It is always a great day to be a Cobber, especially during Concordia’s Cobber ring day. This year’s ring day, however, was not a celebration for every student who ordered a ring. Several students had to send their rings back to Jostens to be fixed or resized, which means they will have to wait an…
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Perkins Loan discontinues
For many high school students thinking about college, the sticker price of higher education is a daunting number. College tuition may become even more alarming to some students due to the discontinuation of the Federal Perkins Loan, which became effective Sept. 30, 2015. The Perkins Loan was a federal financial aid program, eligible to undergraduate…
Concordia adds a new dietetics graduate program
Work with heart research, urban food systems, in public health, in elderly nutrition programs; the options are endless with the new graduate program in Nutrition and Dietetics. A combined Dietetic Internship and Master of Science in Nutrition with an emphasis in Dietetics Leadership program will begin in fall of 2017 at Concordia College. This master’s…
MSUM University Theatre Series presents live animal demonstration and planetarium show
A free children’s theatre production takes the stage for two shows Saturday, Nov. 21, at 1 and 4 p.m. in Hansen Theatre in MSUM’s Roland Dille Center for the Arts. Based on African folk tales, “Anansi!” is appropriate for all young children. Related events include featuring live animals form the Red River Zoo at 2…
Eighth annual PRISM concert at Concordia
Concordia College Music Department presents the eighth annual PRISM concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22, in Memorial Auditorium. This unique concert is a continuous surround-sound experience, with one ensemble seamlessly following another without pause. Several instrumental groups, including The Concordia Band, the Symphonic Band, Echo Band, the Concordia Percussion Ensemble and Jazz Ensembles I…
Plains Art Museum receives grant to reinstall “Sodbuster”
One of the most important pieces of public art in Fargo-Moorhead’s history is headed for conservation. The iconic Sodbuster sculpture, which stood on the corner of Broadway and Main Avenue in Fargo for 20 years, will be conserved and reinstalled at the new Fargo City Hall Civic Plaza. “Twenty years of heat and cold, sun…
163 trees used each year in printing
How Uniprint is striving to lower those numbers What do health education, nursing, and music theory composition majors have in common? Last year, they printed over 900 sheets of paper per person. Other majors are not far behind; psychology majors printed an average of 834 sheets, and elementary education majors printed 789 sheets. “I think…
Religious club receives $100,000 grant
Everyone has fantasized about what they would do if they ever received a large amount of money. For the Catholic Cobbers, that fantasy is becoming a reality. The Catholic Cobbers, along with the MSUM Catholic Dragons, will utilize a $100,000 grant over the next five years that was awarded to the Moorhead Catholic Campus Ministry…
Biology department gets mixed reviews about time cuts in lab
Challenge of the semester for biology students: Learn four months’ worth of material in only three. Nov. 24 marks the date of when all biology labs will come to an end for the semester. The demolition of Jones and Ivers, the two buildings that science majors have come to call home, is set to begin over Concordia’s Thanksgiving break. This will result in…
New club strives for patent
Entrepreneurial Inventing Club produced a hunting duck decoy as a way for students to get real world experience with inventing. Entrepreneurial Inventing Club provides a collaborative environment for students to invent and create products that could receive patents, according to Michael Thompson, president of the club. “[It’s] a place for students to have hands-on experience…




