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Textbook purchasing Leah Kay working towards alternatives - Page 3 another All-American - Page 4 IFtWAY,...11Afoory• liVMACQA4,10,44# NCORDIA l'he student-run newspaper ot Concordia College, Moorhead, Minne it- 0 .,,11 MLK EVENTS MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR, DAY Day JANUARY 18, 2010 events 8:10-9:40 a.m. "The Content 'of their Character" planned Sponsored and presented by the Women's Studies Program BY MARY BEENKIN 9:50-10:30 a.m. Staff Writer Chapel On Jan. 18, Student Gov- Karis Thompson, ernment Association will Concordia College Alum '02 help students celebrate Mar tin Luther King Jr. Day with 10:30a.m.-noon the help of Campus Ministry "Living like Mama D: Commission and Campus Lessons in Leadership and Service Commission. The Community Service" events, which will take place Brent Scarpo throughout the day, will fea- ture speakers, a video pre- PHOTO BY TANA FLATEN sentation, and a variety of 12:15-1 p.m. The blanket of snow that fell in Fargo-Moorhead over break has kept the area looking white as snow continues to fall in January. service projects to be carried "A Force More Powerful" But the big question is whether or not it will cause record-breaking flooding, like that of last. out on Saturday, Jan. 16. Video and discussion in Brita Shoemaker, chair The Maize of the MLK Day commit- With the rains coming down, tee, said that this year the 1:20-2:30 p.m. event will focus on different "Why Not '...the Content aspects of community, from ofTheir Character?' The diversity to service. Processes of Social will the flood come back up? "We're always talking Categorization" about how we need to get Dr. Mark Covey, BY JENNIFER HARVEY of reaching these levels in like it was last year, there will what point the snow melts in out into the community" Professor of Psychology Staff Writer spring 2010. be nowhere for any melting the spring. Last year the snow she said. "Through a com- However, it is important snow to go. melted relatively quickly, so if munity there's change—it 2:40-3:50 p.m. Rising waters, muddy to know that river levels of 18 The second contributor this year's melt is more con- takes a community to change The Civil Rights movement feet are considered to be mi- to flooding is the amount it trolled, there should not be a thought process." boots, and evacuating resi- through the eyes of a dents filled the streets of nor, with only a few lanes of snows. Hutch Johnson, Me- as many issues with saturated Students will have the Cobber Fargo-Moorhead last spring. traffic scheduled to be closed. teorologist with Valley News land and rising river levels. opportunity to work with Dr. Richard R Green, The question many people Daryl Ritchison, Meteo- Live, explained that, based Also, some might remember the YMCA, YWCA, New Concordia College Alum '6 are asking this year is, will it rologist at Fargo's WDAY on warmer sea-surface tem- that the flood of 2009 was Sudanese Community Asso- all happen again? station, explained the four peratures, known as El Nino, impeded by a blizzard during ciation Moorhead, and the The data shows that al- largest factors in what deter- the outlook for the rest of the sandbagging efforts. Rape and Abuse Crisis Cen- 7-8:30 p.m. though the Red River reach- mines whether flooding will this winter is warmer than Although at the time the ter. "Journey to a Hate-Free es the flood stage almost result in a few closed roads or average. He also said that last sandbagging volunteers were This year, the service Millennium" every year, it rarely reaches have major repercussions. month ended with about four freezing, this occurrence ac- projects will be taking place Brent Scarpo the critical heights it did last The first factor that con- inches less snowfall than usu- tually helped slow the rate of the weekend before the spring. The National Weath- tributes to flooding is the al, so there should not be the melting. Periods of freezing event because, unlike _ in quickies er Service categorizes a rise precipitation in the fall and heavy snowfall component and melting are a normal part years past, Cobbers do not of 18 feet as reaching flood the amount of water that that there was last year. of spring and will aid in malc- get a day off from classes for stages and is currently fore- saturates the soil. If the soil is The next contributing MLK Day this year. A new hands-on classroom for learning Chinese language and casting a 98.5 percent chance soaked at the time it snows, factor is how quickly and at Kaitlin Weis, who is orga- More FORECAST Page 3 culture opened in November nizing the chapel service for at The Forest, Concordia's MLK Day, thinks that this is International Retreat Center a good thing. Weis points out near Stillwater, Minn. that the motto for this year's The Confucius Classroom Technology updates have national MLK day Web site, was funded by a $50,000 grant which also plans service proj- through the Confucius Institute ects is "Make it a day on, not at the University of Minnesota. a day off." The funding allowed Concordia "Instead of pushing aside Language Villages to create new kept IT staff on their feet what we normally do, we're curriculum to offer students an overnightVillage Field Trip BY LEIF STAVIG technical staff attempted to adding to it," she said. Staff Writer manipulate the bandwidth, Sheila Borgerding, who is in Chinese language, culture, but it was soon clear that organizing the day's service history and current events. Concordia has recently something had to be done. events, said that working in Students pay a nominal fee to been dealing a lot with tech- To solve the problem, 702 the Fargo-Moorhead com- attend with the grant covering nology, from implementing Communications doubled munity was a logical addition the remaining costs. new features to dealing with the bandwidth for the dorms, to the MLK Day celebration. Concordia music faculty Russ challenges. Even when class- from 45 to 90 megabytes per "MLK was devoted to Peterson will be holding a es aren't in session, the tech- second. The bandwidth on service," she said. "It made recital and CD release party nical staff works diligently to campus, which has always sense to add that compo- Friday, January 15 in Christian improve technology around been faster than the dorms, nent." Recital Hall, Hvidsten Hall of campus to make tasks easier was also increased from 6o to Brogerding also believes Music. The event is free and too MB/s. Increasing band- King recognized the role of for the faculty, staff, and stu- open to the public. dents. width in response to higher community in changing the New Changes demand is expected to hap- views of a society and points On behalf of Concordia, Shelia One of the new tech- pen again in the near future. out that it isn't something Borgerding ' I 0, Chelle Lyons nological advancements on "[Bandwidth] is a pipe that can be done by just one Hanson and Provost Krejci campus has been the substan- that will do nothing but get person. accepted an award for many tially increased bandwidth, bigger," said Vieweg. "A lot of times we try to volunteer hours of service at which allows for faster Inter He is certain that band- just do it ourselves, but soon the Great Plains Food Bank. net. The change was made in width will be increased again we find we need others," For more info about voluteer- response to the heavy Inter within the next few years. she said. "We don't just go ing in the community, check net use across campus. Although the increased through the world alone." out CSC. Bruce Vieweg, Concor bandwidth is substantial, In addition to serving in dia's chief information offi- some students haven't no- the area, SGA wants to give cer, said that the bandwidth ticed the change. students the opportunity was maxing out, or getting "I didn't even know they to experience the diversity completely used up, essen- did anything," said Sopho- of the Concordia commu- tially every night in the dor Bruce Vieweg and Dennis Duncan and other technical staff keep nity. Speakers this year will THXBRC! mitories. To prevent the More UPDATES ►I Page 3 busy making updates and improvements on campus. THE CONCORDIAN dorms from maxing out, the More MLK I■ Page 3 INDEX WEEKEND WEATHkh CONTACT US Cold weather, If you can say nothing else for it, certainly produces a number of changes on campus. E-mail: [email protected] News pages 1-3 These are quite obvious; for instance the bare tree branches Campus Mailbox: FPO 214 and the white jurtk which mercifully covers the mangy brown Sports page 4 News Phone: 218.299.3826 fuzz that passes for grass in North Dakota and Minnesota. 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