The Student Government Association’s proposal to change intervisitation is nearing its completion. The Intervisitation Committee has been meeting weekly since September to work on their proposal. SGA held a town hall meeting on Oct. 26 to get student input. The meeting was another step in the long process of revising and reworking the proposal. Sophomore…
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Students write life stories in six words or less
She meant it to be brief. Joan Kopperud’s unit on six-word memoirs, that is. This semester in her English 421 course titled “Traditions in Literary Genre – the Memoir,” Kopperud, a professor of English, put the six-word memoir on her syllabus as a one-day topic. But the class of 11, made up of students from…
Forum fosters interfaith dialogue
As the first interfaith chapel week came to a close, Jacqueline Bussie sat back and smiled. As the new director of the Forum on Faith and Life, she sees this as a big step toward her ultimate goal: exploring the big questions of humanity. “We know they’re hard questions, and we know they’re complex,” Bussie…
Low turnout at local election site
The polls opened for Moorhead city elections on Tuesday, Nov. 8, but student turn out was low, according to election judge Erik Skee. “Students aren’t as vested [in the local elections] because they live other places,” Skee said. He has been an election judge for Ward 3, Concordia’s Ward, for six years. City council members…
Local homeless shelters at capacity
He totes a big, blue canvas bag filled with a construction uniform donated by a pastor, hand warmers and the rest of his belongings over to the bus stop by Churches United for the Homeless. He calls himself Milo and is heading off to North Dakota in hopes of finding work at the oil rigs….
Halloween Debate Treats Campus
People were lining up outside Concordia College’s atrium doors Halloween night, but it wasn’t for the candy. James Carville and Mary Matalin werebmediated by radio talk show host and author Scott Hennen while they discussed their opposing political views in the Centrum on Oct. 31. The event proved to be of interest not only to…
Registrar Resigns
This article was written by Jamie Offerdahl, a contributing author for The Concordian. After more than two years of working as the assistant dean of the registrar, Nancy Penna is leaving her job at Concordia College. Penna’s last day at Concordia was Oct. 26. In mid-November she will start a new job with the National…
Speech Team Places First
The Concordia College speech and debate team is dominating competition this year. Both teams have had impressive performances in recent tournaments, and on Oct. 15 and 16 at Minnesota State University-Mankato and Gustavus Adolphus College, the speech team took home the gold. Fred Sternhagen, debate coach and programs director for the forensics team, emphasized that…
Students Run Grilled Cheese Business
The smell wafts down the hallways of East Complex, enticing anyone nearby to call them up. Stomachs growl as the aroma of melted cheese and butter distracts studying students. As students peak their heads out of their rooms to investigate, they see homemade grilled cheese sandwiches being delivered to their neighbors by two football players….
Alumnus Publishes Book, Addresses Global Commodities Market
Some students who spend time in the Maize might think about the fries they ordered or the Twins game on the flat screen or the printer jam that is causing them to be late for history class. When Alan Bjerga, a 1995 Concordia graduate and agriculture reporter for Bloomberg News, was on campus one year…