This year’s Concordia seniors will soon be heading out the doors to fulfill their life goals. For those seniors majoring in art, the Senior Art Exhibit provides a last chance to display their works to the Concordia community. This year’s Concordia College Senior Art Exhibit showcases from April 9 to May 5 in the Cyrus…
Author: Elizabeth Meemken
Students showcase art
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…
Habitat trip leaves lasting impression
Over mid-semester break, 138 Cobbers on seven buses traveled across the United States to help others in need for Habitat for Humanity projects. The seven trips taken this year included destination cities of Pensacola, Fla., Mandeville, La., Wilmington, N.C., Johns Island, S.C., Denver, Colo., El Paso, Texas, and Taos, N.M. Both Jennifer Glatt and Austin…
Health Fair to be held Friday March 8
This year’s Health Fair will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday in the Centrum. The event’s purpose is to educate and inform students and community members. More than 30 vendors will be on campus providing free information, answering questions and offering free massages. Junior Meg Pittelko is the current Health Fair…
SEA urges students to buy reusable water bottles
Last week, approximately 300 students signed a petition to stop the sale of Cobber Water on Concordia’s campus. The Student Environmental Alliance promoted this petition throughout Feb. 4-7, aiming to make a positive change on campus. Throughout the week, events were held that focused on working toward an environmentally friendly campus. On Monday, SEA set…
Carl B. welcomes a new face
Carl B. Ylvisaker Library is welcoming a new director, Laure Probst, this month. Probst has joined Concordia’s community after about 30 years of library work in larger universities around the country. As a native Minnesotan and graduate of Luther College in Iowa, Probst is looking forward to being back at a place more like home….
Library director retires after 32 years
Concordia faculty member, Sharon Hoverson, will be retiring within the next month. She will be leaving her position as library director after 32 years of service to the Carl B. Ylvisaker Library on campus. Hoverson, a Concordia grad, has been the Library Director since 2004, overseeing all of the operations at the library. She has…