Picking a major can feel like choosing a life. Music or math? English or theatre? Students are torn between passions and have to decide what to be when they “grow up.”
Author: Carrie Johansen
I am a senior majoring in political science and journalism, and I am minoring in music. Next year, I will study law at the University of St. Thomas, and I can't believe my time at Concordia has gone so quickly.
SGA creates SPIF account for big ideas
Access to money, especially by college students, is rarely able to match the lofty ideas people may have. The Special Projects and Initiative Fund launched on Jan. 3 by SGA attempts to bring access of funding to students across campus. The SPIF seeks to provide funding for student ideas that are “of audacious vision and…
The Perspective of a Prospective
Education is an essential part of college, but students also learn about themselves and society. For most students, going to college is their first time growing roots away from the comforts of family. Picking a college is one of the largest decisions young adults have to make, and prospective student Andrew Alness from Mound, Minn.,…
Concordia Names First Scholar in Residence
David Selvaraj, the founder and director of an institute for development and peace studies and action in southern India called Visthar, will spend the next four months at Concordia as a scholar-in-residence, even though Concordia does not have a standing scholar-in-residence program. Selvaraj was welcomed to Concordia at a reception on Monday, Jan. 24. “It’s…
Blizzards and Breaks
When blizzards and breaks hit Concordia at the same time, safety is the top concern. Twice this year large storms hit Fargo-Moorhead as students and some faculty prepared to take to the roads—while leaving for Thanksgiving and returning for spring semester. The decision to cancel classes is a multi-step process involving several people, and safety…
Cobbers Say ‘I Do’
Dress fittings, flowers, invitations and guest lists are among the many details involved in planning weddings today. Cobbers have been marrying Cobbers for many years, but each journey to saying “I do” is unique. Some couples wait to marry until after graduation, some marry during the summer and some marry over Christmas break. Paul Lillehaugen…
Cobbers help refugees adjust to life in F-M
Refugees fleeing war-torn countries have a difficult time communicating and understanding differences in culture and daily life. Concordia students are engaging in service learning activities that help clarify simple activities like grocery shopping and going to the library. Communication Studies and Theater Arts Professor Hank Tkachuk’s Intercultural Communication course uses relationships with refugee families in…
Concordia grad’s free range turkeys come to DS Thanksgiving
Responsibility and Thanksgiving don’t always go together, but an entrepreneurial Concordia graduate put local, vegetarian-fed, free range turkeys on plates in Dining Services at the annual Thanksgiving dinner last Thursday, Nov. 11. Kelsey Velo, a 2009 graduate of Concordia College, and her family have a commercial turkey farm in Rothsay, Minnesota. Eddie Velo, Kelsey’s brother…
Housing changes stall without student demand
Each spring, students have their first choice for housing the following year. Freshmen want to live in Brown Hall, sophomores hope to get into Bogstad Manor or Bogstad East, and juniors look to the townhouses. However, not everyone gets a good enough lottery number to get their first choice. Overcrowding in the small room of…
FM’s Extreme Home Makeover
A 7-year-old girl, “Little Miss USA,” gets her picture taken in a white, jewel-encrusted hard hat. A volunteer shouts “Yee-haw!” as he cuts paving stones for a walkway. A hundred volunteers clad in matching blue shirts move like ants in the garage, on the sidewalk, and in front of the house as community members watch….