Three new Student Government Association projects are scheduled to hit campus this month. These include a new campus publication, a new award and a campaign to save energy. The largest of these projects is the plan for a new campus publication. Vice President Greg Clark has been leading the planning for the publication called Eighth…
Nate Tower, store manager of the Starbucks on Eighth Street, was fired from his first job as a barista. At 17, his parents forced him into a part-time job at Great Plains Coffee and Roasting Company in Sioux Falls. It wasn’t his ideal work situation, and it showed, so his boss – and good family…
Professor Scott Jones announced his resignation on Jan. 18, ending seven years of teaching, conducting and leading hundreds of Concordia students. His resignation adds to the significant transition within the music department alongside the retirements of June Rauschabel, Peter Nygaard and Michael Smith. “This is absolutely normal in any department,” said Robert Chabora, who is…
On the morning of Feb. 24 two vans will depart from campus, beginning a spring break trip to the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky. The trip will focus on the environmental and social impacts of mountain top removal for coal mining in the area. Senior Nathaniel Cook has planned the first-time trip in an effort…
The Student Government Association delivered their completed proposal to change the intervisitation policy to Interum Dean of Students Bruce Vieweg on Jan. 24. SGA’s intervisitation committee has been working on the proposal since September. They have hosted weekly meetings to work on the proposal. Since the beginning of this semester, the main portion of their…
Less than three months ago the Fargo-Moorhead community faced the daunting fact that the number of homeless in the area exceeded the amount of space at local shelters. It was an emergency situation. But through collaboration with local churches, homeless shelters and volunteers from the community, overflow guests are being kept out of the cold….
The Norwegians are breaking tradition. For 23 years, Concordia College has been one of only five colleges in the United States connected to the Noble Peace Prize Forum out of Oslo, Norway. Along with St. Olaf, Augustana, Augsburg and Luther, Concordia has rotated as host of the Forum, and students have been transported to and…
The dim lights paint the audience in shades of grey as the young brunette’s saxophone reflects golden light. The drums, trumpets, trombone and nine other jazz instruments fill the room with loud, saucy music that floats around a pre-determined chord progression, a progression the high school senior has never practiced with the rest of the…
President Barack Obama addressed students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor Jan. 27, following up on a demand for decreased higher education costs during his State of the Union address on Jan. 24. “We…have, by far, the best network of colleges and universities in the world. Nobody else comes close,” Obama said. “But the…
“So from now on, I’m telling Congress we should steer federal campus-based aid to those colleges that keep tuition affordable, provide good value, serve their students well. We are putting colleges on notice. You can’t assume that you’ll just jack up tuition every single year. If you can’t stop tuition from going up, then the…