Forty-three years ago, Richard Nixon signed Title IX as part of the Education Amendments of 1972 and created gender equality between the men’s and women’s athletic teams at Concordia and nationwide. According to Title IX, “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the…
Challenge of the semester for biology students: Learn four months’ worth of material in only three. Nov. 24 marks the date of when all biology labs will come to an end for the semester. The demolition of Jones and Ivers, the two buildings that science majors have come to call home, is set to begin over Concordia’s Thanksgiving break. This will result in…
Entrepreneurial Inventing Club produced a hunting duck decoy as a way for students to get real world experience with inventing. Entrepreneurial Inventing Club provides a collaborative environment for students to invent and create products that could receive patents, according to Michael Thompson, president of the club. “[It’s] a place for students to have hands-on experience…
Concordia’s Christmas concerts are known far and wide, but they would not be the same without the familiar voices that narrate the performances. “The two narrators that they have are amazing,” said Katie Heyer, a freshman this year who has attended the concert several times in past years and will be performing in the concert…
Chances are, you’ve heard the story. On Oct. 26, a student at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, S. C. was body slammed, dragged across the floor and arrested for disturbing school. All of this was done by School Resource Officer Ben Fields, or “Officer Slam” as he is called by the students at Spring…
From comparing gun control with the practicality of rubber duckies to discussing how to intervene with the Syrian crisis, students utilized statistics and experiences to state their positions on various political affairs. To start off Civic Engagement week, SGA hosted the Campus Political Debate this Monday in Jones A-B from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m….
A friend of mine is pregnant. Not on purpose but, still, she’s keeping the baby and has every intention of being a mother while still being a feminist. A topic that has sprung up since she announced her pregnancy is the discussion of the “traditional woman.” Should women be housewives? Can feminists have children and…
When senior Jordan Degerness sits down to compose a piece of music, he has a lot to consider. When creating music, he prefers to use composition notebooks instead of music writing software. When looking for a place to focus, he’d rather write in a big room than in a small, confined space — so he…
A huge event called the Conference of the Parties Climate Summit is happening in Paris from Nov. 30 to Dec.11. It’s going to include over 50 countries, environmental leaders, businesses and other key players to try to come up with a global agreement to address climate change. The conference has two main objectives: 1. Present…
Thirty million individuals are trapped in human trafficking and 1 billion go hungry every day according to Unseen Ministries website. Unfortunately, in today’s society, problems of this magnitude may still go unknown. That is why one of the goals of Unseen Ministries is to raise awareness about human trafficking, hunger and or poverty, and orphans….