Raise your hand if you’ve ever been called a bitch. Raise your hand if you’ve ever been called bossy. Women, you can put your hands down. I say “women” because I have never once heard these adjectives used to describe a man. Not only that — these words seem to slip off of tongues even…
Category: Columns
Complacency is not an answer
For over a week now, we’ve known that the President-elect is none other than Donald J. Trump, and suddenly all of my previous articles seem so horribly petty. Some of you are furious, dejected and heartbroken, while others are euphoric. If you hadn’t yet gathered, I am very much a part of the former group….
Drinking and driving devastates
Every 53 minutes someone in the U.S. dies in an accident involving a drunk driver, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s 28 deaths each day and 10,220 deaths each year. Let that sink in. Every year there are over 10,000 deaths caused by something that is, quite frankly, unbearably stupid and…
Performances suffer in Memorial
Over one-third of Cobbers are involved in a music ensemble on campus. That means that over one- third of Cobbers aren’t getting the experience they deserve at Concor-dia College. If you’ve ever seen the illustrious Memorial Auditorium, you probably know that it is nothing short of an acoustic masterpiece made by the angels above. Just…
GDP not a sufficient measure
In the tumultuous time following World War II, the U.S. and 44 other Allied countries met in New Hampshire for the Bretton Woods Conference to reconstruct the economic makeup of the global economy. It was here that Gross Domestic Product was set as a standard for countries to follow. The International Monetary Fund defines GDP…
Review: Vocal Jazz concert
On the evening of Nov. 6, I had the pleasure of attending the fall Vocal Jazz concert. Now, as a self-professed band kid, I’ll admit that one would be hard-pressed to catch my face at any choral event, so this concert was a glimpse into a brand new world of musical culture for me. At…
The high stakes of killer weed
Marijuana, weed, pot, ganja, bud, kush — call it what you will, it’s everywhere. Recently, recreational cannabis use has been legalized in four states and Washington D.C., while 21 other states have legalized marijuana consumption for medical reasons. As cannabis becomes legal in more and more places, people everywhere are becoming far more accepting of…
Welcome to the ‘New World’
Kevin McCarthy and his 10-year-old daughter Emily had not seen the sun in 14 months — until they climbed a metal ladder and pushed open their vaulted door on Tuesday. As he stepped out over the pile of discarded political yard signs and into the uncut grass, McCarthy breathed the first few breaths of the…
Keeping Google on its digital toes
Google it — a phrase used anytime somebody wants to know something. Simply get on the internet, go to Google, type in a question and thousands of answers will appear. Google has become so popular and trusted that the term “Google” is synonymous with any kind of online searching. The website is constantly changing and…
U.S. cannot ignore climate change
Not once in the three presidential debates this fall was a question pertaining to climate change posed. If we have one more election cycle without at least one question regarding climate change, one could say that a pattern has emerged, given that this is the second election cycle where no questions about climate change have…

