“My name is Mahmoud,” Brayden Drevlow said. Drevlow, who is in his second year at Concordia, is a pianist, a leader of the campus conservative group and white. Mahmoud Toumeh is Syrian. He is a graduate student at NDSU, and he lost his grandfather and close friend in two violent government attacks. Drevlow and Toumeh…
We all know that the cost of tuition at is no small number, but that amount is what one student organization is working to raise this year in order to donate it to the Sanford Children’s Hospital in Fargo. Dance Marathon is an international non-profit organization that raises money for local Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals,…
College prepares for quasquicentennial Oct. 31, 2016 marks the 125th anniversary of Concordia College and there are many events planned to take place throughout the year to celebrate this milestone in the history of the college. “There’s a wide ranging series of events to celebrate the faith and the imagination and the courage of the…
Tucked in a small room in the basement of Memorial Auditorium lies the place where obligations are forgotten. Where clanks of metal against metal ring over the blaring rap music. Where flushed faces and sweaty limbs appear in the mirrors. Where nothing but numbers run through one’s mind. The weight room is not just a place…
Be assured, Cobbers can leave their dresses and neckties in their dorms on Friday of homecoming weekend. In place of Concordia’s longstanding, traditional Harvest Ball, Campus Entertainment Committee and Homecoming Committee have teamed up to host a game night called “Bunco@ Conco.” Though the Harvest ball has been held for decades, Homecoming Chair Hayley Johnson…
A new social activism minor, and cuts within the world languages and cultures department and classical studies department; changes in Concordia’s offered majors and minors. This year a new minor, social activism, is being offered. “Social activism is an interdisciplinary minor that provides students with theoretical and practical knowledge to assist them in enacting social…
The number of freshmen and international students at Concordia is growing, thanks to new enrollment and recruiting strategies. This year’s class of freshmen and incoming transfer s is up 5.4 percent. This year there are 546 in the freshmen class, compared to 522 last year. According to Karl Stumo, vice president for Enrollment and Marketing…
In a move that is bringing good news to upperclassman, the longstanding prohibition of the possession and consumption of alcohol on Concordia’s campus is getting an update. Students who are of legal age will be permitted to have alcohol in their apartments following their return to campus in January 2017, in accordance with a decision…
Cell phone usage in Concordia classrooms In one classroom, a student is told to put her phone away and pay attention. Next door, students use their cell phones to take an in-class quiz. Down the hall, a professor asks a student to look up a fact on his phone. The use for Smartphones in our…
Nine students in Dr. John Reber’s forecasting class are working to predict Concordia’s future enrollment numbers, which could greatly benefit the college’s budget planning. According to Eric Addington, associate vice president for Enrollment and Financial Aid, the projection will benefit the school because the college’s budget will be built on a specific number of future…