This past academic year has brought a lot of new experiences and events to our campus. These events have forced us to move out of our comfort zones and have challenging conversations, which has made us appreciate the type of campus community at Concordia. For some of us it has been an opportunity to voice…
On April 10, the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) hosted a speech by Rick Santorum, the two-term Republican Senator (1995–2007) from Pennsylvania. The event was widely perceived as controversial, and for good reasons. It would have been wonderful if President Craft had, during his introductory remarks, acknowledged and affirmed the concerns of the students who…
Since the day I started writing for The Concordian, I have taken this column seriously. I felt as though there was no discussion happening about issues surrounding Concordia that went beyond the dramatic, and far-from agreement, polarized sides. In order to grow as a citizen, student, person, writer, and reader, it is important to see…
Cleaning my dorm room has been at the very bottom of my to-do list lately, right behind finishing a research paper I have not even started yet. When my dorm is a mess, I find myself dreading going back to my room at night. Though I have not not made much of an effort to…
Hello, my name is Dr. Ross and I have a fever. And the only cure for this fever is playoff basketball. After a grueling 82-game regular season, 16 teams will head to the playoffs with the goal of winning four series over the next two months. Although not on the level of March Madness, the…
Back in October, I took a look at what odds Vegas was giving Stanley Cup favorites and made my early predictions for the NHL playoffs. I did reasonably well, but there was one glaring mistake. Prior to the start of the season, the Westgate Las Vegas Superbook had the Edmonton Oilers at 9-1 odds to…
In light of cases like Larry Nassar with Michigan State and Reggie Lynch on the University of Minnesota basketball team, sexual misconduct has become an increasingly prevalent topic of discussion in college athletics. This past August, the NCAA adopted a new policy that requires coaches, student athletes, and athletic administrators to complete sexual violence prevention…
Wes Anderson has been a subject of study for many students enrolled in Concordia’s Credo Honors program. The class Filmmakers Who Changed the World has focused on Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, and Wes Anderson since its inception, but another film has recently been added to Wes Anderson’s catalogue for study. In his most recent endeavor,…
Lights. Camera. Action. These three words can make the process of filming a movie sound much simpler than it is, something that 14 Concordia students have learned firsthand over the course of this semester. On Monday, April 23, two short films created by Concordia students will be premiered at the Fargo Theatre. Students in Dr….
In two weeks, I will graduate from college. (I wrote that sentence not because it is particularly newsworthy or relevant to the remainder of this letter, but simply out of hope that the act of typing out its words would make them feel more real. It did not.) Earlier this week, in a fit of…