In the small pre-screening room of the medical clinic in San Lorenzo, Ecuador, Mike Rose and his new friend, Gonzalo, sat patiently waiting for their daily snack to be ready. The day was Aug. 14, 2013. Rose was in his final month of a three-month long mission trip to Ecuador. He spent the last part…
Category: People
Sophomore named CSC commissioner
Concordia’s new Campus Service Commissioner has been chosen. Megan Dickerson, a sophomore, will take over from senior Moriah Nelson next semester. As Commissioner, Dickerson, a nursing major with a minor in Spanish, will be responsible for planning many of Concordia’s service-oriented events, including service projects for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and a blood drive…
New orientation chair discusses responsibilities
The recently chosen orientation chair for 2014, junior Katie Englund, will be selecting the members of next year’s Orientation Committee in the coming weeks. Englund, a native of Lakeville, Minn., said she chose to come to Concordia for the “type of people” who attend. “The community sense kind of hooked me,” Englund said. Englund was…
Residence halls open doors to trick-or-treaters
Dressed in a safari hat and khaki cargo pants, with a stuffed cobra around his neck, the young zookeeper walked up to room 202. “Trick or treat,” he said. Kailey Berry and Alicia Benson, residents of Park Region, handed him a few pieces of candy, after which he thanked them and continued down the hall….
Two plumbers take care of entire campus
To step into Concordia’s plumbing department is to step into a foreign culture where the language spoken is one of acronyms like HVAC and the typical attire includes steel-toed boots. Small, plastic drawers colored with different shades of blue line two walls from top to bottom, each with a faded label designating its contents. A…
Facebook confessions pages: An examination
Anonymous Facebook confessions pages have captivated and alarmed Concordia’s campus. The pages — Confessions of a Cobber, Cobbers Confess and Cobber Mingle — have each impacted the campus in their own way. They have made students laugh, made them cry and have even put some in danger. Pages like these are not new to Concordia….
Concordia collects artifacts for memory project
Rings, buttons and a maroon and gold stuffed animal dog. All contributions by Concordia alumni to the archives’ latest project. The Concordia archives are in the process of compiling artifacts from both present and past students to create the Concordia Memory Project. Over homecoming, the archives, along with Joy Lintelman’s History 112 class, hosted the…
Professors commute by pedal and foot
Alternative transportation chosen for health and sustainability Concordia physics instructor and lab manager Donald Brummond has been commuting by bicycle since the late 1970s, and he is only one of many professors who commute to and from campus by foot or pedal rather than by car. Brummond chooses to commute by bike both for pleasure…
Forensics members win special awards
The sought-after Candy Corn Award is given to a college speech competitor who experiences the most embarrassing moment at the annual Halloween-themed tournament during the last weekend of October. Concordia speech team member and junior Cate Bruns received this award at the Halloween tournament in Crete, Nebraska this past weekend, where the team received third…
Frosh Frolics introduces new pool of talent
This year’s Frosh Frolics drew over 400 students who were eager to get to know the new freshmen class. The talent show celebrates the incoming freshmen class and allows them to show their diverse talents to the school for the first time. Students from every class filled Olson Forum on Thursday night, waiting to see…









