Imagine being able to walk out of your dorm room, hop on a bike and go to Dairy Queen whenever you want. No bike? Soon, that may not be a problem. Students from North Dakota State University, Concordia College and Minnesota State University Moorhead are working with city leaders to bring a bike-share program to…
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Advancement Office restructures
Concordia’s Advancement Office has begun to restructure its staff with the elimination of a position, and more changes that will take effect Jan. 1. With the restructure of the department, the alumni office eliminated the position of Searle Swedlund, the former associate director of alumni relations. Swedlund, a Concordia alumnus, served the college for 14…
Sustainability leadership trip announced
Concordia students are gearing up to go green in Portland, Ore., over spring break on a student-designed sustainability trip. “It will be one way to learn about changes to make personally to help impact the world positively,” said Megan John, a Concordia senior who is co-planning the trip with senior Kelsey Kava. This year’s sustainability…
How to utilize the library during finals
Christmas ornaments, clicking pens and a palpable level of anxiety fill the library as finals week descends upon Concordia’s campus. Going to the library during finals week can be daunting. However, librarians, student workers and seasoned professionals have offered some advice about using the library during this challenging time. As all kinds of students file…
Banner fails: A look at the current system and options for the future
Students were frustrated, parents called in and Bruce Vieweg, chief information officer at Concordia, tried to keep it all under control. Registration for Spring 2013 became a mess when Banner, the program used for registration, became overloaded and students were locked out. Errors with the system occurred on both Thursday and Friday of registration week…
Cobber bookstore to rent more textbooks
Textbooks for second semester will be ready for order from Concordia’s bookstore on Dec. 3 and a new option will be available for students. After running a beta test of 40 rental textbook titles during the fall semester, the bookstore hopes to increase the number of titles available to rent to somewhere between 150 to…
SIC trims the tree
This year, under the Christmas tree, donations will be collected for the Gladys Ray Shelter of Fargo. At the Student Government Association forum meeting on Nov. 16, the shelter was announced as the recipient of this year’s donations. Donations will be collected under the Christmas tree, which will be located in the Knutson Campus Center…
Schultz’s Prairie: Professor’s restored grassland offsets the Santorini program’s carbon emissions
Six years ago, Peter Schultz and his wife, Darcie, purchased a 160-acre piece of land. What was initially meant to be an investment soon became a full-fledged restoration project. They rolled the land into the Wetlands Reserve Program, and their parcel, named Longspur Prairie, now connects three different sections to help create a 2000-acre site…
How the squirrels stole Christmas
Although it is not quite December and the extra pounds from Thanksgiving dinner are not yet lost, people are already thinking about Christmas. Christmas on campus entails a lot of things, from the Christmas concert to the beautiful lights on campus. This year, however, the campus is not as brightly lit as it has been…
Math and business departments join for new major
A new mathematical finance major and an education studies major was unanimously approved at the Nov. 12 Faculty Senate meeting. The senate approved the new mathematical finance major because students can no longer double major in business and math and graduate in four years, according to the agenda. A mathematical finance major will require 63…








