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…
“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.”
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 ______…
“I have dreams that don’t make sense. There was a dream where I was at basketball practice and then after practice, for some reason, my shorts were stuck on me. I couldn’t take my shorts off. Or my shoes. Practice ended so I went to the locker room and I could take my jersey off,…
Members of the Concordia Needlework Society create scarves, sweaters and baby blankets Some Cobbers who study abroad like to take pictures of themselves with Niblet, and initially this is what junior Michaila Gerlach planned to do during her semester in Ireland. “But then my grandmother passed away and she had given me this doll when…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…