Earth Day: Flora and Fauna of the Hilltop

Nina Martinez, Editor in Chief|April 20, 2022

Austin, which lies in the Texas Hill Country, is a common place Texans travel to for annual bluebonnet photos.

Earth Day is celebrated around the globe on April 22. This is a day where people can gather to promote environmental health, an issue that seems more important every year.

The history of the day dates back to 1969, when a US Senator named Gaylord Nelson, witnessed the effects of a massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, CA. After this, rallies began happening across the United States for better protection of our earth, leading to the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Air, Clean Water and Endangered Species act becoming a law.

St. Edward’s University is known for its great amount of trees, including famous ones, such as the campus’s central tree, Sorin Oak. St. Edward’s even won the Arbor Day Foundation’s Tree Campus Higher Education award for the seventh consecutive year. This Earth Day, students can be conscious of their carbon footprint and also enjoy the bountiful nature that the campus has to offer.

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“As photo majors, we spend most of our undergraduate career preparing for this show,” Ariah Abla said. “As a photography and religious study major, making work that was worthy of being put on a wall and that combined my two lives was important for me; it was a mark in my personal journey and also a celebration of what it means to be alive.”

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Halfway through the march, students had the opportunity to show their support by writing messages of empowerment to survivors. The notes were hung in a tree outside of Trustee Hall as a visible sign of solidarity.

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Emily Nichols, the vice president of PRIDE, said the event was for “queer adults who didn’t get to experience prom or who didn’t get to experience prom as themselves.”

Students get their groove on at PRIDE club’s first Queer Prom

For students looking to get involved the Equity and Justice Collective is constantly looking for new members and is hoping to throw more social events in the future. To stay updated and in the know on upcoming events, students can follow them on Instagram at @steds.ejc.

Students show solidarity and support of student-led business at Queer Expo

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Here is Liam Molina, a graphic design major using the heat press to transfer his design to the pencil. “We hold this event to show the students how to use the heat press and we would like to see them make their own design and heat press it,” Perea said.

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