Julia Kohler has been on the executive committee of Active Minds at Concordia for two years and will be the organization’s president next fall. If that is not enough responsibility, the junior psychology major and environmental studies and English writing minor has also been chosen as one of 20 students nationwide to be part of…
After 33 years at Concordia, math professor Dr. William Tomhave will retire at the end of this academic year. What will draw him away are the usual suspects: travel and seeing his grandchildren. What he will miss most from Concordia, however, is the enthusiasm of students. “The interactions in a classroom are energizing. You feed…
A child with autism was given hope for an independent future, a homeless man was given an opportunity for shelter and employment assistance, a local artist was given the possibility of a grant to pursue her musical dream, and a high school senior was given a chance at a scholarship to become a Cobber. All…
Concordia’s head baseball coach Chris Coste will once again don a Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks’ jersey, only this time, he will wear it as a coach. Coste was a catcher for the RedHawks from 1996-1999 and later played on the Philadelphia Phillies with whom he won a World Series in 2008. Though Coste has been away from…
Sept. 11, 2001: a day that lived in infamy in the international community. Since that pivotal moment, the world has been at war with extremist views and acts of terrorism. But it has been 17 years since the fall of the Twin Towers, and our world is still plagued by fear. Attacks still occur with…
There may be a sculpture of a oversized bird’s nest in Fargo, but “Sesame Street” is not coming to the area. Just outside of the Plains Art Museum in Downtown Fargo, visitors can see a sculpture of a giant bird’s nest, entitled “An Emergent Belonging.” The piece was created by a group of Concordia art…
In the same political climate, during the same month, and at almost the same spot on the map, Concordia College and North Dakota State University have chosen the same centuries-old show to perform this February. “Tartuffe,” first performed in 1664, is a classic French comedy with an overarching theme of religious hypocrisy. Dr. David Wintersteen,…
With the games of the XXIII Olympiad underway in Pyeongchang, South Korea, my sleep schedule — or what is left of it after a month and a half of leaving schoolwork to the last possible second time and time again — is completely shot. The 6:10 a.m. start times have killed me, and I am…
On Nov. 30, 2017 at an emergency senate meeting, the Student Government Association voted 28 to 2 to rescind $7,080 allocated to Young Americans for Freedom from the Special Projects and Initiatives Fund to partially fund bringing conservative speaker Ben Shapiro to Concordia College. The funding had already been granted a week earlier by a…
Helping students become responsibly engaged in the world is ingrained in the mission of Concordia College. Recently, Amena Chaudhry, the diversity coordinator for student support services, pioneered a training program to do just that. This training was to teach students how to become Circle Keepers. Circle Keeper training was held at the Rustic Oaks Lodge…