In the wake of the recent elections, the Republican Party is facing an identity crisis. While no one will call the 2012 elections a mandate, they reflect a change in the political landscape going forward. In an election where one of the major issues was a down economy, it seems that a fiscally conservative candidate…
The Cobber football team finished 8-2 this season in MIAC play. With half of their wins on home turf, the Cobbers drew an average of 4,839 attendees per game. Such consistent attendance and support ignited a fire in the 2012 Cobber football team and they had a season of achievements. Numerous players earned MIAC player-of-the-week…
Cobber cross country gave it their all at the NCAA Central Regional Meet last weekend, with the women finishing 8th, just missing the last Nationals slot, and the men pulling in at 18th. The Cobbers had some tough competition going into the regional meet. Three out of the five top-finishing schools were from the MIAC…
Everyone has been on a date with him, from students to faculty. Yet few even know how to pronounce his last name, and none have ever actually met him. Who is this mystery man? Carl B. Ylvisaker. Carl B. was born on Jan. 13, 1896 and passed away in April of 1945. In those 49…
Voting polls opened in the Knutson Campus Center Tuesday; for the first time in campus history, students living on campus could cast ballots in the Atrium. The counting machines showed that 728 ballots were collected. Senior Ryan Mahon, poll volunteer, said the day was exhausting. The following are state and federal results from Clay County…
The photojournalism for this piece was done by Ali Everts, The Concordian.
“How long is a piece of string?” This was how long Ruthie Stein, a Concordia junior, had to hike to get to the overnight rest stop on the second to last night of English Professor Scott Olsen’s week-long trip to Scotland. Put another way, it could be only a few feet or it could be…
The semester just got a little longer. Concordia College faculty are now required to utilize the finals period as a part of new federal law that defines a credit hour and its corresponding seat time. High default rates on guaranteed student loan money and Pell grants by students attending online schools led to this regulation,…
Reverend Elizabeth “Elly” McHan never wanted to be a pastor. She is, however, now the latest addition to Concordia’s ministry. Her father was a pastor, and she remembers how hard he worked. So when it came time to choose a career, McHan said, “The only thing I knew was that I would not be a…
Students will delve into learning about collapsed cultures in next semester’s new religion class “Encountering Despair and Radical Hope.” The class was awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities last March. “We’ll look at the way individuals have responded to radical cultural breakdown,” said Stewart Herman, professor of religion and one of…