It is not often that bathroom signs make an impact in our everyday lives, including that of the gender neutral bathroom in the basement of Park Region hall, but three-year-olds have a different perspective than most college students. “My son,” said Mikal Kenfield, director of Residence Life, “[said] he had to go to the bathroom…
Category: Variety
Niflheim takes their team to Wolfpack
During spring break, foam weapons fighting club will be anything but normal in Normal, Ill. when they battle 300 to 500 people in the foam weapons yearly event A mass of people charge at each other, armed with foam weapons and shields, dressed in Renaissance-era garb. They jab, block, swipe and dodge. Their laughter and…
Congratulations, Mr. Concordia
The “Perfect Arrangement”
Cobbers create retro-sounding sounding commercials for upcoming play The radio crackles to life. Saxophones squeal the first lines of a jingle. Then horns follow as an accent. Finally, a bright, modulated voice speaks vibrantly over the sounds, selling a product straight out of the 1950s. This may be what the audience will hear when the…
On firm foundation grounded
Museum studies students curate the Dean’s office honoring Concordia’s past and future A student walks into the office and sits down. They look around the room and see a vibrant print of a bookshelf hanging on one wall, and various other frames of old pictures and paintings depicting aspects of Concordia. There is another wall…
Cobber’s sculpt and shred
Concordia Cobber Fitness provides an affordable hot yoga class once a week “Namaste,” Concordia student yogis said in a packed 105 degree yoga studio. Hannah Steffen, the class’s hot yoga instructor and a sophomore at Concordia ended her class with the simple word that is accepted as a respectful parting of ways in the yoga…
Student documentaries
Cobbers create documentaries influenced by historical hollywood films Documentary: the very word evokes ideas of records and facts, but documentaries are more than recounts of how something happened. Students learn this in Donald Rice’s Documentary and Historical Film capstone course as they make their own documentaries. These documentaries, which are the students’ final semester projects,…
Beer research adds another dimension to BREW
An analytical chemistry lab is taking BREW to another level by analyzing the chemical content of four different kinds of beer: Pillager, Porter; Azacca Attacker, American Pale; Burn the Boats, American IPA; Broken Rudder, Irish Red Ale. Cobber students produced research that will be used to help Drekker Brewery in downtown Fargo. “Everybody has been…
History of the Christmas concert mural
Before Paul Johnson began digitally designing the mural for the Concordia Christmas Concerts, students, faculty and other volunteers had to paint the mural by hand. Since 2009, Johnson has created a digital file of the mural and printed it onto large strips of wallpaper. The design is then pasted onto 44 panels that make up…
Online newspaper: The Valley Express
Cobber creates, runs and edits hometown paper For 135 years, The Grant County Review was the only source of news for residents of Milbank, S.D., the town where Concordia junior Dezmond Ward grew up. It was available in print and online, but there was a catch — it was only published weekly. Ward noticed that…








