Students hauling heavy backpacks are at risk of permanently injuring the muscles and joints in their back according to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Loaded backpacks should weigh no more than 10 to 15 percent of a student’s body weight states the ABC News of Sept. 13, 2013. According to sophomore exercise science major…
Residents of the EcoHouse have been making some updates lately. Kristina Kaupa, Julia Kuebelbeck, Emily Donovan and Sara Conley, all seniors, live in Concordia’s EcoHouse this year. They have been responsible for making some new changes in the house during its second year. To winterize the house they put plastic over the windows and installed…
Group gives show and leads workshops on improvisation Imagine a troupe of five actors performing a completely original Shakespearean play without ever having rehearsed it beforehand. Sounds impossible, right? Wrong. Five members of The Improvised Shakespeare Company – founded in 2005 and based in Chicago – visited Concordia on January 17, led an improv…
Only one condition: You move it A free house is being given away on Craigslist by Concordia religion professor Jacqueline Bussie. The only catch is whoever gets the house must pay to move it to a new location. Last fall, the home was put up for sale when its owner moved into an assisted living…
Concordia will no longer uphold visitation restrictions in dorms on campus effective the 2014-2015 academic year. On Tuesday, Jan. 21, Student Government Association announced in an open forum that the change was approved. “We are excited to announce that intervisitation policies will be changed completely,” SGA President Levi Bachmeier said. “Visitation restrictions will be…
A new semester brings change for students as well as change from some of our favorite on-campus amenities. The Coffee Stop, located in the Atrium of Knutson, will now be open in the evenings on Sundays and will close an hour earlier on weekdays. Brittany Widseth, a current employee of the stop, claimed that dining…
A Concordia alumnus’ dream has finally been realized in the form of a library. Machien Justin Luoi, a 2007 graduate, and several other Lost Boys — children displaced in the Sudan War — spent six years planning and building a library, which was opened this year. Friday, Luoi is coming back to Concordia to talk…
Your ultimate guide to this year’s Christmas concerts Concordia has been abuzz ever since the October announcement that the annual Christmas concerts will be changing dates and locations. Every year, approximately 450 music students involved in orchestra and choir gather to perform in these dazzling concerts. Although it may appear as if this year will…
Conversations surrounding sustainability around campus are nothing new. However, sociology professor Andrew Lindner’s Political Sociology class has focused on a different spin of sustainability that nearly everyone is guilty of: having too much stuff. The class has just wrapped up their Too Much Stuff Week project, which included a clothing drive and a viewing and…
Students in the dorms will not hear the fanfare of caroling Christmas horns preparing them to march into finals this year. The regular tradition of Concordia’s horn players going Christmas caroling will take this year off, according to horn instructor Karin Wakefield, who usually leads the horns. “Horn caroling isn’t happening this year due to…