Students, faculty, and community members gathered at Concordia College on Monday, Jan. 15 to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. A first for the college, classes reconvened at events held throughout the day. Last April, Student Government Association brought a motion to Faculty Senate to reconvene classes on MLK Day so it could be a…
Residence Life is continually making changes to on-campus housing options, and the 2018-19 school year promises big ones. Fjelstad Hall will become a dorm again, and along with the townhouses, will be coed for the first time. The Sexuality and Gender Inclusion floor in Park Region Hall will be expanded to two floors, and there…
On Thursday, Nov. 30, the Student Government Association’s Disabilities Accommodations Council held its first meeting. This year, the committee will address exactly what the title suggests: the state of the college’s physical disability accommodations. The council, which was created last month, is chaired by SGA chief of staff Sean Zimny. While currently comprised of eight…
This winter, there will be no “Louie Louie” or “Crazy Train” at Cobber basketball games. The Cobber Athletic Band performs classics like these at many home football games in the fall and, in previous years, basketball games in the winter. However, due to decreased student participation in the colder months, the ensemble has decided to…
The Federal Communications Commission’s recent proposal to reverse the 2015 regulations aptly called net neutrality has many asking, what is net neutrality, anyway? “Net neutrality is a strange issue, because it’s a hard issue to grasp … It’s very abstract, and it can be difficult to see exactly how net neutrality will affect your everyday…
Faculty, students, and community members from all different backgrounds came together on Nov. 16 and 18 to participate in Narrative 4’s story exchange on the topic of difference. The event was a part of the Concordia Narrative 4 chapter’s plan to host a story exchange every month. According to senior Shawn Deegan, the student president…
If you were to walk the rows of practice rooms in Hvidsten Hall of Music on any given afternoon, you would likely hear the tenor voice of Logan Barat carrying through the corridor. Barat spends countless hours every week perfecting his craft; recently, all of his practice paid off. Barat, a senior vocal performance major…
Students, staff, and faculty of Concordia occupied the main hallway of the Integrated Science Center on Nov.16, in a sit-in protest denouncing the lack of action taken by the college to address diversity issues on campus. “I feel like it went really, really well,” said Grace Bryan, a junior at Concordia and a member of…
Concordia’s handbell choir, Tintinnabula, will have their first performance of the school year on Thursday, Nov. 16. Jessica Westgard Larson, who directs the group of ringers, has been involved in the group since she was a student at Concordia. “Concordia started its bell choir my sophomore year, so I played in the group for the…
Nearly 100 students, faculty, and community members filled the Centrum on Tuesday evening, Nov. 7, to take part in an open forum regarding the posters stating, “It’s ok to be white,” that were hung around campus on Halloween night. Student Government Association, in concert with President Craft and the Office of Diversity, hosted the event…