Who knew there was a place right next to Concordia’s campus with alpacas, vegetables, and hamburgers all in the same place? I certainly didn’t until my lovely roommates dragged my butt out of bed last Saturday morning to check out Fargo’s farmers market, the Red River Market. The three of us rented Cobb Bikes from…
“Not to be racist but,” is a preface many people of color do not want to hear when you are about to make a comment. There is no need to defend yourself before you start a conversation. That is something you leave for the listener to determine. I, along with many other people of color,…
Life, money, and student debt by Pat Sorrells Managing money can be a real challenge for many people nowadays. Simply attempting to limit how much money one spends on food on a monthly basis can be a huge challenge. Nevertheless, it is a necessary skill that many people just do not have. This is…
Concordia is known for being an open-minded and welcoming community of people, and its history of service, on campus and in the world at large, speaks for itself. I feel extraordinarily lucky to be a part of this community, and to have such a great system of support from my peers and my professors. That…
As much as I’d like to deny it, the end of the school year is in sight. Summer is near, finals are almost over, and many of us are lining up jobs and planning vacations. I don’t know about you, but I’m eager to spend some well-deserved months in the sun. Whatever your plans are,…
Dear you, Yes, you. You, the reader, who stumbled into my column expecting another scathing opinion piece from another Cobber, only to find out that it was satire most weeks. You, friends and strangers, who told me to start writing, and keep writing, because humor can influence people’s opinions in ways normal arguments cannot. You,…
As this is my final piece of the year, I’d like to end the semester on a somewhat light note. For once, I’m not going to write about hypocrisy or how I feel about what was recently published in the news. Instead, I want to shine some light on something I’m sure we’ve all noticed…
It’s the year’s last issue of the Concordian, and also my very last opinion article, so I decided to take this time to ensure that my intentions with this column have not been misunderstood. At the beginning of the year, I decided that the topic of my column would be “Things that students complain about…
In college campuses across America, young Republicans like myself are finding it hard to accept that the elders in our party trend toward indifferent or inactive on the issue of climate change. The good news is, someday we will be the leaders of this party. The bad news is, in the meantime, the impacts grow…
Genetically Modified Organisms, better known as GMOs, are the best thing to happen to agriculture since the mass production of fertilizer in the early twentieth century. In 1918, German chemist Fritz Haber received a Nobel Prize for the invention of a process by which industrial factories could mass produce ammonia-based fertilizer. This was the Haber-Bosch…