“During the 2016-2017 academic year I will be an English Teaching Assistant in Germany, in which I will be able to work with students in helping to create an understanding between German-American cultures while engaging in language learning. In this regard, I am able to immerse myself in the German culture, while incorporating elements of American…
Category: Variety
Student art celebrated at juried art show
The gallery buzzes with warm conversations as students, faculty and families meander through the room. The walls pop with color from watercolor, acrylic and digital paintings. Framed art takes its audience to another dimension through charcoal, pencil and ink drawings while photographs feature captured bits of memories and places. A few sculptures are displayed on…
Creative writing club
Cobber students bring their imagination and storytelling to life Write about the person sitting to your right. He wears glasses. The earpieces hide in short, sandy blond hair. He is a first-year student, but he knows what he wants to do after college: Logan Jorgenson dreams of being an author. The above writing prompt is…
The art and technique of test-cutting
Concordia sophomore Colin Johnson sets up two mini water bottles on a makeshift ta- ble in his backyard, then looks over his shoul-der to make sure everyone is at least 10 feet behind him. In his hand he holds a sword — a cutlass-machete hybrid to be exact. Colin brings the sword back then swings…
Drag show proceeds benefit LGBTQ+ youth
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Fargo film festival debuts on the theatre’s 90th birthday
It has come to be that time where Fargo Theatre will attract flocks of moviegoers and an endless variety of directors and actors who have submitted their films to the Fargo Film Festival.Pounds of popcorn will be munched as the public come to enjoy the beautiful stories that will adorn the theatre’s screen. In each…
High impact learning trip 2016
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Kjos health center provides a variety of services for Cobbers
Maybe that patch of ice catches you off guard. Or you take a digger playing basketball in Olson. Perhaps your throat hurts ev- ery time you swallow. Maybe you just need someone to talk to. Whatever the ailment, the staff at the Kjos Health Center, north wing of Hoyum, are there for you. “I’d like…
Humans of Concordia
“Cleaning out the community fridge was the grossest thing I had to clean. I’m not exag- gerating — 3-month-old milk is something else. I didn’t dump it, I just threw it away. It wasn’t even white anymore and it was really lumpy.”
Cobbers discuss singular ‘They’
Grammar. It has adorned blackboards and whiteboards for decades. It has daunted students with the intricacies of its structure and its variances from that of spoken language. The singular use of “they” and other traditionally third person plural pronouns is one such case of this variance. Take, for example, the sentence below. Someone left ______…









