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  • Habitat plans week-long trip to Costa Rica for May

    Habitat plans week-long trip to Costa Rica for May

    • April 18, 2013
    • By Contributing Author
    • Campus, Featured, News, World
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    Despite a location change that occurred late in the game, two Cobbers have successfully planned Concordia’s first international Habitat for Humanity trip since 2008. The trip will take place from May 12 to May 19. A total of nine students [...]

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  • May Seminars Cancelled: 25 percent of seminars cancelled because of lack of interest

    May Seminars Cancelled: 25 percent of seminars cancelled because of lack of interest

    • January 31, 2013
    • By Emma Connell
    • Campus, Featured, News, World
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    Melody Peterson was eagerly awaiting a month of jet-setting this May with Scott Olsen’s program Travel Writing: Around the World in 25 Days. However, when she checked her Facebook in late November, she saw that one of her co-travelers posted [...]

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  • Polar explorer visits campus to share stories

    Polar explorer visits campus to share stories

    • November 29, 2012
    • By Thea Gessler
    • Campus, News, World
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    Will Steger, polar explorer, returned to Concordia on Monday. Joining him was J. Drake Hamilton, science policy director for Fresh Energy. Together, the two presented the forum “Clean Energy, Climate, and Health” addressing climate change and the role of Minnesota [...]

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  • Highland adventure

    Highland adventure

    • November 8, 2012
    • By Melisa Barish
    • Campus, Community, Featured, News, World
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    “How long is a piece of string?” This was how long Ruthie Stein, a Concordia junior, had to hike to get to the overnight rest stop on the second to last night of English Professor Scott Olsen’s week-long trip to [...]

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  • Student group fights sex trafficking

    Student group fights sex trafficking

    • September 20, 2012
    • By Thea Gessler
    • Campus, Featured, Nation, News, World
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    After traveling to Thailand and Cambodia with the women’s soccer team, Haley Haddock was inspired to start a new student organization. Haddock, along with Bekah Marcis, who graduated in May, founded Hope is Possible: The Fight to End Sex Trafficking. [...]

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  • Mapendo brings message of forgiveness

    Mapendo brings message of forgiveness

    • September 12, 2012
    • By Kaia Miller
    • Campus, Community, Featured, General, News, World
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    Congolese genocide survivor Rose Mapendo challenged the audience at the opening plenary session of Concordia’s Faith, Reason and World Affairs Symposium with a call to action. “This is my wish for everyone,” she said, “to forgive.” Rose Mapendo spoke about [...]

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  • Faculty return from China

    • December 2, 2011
    • By Stephanie Barnhart
    • Campus, News, World
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    Zhuhai, China, is situated on the Pearl River delta, which runs through the Asian mainland. But its waterside tourist value isn’t what makes Zhuhai important to Concordia College. Zhuhai is home to the United International College – the first and [...]

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  • New agreement with Chinese university

    New agreement with Chinese university

    • November 18, 2011
    • By Stephanie Barnhart
    • Campus, News, World
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    Concordia increased its ties to China through an educational agreement with a university in Chongquing, China. On Nov. 2, Provost Mark Krejci and Vice President of Enrollment Steve Schuetz met with two delegates from the Sichuan International Studies University for [...]

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  • Alumnus Publishes Book, Addresses Global Commodities Market

    Alumnus Publishes Book, Addresses Global Commodities Market

    • November 4, 2011
    • By Stephanie Barnhart
    • Campus, News, World
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    Some students who spend time in the Maize might think about the fries they ordered or the Twins game on the flat screen or the printer jam that is causing them to be late for history class. When Alan Bjerga, [...]

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  • Cobbers Help Orphans in Ecuador

    Cobbers Help Orphans in Ecuador

    • October 14, 2011
    • By Contributing Author
    • Campus, Featured, News, World
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    This article was written by Kayla Culver, a contributing author for The Concordian. Last summer and last spring break, Concordia students traveled to Ecuador to volunteer at Case De Fe, an orphanage based in the Amazon jungle of Shell, Ecuador. [...]

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