Funding for student organizations has decreased this school year due to the drop in enrollment and an increase in budgets for larger organizations. Some of the organizations that requested more money were Concordia Entertainment Commission, the Student Government Association, Homecoming and Orientation. According to Nathalie Rinehardt, assistant director of student involvement, these increases are mostly…
When Title IX, an amendment outlawing gender discrimination in any educational program receiving federal funding and assistance, was passed, it opened a whole world of opportunity for women. This included the option to participate in school athletic programs previously reserved only for men. Recently, the amendment celebrated its 40th anniversary. Former Concordia Athletic Director Larry…
Concordia is evaluating the equipment located in the balcony of Olson Forum in order to make appropriate repairs, replacements and additions sometime this school year. The college started evaluations earlier this fall and will look to order the necessary equipment by this December, according to Chelle Hanson, Director of Student Leadership and Service. “Every year…
A new organization on campus is aiming to support students who have or are planning on studying abroad. Seniors Katie Randklev and Raquel Mondor recently formed the Student Association for Living and Studying Abroad (SALSA) as a support group and networking system for international and study abroad students. “I think that this fills a large…
Director of Concordia’s Global Education department, Per Anderson, said the school is looking into study abroad programs that are more “holistic,” and in doing so is looking to the past for ideas. “We want students to be immersed in a culture in a variety of ways,” he said. Peter Schultz leads the Physical Education 112,…
Article written by Jordan Elton and AJ Eckberg. Ten students will have the opportunity to be a president this fall in Concordia College theater department’s production of “44 Plays for 44 Presidents.” David Wintersteen, a communication studies and theater art faculty member, is directing the play. “The play…itself is quirky, it’s unusual in terms of…
Everyone on this tiny campus has heard, on some level, the “Sin is Sin” vs. “Love is Love” debate. It has become much more than an opinion, much more than words and much more than the seemingly simple decision to choose a t-shirt. It has become a debate of faith, freedom and understanding. It has…
Due to an expected wave of retirement combined with plans for newly created positions, the Offutt School of Business is preparing to add more than six faculty members to its roster over the next three years. “Over half are going to be new within a three-year window,” said Greg Cant, dean of the Offutt School….
Kersti Pearson, a theater arts and English literature double major, is designing the costumes for “44 Plays for 44 Presidents” as her Senior thesis. “It’s pretty exciting and nerve-racking,” Pearson said as she described her first show as costume designer. The senior thesis is an accredited part of her theater arts major, where at the…
Concordia is curious about Mars, and Drs. Thelma Berquó and Heidi Manning of the pysics department, along with physics major Mitch Campion, have all been part of a recent spike in interplanetary research at the college. This summer, Campion teamed up with Berquó to research highly magnetic iron oxides, which are powdery red compounds of…