Concordia College Music Department presents the eighth annual PRISM concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22, in Memorial Auditorium. This unique concert is a continuous surround-sound experience, with one ensemble seamlessly following another without pause. Several instrumental groups, including The Concordia Band, the Symphonic Band, Echo Band, the Concordia Percussion Ensemble and Jazz Ensembles I…
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163 trees used each year in printing
How Uniprint is striving to lower those numbers What do health education, nursing, and music theory composition majors have in common? Last year, they printed over 900 sheets of paper per person. Other majors are not far behind; psychology majors printed an average of 834 sheets, and elementary education majors printed 789 sheets. “I think…
Religious club receives $100,000 grant
Everyone has fantasized about what they would do if they ever received a large amount of money. For the Catholic Cobbers, that fantasy is becoming a reality. The Catholic Cobbers, along with the MSUM Catholic Dragons, will utilize a $100,000 grant over the next five years that was awarded to the Moorhead Catholic Campus Ministry…
Biology department gets mixed reviews about time cuts in lab
Challenge of the semester for biology students: Learn four months’ worth of material in only three. Nov. 24 marks the date of when all biology labs will come to an end for the semester. The demolition of Jones and Ivers, the two buildings that science majors have come to call home, is set to begin over Concordia’s Thanksgiving break. This will result in…
New club strives for patent
Entrepreneurial Inventing Club produced a hunting duck decoy as a way for students to get real world experience with inventing. Entrepreneurial Inventing Club provides a collaborative environment for students to invent and create products that could receive patents, according to Michael Thompson, president of the club. “[It’s] a place for students to have hands-on experience…
Campus debate recap
From comparing gun control with the practicality of rubber duckies to discussing how to intervene with the Syrian crisis, students utilized statistics and experiences to state their positions on various political affairs. To start off Civic Engagement week, SGA hosted the Campus Political Debate this Monday in Jones A-B from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m….
Rare particle accelerator
Dean decides new science facilities will not house two million dollars’ worth of NASA equipment In the late 1940s, a young man named Otto Berg graduated from Concordia College and was later employed at NASA. In 1965, he designed an instrument for the Apollo 17 mission to study the effects of dust particles striking the…
IILE board seeks campus involvement as they move forward
At the Faculty Senate meeting Oct. 13, a few concerns were addressed regarding the process of implementing Intensive Integrated Learning Experiences and removing the Core Capstone. Some of the faculty member and student concerns that were addressed include faculty workload and campus-wide involvement in IILE. IILE are learning experiences for students that involve but are…
Humanities courses go online
Concordia has joined with the Council of Independent Colleges, an organization dedicated to helping small liberal arts colleges, in offering a new program called Consortium for Online Humanities Instruction this year. Concordia was among 100 colleges who applied to be a part of the program, and was one of 21 colleges who were accepted, according…
Volleyball club sets record for interested participants
Concordia men’s club volleyball has its largest turnout in over five years with 25 interested participants, prompting many to begin asking when men’s volleyball will become a school-sanctioned sport at Concordia. Athletic Director Rich Glas is interested in adding men’s volleyball, among other sports, to the college’s athletic department. According to Glas, a survey will…





