After Kevin Sütterlin suddenly resigned from conducting the Concordia Orchestra last semester, the school needed to find a temporary replacement while they review new applicants. Foster Beyers, who taught at the school until 2016, was an obvious choice and says he was more than happy to come back. A quiet conductor Attendees at the Concordia…
By: Madi Wimmer After a winding career path and an unexpected opportunity during the COVID-19 pandemic, Sonja Babich ’10 became the owner of the company she once dreamed of working for. In 2014, Sonja Babich ‘10 met the publisher of Minnesota Bride and immediately saw the career she wanted. A career she knew would fit her and change her…
By: Carter Hass As a campus community, we share core values. We believe that all people are created equal, immigrants make this state great, free healthcare is a human right, and so much more. Yet our set of core values cannot be upheld without action. Our passionate words have no teeth; they are useless in…
By: Jess Breiner In the fall of 2026, Concordia College switched from using Moodle, their long-standing learning management system, or LMS, to CobberLearn, but Concordia’s integrated technology services (ITS) department say that very little has changed. The change was necessary because some of Moodle’s features, such as professors’ ability to email students directly from Moodle, needed support from the third-party company that hosted Moodle’s servers, said…
By: Lydia Schouten Back in September, the Chinese club held its annual Mid-Autumn Festival, and despite their experience putting on events, this one almost didn’t happen. “Because there’s so few of us and because the event is so soon in fall semester, we were not going to do a Mid-Autumn Festival, which we normally do every single year” says Social Media Officer…
We were working on a group assignment and I had already typed up and finished my part. It made sense and read how the professor preferred it to. It was clear and it followed the instructions. I went to sleep thinking it was done. The next day I opened the document, only to find it…
By: Lydia Schouten There are new clubs at Concordia every year, and the new feminism club HERd is a notable addition this year. There has not been a feminism club on campus since 2022, when “Stand With Her” fizzled out after its leaders graduated. HERd’s Co-President Andrew Traeger says the club is needed because “politically…
By: Noah Bloch Do you know what your calling is? If you do, Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore might make you rethink exactly how you picture it. Miller-McLemore spoke Wednesday at Concordia’s annual Symposium and argued that we should take a step back and reexamine our purpose in life. Miller-McLemore is the author of a book on…
By: Noah Bloch In August, the 16 residents of the Boe-Olsen apartments found out this would be their last semester in the building. About a week-and-a-half before classes began, residents were notified via email that the building they thought were going to call home for the school year would be closing and they would have…
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