Thursday, Student Government Association will present their 2014-2015 student activity fee proposal to the Budget Planning Committee. If the proposal is passed, budget cuts will be made to some campus organizations because of income projections for the upcoming year. The SAF is a portion of tuition that goes toward funding student organizations and events on…
Knowledge gained from experience and beyond the classroom is more important now than ever. This message was prevalent at last week’s experiential learning opportunities meeting for students in the humanities and social sciences. At an internship-focused panel discussion, four social science and humanities students who have had internships spoke about their experiences and answered questions….
[wzslider info=”true”]Three suspects are being searched for in conjunction with thefts at Concordia College last week. According to Moorhead police, Steven James Larson, Kristofer Briggs and Jessica Briggs may be responsible for stealing backpacks, wallets and coats from Concordia’s campus last week. The college is simultaneously searching for ways to prevent such incidents in the…
Students donate twelve times more funds than last year Concordia students got involved in Fill the Dome for the second time by raising more than $500 and donating about 300 canned food items. Fill the Dome is an annual food drive led by Fargo-Moorhead high school students to raise money and food donations for the…
1995 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Francesco Calogero was on campus this past week to discuss his research on nuclear weapons and how to be an ethical scientist. Calogero argued that not only is a nuclear attack possible today, it is very likely. An atomic bomb can destroy an entire city in mere seconds, he said,…
The fourth annual BREW week is full swing and students are learning how to be sustainable. But not just environmentally. BREW week is put on by Campus Service Commission and allows students to be responsibly engaged in the world in various ways. Moriah Nelson, CSC Commissioner, says they got the idea for BREW week at…
Reasserting their presence on campus, KORD Radio has come into the new year with big ideas, great successes and new merchandise, as noted by many on campus. Station master and junior Jimmy Walsh said that among other new things KORD Radio is doing this year, he is very interested in getting some music merchandise out…
There was to be no clapping after his performance. The competition rules allowed the audience to only clap after every third performer. As the second contestant, he was supposed to enter and exit the stage without any audible acknowledgment from the audience. So senior Chris Kenney did what he was supposed to. However, after the…
Prism, Concordia’s annual winter concert featuring wind and percussion instruments, will have a theme for the first time in its history. The Nov. 17 concert’s theme is America. Peter Haberman, who started directing The Concordia Band last year, said he had been reflecting on his first year and deciding how to improve the music program….
Students inform peers about smart financial practices Last week was Money Week, a time when Concordia students were introduced to financial education efforts led by sophomores Kjerstin Engebretson and Kirsten Henagin, who are interns for Money Revolution: a program developed by the financial services company Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. The program, as described on Thrivent…