On March 13, Concordia students will advocate for better government student aid at Minnesota’s Day at the Capitol by meeting with state legislators. Meg Henrickson attended the Day at the Capitol last year. She was excited to share her experience. “It went really well. We were going there to thank them last year,” Henrickson said….
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Night of musical theater planned
In Barbara Schramm’s office, the vibrant accent wall, colorfully draped curtains, and beaded lamps identify her creativity and one-of-a-kind ways. The piano, which consumes the space, and her everlasting grin tell her passion for what she does. Schramm, a music professor at Concordia, is about to share it with the Concordia community through organizing a…
Married, engaged students talk
He saw her at a produce stand. Loren Johnson was filling in for another worker, selling vegetables in a Kmart parking lot, when he met his future wife. Amy Brown was delivering farm-grown fare that day, and though they only spoke briefly, he knew. “The night after I met Amy, I went back to my…
Flu season hits campus like a train
The sniffles, the coughing, the sneezing and the groans of sickness. The sound is everywhere. Flu season is here, and it came a lot earlier than expected. This flu season got off to its earliest start since 2003. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), it began in October. Officials saw numbers that were…
Cobbers appear at Inauguration: Concordia Choir director, two students connected to president’s swearing in
On the morning of January 21, while the first family of the United States was hurried from place to place in preparation for their second inaugural address, Kjersten Bratvold sat in the orange seats of Jones 212 listening to an anatomy lecture about metabolism and energetics. Bratvold, a sophomore at Concordia, was only half listening,…
Pipes burst, Knutson floods
MOORHEAD, MN — The Maize, Knutson, Anderson Commons and the Korn Krib will be open normal hours starting Sunday. This update comes after water pipes burst in Knutson around 8:10 p.m. on Friday, triggering alarms in Bishop Whipple and the Knutson Campus Center. Flooding ensued, and standing water plagued the lower level of Anderson Commons…
Social Media Summit planned
Concordia’s Public Relations Club will debut the college’s first Social Media Summit on April 14. The Summit, originally proposed by Concordia senior Joel Leeman, will take the place of the club’s annual spring fashion show. Leeman said he got the idea from Thomson Reuters, a company he interns for in Eagan, Minn. They held a…
May Seminars Cancelled: 25 percent of seminars cancelled because of lack of interest
Melody Peterson was eagerly awaiting a month of jet-setting this May with Scott Olsen’s program Travel Writing: Around the World in 25 Days. However, when she checked her Facebook in late November, she saw that one of her co-travelers posted a status saying that the May seminar was cancelled. “I checked my email and wanted…
Office of Intercultural Affairs welcomes new assistant director
The New Year has brought some changes to the Office of Intercultural Affairs (ICA). Not only has its office been moved from the Parke Student Leadership Center to Lorentzen, but it also has a new assistant director. Susanna Lu joined the ICA right after finishing her thesis at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), where she…
Success speaks: Aamundstad wins big after semester in D.C.
Sitting in the passenger’s seat of an Impala, Britt Aasmundstad is the designated DJ, choosing songs to play from an iPod Classic to keep the driver from falling asleep at the wheel. Aasmundstad, along with three of her teammates, belt the lyrics to “Die Young” by Ke$ha as they make their way back to Moorhead…