In the wake of the annual Cobber Ring Rollout, in which Concordia students celebrate spending money on jewelry, I have had several encounters where people told me they purchased their ring “for the career prospects.” This statement confused me, as most places I’ve worked at employ very few Cobbers in general. I don’t intend to…
Disclaimer: I’m not saying you’re a bad person if you got a Cobber ring. I promise, I’m not. “Why don’t you have a Cobber ring?” It’s not a question I field often. I typically shrug and say I’m uninterested. Last week, during the Cobber Ring hullabaloo, I answered a bit more honestly: the rings are…
During my time as a Cobber, I have allowed most changes made to furniture arrangements and eating implements in Anderson Commons to pass me by with little comment. Perhaps I grumbled at first when they began to replace the angular black bowls with the round white bowls last year, and perhaps I was momentarily confused…
Over the past few weeks, I heard a few people mention that The Concordian should become digital, much like SGA’s choice to let all students have digital access to the New York Times. While there can be good arguments made to try and advocate for a digital Concordian, I think there are many people who…
Our chief editor muses on why students choose to be cobbers Why do people even go here? I have asked myself that question many times. To be honest, I am not sure I could tell you why I even chose to go here in the first place. Sometimes my excuse is Concordia had fobs to…
As the year winds down and we say our teary goodbyes, we can’t help but look at the stacks of archived issues here in The Concordian office with a sense of nostalgia. Not to get all weepy on you or anything, but it is truly sobering to see all news and articles from this year…
A staffer in Concordia’s admissions office, who was intentionally not named by the office, methodically went through and confiscated all copies of The Concordian in Knutson Campus Center yesterday. This week’s Concordian featured on the front page a story about students’ use of alcohol before campus dances. The story was not inflammatory, but rather was…
College towns may prove one of the most challenging environments in which to run a business. Between the constantly changing taste preferences and ever-amorphous fads that we college students tend to cycle through, reaching consumers and maintaining their short-lived attention must be a daunting task indeed. In the face of all this adversity, however, college…
The United States has now gone a full week with a government shutdown in place. Federal offices are not functioning, government employees have been sent home from work and our economy is taking a major hit. However, our government is not the only thing failing us right now. Major media is, as well. We at…
The new Concordia Facebook phenomenon, Cobber Mingle, allows students to make anonymous posts about their romantic — and apparently even sexual — interests, hopes, dreams, and fantasies. From adorable little posts about some nameless cutie seen around campus to revealing sexual stories and downright forward propositions, it is definitely the fad of the week. This…