Tag: college
Student experiences the feared alone time
Look at you! Seriously! Look! What are you doing? You’re just sitting there in the atrium, doing nothing. Nothing! On this campus? I have two questions for you. How dare you? Who do you think you are? I can’t add clapping hands emojis in between words to emphasize my point in a newspaper, but I…
Declining enrollment not always a bad thing
When a child is born, he or she has just a few years of life free from responsibilities outside the home. During these years, the child learns to walk, speak and fit into society. At four years old, the child has learned enough to finally attend school, at which point he or she may begin…
The high cost of higher education
When was the last time you were stressed about money? I’m going to guess it was within the past week — maybe even the past 24 hours. According to the “International Business Times,” 60 percent of students are stressed about not having enough money for school and 30 percent are stressed about paying monthly expenses….
Recruiting student athletes without sports scholarships
Walk into any high school and pick out a handful of athletes and ask them what they want to do after their high school athletic careers have ended. You may get the answer of, “continue playing.” While there are a wide variety of college institutions to choose from, not all are able to give athletic…
A toast to Cord from a transfer
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…
Baseball team adjusts after losing key players
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…
How Concordia handles plagiarism
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…
Zylstra offered CFL contract, still pursing NFL dreams
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…
What is consent? Cobbers talk about sexual assault
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…