During the second semester of every year, senior education majors are required to student teach for 10 weeks. This semester, Concordia will have 50 education majors learning to be teachers in area schools. Part of this teaching process is a $200 fee, which has recently come under question. Debra Grosz, the education department’s Director of…
Author: Mary Beenken
I am a senior English writing major and political science minor at Concordia College, but I originally hail from Fort Collins, Colorado. I have a deep passion for humanitarian aid and the power of the written word. I am currently the Editor-in-Chief of the 2011-2012 Concordian, though on occasion I also write and take pictures.
Dream job: hybrid freelance journalist/human rights lawyer.
On-campus worship service offers a Remedy
A student-led worship service on campus called the Remedy has had over 120 people in attendance each week since the start of the new school year. The catch is, they usually can’t tell all those people where they’re going to meet until just a few hours before the service begins. The Remedy is the latest…
MS teams up with the Fargo Marathon
This season, the Fargo Marathon will be teaming up with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to raise money and awareness for multiple sclerosis research. The disease causes the immune system to attack myelin, the fatty sheath that protects the connections between nerve cells, and can break down nervous system function over time. North Dakota has…
A Survivor’s Story
Connie Peterson is stateside now, but her thoughts are still with the people she left behind in Haiti. After four days of emergency medical care, carrying people through rubble, and being evacuated through streets so muddy they were nearly impassable, she may be home but she’s not at peace. “I’ve noticed since I came home…
Health Fair provides solutions for the winter blues
Campus Entertainment Commission will be hosting the fourth annual Concordia Health Fair on Jan. 27. The health fair will focus on six main areas of wellness: physical, emotional, spiritual, environmental, intellectual, and occupational. This year, the health fair will feature 34 separate organizations, including a dozen on-campus organizations and a keynote speaker. The organizations will…
MLK Day events planned
On Jan. 18, Student Government Association will help students celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with the help of Campus Ministry Commission and Campus Service Commission. The events, which will take place throughout the day, will feature speakers, a video presentation, and a variety of service projects to be carried out on Saturday, Jan. 16….
ROTCs dive outside of their comfort zone
It’s 6:10 a.m. on Nov. 18, and 38 cadets break into a chorus of “Happy Birthday” as they tread water in the pool at MSUM’s Nemzek Hall. They are part of NDSU’s Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program, and they are warming up to take their annual Water Combat Safety Test. Lt. Col. Shawn Stroud…
Capstone rumors dispelled
Starting this year, all Concordia students graduating in 2011 and beyond will need to begin thinking about what they need to do for their senior capstone. The capstones will be the final aspect of the four-part core curriculum that is part of all students’ academic careers. Yet many students do not know what they entail….
Christmas concert mixes new details with traditional pieces
After 83 years, Concordia Christmas Concerts may seem like a predictable and unvarying tradition and a permanent fixture of the holidays in Minnesota. This year, however, audiences may notice a couple changes: a new director for one of the choirs, a new artist for the Christmas Concert mural, and camera crews taping several performances for…
Day of Reckoning gives water to Africa
With clean water so abundant and easily obtained in Moorhead, it is easy to forget that many people in the world have no access to clean water. Student Government hopes to change that on Nov. 7 with their second annual Day of Reckoning. The program, which this year focuses on getting clean water to African…