The United States is still a country that protects rapists and sexual abusers. America has made great strides in the last 50 years toward true gender equality, but we’re still seeing blatant sexism in the news and on college campuses, especially in the last couple months. Recent coverage of the Steubenville, Ohio rape case revolving…
Zach Lipp, Christoffer Birch-Jensen, Matt Gantz and Levi Bachmeier signed up for the Startup Weekend event expecting 54 hours of serious work committed to ideas that would significantly influence the community. Once they arrived, they witnessed something else. Startup Weekend, a nonprofit initiative that promotes entrepreneurship, came to Fargo on March 8 for the weekend…
Seven out of the last eight years Kayse Kruschke, a 2009 Concordia graduate, has returned to the Concordia campus for one thing— the Game-A-Thon. Kruschke was not alone. Nearly 25 alumni that came back for last weekend’s annual Game-a-thon sponsored by the gaming club. During her freshman year, her husband, Peter, introduced her to the…
“Anything else, Miss Missy?” the stage manager asked as she looked up at the director sitting in a middle row of the audience. The director didn’t need any more tasks completed from her stage manager before their Sunday night dress rehearsal began. After checking the progress of some of the actors in the dressing room…
Women’s soccer head coach Dan Weiler stepped down on March 5 after 11 seasons with the program. Weiler has accepted a head coaching position at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Va. When Weiler came to Concordia College in 2002, he was the assistant coach for the women’s soccer team. After a couple of years,…
Registering for spring semester classes last fall left many students and faculty members frustrated with the Banner system. This time around, Chief Information Officer Bruce Vieweg and Registrar Erica Peterson put their heads together and came up with a free solution to registration woes. “The easiest option, that didn’t cost any money, was to divide…
The Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition is now showcasing student art through the end of March in Concordia’s Cyrus M. Running Gallery. The showcase allows students to display their works made throughout the year, and it gives them valuable experience as working artists, said Susan Lee, director of the gallery. Travis Klath, senior graphic design…
This week, President Obama traveled to Israel for the first time since he assumed office in 2009. He met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—who only recently finally succeeded in organizing a shaky post-election coalition government—and the chairman of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas. Obama articulated in measured terms various long-standing American positions on issues…
Hey Cobbers, I know last week I was a bit pessimistic, and while I still think we have a ways to go, I can’t deny that we Cobbers do it right in supporting each other when it comes down to it. We have each other’s backs, and when I came here I was taught what…
Leaping across the ocean—to another world, to another way of talking, to another way of dressing and to another culture—seems so far away, but with some work, help and patience, students can study abroad. Joy Navratil, student coordinator in the Global Studies Department, works with students who wish to study abroad. She points students in…