The alarm buzzes. The clock reads 5 a.m. Jerry Raguse gets up for a long day of work. He takes his time getting ready, pulls his blue Concordia College Facilities Management hooded sweatshirt over his clothes, dons his blue stocking cap, and is ready to go. Day one of eight. Today is a Saturday. The…
Month: February 2010
Make a positive change
Lent started this Wednesday. As senior Leah Ryan kindly explained to me, “the whole purpose of Lent is to become closer to God and to contemplate Jesus.” A Catholic, Leah eats limited meals on Fridays during Lent and picks something personal to give up each year. This year she is thinking of giving up bread….
The Student Activity Fee
If you are a Concordia student earning at least one credit, you pay a student activity fee. This year and last year, the fee was $210. Concordia has approximately 2,800 students enrolled. An average of 2,650 students pay the fee each year after discounting students who do not pay the student activity fee, or at…
What is the cost to teach?
During the second semester of every year, senior education majors are required to student teach for 10 weeks. This semester, Concordia will have 50 education majors learning to be teachers in area schools. Part of this teaching process is a $200 fee, which has recently come under question. Debra Grosz, the education department’s Director of…
Concordia On-Air February 17, 2010
On this weeks show Meg gives us the results of the SGA election, Toni and Andrew show us how to make quick and delicious snacks, and in sports Andrew and Adam give us an update on the Olympics. Plus Emily tells us about the launching about the new virt…
Lights, camera, action!
It is no secret around Concordia’s campus that junior Erik George is an involved student. Behind his shy smile is the modesty to prove he does not want undue attention. With him, George carries a royal blue, stainless steel water bottle and “The Star Tribune” folded under his arm. This college student does what he…
Doing it her way
Junior Natalie Barnes will be running for Miss Minnesota International in March, and in doing so she aims to dismantle the stereotypes and fallacies about pageants. Barnes currently has the title of Miss Litchfield (her hometown) and Miss Meeker County International, which is part of the reason she was eligible to compete in the Miss…
Concordia On-Air February 10, 2010
In this weeks show we get a review of the Super Bowl in sports as well a look at how Cobbers celebrated the Super Bowl. In addition we have Valentine’s Day ideas from our Hosts, Andrew and Toni. One of the ideas is to see Eurydice, and we have an…
New station plunges into the Fargo-Moorhead radio scene
Fargo-Moorhead radio listeners are getting a taste of something new on the airwaves as of Feb. 1, the launch date of Fargo-Moorhead’s newest radio station Dive95 (95.9 FM). Dive95 calls itself “your local independent rock radio,” and while the music Dive95 plays is different from other stations in the area, that’s not the only reason…
On-campus worship service offers a Remedy
A student-led worship service on campus called the Remedy has had over 120 people in attendance each week since the start of the new school year. The catch is, they usually can’t tell all those people where they’re going to meet until just a few hours before the service begins. The Remedy is the latest…