Searle Swedlund, associate director of alumni relations, sits in his office amongst a history of nearly 100 years of student life. Dozens of Concordia College yearbooks sit in memory of moments past; for him, they bring back old emotions and evoke new pain. The document, once made by teams of committed students, has been losing…
The wait is over for the Concordia College Band. Scott Jones, director, ended five months of uncertainty when he told his 73-member ensemble that the college has settled on China as a place to tour in May. This will be the first time that a Concordia music group has ever been there. “It’s poised to…
Effective this year, five paragraphs of campus sex rules have been axed in favor of 20 that spell out new meanings of sexual misconduct and consensual sex. It’s there to send a message about the college’s firm stance on the seriousness of the issue. The changes rolled in after a 2010 survey pointed to cases…
It’s been said that there’s no rose without a thorn. A decorative display of 77 roses in the Knutson Center Centrum invited dozens to remember the Norwegians who were murdered on July 22, in the country’s most violent event since World War II. Each flower was a memorial for every life cut short, in a…