Although it appears the Offutt School of Business has a long way to go, it will be open for classes at the beginning of the 2013 spring semester and will provide several new opportunities for students. The ongoing construction this fall has been a “less than optimal situation,” said George Kueppers, a resident’s assistant in…
Concordia’s Habitat for Humanity chapter is taking the initiative to be more community-based. On Oct. 6 they and five other campus organizations will team up to build six children’s playhouses as part of a fundraiser for Lake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity. “We just really wanted to embrace that community feel and reach out and give…
Concordia students want to talk about religious pluralism, but some students do not feel accepted on campus, according to results from a recent survey. A campus religious and spiritual climate survey conducted last spring and released last month showed that 99 percent of student respondents had a medium to high rate toward religious pluralism, or…
The athletic department has worked with the Marketing Club to create a new way of giving students at Concordia more incentive to attend sporting events this semester. Cob Mob will make attending games more exciting for the fans and generate more support for the athletes, Athletic Director Rich Glas said. “The main goal [of] Cob…
Funding for student organizations has decreased this school year due to the drop in enrollment and an increase in budgets for larger organizations. Some of the organizations that requested more money were Concordia Entertainment Commission, the Student Government Association, Homecoming and Orientation. According to Nathalie Rinehardt, assistant director of student involvement, these increases are mostly…
Director of Concordia’s Global Education department, Per Anderson, said the school is looking into study abroad programs that are more “holistic,” and in doing so is looking to the past for ideas. “We want students to be immersed in a culture in a variety of ways,” he said. Peter Schultz leads the Physical Education 112,…
Article written by Jordan Elton and AJ Eckberg. Ten students will have the opportunity to be a president this fall in Concordia College theater department’s production of “44 Plays for 44 Presidents.” David Wintersteen, a communication studies and theater art faculty member, is directing the play. “The play…itself is quirky, it’s unusual in terms of…
Due to an expected wave of retirement combined with plans for newly created positions, the Offutt School of Business is preparing to add more than six faculty members to its roster over the next three years. “Over half are going to be new within a three-year window,” said Greg Cant, dean of the Offutt School….
Kersti Pearson, a theater arts and English literature double major, is designing the costumes for “44 Plays for 44 Presidents” as her Senior thesis. “It’s pretty exciting and nerve-racking,” Pearson said as she described her first show as costume designer. The senior thesis is an accredited part of her theater arts major, where at the…
Concordia is curious about Mars, and Drs. Thelma Berquó and Heidi Manning of the pysics department, along with physics major Mitch Campion, have all been part of a recent spike in interplanetary research at the college. This summer, Campion teamed up with Berquó to research highly magnetic iron oxides, which are powdery red compounds of…