In a deeply personal submitted column, a recent alumnus gives an account of his depression Concordia is a great place. It is filled with happy cobbers of all ages, shapes, and backgrounds. There is little wrong with the mantra of being a ‘Happy Cobber.’ Yet there are some, perhaps more than most care to believe,…
I’m going to be talking about the school dress code controversies that seem to be coming up more and more frequently. Before I begin, I just want to point out that I am a cisgender male college student; I have never been a teenaged girl, at whom these dress codes are predominantly targeted, nor have…
Concordia College will no longer offer its Regents’ Scholarship – that is, its full-tuition, merit based scholarship – to applying high school students. As a Regents’ Scholar, I suppose now I’m expected to launch a tirade about how inconceivable and horrific it is that Concordia is no longer offering the scholarship, how crucial the scholarship…
Less than a month after agreeing to a cease-fire; Ukraine is once again a hotbed of violence. In recent days separatist insurgents have killed aid workers, civilians, and Ukrainian service personnel. Yesterday separatists attacked the Donetsk airport in hopes of controlling the central transportation hub; killing 12 Ukrainian soldiers in the process. With each subsequent…
I can say, without hesitation, that I have never had a truly challenging class in college. This doesn’t mean I haven’t stayed up until 4 a.m. trying to finish papers. I haven’t always received A’s on tests or assignments. So, you may be asking yourself, “What exactly is his point here? College is super hard.”…
Concordia’s corporate inversion tactics A trending news topic of the past few weeks has been corporate inversions, or the act of changing a corporation’s tax base to pay fewer taxes. Journalists and politicians have asked whether we should expect corporations to remain centered in the United States and face higher taxes. Burger King executives, in…
Seemingly hour by hour, news regarding Ebola stricken countries gets worse. There is no doubt that the international community is losing the fight to contain and eliminate ebola. And not by a small margin; across the board, data points to a conclusive failure. To date, 3,000 people have died, and now World Health Organization members…
Let’s start shooting stuff into space again Dear NASA, As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, America is no longer the coolest country in the world. Last week, India successfully put their satellite, Mangalyaan, into orbit around Mars. That’s really cool. Sure, you did it first, but they got it on the first try, whereas…
Everyone has that one nerdy passion no one shares. I love maps. Maps of malls are super useful when I’m being dragged to one and can’t find the bathroom, and I use road atlases all the time when I’m driving across the country because my GPS doesn’t understand that I refuse to enter Nebraska. But…
Speaking to troops in Tampa, FL; President Obama emphasized: “I want to be clear. The American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission.” With growing international pressure and mounting Congressional demands for a cogent strategy toward the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the Obama administration…