Jeff Bretherton has resigned as Concordia’s athletic director, less than a year after accepting the position on May 1, 2017. Bretherton was the first full-time athletic director in Concordia’s history. Concordia released a statement last Wednesday stating, “Effective April 4, Jeff Bretherton has resigned his position and will no longer serve as Athletic Director at…
While the rest of campus slept, 10 Concordia students boarded a coach bus at 5 a.m. on March 14, departing for the Minnesota State Capitol. For the past several years, Concordia’s Student Government Association has organized a trip for Cobbers to spend a day in St. Paul. This year, Concordia was one of 17 Minnesota…
Students, faculty, and community members filled the Centrum on Thursday, March 15, to hear from two National Book Awards finalists. This year marked the 13th annual National Book Awards at Concordia. Since 2006, Concordia has been inviting National Book Award finalists and winners to campus each spring. This year, historical nonfiction authors Erica Armstrong Dunbar…
Students gathered in the Cyrus M. Running gallery on March 13, waiting in anticipation for Andrew Maus, director of the Plains Art Museum, to announce the winners of the annual juried art show. Shiyang Feng, Siri Berry, and Abbigail Schuyler received merit awards for $75 dollars. Feng won for her sculpture “Rhythm of Woods,” Berry…
Colleges and universities across the United States have received criticism in recent years due to their refusal to sponsor or allow conservative speakers to speak on campus. Concordia College became part of this conversation last fall after funding, once allocated to the campus branch of Young Americans for Freedom to invite Ben Shapiro to campus,…
High energy and deafening cheers filled the Centrum at Battle of the Bands on Saturday, March 18. Each of the four student bands—Cobber Nation, Everybody’s Favorite Band, F.R.E.N.D.Z., and North 40—only had 12 minutes to win over the crowd and receive the contested prize of playing at Cornstock. At the end of the night, it…
On the evening of Tuesday, Feb. 18, Concordia students gathered in The Maize, awaiting the election results for the 2018-19 academic year Student Government Association executive team. This election was very different from previous years for SGA: for the first time since 2008, an executive team ran without opposition. And so, without contest, Jacob Hanson…
According to the Gun Violence Archive, more than 40 mass shootings have occurred in the first three months of 2018, with many of the most infamous, including the Feb. 14 massacre in Parkland, Florida, taking place in schools. With the seemingly endless stream of news coverage focusing on such attacks, it can feel like tragedies…
A common fact of life overlooked for generations is being brought to light by Corinne Burrell, Concordia heritage and museum studies and communications double major, through her senior thesis project, titled “The First Bloodstain.” At the Hjemkomst Center last Tuesday, March 6, a room packed with men and women of all ages came together to…
This week, authors Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Nancy MacLean will join host John Ydstie, a 1974 Concordia alum and National Public Radio correspondent, at Concordia College for the 13th annual National Book Awards at Concordia event. “We decided as a liberal arts college that one of the best things we can do every year is…