People are setting down their newspapers and reaching for their smartphones to keep updated on the latest news and information. The media world is changing, and now Concordia’s journalism program is changing with it. A new multi-media journalism major will be available to Concordia students this fall. This new major will overtake the current print…
Concordia has a medical school acceptance rate of 88 percent, but students still look for any opportunity to give them the upper hand when applying to medical school or graduate school. Seniors Peace Eneh and Jarryd Campbell have definitely found that leverage after spending two weeks studying hookworms in Bangladesh and getting their findings published…
As of June 2011, 2010 graduate Sean Volk will become second-in-command at the Fargo Theater, as the operations and administrative manager. Volk has worked at the Fargo Theater since he was a junior at Concordia because he was interested in getting a job off-campus and he’s loved movies as long as he can remember. The…
Education is an essential part of college, but students also learn about themselves and society. For most students, going to college is their first time growing roots away from the comforts of family. Picking a college is one of the largest decisions young adults have to make, and prospective student Andrew Alness from Mound, Minn.,…
Dining Services will implement seven new meal plans for students starting in the fall of 2011. “We hadn’t changed the meal plans for fourteen years,” Sabrina Zimara, marketing supervisor in DS, said. “Before that, the only meal plan was 21 meals a week or nothing.” After hiring a consulting firm to look at the current…
Alpha Epsilon Sigma, one of Concordia’s oldest fraternities is making a comeback. After 15 years of being pushed aside, Concordia’s oldest society is being brought back to campus by sophomore Riah Roe. AES originally had the motto “Adelphoi En Sophia,” meaning “Brothers in Wisdom,” AES was formed in 1917 by Park Region Luther College, a…
There’s something about students strutting their stuff for charity that sounds like the perfect combination. On March 5, the Public Relations Club will be hosting the second annual fashion show to benefit the women and children of the Fargo YWCA. In addition to modeling clothing donated by local stores, as they did last year, student…
The scenery changes in Jones 364 every week. Last week, the room was a ski lodge on the great slopes of Moorhead. Hats and mittens hung by the doorway, and the smell of chili filled the room. This week it was a jungle. Next week it will be a 1950s diner. The nutrition department’s quantity…
It’s a partly cloudy Thursday afternoon and another unbearably chilly day for Moorhead residents as the temperature drops to a steady 10 below. The several inches of snow that have fallen relentlessly since winter began makes stepping outside rather unpleasant to most people, especially for those who must wander around campus from building to building…
Wayne Besen was walking through a store with his parents when they saw a stand selling tapes with the sign “Gay and Unhappy?” “That’s you!” his parents said. “But I’m happy,” Besen replied. “No you’re not—take it,” they said. Besen took the tape and listened to it. He described it as something akin to anti-gay…