Nineteen Concordia students from Habitat for Humanity and their advisor helped with flood relief in Duluth this past weekend through the college’s Habitat for Humanity. The students arrived Friday night and slept on the floor of the downtown YMCA. Saturday morning the work began at two locations. One team removed flood damaged items from a…
Category: Community
Candidates vie for district representative positions
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are well-known names to most Concordia students. However, other names on this year’s ballot–such as Collin Peterson and Lee Byberg–may be less recognizable. Peterson and Byberg are both running for U.S. Congress in district seven, which includes Moorhead. Collin Peterson is the Democratic-FarmerLabor (DFL) representative who has been in congress since…
Students react: state senate debate
An Oct. 15 debate between Kent Eken and Phil Hansen for State Senate has students planning to vote next week buzzing about a race other than the presidential one. Moorhead is located in district four for Minnesota’s senate districts and two candidates are currently running for the senate spot. Eken is the Democratic Farmer-Labor representative…
President apologizes: College issues statement on Peterson recording
Concordia has confirmed an apology to Representative Collin Peterson in response to a video recording made last month by student Kate Engstrom and has indicated that she will face no disciplinary action. Concordia spokesperson Roger Degerman issued a statement that says, “President Craft spoke to Rep. Peterson to express regret for the manner in which…
Fifth-grade friendships formed
Pursuing academics, pursuing friendships. Writing essays, writing friendly letters. Discussing scholarly works, discussing children’s books. It sounds like college versus fifth grade, but it isn’t. It is the syllabus for Barb Witteman’s inquiry seminar, titled Friendship. Her students are spending their semester learning about and forming friendships with fifth-graders from Washington Elementary School in Fargo….
ELCA bishop visits campus
Mark Hanson, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, visited Concordia on Oct. 16 and engaged the community in discussion on what it means to be a college of the church. As bishop of the ELCA, Hanson serves as a shepherd or head of the church, leading and pastoring churches of the ELCA….
Donors step up
In times of change, members of the Concordia community–from students to the Board of Regents–stick together in support of the college. This has been true in the past, as when former President Pamela Jolicoeur passed away, and remains true today, like when the recent “sin-is-sin” T-shirt debate canvassed campus. Increasing costs and political tensions result…
For argument’s sake
The problem with any argument is the will to win. I’d rather use the term “debate,” but outside of rigidly structured academic debates, such a thing rarely exists in the day-to-day world, and instead it results in shouting down the other party. For some topics, this is fine. I don’t care what rational arguments you…
Voting poll to open in Knutson: students living on campus can fill out their ballots in the Atrium
With the election one month away, students have started thinking about voter registration. A new rule beginning this year says every student living on campus will be able to vote in the atrium of Knutson Center. Those living off campus will not be able to vote there, but can go to their respective voting precincts….
Habitat to build playhouses
Concordia’s Habitat for Humanity chapter is taking the initiative to be more community-based. On Oct. 6 they and five other campus organizations will team up to build six children’s playhouses as part of a fundraiser for Lake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity. “We just really wanted to embrace that community feel and reach out and give…