Shopping during the Christmas season can be tricky, especially on a student schedule and budget, so here’s a guide to help you on your holiday shopping endeavors. We’ve broken gifts down into five main categories: Twi-hard, sustainable person, manly man, girly girl and wild card. These categories might not be all-inclusive, but perhaps they will…
The trouble with TOMS
Concordia students frequently do great charitable work for the campus community, the Fargo-Moorhead area, and the world, but one philanthropic trend on campus that I don’t understand is the TOMS shoes fixation. Concordia has had a “TOMS @ Concordia” club since the fall of 2009, and besides promoting TOMS shoes, they also hold events like…
Facebook: Both friend and foe
Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel hosted a “National Defriend Day” for Facebook users on Nov. 17—a day that gives you the freedom to delete the creepers on Facebook who friended you after one semester of class together and feel guilt-free doing it. According to a recent Washington Post article, Kimmel “decided society needs to…
Dance Fever
It’s Tuesday afternoon, and miraculously your chemistry class got out a few minutes early. You scoot across the ice to Knutson as quickly as you can because you know the 12:10-12:50 lunch rush is worse than Wal-Mart on Black Friday. As you enter Knutson, Anderson Commons in sight, your path is suddenly blocked. Junior Kyle…
December 8, 2010
On our final episode of the semester, Brittany and Yaw tell us about the upcoming finals week. Kaia lets us know how the Cobbers go All American and in A& E we take a sleigh ride with Katie and Leah. We wish you all safe travels and a Merry Chris…
Concordia cuts 17 positions, reallocates $1.5 mil
Concordia College will lose 17 employees in the next year due to a budget reallocation. Since salary and benefits constitute the largest sum in the budget, the reallocation committee comprised of the vice presidents and the provost decided that it would need to cut employees. “Many of these reductions will occur as your normal course…
Music Hall or Bust
It seems that all of Concordia is in the midst of construction and renovation lately. Knutson and Anderson saw their massive overhaul a couple years ago. The Jake is being re-done with artificial turf and new parking lots. The science complex of Jones and Ivers have just announced their plans for a dramatic change of…
The freshman 15
Upperclassmen: drop that caramel roll and take note. Worry about weight gain does not end with the Freshman 15, according to a new study conducted by Indiana University, Bloomington. The study included 1,672 students at Indiana University and found that freshmen spend four more hours exercising per week than seniors. In addition, freshmen walked about…
Cobbers help refugees adjust to life in F-M
Refugees fleeing war-torn countries have a difficult time communicating and understanding differences in culture and daily life. Concordia students are engaging in service learning activities that help clarify simple activities like grocery shopping and going to the library. Communication Studies and Theater Arts Professor Hank Tkachuk’s Intercultural Communication course uses relationships with refugee families in…
Retention rate rises 4-5 points
Over the past three years, Concordia’s student retention rate for first to second year students has increased from 79-80 percent to 84 percent. “This is a significant increase for any college over that time period,” Mike Reese, coordinator of Student Success and Retention Services, said. In comparison, the most current retention rates available for other…