From 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, Concordia students can file into Anderson Commons to stack a new drink atop their usual breakfast menu. The smoothie flavor put out is different from the last, and with everything from raspberry to “Peach Mango Power”, they still share one commonality: “I like how they’re…
On Jan. 13, 2025, Grace Halvorson, SGA President, and Mariana Martins Carvalho, SGA Sustainability Advocate, posted a reel on Instagram discussing their new initiative, Cobbers for Cobbers. “This initiative will repackage leftover food from Anderson Commons,” Halvorson said, “And put it into frozen meal kits that will be in the Cobber Food Pantry for students.” …
At the beginning of the spring semester, Concordia students returned to campus to find their usual dining hall glasses missing. Where the thick glass cups that had been a staple at Anderson Commons used to tower, stacks of plastic cups sat instead. This was not the first time students found their usual utensils swapped while…
By Justin Monroe In October of 2016, a few mindful students and faculty combined their efforts to figure out a solution for reducing the amount of food wasted in Concordia’s Anderson Commons, giving life to the Taste Not Waste campaign. Taste Not Waste has implemented strategies not only into the experience of dining on campus,…
Concordia College announces their goal to reduce plate waste 50 percent by the year 2020. The Taste Not Waste campaign aims to reduce plate waste by increasing awareness in order to promote a behavioral change at Concordia College. The USDA reports 30 to 40 percent of the food supply in the United States is never…
For students with special dietary needs, navigating through Dining Services can be tricky. It is hard to know what ingredients may be hiding in the multitude of dishes being served every day. Hopefully, that is going to change. Dining Services currently provides resources for students with special dietary needs to check for ingredients online on…
After its recent endorsement of Concordia’s divest movement, Dining Services has launched a parallel campaign to focus on a campus digest movement. To divest is to have universities reallocate their funds away from companies involved in extracting fossil fuels and into more sustainable investments. To digest is to cause the chemical and physical breakdown of…
The number of students who need or wish to have a gluten-free diet is increasing, and Dining Services is putting great effort into accommodating all of them. “Over the past several years, [gluten-free diets have] become more prevalent,” said Nicole Crouch, assistant director of DS. There are some students who prefer eating gluten-free for other…
Before I begin I want to point out that I have no affiliation with Dining Services, financial or political. (This is why I have not officially endorsed Susan’s bid for the U.S. presidency.) The only power DS holds over me is dictating which flavor of coffee I’ll drink each day. Thus, it is with total…
During my time as a Cobber, I have allowed most changes made to furniture arrangements and eating implements in Anderson Commons to pass me by with little comment. Perhaps I grumbled at first when they began to replace the angular black bowls with the round white bowls last year, and perhaps I was momentarily confused…