The Black Students Union, for one of its maiden events since its inauguration a year ago, took up the mantel of organizing the annual Hip Hop Summit this year. The Hip Hop Summit was previously organized by the Hip Hop Congress, a national committee that has a chapter on campus. Last year, however, the Congress…
The search for a new dean of arts and sciences is nearing its completion after campus visits were conducted in March by the three final candidates. The committee responsible for the search is currently reviewing the responses of faculty, administrators and students who attended these campus visits. Michael Wanous was the first of the three…
The search for new personnel to succeed Concordia’s departing ensemble directors has borne fruit of late. The music department has announced choir director Michael Smith’s successor and has narrowed the candidates for band director Scott Jones’s down position to three finalists. The two departures come during a particularly unique period of transition for the music…
During the past couple of weeks I’ve done a lot of traveling. I usually don’t travel much, so spending more time on the move is a different experience for me, and I’ve certainly enjoyed some time away doing something different. As always, packing for trips can be the most challenging aspect of one’s trip. My…
Senior Adele Young sat sipping her drink as her friends dug into their Applebee’s half-priced appetizers. As chips dove into her favorite appetizer, spinach and artichoke dip, Adele nibbled her no-name, horrible tasting allergen free power bar. The smell of the warm foods wafted through the air, and she looked on enviously, realizing the white…
The Men’s golf team is off to a good start this season. The team reached a final score of 298 for their first spring meet at the St. John’s Triangular on April 6. St. John’s came in at 297, leaving the Cobbers in 2nd Place behind the nationally ranked team. Visit the athletics homepage here…
It has been a long winter; the tan lines of last summer have completely gone, but despair not! The sun has finally come out again, and the clocks have moved forward. This is the time of year when one realizes that Fargo-Moorhead is actually a great place to be, so how does one take advantage…
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When Nikky Finney, the 2012 National Book Award winner for poetry, was asked why coming to the National Book Awards at Concordia was so important to her, she simply shook her head, pointed to the long snaking line of fans eagerly waiting behind me to meet her, and whispered, “That.” Concordia hosted its seventh annual…
Hunger Games. Somehow this whole article started with Hunger Games: from my weird, aggressive personality to the movie I saw this last weekend. I waited for weeks to see the movie once it came out. Partly, I waited to see it with my lovely little sister (future Cobber class of 2016, whaddup), as sentimentality strikes…