Concordia student wears holiday sweaters for 25 days of Christmas [wzslider transition=”‘slide’”] Junior Kate Bjelde, a self-proclaimed Christmas enthusiast, has created a tradition for herself to wear a different Christmas sweater for each of the 25 days leading up to Christmas, including Christmas Day. Submitted photos. It kicked off Dec. 1 with a quotation…
It is the day of the year that thousands of Americans wait for: Black Friday. A day that prompts people to wait in endless lines for hours as they check items off their Christmas gift lists. Concordia mother-daughter pair Sandi Paulson and Geneva Nemzek have been going Black Friday shopping for as long as Nemzek…
In the small pre-screening room of the medical clinic in San Lorenzo, Ecuador, Mike Rose and his new friend, Gonzalo, sat patiently waiting for their daily snack to be ready. The day was Aug. 14, 2013. Rose was in his final month of a three-month long mission trip to Ecuador. He spent the last part…
Using plungers to fight for their right to pee for free, the lower class of “Urinetown” raises important social questions in Concordia’s upcoming musical production. “Urinetown,” which opens Nov. 14 and runs through Nov. 24, offers a musical commentary on the issues of sustainability and the conflict between what is right and wrong in society….
Dressed in a safari hat and khaki cargo pants, with a stuffed cobra around his neck, the young zookeeper walked up to room 202. “Trick or treat,” he said. Kailey Berry and Alicia Benson, residents of Park Region, handed him a few pieces of candy, after which he thanked them and continued down the hall….
Rings, buttons and a maroon and gold stuffed animal dog. All contributions by Concordia alumni to the archives’ latest project. The Concordia archives are in the process of compiling artifacts from both present and past students to create the Concordia Memory Project. Over homecoming, the archives, along with Joy Lintelman’s History 112 class, hosted the…
As a third grader, George Halvorson sat in his elementary school library crying because he had finished all the books on the shelves. Halvorson, a Concordia 1968 alumnus that graduated after just three years, was the CEO of the largest healthcare corporation in the United States. He returned last week to receive the 2013 Alumni…
Nearly 25 lb striker falls 80 ft from top of tower to ground Never in the history of Verdin, a bell manufacturer, has this ever happened. On Sunday, Sept. 22, Concordia’s bell tower stopped ringing as the main bell’s striker flew from the top of the tower onto the brick ground below. The striker, which…
When Michael Wilson stepped onto Concordia’s campus for Orientation four years ago, he knew there would be a lot of white kids. But when he looked around at all the upperclassmen, he saw that white was the vast majority. Wilson, a senior and former president of Concordia’s Black Student Union, is from Waukegan, Ill., located…
President’s seminar discusses “Happy Cobber” phenomenon The President’s Seminar last Friday did not mark the end of the happiness discussion on Concordia’s campus. Although President Craft’s suggestion of renaming the weekly community time to happy hour was a mere passing pun, the theme of happiness will continue throughout the remaining three seminars this academic year….