support of students from marginalized communities and those students who have been and continue to be targets of hate on campus. The statement is copied […]
BY LINDSEY HAZLETT | PHOTOS BY SHANZEH AHMAD Even with regular email and web page updates, students and faculty are still unsure how to access the campus as construction fully begins. Edgewood College Biology Professor Dr. Marisol Lopez expressed her confusion immediately after reading the instructions the City of Madison provided. “I’m not sure what I’m […]
BY LINDSEY HAZLETT | PHOTOS BY SHANZEH AHMAD Hundreds of Edgewood College students, staff, and faculty gathered in solidarity on Feb. 28 to voice their concerns to the administration regarding diversity on campus. The Student Senate hosted a Walk Out event, encouraging students to leave class and gather in the Predolin Lobby, wearing black. Student Senate […]
BY ALEXIS DEMINTER Edgewood College’s succulent-building activity seems to bring in more students than any other event held by the Office of Student Inclusion and Involvement. The activity consists of students picking out a succulent at the table and assembling a jar of dirt, stones, and a plant. Angelina Flynn, the person in charge of […]
BY MIMI WELLS | PHOTO BY SHANZEH AHMAD Edgewood College women’s basketball team is in need of some school spirit. Saturday night (Feb. 3) Edgewood’s women’s basketball team faced off against Wisconsin Lutheran College, Milwaukee, and lost 66-39. With 141 people in attendance, Lutheran College’s side of the bleachers appeared to have more than three dozen […]
