The Coffee with Cobbers topic on Homecoming Friday was a follow-up discussion to the 2009 Faith, Reason and World Affairs Symposium topic: “Where is the We in an iWorld?” Students, faculty, staff and a multitude of alumni back on campus conversed about how technology has helped and hindered society. Coffee with Cobbers was shorter than…
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National Book Awards come a semester late
When the flood hit Fargo-Moorhead last year, class wasn’t the only thing that was cancelled. The National Book Awards, an event that Concordia hosts each spring, had to be postponed as well. Now, a semester later, authors Annette Gordon-Reed and Maxine Hong Kingston will visit campus on Oct. 30 to participate in the fourth annual…
DS director presented with the Patriot Award
The Patriot Award was given to Deb Lee, Concordia’s director of Dining Services, on Sept., 22, to recognize the extra responsibilities she took on when a co-worker was on leave for National Guard training. According to the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Web site, the ESGR rewards employers with the Patriot Award for…
Student Lecture Series
Concordia’s fall Student Lecture Series kicked off Oct. 8 with senior Mackenzie Kane’s lecture on fact and fiction within Bernard Malamud’s “The Fixer.” Mads Schimdt Christensen and Sean Volk follow with lectures on Nov. 3 and Nov. 19, respectively. The Student Lecture Series is in its 21st year. It recognizes students who do outstanding research…
Students question Rove
Karl Rove engaged several students in one-on-one conversations before a crowd of nearly 1,000 people during the question and answer session following his speech on Sep. 29. The Q&A was a follow-up to his speech on national health care and his belief in the importance of a free market in the health care system. Leading…
Dining Services helps students to think globally and eat locally
Concordia had its first ever Farmers Market on Sept. 22, in conjunction with Dining Services’ second annual local foods meal. History professor Gretchen Harvey, a member of the food working group on the Sustainability Task Force, said the group generated the idea for the Farmers Market and it only made sense to coordinate the Farmers…
Building a library, one step at a time
Cobbers for PACODES hosted the 2009 Fargo-Moorhead WalkSUDAN Saturday, Oct. 3, to raise awareness and funds for a library in the Panyijiar County of southern Sudan. Walking with a megaphone, group members sang out “they walked to live,” while the rest of the group responded “we walk to give.” The walk began in Roosevelt Park…
Writer’s Festival teaches the surprising truth about writing
Concordia welcomed three award- winning writers to campus for its 11th annual Writer’s Festival from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2. Author Nathan Jorgenson, journalist Bill Ward, and poet Margaret Hasse took part in readings, made guest appearances in classes, taught master classes, and participated in discussions during the three-day event. The festival began on Sept….
Dining Services scraps feed exotic animals in Jones
Feeding the animals in Concordia’s Biology Department is now more cost-effective and environmentally friendly, thanks to food donations from Dining Services. The Exotic Animal Care and Husbandry Club is responsible for taking care of the animals housed in the Jones Science Center. Assistant professor of biology and advisor of the Exotic Animal Care and Husbandry…
Six Cobbers participate in summer research fellowship
A college student walks up to a piano next to a wall of windows in the three-story lobby of the Gonda building at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. She takes her place on the bench and rests her finger tips on the black-and-white keys. Music begins to fill the lobby. People walking on the…