What If? Sitting in on Minnijean Brown-Trickey’s keynote address on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I was floored by the realization that I was listening to one of the nine key students who integrated our nation’s schools. Later that evening while reflecting on her words, my mind wandered to a Facebook post that had caught…
Concordia Forensics press release Concordia and NDSU’s forensics teams collaborated to host two speech tournaments this past weekend, but due to poor weather, two schools dropped out of the tournaments on short notice. Because of the drops, there were no longer enough schools participating for any competitive points to count, including qualifications for the American…
Group gives show and leads workshops on improvisation Imagine a troupe of five actors performing a completely original Shakespearean play without ever having rehearsed it beforehand. Sounds impossible, right? Wrong. Five members of The Improvised Shakespeare Company – founded in 2005 and based in Chicago – visited Concordia on January 17, led an improv…
Many people think what I’m doing with my college degree is crazy. And I suppose they’re right. I share a tiny, one room apartment in Bangkok, Thailand. My apartment does not have windows or air-conditioning. I sleep on a 3-inch thick mat under a mosquito net every night. I live on about $8 U.S. dollars…
A new semester brings change for students as well as change from some of our favorite on-campus amenities. The Coffee Stop, located in the Atrium of Knutson, will now be open in the evenings on Sundays and will close an hour earlier on weekdays. Brittany Widseth, a current employee of the stop, claimed that dining…
Sexual violence. It is not just a statistic, it is not just someone else’s problem. It is something that is all around us, and it is something that everyone should take part in stopping. When I saw how many signatures there were for the “This is My Business” plea, I was mad, upset and disappointed…
Your ultimate guide to this year’s Christmas concerts Concordia has been abuzz ever since the October announcement that the annual Christmas concerts will be changing dates and locations. Every year, approximately 450 music students involved in orchestra and choir gather to perform in these dazzling concerts. Although it may appear as if this year will…
This past summer, I was a bridesmaid in my cousin’s wedding. She met her wonderful husband during her freshman year at Gustavus College in St. Peter, Minn. They were happily engaged by November of their junior year, and they were married this summer right after they graduated college. I had always looked up to my…
Conversations surrounding sustainability around campus are nothing new. However, sociology professor Andrew Lindner’s Political Sociology class has focused on a different spin of sustainability that nearly everyone is guilty of: having too much stuff. The class has just wrapped up their Too Much Stuff Week project, which included a clothing drive and a viewing and…
Being a person who is a Studio Art and Communications double major, I couldn’t count the amount of times those who study primarily math and science comment on how much easier life as a non-science major must be. Yes, those of us focusing more on the arts normally do not have to spend weeks memorizing…