There’s a funny joke floating around on the internet these days about a certain TV personality who is busting, toupee first, into the realm of actual, real-life, human issues. Now, I’m all for the open run for office. I’m all about allowing businesspeople and non-politicians to run for president but this time, I think we’ve…
Hi, I’m Erica and I’m an environmentalist. I like to be outside, I eat (for the most part) a vegetarian diet, I believe all living things on Earth have intrinsic value and I would gladly hug a tree if you asked me to do so. I will be co-writing this column with Sarah Liebig and…
There are good people at Concordia. Some of the best people I have ever met attend school and work here. I was planning to write a final editorial with a nice tidy ending thanking everyone for reading the paper this year and for showing me why I truly decided to stay at school here. But…
Last week was four days of the typical academic drudgery with a beautiful island of rest in the middle. That blessed oasis was the Celebration of Student Scholarship, or CoSS. I went to three sessions and an evening recital and enjoyed them all immensely. While they were all worth an article at least, I’d like…
On a recent trip home, as my mom gave me instructions for a round of chores, she kept accusing me of not paying attention. I was, of course, listening closely, but I was also looking at the chore in question, sizing it up. I’m a visual person – I don’t need a lot of explanation…
Spring is here already. The grass is green, the sun glows warm, and we are all – faculty and students – waiting for finals to be over. As these beautiful days melt into cold nights in front of textbooks and laptops, I find it inescapable to question why burying myself in schoolwork matters. I am…
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…
In the March 12 article “Reading the Readers” it is reported that a switch to online newspaper subscriptions of The New York Times and The Washington Post are changes that “have been made in order to make the news more accessible to a larger audience, improve the college’s goal of sustainability and adhere to the…
I took Religion 100 with Dr. Mocko, and I loved it. Go out of your way to take a class of hers, if you can. The woman is a hippie in the truest sense. Throughout the year, we read short articles that pertained to a persistent theme in the class- sustainability and what it means…
Wrestling with incongruous ideas is a part of the liberal arts tradition and one of my favorite parts of college. Extraordinary learning comes from dialogue – evaluating competing claims and argumentations. History is rife with vivid intellectual disagreements, and these disagreements demonstrate engaging with dissenting opinions can be more fruitful than stomping them out. Furthermore,…