Connie Jones sits at her desk staring at her computer screen. Her office is open; glass walls letting her overlook the second floor of the library. Her office is surrounded by children’s and young adult literature. These are books that education students use for their class projects, clinicals and student-teaching experiences. A student walks in…
Concordia’s budget cuts have been hard on several departments, but will especially affect world language students. In addition to the removal of several majors and teaching positions, there will be no German, French or Spanish native assistants the coming school year. The native assistants have been a resource for students learning second languages, allowing them…
As some or none of you may know, I am leaving Concordia next fall. I will be transferring to NDSU for a handful of reasons, but I will always be a Cobber. The values and virtues I have accrued in my time as a Concordia student are staples in my personality and will stay with…
Finishing third in the MIAC last year left its sting on the baseball team, but returning a handful of talent upped the fight for this season. “We returned a lot of players,” senior Philip Kuball said. “My senior class, we’ve had a lot of guys that have been playing and have…
Rigid policies are in place, but how do professors actually deal with it? A survey of over 63,700 college students conducted by Rutgers University found that 38 percent of college students admit to “copying a few sentences from a writ- ten source without citing it,” and 7 percent admit to “turning in work done by…
One step. That is all that separates Tayler Klimek from the inner ring of desks — the fishbowl — where small-group discussion is taking place in a large-group setting. It might as well be a mile. In fishbowl discussions, only people in the middle ring of desks can talk. Everyone else on the outside cannot…
When the 2015 NFL season kicked off, there were 10 former Division III football players on active rosters across the league. As the 2016 season approaches, two former Cobber football players hope to add to that list. Former wide receiver Brandon Zylstra and quarterback Griffin Neal have their sights set on playing at the next…
Election season rages on, and at times it seems there will be no end. Tensions are rising, and drama that was once entertaining is becoming worrisome. Advocates for each of the leading candidates are becoming more and more fervent in their support, and people with opposing viewpoints find themselves constantly under fire. In this stressful…
One in 5 women and 1 in 16 men will experience sexual assault while in college, according to It’s On Us, a campaign combating sexual assault in colleges nationwide. So don’t go walking alone at night, right? Wrong. “That’s not the kind of rape we’re dealing with on campus,” said Natalie Dulka, co-founder of feminism…
“During the 2016-2017 academic year I will be an English Teaching Assistant in Germany, in which I will be able to work with students in helping to create an understanding between German-American cultures while engaging in language learning. In this regard, I am able to immerse myself in the German culture, while incorporating elements of American…