SEPTEMBER 2017 VOLUME 55 I ISSUE 1 EST.THE SWORD 1966 3 Club Spotlight: Ignite Leadership Program BY HARRY LIEN 8 Ode to Kos BY MARK "LUNCH" MCKENZIE 10 Does Social Media Fulfill the Human Need for Communication? BY JULIE HAGERT 13 Theater Spotlight: Alex Johnson BY EDEN GARMAN Year Two in the Currier Era Building on the Rock Article, credit to Josh Deer THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL CSP PUBLICATION AND DOES NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE VIEWS OF THE ADMINISTRATION, FACULTY, OR STAFF. SPECIAL THANKS TO THE CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS. l Tiu, Sword Newspop"r SEPTEMBER 2017 VOLUME 55 I ISSUE 1 retain a sense of hope and empowerment. We hope that when the need arises,you will tum disappointment into productive action. With this in mind, along with current problems we will highlight the many positive events that are happening Photo IJy Brooke Stcigau[ within and beyond our campus. And when LETTER FROM reported events seem THE EDITOR negative, we hope they N°I spur all of us into a BY BROOKE STEIGAUF place of empowerment, stubborn idealism, and ORDER ONLINE AT good newspaper underneath it all, a place . reflects the to put the love we have for our world. TOPPERS.COM A world we live in--a world of contrasting events and The most accurate beliefs. Newspapers representation of our can powerfully affect reality reveals multiple readers' perspectives on sides of any issue. So past and current events. take the st;ge,join the In this paper, our goal debate, give us your is to present reality ideas and opinions, and however harsh it may be, amid the controversy we and to give readers an will learn together. CSP opportunity to expand is a complex and lively their perspectives on campus, and all of our matters that affect voices have value. While them either directly or this newspaper is printed indirectly. Current news in black and white, our gives us a snapshot of ideas and events happen our world and a chance in full color! to examine it with a critical eye. The best service a newspaper can ofter Sometimes that critical is to expand people's eye can appear to awareness, hope, and highlight "nothing but compassion. It is up to bad news" as well as the us to spread the word. current and dispiriting concept of "fake news." Brooke Steigauf But we believe that Editor..:in-Chief you, our readers, can 2 Tne Sword Ncwspap"'r SEPTEMBEB. 2017 VOLUME 55 I IS5UE 1 NEWS Club Spotlight: Expanding Concordia: Ignite Leadership Program The Brand New Nursing Program BY HARRY LIEN BY BRIANNA HOLTMEIER ":'rksh_op, Development Graduate is nursing program saying, to go into after passing F romto service tnps, intern to construct a C oncordiabecoming too "I like the community the National Council the Ignite leadership portfolio . big for its three- aspect and how Licensure Examination Leadership Program that may be utilized for block campus. With new supportive all of the (NCLEX). Kendra Saal, offers students access to future career purposes. programs and students nursing staff are and the BSN Pre-Licensure leadership opportunities flooding in, Concordia they want to help us Track Department and collaboration with During this fall break, has jumped across the succeed." Chair, informed me other student leaders. Ignite Leadership highway to house its that many students are Entering its tenth year will be attending the Doctor of Physical The bachelor's degree offered employment at Concordia University, Camp Victory retreat Therapy program, as in nursing can be from the institution the program is open center in Zumbro Falls, well as its brand new achieved in six semesters where they complete to all undergraduates Minnesota where they Bachelor of Science in after completing the their preceptorship. and allows for flexible will partake in initiatives Nursing (BSN) degree pre-requisite courses scheduling. The program and relationship building beginning this fall of including Biology I, Saal stated, "Looking at provides unique monthly activates. They will also 2017. Nursing is one General Chemistry the future for nursing, workshops, service bond with their fellow of the broadest and I, Anatomy and the need continues to learning opportunities, members around the most necessary job Physiology I & II, rise for nurses." CSP is service trips, and campfire and through fields, and it is exciting and Introduction to proud to be offering the strength building other recreational for Concordia to have Psychology. Once opportunity to complete exercises. activities. The program branch out into it. enrolled in the program, nursing education here is also leading three Nursing, as a nearly future riurses will be and equip the next The program is service trips this year recession-proof job with able to work in labs with generation of care givers. structured around to Nicaragua, Costa their constant need, is human simulators that two tiers, "Ignite" and Rica, and Houston over a very rewarding field have heartbeats, respond "Impact." To graduate at the winter and spring as well. Concordia St. to medications, have the entry level oflgnite, breaks. Paul is responding to the seizures, and even assist students must complete demand for more nurses births. Nursing students twenty hours of service Kimberly Newton, head by offering their very are then able to practice learning, attend at of the Ignite Leadership own program. the skills they learn, least one workshop, program,saysthe such as implementing and meet the point program is great for After the close of an IV or catheter, on requirements through anyone and allows for Globe University a mannequin that the program's electives. students to articulate in December 2016, responds as a human Upon graduation of the leadership skills. If you Concordia was fortunate patient would, but first tier, students are to are interested in joining to gain several of their without the risk of receive a completion of Ignite Leadership, nursing professors harming the patient. the program on their students can register on and students. With an This is an incredibly official transcript and are the Ignite Leadership already tight knit group valuable asset for the also eligible to continue tab on the Comet's of professors working students, as they can with the program in Connection app or harmoniously together, watch recordings of the next tier. The goal contact the CALL the program is planning their lab work and assess oflmpact is to take the Center at CALL@csp. for an expansion in their what they can improve leadership skills they edu. Ignite Leadership is faculty to be able to on verses what they did acL-umulated in Ignite hosting a workshop on welcome the projected well. and implement them October 4th at 10:30 am 40 new nursing students onto our campus. and 4:30pm. each semester. Currently, As well as simulation there are twenty- labs, nursing students To complete Impact, six nursing students will complete ten clinical students must fulfill a enrolled at CSP, with visits throughout the senior leadership role, twenty-three coming program where they take meet an additional from Globe University, a field trip into a nursing points requirement one transfer, and two setting and participate in program electives, students just beginning in the nursing tasks. The and organize their the program. Nicole final clinical is called own Ignite workshop. Parsons, a first-year in a preceptorship where Upon completion the program, explained the student spends 105 of the program, her reasoning behind hours in the specific students will work choosing Concordia's nursing track they wish with the Leadership 3 Th,• Sword Newspap<,r SEPTEMBER 2017 VOLUME 55 I ISSCE l NEWS Faculty Spotlight: The Smartwatch Craze: Kendra Saal Do Fitness Monitors Increase Fitness? BY BRIANNA HOLTMEIER BY BRIANNA HOLTMEIER nterested in the new Bachelor of Science in alking Nursing (BSN) Pre-Licensure program is through the I rampant here at Concordia? Kendra Saal is W halls, the a pivotal member of the nursing faculty as the unmistakable glint of a BSN Department Chair and teaches several of the smartwatch glimmers nursing courses. Saal first became interested in the from countless wrists. field when her triplets were born premature. She According to Kantar saw firsthand the amount of care nurses gave to vVearable Technology's her babies, and she was inspired and motivated to report, twelve percent become a nurse herself of consumers in the United States use a After sending her three children off to kindergarten, fitness tracker. 'This new Saal enrolled in Lakeview College of Nursing to health craze continues pursue her ambition. Saal then went back to the to grow as consumers specialization that had moved her to become a nurse jump agilely onto the in the first place. She spent ten years working in bandwagon. Fitness the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Labor bands keep endeavoring and Delivery, the Special Care Pediatric ·wing, and exercisers personally Apple Watd1 fmm u:du:adar.eom substituted as a school nurse. During that time, Saal accountable and provide attained her Masters in Nursing from the University individualized fitness of calories burned and Nevertheless, both concern could be for of Phoenix and became interested in nursing goals. Depending on the amount of exercise per groups did lose weight. the watches that have education. gadget, wearers may also day. Tracking one's fitness capabilities without be reminded to get up using one mode or being synced to a Saal later became employed as a nursing faculty off the couch, coached On the other side of the another in combination smartphone. member at Globe University and taught nursing in relaxing breathing spectrum, the :fitness with a healthy diet does theory, labs, and clinicals. She made her way from routines, heart rate is tracked population improve health.