Concordia Suffered from High Number of Failures First Semester Heather Hauschild 1994-95 Academic Year, Where Fall." Reasons
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the ONCORDIAA Student Newspaper for the Concordia Community N Concordia College, Moorhead MN January 20,1995 Volume 92, Number 2 Concordia suffered from high number of failures first semester Heather Hauschild 1994-95 academic year, where fall." reasons. Another has been moving currently it stands at 25 percent students were asked to leave Lanning explained that part of the drop date forward from the "On the opposite end of the grading Editor Concordia College because of this jump in academic failures is 10th week to the eighth week. So spectrum, the number of Fs has their grade point average. Last due to policy changes in grading. that has perhaps put a little bit increased from 1.4 percent in he growing problem of year, there were 12 hard drops Vice President for Academic more pressure on students to make 1991, to 2.4 percent after the first student failures in after the first semester. Affairs Bob Homann explained a decision about what they want to semester of 1994-95. T academics is becoming a Approximately half the number of those changes: "We've done away do with a particular course." Concordia adheres to a process concern of faculty and drops for this year included with the incomplete except for According to available of guidance for students who may administration at Concordia members of the first-year class. extenuating circumstances, and statistics, grade distribution by be in trouble academically. College. "The number of D's and Fs where students might have been percentage of the total student Lanning said that faculty have a According to Morrie Lanning, given by faculty is up," said able to convince a faculty member body showed that after the first referral system, and if students are Dean of Students at Concordia, Lanning, "and it's been trending to give an incomplete in previous semester of 1991, 26.5 percent of in trouble individual faculty can there were 40 hard drops at the up in the last few years; and we semesters now that's not allowed grades were A's. This percentage end of the first semester during the saw an increase again this past except under narrowly described has steadily gone down, and Please see page 3 Seven dead in Let it snow, let it snow Moorhead apartment fire A cigarette left in a couch started an apartment fire Saturday that killed a single mother and her six children, said authorities who called the blaze the worst in their city's history. A preliminary autopsy indicated that all seven victims died from smoke inhalation and that the mother, identified as 31- year-old Teni Ann Carrillo, had a blood alcohol level of more than .30 — three times the legal limit Police identified the other victims as Jose Rufegio Carrillo, Jr., 10; Everardo Aguilar, 8; Lazette Francis Hernandez, 6; Tabitha Ann Hernandez, 5; Francisco Hernandez, Jr., 4; and Daniel Ron Arriaga, who would have turned 2 later this month. Carrillo and her children had moved into the apartment about three weeks ago after fire damaged their home in north Moorhead, said Norman Garcia, a neighbor who lived upstairs. The Fargo-Moorhead area reported A witness to the earlier blaze approximately six inches of snowfall said the 3-year-old playing with a during the Tuesday, Jan. 17 storm. cigarette lighter had caused that As students and staff walked to class fire. The family escaped injury. in a winter wonderland, some stopped to 'They were lucky to be alive play while others worked on. Snowmen the first time. This time no one suddenly sprung up around Concordia's was lucky," said Garcia, who was campus. among the 11 people evacuated from the fourplex near Moorhead Three sophomores thought Tuesday's State University. snowfall was the perfect time to blow off Carrillo probably dropped the some steam. Amy Thuesen, left, Matt cigarette on the couch before she Desing and Susan Lawson found time went to bed, said Moorhead Fire for a snowball fight between classes. Lt Lyle Gernand. Physical Plant employees tried 'Thinking and smoking is such combatting the losing battle of keeping a lethal combination," he said. paths clear during the storm. uAny time drinking and smoking is involved together, you up the photos by Holly L. Anderson Please see page 3 ^- the ^T 2 CONCORDIAN NEWS January 20,1995 •!• 1 *gotJ»Wa&g &&U tefmtelvmMm. NHIMMN The Concordian is the recipient Bnef... journalistic "All-American" award Fisher Memorial Melanie Hoffert points to qualify for the award. desire to revive the legacy of The The Concordian finished with 935 Concordian drove him to set to be held Staff Writer points to receive the distinguished standards for the type of paper he title. The score did not qualify wanted to see produced. The past definite approach, a A memorial service is them for an "Ail-American" gave him a lot to live up to. desire to echo greatness scheduled for Tara Fisher, the award which was presented to the According to Bjerga, being aware A and the urge to go out on paper for a number of consecutive of the tradition and studying the Concordia student who was a limb can all be attributed to killed over Christmas years beginning in the 1930s and newspaper's approach to award-winning 1994 editions of vacation in an automobile continuing until 1972. The journalism led him to use The The Concordian. The 1994 accident The service will scoring system, however, was Concordian itself as a model for newspaper staff, under editor take place at 9:45 in Chapel, equivalent to the scoring system his paper style. "There are Alan Bjerga combined these Wednesday, Jan. 25 in the used when The Concordian definite echoes of those papers in elements to bring the student Centrum. received the string of "All- last year's issues." paper back into the award winning American" honors and the award "If I could change one thing legacy of excellence it held in holds an equivalent distinction of about the newspaper of that previous years. excellence. period, I would have made it more International According to Bjerga it was "to "One of my goals as The even-handed in its function as a Model Search be a paper which strives to Concordian editor during 1993- critic." Bjerga said. "But I think provide a more comprehensive 1994 academic year was a return it's better for a newspaper to be Concordian^ continually strive coming to Fargo and thoughtful treatment of its of the newspaper to die standards too liberal than too conservative. for excellence. "Quality campus," turning away from "the of excellence it held during the It makes for a better learning journalism can, and does, flourish easy rut of student politics, sports years it was an All-American level experience.*' at this college. Hopefully, this A preliminary screening scores and campus press releases newspaper,** Bjerga said. Bjerga's Bjerga would like to see the award will begin another string of event will be hosted by Palm which make for a standard, but national recognition for the Group Ltd., one of the dull, newspaper.*' Apparently his excellence that can be produced at world's largest model approach was right. The 1994 Concordia college's student scouting firms, at 6:30 p.m. editions of The Concordian has newspaper.** on Monday, Jan. 23. The earned high honors and a title Apparently, The Concordian event will take place at the which has not been captured since will continue to strive toward the Holiday Inn in Fargo. 1968 by The Concordian. As a "Quality journalism can, same excellence advocated by Finalists will be chosen, and result of a submitting issues from Bjerga. Heather Hauschild, the invited to attend the March 25, April 15, and April 22, and does, flourish at this editor of the 1994-95 newspaper International Model Search in 1994 by Bjerga, The Concordian plans to submit this year's paper Minneapolis in April. For received a "First Place with college." to the All-American contest. more information, call 1-800- Special Merit" award from the "Without a doubt Bjerga's paper MODEL-58. American Scholastic Press -Alan Bjerga exceeded the standards that this Association. This award has not newspaper has had in the past. He been captured by the paper for 22 editor, 1993-1994 The Concordian. Date Rape deserved to see The Concordian years. get this award, and I feel we have workshop to be A newspaper must have a score developed the excellence he has held of 900 out of a possible 1,000 started.*' The YMCA of NDSU will be holding a workshop dealing with date rape issues on Student Senate approves two Wednesday, Jan. 25. The workshop is on campus, and is free to the public. Among the speakers are Tim Lee, a more budgets in Sunday night NDSU Police Chief, Carol Grimm and Tom Rohleder of the Rape and Abuse Crisis Center and Marlys Borkhuis, a NDSU counselor. For more meeting information, call the YMCA at 235-8772. Heather Hauschild Robert Smith, one item of the SA budget, this money will go of the senators. Chief of Staff budget (Donafs) towards speakers and a coupon TTiere were two organizations Editor was taken out of reserve fund book. of the week for Jan. 15-21. Hie eated debates did not monies rather than the student The revenue and allocation first organization to be honored proliferate, and in activity fee. An SOS year-to-year report for Jan. 15, presented by was the Gaming Club for their H another brief meeting of calendar, with a cost of $554, was Treasurer Corwin Hoik, showed Game-a-thon.