COBBlog

If you are at all familiar with Douglas Adams novel, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” you know that those two words are written in large, friendly letters on the book’s cover. It’s fitting, then, that I chose to do my senior research paper—a 30-35 page endeavor—on a book that is so encouraging.

At Concordia, most of the majors offered culminate in a Capstone class. This year, the English Capstone class is called “From Page to Stage to Screen,” and as you might have guessed, our focus is to look at books that have been adapted to both film and stage productions. Essentially, our goal is to take all of the knowledge that we have acquired over four years on literary theory and apply it in our papers, exploring why and how the book was adapted.

Pretty cool, right? I mean, we get to watch movies! But wait: it gets better… (more…)

Brrr! Usually the end of February means the beginning of the Northern Minnesota thaw. It begins to warm up a little bit and the wind begins to cease its arctic chill. However, the past couple of weeks have been unusually cold and the wind hasn’t diminished one bit. Although I enjoy the beautiful pure white snow and crisp winter air, I am ready for a change. Fortunately for me and about 70 other Cobbers that I know, change isn’t too far off.

At about 11:00am this Saturday, February 23, 2008, the Concordia Choir will be headed out on a tour of the South. We have worked long and hard on our music and we are ready to hit the road and have some fun! Our first performance will take place in Benson Great Hall at Bethel University. From there we will continue to head south to the following:

Des Moines, Iowa

Normal, Illinois

Manchester, Missouri

Bartlett, Tennessee – home to our very own Grant Vanderford

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