This year’s MIAC Championships featured a strong showing from Concordia’s basketball teams. The women placed second in the playoffs, losing 50-58 to St. Thomas in the championship final, and the men lost 67-74 to Augsburg in the semifinals. The women went on to win a bid into the NCAA Division III Tournament, but lost 64-72…
This year’s Health Fair will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday in the Centrum. The event’s purpose is to educate and inform students and community members. More than 30 vendors will be on campus providing free information, answering questions and offering free massages. Junior Meg Pittelko is the current Health Fair…
“When your heart stops beating, you’ll keep Tweeting.” That’s the slogan of a new startup company that is slated to launch in March. LivesOn is being advertised as “your social afterlife” and will analyze your tweets and continue posting similar content for you once you have died. When I originally read about this a few…
Spotted: outraged and embarrassed Cobbers on Twitter. A Twitter account called “Gossip Girl Conco” has been the talk of many students on campus, and rarely does it inspire positive thoughts. This account has the main goal of spreading rumors and causing scandal—exposing infidelity, sexual promiscuity and embarrassing moments. This anonymous account even has the audacity…
Now don’t get me wrong, I really do love Concordia. I love going to class with the most intelligent and driven of peers, visiting with the most pleasant of administrative and support staff, and spending all my free time BREWing. Acknowledging that not every day is going to be all roses and tulips, I think…
It’s official—Bill Gates will speak at Concordia College this April. Concordia’s campus will be a different place with such a prominent, global figure on its grounds. In fact, the hype from the upcoming visit is already spreading throughout the school and spilling into the surrounding community, promising to change this college in the coming years….
Last semester, the college issued a vision for sustainability, stating it “will embrace a concern for sustainability that is rooted in the responsibility to ensure the environmental, economic, and social health of the college and of our global community.” This year, students have petitioned to go disposable water bottle free and SGA campaigns have laid…
Anne Nash had an idea. What if music students from Concordia could perform for area residents at the Eventide senior living community in a low-stress environment? Even better, what if students could perform for Eventide residents while learning management skills as well? This month, Concordia music students performed at Eventide and have another performance planned…
Cowboy, outfielder, architect, trumpet player, lawyer, teacher and writer—these, more or less in order, were my notions of what I would do for my life’s work, at least through the age of 40. My “influences,” as pop musicians say, were many: TV shows like “My Friend Flicka” (a boy and his horse); my baseball card…