Rain started pouring for several days in parts of Colorado on Sept. 12, with a total of more than 18 inches of rainfall in parts of Boulder County and nearly 16 inches in Adams County, according to CNN.com.

!e "ooding has damaged thousands of homes and has taken the lives of eight individuals as of Sept. 24.

!is news hits close to home for some Concordia University students.

Sophomore Cassandra Nagel lives in Lafayette in Boulder County. Rain poured down in her area for three days, "ooding many streets and homes and causing the deaths of people she knew.

Two students from Nagel’s high school, a man and a woman, drowned when the woman opened her car door and was swept away by the current.

“He died trying to save her,” Nagel said. Nagel’s family and their home were unharmed,

but they were told to stay inside for a while and her siblings did not go to school for three days.

However, their neighbor less than one mile away had to be evacuated from the house by boat.

A bridge collapsed near Nagel’s home and a rescue team had to help the people get out of their car.

“It’s sort of scary knowing your family’s going through that and not be able to experience it with them,” Nagel said.

Other damage in Nagel’s area included "ooded basements and a large amount of natural debris.

Gravel from bike trails in her area had been washed away to the point where the plastic underneath was visible.

Sophomore Brady Laib from Colorado Springs said his area was not as a#ected, but his best friend attends the University of Colorado-Boulder.

“His experience was a lot di#erent,” Laib said. Laib said his friend’s classes were canceled for

days because Boulder experienced such extreme “hurricane-level "ooding” that people were riding

down the streets in boats. Hope Menges, a junior transfer student from

Littleton said many highways around her town were closed because they were flooded or had collapsed under the water weight.

“!e funny part was we were just in a huge drought,” Menges said.

Menges said it was strange to see pictures of "ooding in the areas she had been recently. She said one park now looks like a lake with only the tips of the trees sticking out.

“That was weird because I go there in the summer all the time to go hiking,” Menges said.

Laib agreed that seeing pictures is strange for him. He said one picture showed the Coast Guard helping in Boulder, which is unusual because Colorado is a landlocked state.

Menges said although her family is $ne, at $rst seeing the news was scary.

“Wednesday night and Thursday morning I was really anxious because I hadn’t heard from anybody,”

Menges said. “I wish I could’ve been there.” Despite the a#ects of the "ooding, Nagel thinks

everyone will support one another. “My community is going to be pretty resilient

about it,” Nagel said.Besides the recent flooding, Colorado has

experienced both costly forest $res in the southern part of the state this summer and a shooting in an Aurora movie theater that left 12 dead in July 2012.

“I think that was the biggest thing that shocked everybody,” Menges said about the Aurora shooting.

Laib said all the events that have happened in Colorado in the past year are actually pushing people together.

“It’s become fashionable to have Colorado pride,” Menges said.

Nagel agreed.“My hope is that we always pull through,” she

said. “We’re a strong state. We’re Coloradans.”

photo courtesy of Reuters/John WarkFloods in Colorado in September caused damage to homes and roads as well as power outages and unsanitary conditions across multipe counties in the state.

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Homecoming variety show to be held Oct. 9

Concordia is gearing up for its traditional homecoming celebration with plenty of events, including the annual Variety Show at 7 p.m. on Oct. 9 in the Weller Hall auditorium.

!e Variety Show features a lineup of student acts and performances.

A nyo n e i s i nv i te d to audition to participate in the show, with acts ranging from comedy to music and dancing.

The show has exhibited

surprise appearances from faculty and sta# in past years.

L ast year featured an unexpected cameo from President Brian Friedrich.

The 2013 show is being organized by juniors Alyssa L e h e n b a u e r a n d J a c o b Toensing.

“I thought it would be a cool experience to get to organize it,” Toensing said. “I remember seeing it my freshman year and thinking how cool it would be to do that. So when I was given that opportunity, I took it.”

!e Variety Show typically lasts about an hour and a half

and aims to entertain students and sta# alike.

A considerable amount of preparation is needed, especially since each act has its own unique staging, instumental and prop needs.

“!ere are a lot of details and behind-the-scene things that I didn’t realize would need to be done,” Toensing said. “I’ve been learning as I go.”

Despite the challenges, Toensing and Lehenbauer said they have teamed up to bring Concordia students a unique and interesting homecoming event.

Looking Beyond series to feature philosophy scholar

Concordia will host Dr. Merold Westphal at 10 a.m. on Oct. 8 in the Weller Hall auditorium.

Concordia has invited prominent thinkers in Lutheran circles to speak to students and faculty about intriguing subjects which students can incorporate into their faith.

!e speakers are part of the Looking Beyond lecture series, supported by an ongoing donation made in part by Martin and Regina Maehr.

Westphal is a renowned author of 10 books and other reading materials that explore the relationship between philosophy and religion.

Westphal recently retired from a position at Fordham University in New York City where he was a professor of philosophy.

He will speak about postmodern thinking and its tie to the Christian faith, and about Soren Kierkegaard’s Lutheran critique of reason.

The lecture will focus on Kierkegaard’s statement that faith is about engaging in a spiritual and personal communication with God. Kierkegaard stressed being against

t h e r i g i d i t y o f r e l i g i o n , a n d r a t h e r focused on the i m p o r t a n c e of a person’s o w n d o u b t s and struggles, especially in our generation.

T h e i d e a o f “ l o o k i n g t h r o u g h t h e skeptic lens” is engrained into this generation, according to Professor Dirk Reek.

People try to understand the meaning behind an idea whether it is an advertisement on television or reasoning with one another, attempting to discover “the catch,” Reek said.

Within postmodernism people engage themselves to look within as believers and to focus on their personal spiritual well-being, Reek said.

Tricia Svoboda was one of several Concordia students who participated in a skeet shoot at the Oak Creek Sporting Club on Sunday, Sept. 29. !e event was held by Concordia’s Hunting and Fishing Club to recruit new members.

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Outdoor club to add new events

The Concordia Hunting and Fishing Club plans to be much more active in the 2013-14 school year. With a variety of events scheduled the club hopes to attract more members to actively participate.

On Sept. 29 the club hosted a skeet shoot at Oak Creek, located about 20 miles north of Seward. The free event took place from 1 to

5 p.m. and was open to the general public, though most participants were Concordia students and faculty. The event attracted between 20 and 30 participants.

A skeet shoot is much like golfing, said Nicholas Harding, a member of the club.

“ You have 18 holes,” Harding said, “and at each hole, a machine will shoot two clay targets up in the air.”

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5Water to !rive member visits Concordia

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Dr. Merold Westphal

Rain leaves billions of dollars in damage across dozens of CU students’ home state

!e IMPROVables will kick o# their $rst shows of the school year on Friday, Oct. 4 at 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. in the Black Box. Free tickets are available in the bookstore.

Concordia’s improvisational theater group has seen many changes over the years. No two of their shows are alike. Students of all ages and in all programs have participated.

Despite these di#erences, some aspects remain constant. !e IMPROVables always want to provide the Concordia community with free shows that are fun and family-friendly.

Natalie Kesar, a member of the group’s leadership panel, said the team is young this year.

“!ere are a lot of new people and things to learn,”

Kesar said. “We’re building from the basics this year.”In past years the IMPROVables had a more equal

mix of veteran and new actors, but panelist Andrew Crist, a sophomore, is excited to train new members.

“In the future, we’ll have even stronger people,” he said.

One of the most recognizable events hosted by the IMPROVables is the annual IMPROVathon, a 24-hour show used as a fundraiser to support a charitable cause.

Last year the money raised went to the Lutheran Malaria Initiative. Two years ago the Improvathon collected donations to help a local boy with autism receive communication software.

Kesar con$rmed that the IMPROVables will host the show again this year, but she said other details would be worked out later. Students who want to suggest charities are welcome to submit ideas.

Students are also invited to come to IMPROVables practices.

Panelist Conner Lloyd said the group is laid-back and welcoming. In past years students said they were intimidated by acting in front of people, but Lloyd said the group makes acting more comfortable.

“It’s not just for theater kids,” Lloyd, a junior, said.Kesar, a senior, said her time with the IMPROVables

has empowered her to speak in front of groups.“It’s important as a future teacher,” she said.She also said improvisational theater is a great

remedy for stress. “It’s like therapy. I never leave in a bad mood.”Crist said it builds con$dence and strengthens

friendships as well.The IMPROVables meet from 9:30-11:00 p.m.

on Mondays and !ursdays in the Black Box studio theater in the music building basement.

NEWS2 October 2, 2013

News BriefsPRE!LAW CLUB TO FORM

Concordia’s pre-law club will hold a meeting at 12 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 4, in the !om Leadership Education Center room 113 to identify students interested in law school and related topics. Contact Kathy Miller at Kathy.Miller@cune.edu with questions.

LOOKING BEYOND SERIES HOSTS SPEAKER

Dr. Merold Westphal will speak at Concordia at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 8, in the Weller Hall auditorium. Westphal will address questions of faith in the postmodern contexts of Martin Luther and Søren Kierkegaard.

BAND TO GIVE CONCERT OCT. 4.The University Symphonic Band

and Concert Band will give a joint performance at St. John Lutheran Church beginning at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 4.

SAC HOSTS FREE MOVIE NIGHT!e Student Activities Council will

sponsor “Despicable Me 2” in 3-D at the Rivoli Theatre on Friday, Oct. 4, beginning at 10:30 p.m. Tickets are free with a valid school I.D. at the Concordia Bookstore. Space is limited.

CYSTIC FIBROSIS RUN/WALK!e Pre-Med Club is holding a Great

Strides walk on Oct. 5 on the Plum Creek Trail. Registration begins at 7 a.m., with the run/walk to follow at 8 a.m. Participants may $ght against cystic $brosis by asking friends and family to sponsor them $nancially as walkers or runners. Contact Erika.Neugebauer@cune.org for more information.

Phi Beta Lambda hosts student panel

IMPROVables to perform this FridayCaitlynn Schwehn

Staff Writer

On Sept. 24 Concordia’s business club Phi Beta Lambda, formerly known as Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) held its second annual student panel to inform the Concordia community of the changes occurring within the club during the upcoming year as well as the goals it plans to achieve.

!e student panel consisted of $ve upperclassmen who are each in the business program: Tonya Johnson, senior and president; Rebecca Burk, junior and vice-president of communications and $nance; Rebecca Monnier, senior and vice-president of membership; Leah Eklof, junior; and Erik Ellison, senior. Beeson assisted by running the presentation.

Students from various programs attended and were able to ask questions about the business department, business casual dress, internships, on-campus and o#-campus jobs and a variety of other topics.

!e group also talked about the intentions it has throughout the year and how enthusiastic it is about getting its name out while gaining new members.

One of the factors the group highlighted was the importance of internships and jobs and how PBL and business classes help achieve those opportunities.

Terence Heiser, a junior and a member of PBL, has an internship this semester with the business o%ce at Concordia, working with reports and $nance numbers.

Junior Logan Gates, also a member of PBL, had an internship with a minor league baseball team the Lincoln Saltdogs, in the area of promotions. Gates worked directly with fans.

Eklof works with the marketing o%ce at Concordia, using her graphic design degree to create posters for alumni, among other duties.

“I was able to go into my interviews con$dently because classes prepared me with mock interviews,” Eklof said.

!e events the members of PBL plan and hold throughout the year include the Career Fair, where students can meet with local and national businesses about obtaining jobs and internships; the Women in Business Luncheon, which highlights a woman who displays outstanding qualities in business; Moolah Kids Day, where children learn the importance of

running a business; and the 10:31 co#ee shop, a student-run business on campus.

PBL is associated with Future Business Leaders of America. !e theme for this academic year is “Opening New Doors.”

Amanda Beeson, PBL member and manager of the 10:31 co#ee shop, said the theme is perfect for this year because of the changes happening with the organization.

Anyone, whether affiliated with the business program or not, is welcome to join.

!e club meets two !ursdays each month at 9:30 p.m. in the PBL room in the basement of Jesse Hall.

For each meeting or event they attend, students gain points to further their chances of going on trips with the group.

!is year PBL is traveling either to Ohio or Texas in November. !e club went to Chicago two years ago as SIFE.

!e club also hopes to attend national conferences and competitions like it did when it was associated with SIFE.

“We’re going to go places,” Beeson said.

Mary Wheeler

Staff Writer

Sunday, Oct. 6

Monday, Oct. 7

Tuesday, Oct. 8

Wednesday, Oct. 9

Thursday, Oct. 10

Friday, Oct. 11

Saturday, Oct. 12

• Project Homecoming: unveiling of the homecoming court, 9:30 p.m., JCC mainstreet

• Pajama Dress Day

• Mismatch Day; students, faculty and sta# can go to SLO, TLEC education o%ce or Weller (before or after chapel) to get a picture taken of their out$t for a contest.

• Winners will be named at Friday’s pep rally.

• Volleyball vs. York, 7:30 p.m., Walz Arena

• Dress Your Best Day• Variety Show, 7 p.m., Weller Hall

• Hometown Day; support your home state

• Hometown reception, 6-8 p.m. in the quad; students can meet up with others from their home state. State group photos will be taken (times TBA)

• Bulldog Pride Day• Pep Rally, 9 p.m., Walz Arena• Geography Reunion events, Science

Building

• Homecoming Fair, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m., PE Building; Games for all ages, face painting, a fall booth for families and a dunking booth with members of the community and faculty and sta# of Concordia

• Geography Reunion events, Science Building

• Pre-game Tailgate, 11:30 a.m.• Football vs. Nebraska Wesleyan,

1 p.m.• Women’s Soccer vs . Nebraska

Wesleyan, 5 p.m.• Men’s Soccer vs. Nebraska Wesleyan,

7:30 p.m.• Homecoming Dance, 9 p.m., Cattle

Conference Room

FOOTBALL No. 17 Concordia moved to 4-0 after a

24-0 shutout at Dakota State University. It was the $rst shutout for the Bulldogs since Sept. 17, 2011 against Hastings. In the win, quarterback Von !omas $nished 14-for-27 passing with 129 yards and a touchdown. Thomas also rushed for 63 yards on 12 attempts. Freshman defensive back Matt Keener returned an interception 23 yards for a score. Concordia is 4-0 for the $rst time since the team won a GPAC championship in 2001. !e squad is also ranked in the NAIA top 25 for the $rst time since 2002. Concordia is back in action this Saturday at Dordt College. The Bulldogs defeated the Defenders 52-12 last year at Bulldog Stadium.

VOLLEYBALLOn Sept. 25, Concordia fell three sets

to one in their visit to No. 23 Hastings College. The loss completed a Hastings sweep of its regular season meetings with Concordia. Last Friday, No. 7 Northwestern College visited Concordia. Despite a close battle in the third set, Northwestern was able to complete a sweep of the Bulldogs. On Saturday, Concordia defeated visiting Morningside in four sets. !e victory was the $rst time the Bulldogs have defeated the Mustangs since Oct. 6, 2006. Freshman Paige Getz’s career high 14 kills led the Bulldogs in the win. Concordia sits at 12-7 overall and 3-5 in GPAC play. !e Bulldogs are back in action on Oct. 1 at home against Nebraska Wesleyan.

CROSS COUNTRY The Bulldog men sit at No. 14 in the

nation after the Woody Greeno Invitational in Lincoln, Neb. !e team $nished third of 18 teams in the college division. Junior Ben Sievert $nished in eighth overall with a time of 25:58 in the 8K race. Senior Hayden Hohnholt $nished 11th in the division with a time of 26:25. The women finished in seventh place at the invite, with lead runners Kim Wood and Jesse Sweet finishing in 23rd and 25th respectively. !e teams then traveled to St. Paul, Minn., to participate in the Roy Griak Invitational. !e men $nished ninth of 40 teams and were led by junior Ben Sievert’s 15th place $nish. !e women placed 22nd of 33 teams. !e Bulldogs travel to Lawrence, Kan. on Oct. 12 to participate in the NAIA preview meet.

MEN’S SOCCERAfter a 3-0 loss to Bethany College at

Bulldog Stadium on Sept. 18, Concordia defeated Mount Marty College 5-0 in their home conference contest. Senior Nathan Douglas found the back of the net twice. Sophomore Dean Stevens and juniors Daniel Moore and Chris Defeyter also contributed goals. The Concordia men moved to 4-4 overall and 1-0 in GPAC play. Douglas was named the GPAC Men’s Soccer O#ensive Player of the Week after the win.

WOMEN’S SOCCER!e Bulldog women opened conference

games with a 2-1 victory over Mount Marty College. Juniors Rachel Mussel and Ashlie Sklenicka contributed goals. On Sept. 25, the women traveled to Omaha to play Grace University. Concordia improved to 5-3 after a 7-0 win. Mussel achieved her second career hat-trick after just 13 minutes in the game. !e squad $nished with a 35-2 advantage in shots with 19 shots on goal. Sophomore Sarah Winningham had two assists.

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!e IMPROVables cast is ready to entertain its "rst audiences of the year on Friday Oct. 4 at 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. in the Black Box studio theater in the music building basement.

Concordia’s Academic Resource Center (ARC), located at the south end of Link Library, has changed directors this year, which has spurred other recent changes to the program.

When former ARC director Patrick Hargon took a job at the University of Nebraska-Kearney, Barbara Snow began serving as the coordinator of the new tutor center, now a combination of the old tutor center and the writing center.

Snow works on reduced hours in comparison to the number of hours Hargon used to put in each week. She organizes the tutor schedule and provides training to writing tutors.

“!e tutors are really the heart of what goes on over there,” Snow said.

Second-year tutor Chelsea Volk said she enjoys talking with students and helping them learn. Volk serves as an English, education, history and sociology tutor. She also said it gives her practice for teaching.

!e ADA part of the resource center also received a new director this year, Tanya Jarchow.

Jarchow serves as the director of the Americans with Disabilities Act 504 compliance.

The Act, which went into effect in 1990, exists to help students with learning disabilities.

Jarchow works alongside Angel Hoppe, ADA coordinator.

These two leaders help students with time management, organizational skills, study skills and problem solving, and they guide students toward other resources.

“!at’s what makes this campus so unique,” Jarchow said. “Other colleges don’t provide as much one-on-one support.”

!eir jobs do not end there. Jarchow and Hoppe also monitor athletic study halls, library hours and tutors.

Jarchow encourages students who need academic accommodations to stop by the ARC.

Another part of Jarchow’s job is overseeing the SOAP (Snapshot of Academic Performance) report. This report is $led by professors three times each semester to keep track of incomplete assignments, intermittent attendance and other potentially problematic items.

!e report lets students as well as coaches, advisers and the ARC know how students are struggling so they can seek help.

“!is is a proactive measure to help the students,” Jarchow said. “It’s a great tool that not a lot of other colleges have.”

Hoppe adds that “it is difficult to fail at Concordia with so many support systems in place. We try to make the ARC warm and inviting, and we always are friendly so students feel welcome to come and be open with us. We don’t want them to feel judged.”

Jarchow and Hoppe said they want students to know they are there to help.

They often refer students to the Student Life O%ce, school counselor, reference librarian or professors for help with speci$c topics.

Stephanie Wilde, a transfer student this year from Concordia-St. Paul, was recently diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Lupus, making it hard for her to complete some tasks many people take for granted.

She said the ARC has helped her.“It is hard for me to write for long

periods of time,” Wilde said. “I have extreme pain that sometimes makes going to class di%cult. !ey (students at ARC) . . . help accommodate me as best they can. !ey genuinely care about the students that they help.”

Harding said the event last weekend was only one of many exciting events the Hunting and Fishing Club has planned for the near future.

Harding said the club has plans to get a shooting team underway on campus.

“As soon as we get sign-ups done, we’re going to start practice with the people that are interested,” Harding said.

Harding said that once a team is formed, it will practice regularly at Oak Creek, the sight of the recent recreational shooting event. He also said the club intends to enter this team in competitions in the spring semester.

!e club recently received a $10,000 grant that has allowed for the formation of a shooting team. !e club has been able to purchase new guns, ammunition and equipment with the money. !e grant also helped pay for the event on Sept. 29 at Oak Creek.

!e group plans to host an educational fundraiser each September in years to come.

“It’s a fundraiser for people who want to learn how to shoot,” Harding said. “We should make anywhere from eight to 12 thousand dollars through the event.”

Harding said the money will be used to purchase new equipment and to provide scholarships for talented

shooters who may be interested in joining the new team. Harding said he believes all of the new events are

helping to draw more participants to the club.In October the group plans to host a hunter education

course for Concordia students. “Anybody can do it,” he said. !e classes will be presented by a representative from

the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s outdoor club. !is will spark a partnership between the Hunting and Fishing clubs of Concordia and UNL.

Harding said the partnership will allow the group to host a variety of outdoor activities.

“It will allow us to do more events like hunting, hiking, $shing,” he said. “!at’ll help us to deliver quite a few events in this semester and the next.”

Harding hopes more events will attract an increasing amount of interest from the Concordia student body as he has already seen so far.

“It’s starting to really kick in,” he said. !e club has plenty in store for the second semester.

Harding said the club might host another “Assassins” game again or explore something new such as a “Zombies” game. Also on the slate is a Call-of-Duty-style capture-the-"ag game, as well as another volleyball tournament and cookout hosted like the ones hosted last spring.

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People are really in to labels. No shocker there. But bumper stickers, debates and Facebook pages make it really easy to label tough issues as something more shallow than what they really are: a $rm belief in something.

So, the first thing to remember about your beliefs on various issues is to understand what they mean and why you believe them.

A personal example for me is that I’ve decided to join the LCMS this fall with the guidance of Pastor Meyer at !e Rock. I didn’t grow up Lutheran, but after prayer, study and a whole lot of listening, I believe God is leading me to join.

!at’s all great, but why? Why am I going to join the LCMS? Well, I grew up blessed with a great Christian family. But now God has led me to believe in this denomination’s doctrine and overall focus on Christ through the Word and sacraments. It’s where I want to continue my walk with God.

So why am I telling you this? Well, I’ll tell you one thing: it’s not to gain popularity with the Lutherans, and it’s not to tell people from other backgrounds that they should do the same.

I’m writing you this to encourage you to know why you are what you are.

Second example: many of you are pro-life; that’s great! But can you explain why?

I went to a Bulldogs for the Unborn meeting two weeks ago and a speaker gave us the secular arguments against abortion. She gave scienti$c facts and logical claims that show how abortion is unthinkable if you look at the facts.

!at’s what’s important. !at’s the difference between simply having the label of prolife and being an educated person that understands why abortion is wrong.

The point is, if you stand for something, know why. (I’m talking to you people in class who argue stu# you just heard about 10 minutes ago).

Now that you understand what you believe and why, let’s be just a little scandalous about it. Here’s what I mean:

It’s OK to believe abortion is wrong yet speak with gentleness and love to help a struggling woman make the right choice, without judging her in her situation.

It’s OK to have a strong belief in your church yet have an open, kind-hearted talk with someone who believes something di#erent.

It’s OK to be labeled a conservative and then extend a hand of friendship to someone whose lifestyle you don’t agree with (promiscuous friends, homosexual friends, gossiping friends, lying friends).

It’s OK.In fact, I’d encourage it.

Know your beliefs before you debate

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Outdoor club expands outreach

Emily Taylor

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Snow heads ARC

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Chartwells, Concordia’s dining service, is now under the direction of Bryan Scherbarth.photo by Bethany Williams

C h a r t w e l l s i s u n d e r n e w management as Bryan Scherbarth stepped into the role of director of dining services at Concordia on Aug. 6.

Scherbarth has a lot of previous experience in the food industry from being a general manager at various Lincoln restaurants and his latest, the retail manager at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Dairy Store. He said he wanted to continue working at school cafeterias.

“My job search was pretty de$ned. I love the environment of college campuses and the atmosphere of higher learning,” Scherbarth said. “It was also well-suited to my skill set. It was a private school and I viewed the Chartwells company as a place I could really grow.”

Chartwells is a national dining services company. Its mission is to consistently deliver superior service in the most e%cient way.

People are the heart of the business, according to the company’s website.

“We aim to do everything in our power to ensure that our associates enjoy their work and re"ect the high level of service that we want to provide to our guests,” the website said.

Some may argue that the food served in Janzow Dining Hall is not always ful$lling.

“!ere is a de$nite lack of variety sometimes,” senior Matt Dauss said. “I would like to see more consistency with the choices we have because some days in Janzow all the food is decent and others there isn’t anything that sounds appetizing.”

Matt eats in the cafeteria about twice each day.

Scherbarth and his sta# are working to alleviate problems from the past.

“Our top goals are to have a greater degree of student involvement and a

greater variety,” Scherbarth said. Each meal is planned out weeks

and sometimes a month in advance. Staff must follow set recipes and standards, as each meal must consist of proteins, carbohydrates, starches and vegetables--one steamed and one green. Each item is portioned out and recorded after every meal so the sta# can see what students like and favor.

!e standards are based on nutrition and variety. Each meal meets precise nutritional parameters and provides the recommended nutrients in a single meal instead of an average of all meals served in one week. !e sta# tries to put the students’ needs $rst.

Jan Pro greba , a C har twel ls employee at Concordia for 35 years, is excited about what is in store for the future of the dining hall and has high expectations for Scherbarth.

“Bryan has been very receptive to the students’ comments and I think he is going to be a great manager for this company,” Progreba said. “He wants to hear what the students want.”

Scherbarth and his sta# are doing what they can to address concerns with the cafeteria and are excited to get new systems in place.

A suggestion box is available in Janzow Dining Hall for students to leave both positive and negative comments about their experiences.

Scherbarth said he reads each comment and tries to follow up with students.

“We want to make the experience more enjoyable,” Scherbarth said. “We want to meet the needs of the students as best as we can. !at’s why we’re here.”

Chartwells is currently in the process of obtaining web streaming capability for all Concordia athletic events in the Dog House. !e process should be complete within the next few weeks.

Chartwells under new managementJory Schweers

Staff Writer

Concordia is beginning a pre-law club for students interested in pursuing a law degree and even for some who are not. !e $rst meeting will be at 12 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 4, in the !om Leadership Education Center room 113.

Dr. Matthew Phillips, associate professor of history, said law degrees are often used in a variety of professions, including business.

“If you prepare for law school and never go, you will have done the best preparation for anything in life,” Dr. Kathy Miller, professor of sociology, said.

Miller and Phillips are the leaders of the pre-law program at Concordia.

!ey do not o%cially advise most pre-law students, but they said they like to meet with students to ensure they are entering law school with the right skill set.

“It’s hard to see who is pre-law,” Miller said, explaining that pre-law students come from a variety of majors, and they all have di#erent advisers.

Other students do not decide to take the pre-law route until they are seniors.

According to Miller and Phillips these roadblocks are part of the reason for starting a pre-law club on campus.

Tina Marroquin, a practicing attorney in her hometown of Seward, approached the pre-law advisers at Concordia with plans for a club.

“I would like to see students at exceptional schools with moral values come into the $eld of law,” Marroquin said, “and I think Concordia has that.”

Marroquin graduated with an undergraduate degree in sociology from Occidental College in Los Angeles, then earned her law degree from the

University of California Hastings College of Law in San Francisco before returning to Seward. Her o%ce is on South Sixth Street on the square across from the court house.

Phillips said campus clubs are usually begun by students, but in this case most students are simply uninformed.

Marroquin realized this point and said she wants to be “a facilitator in connecting students to people in the profession.”

Marroquin has offered to coordinate speakers or visits to law schools and said she knows who to contact about law work in various $elds or for preparation in taking the Law School Admission Test (LSAT).

Pre-law students often decide to major in history, business, English, political science or some combination of these because these degrees promote “strong analytical and logical reasoning,” Miller said. She said this type of perspective is one of the main characteristics law schools look for in a student’s education.

Any major is acceptable for a pre-law student, although Phillips said a history degree provides valuable training in “comprehending content” and being “analytical about evidence” instead of taking statements at face value because of practice in “examining human experience.”

Marroquin said she felt prepared for law school, though the classes were tougher than undergraduate classes.

“One of the hardest things is that your whole grade is based on one or two tests,” Marroquin said.

Miller agreed that in law school, “the $rst year is meant to weed you out” if a student is not serious about pursuing a law degree. Miller also said students should “take challenging classes, even if you get a B”

during undergraduate studies. !at way students “will be prepared for how di%cult it will be in law school.”

“!e more (skills) you have, the easier it will be,” Miller said.

Phillips said with the formation of a club the pre-law program will be “more organized and more public,” which will aid the advisers in knowing who to guide in preparation for law school.

“It’s hard to get a head count” of interested students, Miller said. She said she hopes the club will boost interest in the program.

Miller suspects there may be 12-15 students on campus interested in the pre-law program.

Miller and Phillips both said they want to help students form a list of classes that are helpful for pre-law students to take, which concentrate on a skill set of logical and analytical reasoning; writing, research and oral presentation/theater; economics, forensics and the art of e#ective argument; and the history of politics and government.

Pre-law students to form clubDanielle Jarvis

Staff Writer “I would like to see students at exceptional schools with moral values that come into the field of law, and I think Concorda has that.”

-Tina Marroquinattorney at Pollack and Ball, LLC

Hayley Wallace

Staff Writer

It’s not unusual to see students cruising campus on two wheels, but a few students take it one step further: they cruise around on one wheel.

Landon Oelke, a junior fitness studies major, has been unicycling for 10 years.

Oelke, from Dalhart, Texas, said his neighbor got him started unicycling when they were in junior high school.

!ey would practice by pushing o# the garage door and going down the driveway. Since then, he’s improved and still enjoys it today.

“Once you get a little bit of taste doing it you just want to get better and better,” Oelke said. “It’s actually a pretty addicting thing.”

When Oelke was about 12 years old, his bike broke down and he still had to do his newspaper delivery route.

“All I had was my friend’s unicycle,” Oelke said, “so I delivered newspapers on that.”

Junior Marcie Sindt, an exercise science major from Scottsblu#, Neb., has also had her unicycle for several years.

Sindt got started when her mom bought her one in middle school.

“I’m pretty sure it was just another way to keep me and my brothers and sister busy,” Sindt said. “I had a lot of energy.”

Oelke and Sindt have made bets with their unicycling skills.

“I told her if I could ride it 10 yards or so she would make me pancakes,” Oelke said.

However, Sindt had no idea Oelke

could ride a unicycle before he got on it.

“Pretty much he tricked me,” Sindt said. “I lost the bet.”

Another unicyclist on campus is Rianne Gross, a junior elementary education major from Riverside, Calif.

Gross said she started because “my daddy had one.”

Gross ’s dad used to r ide in neighborhood parades around the Fourth of July and she wanted to learn to ride, too.

Gross also started by leaning against a wall and has taught herself to the point where she can unicycle for longer distances.

Now she enjoys riding with her dad and brothers on the beach in Calif. and riding to and from class on it here.

“It’s pretty rewarding and fun,” Gross said.

Gross said she also enjoys teaching some of the other girls in David Hall how to unicycle.

“I $nd that it’s fun for others too,” Gross said.

Sindt said she also uses the unicycle with her friends.

Sindt and her roommates like sitting on it and taking pictures in her room in Jonathan Hall. !e captions of the pictures say things such as “Doing dishes on the uni,” or “Watching TV on the uni.”

Gross said that while unicycling is fun, it also comes with some challenges, including balance, strength and cardio.

Another challenge of unicycling, according to Oelke, is wiping out.

Oelke said one unicycle accident occurred when he was leaning too

far forward going down his driveway and fell, scuffing up his hands and leaving a knot on his forehead.

“You fall over a lot,” Oelke said. “You just got to keep going.”

Sindt said she also had some accidents when s h e s t a r t e d practicing in their house. She ran into the furniture and walls often and once almost put a hole in her grandma’s wall.

“That was the end of it inside,” Sindt said.

O e l k e s a i d u n i c y c l i n g i s usually faster than walking, but not as fast as biking.

Gross agreed.“It ’s not the

most efficient,” she said.

A l l t h r e e unicyclists said they have goals to get better.

Sindt said she can only go about $ve feet at a time, and would like to improve her distance.

Oelke said he has seen some of his friends jump on curbs and do more obstacles on the unicycle, and he wants to get to that point someday.

Gross said she dreams of doing

even more with her unicycle.“Of course I’d love to aspire to do

it on a tightrope,” Gross said, “but I doubt I ever will.”

Oelke said unicycles can usually be found at bike shops for around $75. Beginners can also buy special sticks to help them balance and get started.

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Entering college is a new and exciting—and expensive—experience for most high school students. !ey come to school expecting to learn and someday become professionals in a $eld of their choosing.

But something they don’t expect as they leave the hallowed halls of high school is the amount of money they have to live on for the year.

Kelsey Livingston, a senior majoring in arts administration, said, “In high school, we are used to being handed money from our parents.”

College is a di#erent story, Livingston said.“We are our on our own and have to make money

and take care of it,” she said, “rather than having Mom and Dad take care of it for us.”

Ana Cuellar, a sophomore majoring in business administration, agreed.

“At home I had my parents pay for everything,” Cuellar said, “but here I have to manage my own money, and I end up spending it more often than I expect.”

Cuellar and Livingston are not alone in realizing that money management at college is di#erent from home.

College Student Journal’s article “Money Management Practices of College Students” said only 44 percent of college students comprehend the word “budget,” and only 18 percent have a sense of

how to manage their money e#ectively.!e article said college students are on the verge of

a $nancial crisis because of their lack of knowledge.“!e amount of $nancial information a student

has usually impacts their ideas and choices regarding $nances,” the article said.

College is the perfect time to start learning how to manage your money e%ciently.

Lori Read, accountant at Concordia, o#ered some advice.

“Use college as a time to start understanding your student loans, learning the di#erence between 401(k)s and IRAs,” she said. “Learn about insurance, deductibles and co-pays, as these are terms you will have to deal with when you land your $rst job.”

Read said $nding a basic de$nition for these terms will help students be successful in the future.

Preparing for your $nancial future requires only a few steps. Read proposes to start by knowing your sources of income and having a sense of where you spend your money.

After reviewing these items Read recommends prioritizing expenses and allocating money accordingly. However, she does have an unexpected tip.

“Be "exible,” she said. “Set aside your contributions to your church, and then your next priority is to pay yourself (savings) so you can have fun money to use for vacations, then allocate the rest to pay for your bills.”

Learning to spend money wisely while in college

is worth the time and e#ort.“Money plays such an important role in everyone’s

lives,” Read said. “If you do not manage it well, it is going to cause a lot of stresses for you, your family and your future spouse, so it is important to have a good handle on your $nances.”

Read and Livingston recommend online, mobile and computer tools such as Mint, Quicken, Excel and online banking to help students manage their money more e%ciently.

L i v i n g s t o n , Cuellar and Read all agree that it takes t ime and experience to $nd a system to manage money, and that one learns to make adjustments as life changes.

“A f t e r s o m e time, you begin to learn how to weigh things in your head, a n d w i t h y o u r wal let ,” Cuel lar said.

Unicyclists find home on campus

Budgeting skills important during collegeTonya Johnson

Staff Writer

Joshua Smith, assistant professor of art, will feature some of his artwork in the Marxhausen Gallery beginning Oct. 6 and running through Nov. 1.

The show’s opening reception is scheduled for Oct. 13 from 1 to 4 p.m.

Smith said this exhibition is “the best way to introduce myself,” as he began teaching art at Concordia in August.

Smith said much of the art in the exhibition is “material-based abstraction.” He used steel for many of his projects.

“I like working with metals, in particular metal fabrication,” Smith said.

Smith focuses on the area where he wants to place his art and then creates a piece that fits with the location. He considers his art “different frameworks for already viewing what is there in landscapes.”

“A lot of it is site-speci$c or location-oriented,” Smith said.

One example is a piece with two long sheets of curved steel a couple inches apart from one another.

Smith said he placed this sculpture outside in Wyoming during the winter so it could catch snow, causing snowdrifts to form di#erently around it.

Smith began shaping this particular collection in 2009.

Smith has worked with steel in a variety of ways for many years, but his most recent work re"ects an interest steel rusting.

“I’m pulling some old work,” Smith said, “It’s kind of a retrospective of work I’ve done.”

In a piece he is constructing speci$cally for his exhibition in the Marxhausen Gallery, Smith is stacking arched metal sculptures and placing them at di#erent angles.

He decided this addition to his collection would commemorate his $rst year as a professor at Concordia.

When the artwork is no longer at the gallery, Smith wants to place the structure outside and see the di#erent patterns of rust that form after months of rain and snow.

“The object offers a story to be unpacked as we navigate its scars, marks and memory,” Smith wrote in his exhibition statement.

Abigail Connick

Staff Writer

graphic design by Jessica Clark

Beginning Oct. 6, the Marxhausen Gallery will showcase the work of Joshua Smith, assistant professor of art. Smith’s collection centers around steel and metal fabrication.

photo courtesy Joshua Smith

What is Communion? What is the purpose of this church ritual? It is a union of believers, celebrating the new covenant and forgiveness they have in Christ, proclaiming His death until He comes. !at sounds relatively simple.

So why does this topic spark such heated debate within the church? To me it seems we’re making this sacrament much more complicated than it needs to be. !e practice of closed communion is neither bene$cial for the church, nor is it Biblical.

What is the root word of “communion?” It is “union.” !e practice of communion is supposed to be a uniting practice which fellow believers share with one another. It is a way we can experience God collectively.

Divisions are no doubt a challenge in the church, but when the idea of “eating and drinking judgment upon ourselves” is brought up by Paul, the only mention he makes of divisions is of people getting drunk and having private suppers, and this angers him.

In Paul’s time there were no such things as denominations, and the theories about communion hadn’t been set into doctrine yet. It has nothing to do with di#erent confessions.

Check it out in 1 Corinthians 11. Only by receiving it in an “unworthy manner” do we reap judgment, and the way Paul writes, this is clearly a personal examination: “But if we are more discerning in regard to ourselves, we would not come under such judgment.”

God is the judge of who receives it worthily. We have no way of seeing what is in one’s heart.

When Jesus commanded the Lord’s Supper, He simply said, “Take and eat...Drink of it all of you.” He never mentioned whether His words were literal or symbolic. !ese factors are irrelevant.

Furthermore, He never states that an Earthly institution has the power to regulate who can partake of it and who cannot in another’s presence.

Besides, the only quality that separates our celebration of communion with believers of di#erent denominations is our concepts of time and space, which are irrelevant to God. To Him, there is no di#erence between a Baptist taking Communion on a Sunday afternoon in Alabama in 1867 and Lutheran taking it on a Wednesday in Minnesota in 3006; the only action that matters is participation.

So, what is the unifying factor in communion? !e answer is simple: Christ. Our doctrine or opinions about how we are able to receive His body and blood are not what unite (or should unite) the body of believers in this practice; it is the presence and love of Christ. In this action we celebrate Christ, not doctrine. He is the unifying factor.

Union in Holy CommunionTom Forke

Staff Writer

roadin the

ForkEmily Taylor

Assistant Managing Editor

Rianne Gross, Landon Oelke and Marcie Sindt have unicycled for years and still enjoy this unique method of transportation around campus.

photo by Carrie Jo Hartman

Marxhausen Gallery to feature Smith’s artwork

Don’t let fear keep you down

Living Lifeto the

Fullest

“Nike. Just do it. Nike.”I can still hear him chanting on the

side of the $eld.Some of you may remember my

buddy Adam Borne, who attended Concordia for the past two years. He helped coach a women’s intramural football team on which I played both years.

He nicknamed me ‘Nike,’ because I was hesitating during play instead of putting my full e#ort into it, and he was encouraging me to do my best.

Disclaimer: I knew nothing about football then, and I still don’t. I am a rugger at heart, and while the two sports certainly have some similarities, there are some major di#erences which greatly inhibit my understanding of football.

With that said, Adam was trying to simplify the game as much as possible. So he lined me up with a bunch of other girls, pointed out one of the players on the other team and told me to take. her. down.

Well, her "ags at least.There were always these other

people getting in my way, so I had to $ght my way through them to get to my target. It looked like chaos to me, but I just kept moving toward my goal.

I was quite unsuccessful for a while, but Adam was convinced I could do it. So his chanting resumed.

“Nike. You got this. Just do it. Take ‘em down.”

Long after the season is over each year, I sometimes chant this to myself when I can’t get the courage to go through with something.

Like diving o# the dam this summer at a lake near my house.

I stood on that dam- wall for thirty minutes before I was able to leap head$rst. But I did. (And then I did it a second time to reassure myself that it wasn’t a "uke; that I hadn’t just fallen in.)

That’s what I took away from my intramural days under Adam’s coaching. Just do it.

In regard to adventure (but not all situations in life, mind you) I think to myself, ‘What would be worse in this situation: looking back and regretting doing this, or looking back and regretting not doing this?’

For me the latter would de$nitely be worse. I hate looking back and thinking, ‘Are they having fun? I don’t know what it would be like. I wish I knew.’

I would rather think, ‘That was painful,’ rather than, ‘That looks painful.’

This ‘Nike’ attitude is what has given me the ambition and the determination for many things in the past couple years, including during rugby games or while diving o# the dam or while leaping from an aircraft at 13,000 feet.

I don’t want to miss out on life. I don’t want life to pass me by. When I get a little shaky and think that maybe I’m about to do something that will be painful or scary—but still the adventure of a lifetime—I just whisper to myself, “Nike. Just do it.”

Do the things you’ve always wanted to do. It might hurt or you might regret it afterward, but just remember the experience you will have will be better than looking back and wondering what everyone else was thinking when they just went for it.

Don’t let life pass you by. Live fully. Learn from your mistakes, but don’t get stuck in regret.

!is year our women’s intramural "ag football team will march onto the $eld without Adam. He transferred this year to a school in Texas, his home state. But I’m still going to go for it with everything I’ve got.

Just do it.Nike.

Danielle Jarvis

Copy Editor

Illustrator speaks to art students

Children’s book author and illustrator Barbara McClintock met with Concordia’s illustration and graphic design students last !ursday in Brommer Art Center to share her expertise and love of art.

McClintock has won four New York Times Best Book awards, a New York Times Notable Book citation, a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor award and numerous other distinctions.

Janell Uffelman, professor of education, and Vikki Gremel, coordinator of the Plum Creek Literacy Festival, are in charge of the process of choosing authors and illustrators to attend the Plum Creek festival each year.

Uff leman and Gremel hear suggestions of prominent authors and illustrators from those who attend the festival along with conference attendees and committee members.

Gremel said their goal is to $nd new members to attend each year who have the ability to speak to a diverse audience that includes children, adults and Concordia students.

McClintock’s name was mentioned

at the festival last year by illustrator David Weisner, and after doing some background research U&eman and Gremel said they decided she would make a good addition.

McClintock was born in Clinton, N.J., where her love of art and story making began as a child.

McClintock pursued her hobbies throughout her childhood and into her adult years. She said she knew children’s literature was in her future but was unsure of how to go about it.

Pressed by one of her college professors, McClintock contacted “Where the Wild !ings Are” author

Maurice Sendak who gave her advice for her career and advised her to move to New York.

McClintock was exposed to the vast world of children’s literature that she had been hoping for in New York.

“I started just through serendipity, getting work,” McClintock said.

She spent a majority of her $rst years in New York visiting di#erent publishers asking them to take a look at her drawings.

McClintock was on Madison Avenue one day attempting to promote her work to a greeting card store when she met a woman who offered to show McClintock’s work to her husband who owned an animation studio.

McClintock got her $rst job at the studio, designing a cartoon character for a Kleenex commercial. Her career took o# soon after.

Gremel said it is a tradition of the festival to have one of the illustrators present to a group of graphic design and illustration students.

!is partnership started years ago between U#elman and Lynn Soloway, professor of art. In return the art department puts together an art sectional for the children or an art gallery exhibit each year.

McClintock said she agreed to

come and present because she has always had a soft spot in her heart for people in the Midwest.

Sophomore Bailey Baker, a graphic design major, said she learned a lot from the presentation.

Baker said the life of an illustrator sounds really stressful after hearing about McClintock’s 24/7 working days.

Senior and graphic design major Heidi Steinmetz, however, said the presentation made her more enthusiastic about such a lifestyle.

Steinmetz said she has always had a specific love for character design, and after hearing some of McClintock’s stories she said she is thinking more about doing book illustrations in her future.

McClintock made it her goal to share with the students that they should live up to their potential.

“She’s passionate about her work,” Baker said. “She was trying to help students know where to go with their interests.”

!e second most important thing McClintock wanted the students to take away from her presentation was “not to drink too much co#ee.”

To learn more about McClintock a n d h e r w o r k , v i s i t w w w.barbaramcclintockbooks.com.

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Concordia’s Handbell Choir performed as part of the $rst-ever virtual handbell ensemble in September.

A total of 440 bell ringers from 26 states and six countries recorded sound clips of the composition “Misterium” by James Meredith. !e clips were then merged into one performance.

The Concordia Handbell Choir submitted its recordings and also made video clips featuring its ringers’ silhouettes in front of the stained glass window in the Weller Hall chapel, designed and installed by Concordia’s Center for Liturgical Arts.

“We decided to give our video recording the unique look provided by the artwork created by the Center for Liturgical Art,” Jessica Kite, handbell director, said.

!e choir recorded at 7 a.m. on a Saturday morning in January to keep outside noise levels as low as possible.

“Perfect submissions took careful practice, time and patience,” Kite said.

!e completed work can be viewed on YouTube by searching “Virtual Handbell Ensemble Misterium.”

!e Concordia Handbell Choir includes 14 ringers and is one of two auditioned handbell choirs at Concordia.

!e choirs use more than $ve octaves of bells and three octaves of handchimes.

!e choirs perform in campus chapel, local worship services and concerts.

!e Concordia Handbell choir also performs as part of Concordia’s annual Christmas at Concordia celebration.

Handbell choir rings in virtual ensemble

Concordia’s Handbell Choir performed with 440 other ringers in the "rst-ever virtual handbell ensemble in September.

courtesy photo

Last !ursday, Concordia welcomed Ed Scharlau to campus to talk to students about the organization Water to !rive, a non-pro$t that raises awareness about the global water crisis and raises funds to build fresh water wells for those in need.

Scharlau, a board member with Water to !rive, talked to students in Pastor Ryan Matthias’ Old Testment class as well as Professor Tobin Beck’s broadcast journalism class.

Matthias and President Brian Friedrich chose Water to !rive as the organization that Concordia will support through special donations at the opening, candle light and baccalaureate services.

“I think it’s important for us to understand that one, water is so important for life,” Matthias said, “and two, for us to count our blessings that we have fresh water here.”

Water to !rive began in 2007 as a six-week Bible study in Austin, Texas. !e group decided to raise $5,000 for one well in Ethiopia, but instead raised enough for twelve.

Now the organization has sponsored almost 400 wells that supply more than 170,000 people in areas such as Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Uganda.

According to the World Health Organization, almost one billion people do not have a safe supply of water, and water-related diseases cause two million deaths each year.

“Without fresh water, there is no help,” Scharlau said.

!e wells cost $5,000 and are 30 to 50 feet deep, dug only by hand.

“I’m serious,” Scharlau said, “a bucketful at a time.”

!e labor is all done by the local people and is organized by experts within the

country to dig in the best locations and in the areas with the most need.

“We have absolutely no problems with the government,” Scharlau said. “!ey stay out of our way.”

Scharlau said the locals not only provide the labor, they also have teams that receive training in sanitation and maintenance of the wells so they can be sustained for many years.

Water to Thrive works with many schools and churches from different Christian denominations to sponsor wells and relies on donations to fund every well it builds.

“All of this is a faith-based project,” Scharlau said.

The wells not only provide fresh water, but also are having an impact on

education. Children used to have to stay home or go to school half the day because they had to travel to rivers for water and take care of the livestock.

With a fresh water well, the number of children in school “goes up to 99 percent almost immediately,” Scharlau said.

Introducing fresh water to a community also cures and prevents many diseases from contaminated water, such as diarrhea and eye infections in children.

!e wells also are helping the local women. Scharlau said women used to carry heavy jugs on their backs for miles to their homes, often while carrying young children, too. !e wells are located closer to villages than the rivers, so there is less travel time.

Scharlau said the first well Water

to Thrive opened was an emotional experience for him and for his team.

“If you think you can’t have goose bumps that have goose bumps, you can,” he said.

Each donor group gets connected with a project and gets a picture of the well it sponsors that has a plaque with the church or school on it.

Scharlau said he hopes the organization can continue to grow.

“Hopefully the Holy Spirit will lead people to be donors,” Scharlau said.

Matthias has set a goal for Concordia to raise at least $5,000 for one well this year, and the total now is already $1,000.

Fo r m o r e i n fo r m a t i o n , v i s i t watertothrive.org.

Water to Thrive visits Concordia

Two Ethiopian girls pump water from a newly dug well near their village. Ed Scharlau, a member of Water to !rive, spoke at Concordia last !ursday. Water to !rive is a nonpro"t organization that raises money to dig wells in countries like Ethiopia to bring fresh water to its citizens.

photo courtesy of Water to !rive

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Coming HomePhoto Contest

Seward is a home away from home for hundreds ofConcordia students each year. In honor of Homecoming

2013, we’ve chosen some famous places aroundtown for a photo contest.

How to enter:

Identify what each photo is and where it was taken. Submit your answers for all six photos, along with your name, tele-phone number and email address to Sower@cune.org by Fri-day, Oct. 25, at 11:59 p.m.

Prize:

$25 in Seward Chamber Bucks, to be used like cash at any Seward Chamber of Commerce member business. The winner will be drawn at random from complete and correct entries. The winner will be announced in the Oct. 30 edition of The Sower.

Eligibility:

All students, faculty, staff and alumni are eligible to participate in the contest except employees and advisers of The Sower.

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Two possible realities face the United States today. As our country grows closer to end of the $scal year, it may be unable to fund our government. In the worst-case scenario this could send the U.S. and possibly the world into a state of anarchy.

Another possible reality is that a zombie apocalypse will emerge. !e CDC has created a plan to handle the problems that may arise from this situation, although it is extremely unlikely. If it does happen, it could spell out the end of the human race.

What do these two scenarios have in common? In order to survive them

you will need physical $tness. If you consider the worst possible fate, it should be enough to get you to work out.

In the possibility of life literally coming to push and shove if the government shuts down, maximal strength would be extremely important to have. If it becomes survival of the $ttest, being able to fend o# others with your strength will be essential.

Imagine there is the last can of beans on the shelf in Wal-Mart and you are starving. Every other food item is gone and you are 20 meters away from this can. Across the aisle stands another individual who is the world record-holding power lifter.

You both run to the can and reach

it at the same time. Who do you think will win? My bet is probably the power lifter who can deadlift and bench press probably two of you. In this kind of situation, it would be important to increase your muscular strength.

Do you wonder how you can increase your strength? !e best answer is to lift heavy things. Try programs where you are using a weight on lifts like the bench press, deadlift and squat that only allow you to do $ve repetitions. Perform $ve sets or rounds with that weight doing $ve reps each time. Take three to $ve minutes between sets. Doing a 5 by 5 program is a sure-$re way to increase your muscular strength and enhance your chance of survival.

If the zombie apocalypse comes to

fruition, then being able to out-sprint people would be highly critical. !omas Lynch said it best in his essay “!e Undertaking” about dying. He said, “Knowing it is you is terri$cally better than knowing it is me.”

In this situation you would only have to out-run the person next to you to avoid becoming a member of the living dead. Use this dreadful situation as a prompt to go out and do some wind sprints.

If you do not like sprinting, you can at least go out for a run. Either way, starting to exercise is going to increase your chance of survival regardless of whether these end-of-the-world scenarios come true or not.

The Concordia football team is undefeated after four games for the first time in more than a decade, and is once again ranked among the nation’s elite, which it hasn’t been since 2002.

!e NAIA Football Coaches’ Top 25 Poll, released Sept. 30, ranked Concordia’s squad at No. 17 in the third regular season poll, the result of a 24-0 victory over Dakota State University in Madison, S.D. on Sept. 28.

Two weeks prior, the Bulldogs were listed under the “others receiving votes” portion of the poll. They moved up into the rankings after a punishing power-run game and physical defensive game as they bowled their way to 35-14 road victory over Midland on Sept. 21 in Fremont, Neb.

“We were focused on beating a big rival in their home stadium. It’s a good $rst road-conference win,” Head Coach Vance Winter said.

!e team was down 7-0 early in the game but took the lead thanks to the two freshmen running backs, who both went over 100 yards rushing and scored a total of $ve touchdowns that afternoon.

Bryce Collins had 24 carries for 121 yards for two touchdowns and Trey Barnes had 19 attempts for 101 yards for three touchdowns.

“We had a very good mindset going in. It was a big game because they had the same record as us, so we knew we had to go out there and get the job done,” Barnes said.

!e team controlled the game at the line of scrimmage and dominated the game at the point of attack.

“For both Bryce and I our running game against midland felt pretty solid,” Barnes said.

Concordia $nished with an edge of 493-214 in total yardage. Both the o#ensive line and defensive line worked together to help pull out the victory. Defensively the team limited Midland to just one o#ensive touchdown and only 89 yards on the ground.

“We were physical,” Winter said. “We were very physical tackling and I thought the guys up front on the o#ensive and defensive lines really controlled things well.”

!e Bulldog defense had its biggest stop of the game early in the second quarter. The Warriors, leading 7-0 at the time, forced and recovered a fumble by Concordia quarterback Von !omas at the Bulldog 15-yard line.

“As soon as the game started I knew our offense could move the ball,” Heitho# said. “As a defense we knew we just had to play our game of being physically superior in order to direct the game.”

On the next possession a pair of incompletions and then a sack by senior defensive end Dylan Heitho# forced Midland to attempt a 49-yard $eld goal in which they missed by hitting the cross bar, keeping the team within a touchdown.

“Anytime you can get to the quarterback and hit him or pressure him, it’s always a good feeling,” Heithoff said. “It’s fun celebrating with your teammates too.”

T he physical r unning game

eventually wore Midland down and allowed Concordia to reassure its lead.

By halftime the Bulldogs were up 14-7. Winter’s squad topped off the game with fourth quarter touchdowns by Collins who had an eight-yard run at the 14:55-minute mark and by Barnes who had a 25-yard run with 2:56 left to play.

!e duo has combined a total of eight touchdowns this season so far, $ve for Barnes and three for Collins.

!omas $nished the day with 21-for-28 passing with 241 yards.

“It was an e%cient game overall for us,” Winter said.

!e team is in high spirits coming o# of a fourth win, an undefeated record and a national ranking. However, they know to remain level-headed and focused on the task at hand.

!e team has been preparing by practicing and watching $lm. With eight regular season games still scheduled, anything can happen.

!e Bulldogs take on Dordt college on Saturday, Oct. 5, starting at 1 p.m. in Sioux City, Iowa.

Fo l l o w i n g t h a t m a t c h - u p , Concordia will play at home against Nebraska Wesleyan over homecoming weekend, Oct. 12, at 1 p.m.

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I think it’s time to take a break with the touchy-feely lesson-learning columns and use this week to help relieve stress at my expense. Who knows, this might be more worth reading than my other stu#.

It was a day of practice just like any other. Our group of about five mid-distance runners was on a good ol’ $ve-mile route. It was probably nearing the end of the fourth mile when we came back into town on Highway 34. !ere were some train tracks on that edge of the town, although a train seemed to hardly ever come through there.

But today, there was a train there. We had to stop and wait for some

time and watch train cars inch by. After a few minutes, some of the girls caught up to us and had to wait there with us also. !is train was getting pretty old.

Over in the tall grass I noticed a really disgusting wild cat. It was honestly nothing that I would want to have sitting on my lap. But for whatever reason, I walked over to it with my hand out to try to coax it out of the grass.

Because the ladies love a guy who can coax a cat out of the grass.

Now, before I go on, I must also note that I wasn’t wearing a shirt at the time. Of course, that adds to one’s ability to get women in this situation. Needless to say, girls just can’t resist a shirtless man who can successfully summon a cat from the wild.

Well, I wasn’t having any luck with the cat. So I decided to move closer with my hands out, hoping it would leap into my arms. For some reason I really wanted to touch this scraggly cat with a collage of nature stuck in its fur.

As I’m sure everyone expected, the cat took o# in the other direction when I got too close. Like a wild dog, I sprinted after it. And of course, nothing turns a woman on like a shirtless Asian man running after a wild cat.

It was one smart cat, though. It led me through a wire trap I simply

did not see. I ended up breaking a tight, thin wire fence with my body as I sprinted across a $eld. !e friction of the wire left a burn and a scar on my stomach that will likely always remain to remind me of my stupidity.

I got quite a bit of humiliating laughter from my teammates. And I’m pretty sure the line of cars behind the train got a perfect view of what went down.

Needless to say, I didn’t get any phone numbers afterwards. But there were de$nitely a lot of people staring at my abs. And I owe that to you, wild cat.

As Alex Heiden always says, “The moral of the story is to be yourself.”

Wanna know how I got these scars? Andrew Malan

Sports Editor

Cross country strengthens scores

Football 4-0: first time since ‘02

Both the men’s and women’s soccer teams have started conference play with wins, beating the Lancers of Mount Marty.

!e men’s team put up a season high of $ve goals in a 5-0 shutout.

!e women’s team got o# to an early two-point lead in the first half, then conceded a goal in the second to win 2-1.

The men’s team was led by senior forward Nathan Douglas, who added two more goals to his record-setting career goal total.

Also scoring in the game were juniors Daniel Moore and Chris DeFeyter and sophomore Dean Stevens. Bulldog keepers Brendan Buchanan, junior, and Mark Horsburgh, freshman, both played in the shutout.

Buchanan played the first 82:18 minutes, gathering five saves, and

Horsburgh finished the final 7:42, although Mount Marty did not have a shot on goal.

!e women’s team started the game o# quickly with a goal from junior forward Rachel Mussell in the 15th minute.

!e Bulldog’s second goal came from junior forward Ashlie Sklenicka in the 40th minute. Making her $rst start in goal, freshman Chrissy Lind gave up only one goal on $ve shots from Mount Marty, coming early in the second half.

The first game of conference play is huge for both teams, and both coaches are happy with the way their teams have improved over the $rst few weeks. Both coaches are looking forward to making an impact in the conference tournament and maybe even competing in nationals this year.

!e next home game is a doubleheader against the Dordt Defenders on Oct. 5. !e women’s team will play at 1 p.m. and the men will play at 3:30 p.m.

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Taiheem Pleasant

Staff Writer

Wide receiver Deshawn Eure and the Bulldog o#ense plowed through the Midland defense to earn a 35-14 win on the Warrior’s home turf on Sept. 21. After four consecutive wins, Concordia’s rank soars to No. 17 in the third regular season NAIA Coches’ Top 25 Poll.

photo by Crayton Noe

!e Bulldogs returned from the annual Woody Greeno Invitational with promising results. Hosted at Pioneer Park on Sept. 21, the team was met with Division I athletes and NAIA competitors.

!e men ran their normal-length 8K race while the women competed in a 6K. Despite a change for the women from a 5K to 6K race, the Bulldogs still pulled through with low times.

Sophomore Kim Wood clocked in the best time of the women’s team with 23:57, while freshman Jessamyn Sweet followed up with 24:01. Wood’s time placed 23rd overall while Sweet $nished at 25th. A total of 269 women competed in the race.

“!e last meet was di#erent because it was a 6K and I have only ever run 5Ks,” Sweet said, “so I thought I had to save a whole lot for that last 1,000 meters. It was still a pretty strong meet overall for the team.”

!e top individual for the men was junior Ben Sievert with a time of 25:58. His time placed him eighth overall.

Senior Hayden Hohnholt $nished second for the men’s team at 26:25 and 11th place overall. Hohnholt said he was proud of the way his team competed.

“I think our whole team is going to come around really well,” he said. “A lot of our freshmen are holding up pretty well. Our returners have really stepped up too.”

Following the Woody Greeno Invitational, the team headed to the Roy Griak Invitational in St. Paul, Minn. on Sept. 28.

!e Bulldog women $nished 22nd of 33 teams while the men $nished 9th of 40, despite the rainy and windy conditions. Ben Sievert led the pack for the men with a 15th place $nish in a $eld of 466 runners.

Sweet, who is competing at the collegiate level for the $rst time this year, said the meet served as a great learning opportunity for the freshman.

!e men placed third overall and the women placed seventh.

Sweet said she was proud to mention her teammates having strong races and the team’s eagerness to achieve its goals. With a fresh season ahead, the team will have plenty of opportunities to exceed its expectations and excel in its

performances. Coach Kregg Einspahr has high hopes for his

women runners as they learn and grow from previous races. He said he is looking forward to the upcoming meets.

Among the team’s long-term goals is a top-three $nish for the women in the conference meet.

Einspahr said he was pleased with the men’s team in how runners are stepping up and showing potential for future races.

In order to make it to the national meet, individuals can qualify by personal times or the team can choose runners to go to nationals if they place $rst at the conference meet. It is a team priority for the men to win the conference title and achieve such a goal.

Practices have shown to be more intense this year, with runners putting in more mileage and running strong every day.

“We’ve been starting to have Sunday practices,” Hohnholt said. “Working together is a big thing for (Einspahr). He’s just building us a good base, a good foundation, and once it’s more stable we’ll start pushing it a bit harder with speed work…He knows what he’s doing.”

Trevor Bresson

Staff Writer

Soccer teams win recent matchesRyan Miller

Staff Writer

Get physically fit, survive apocalypse

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Blake Vajgrt

Staff Writer

Senior forward Nathan Douglas dribbles past the Mount Marty defenders to contribute a total of two goals for the men’s 5-0 victory over the Lancers on Sept. 21.

photo by Brandon Rehm

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GoBulldogs!

Remember singing the fun little rhyme, “In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue” in elementary school? Well, what if I told you that was one of the parts of the story that was actually true? Shocked? So was I.

You may have been taught that Columbus was a brave and noble man who was the $rst European to $nd the Americas. But what about the Scandinavians who settled in Newfoundland about 1,000 years earlier? Sure, they did not create a permanent settlement that a#ects our modern-day life, but it must be made clear that people knew of the New World before Columbus bumped into it.

Yes, I said bumped into it. It was a blessing for him to $nd the Americas. He misjudged the distance between Spain and the Indies, thinking it was considerably shorter than what his contemporaries were judging it to be. If it had not been for the Americas, Columbus’ men probably would have

mutinied. Who would want to be stranded on a ship with little provisions?

Oh, and that whole baloney about Columbus being the $rst to realize the Earth was round rather than "at? Yeah, that’s wrong, too. !e truth is that Eratosthenes of Cyrene $rst discovered the Earth was round, and $gured out a fairly accurate circumference of it, too. Not bad for an ancient Greek astronomer.

Then what about Columbus Day on Oct. 12? Should Columbus be celebrated for making a mistake and eventually being banned from the New World? (Yeah, you read that correctly. He was banned!)

Columbus Day was established in the United States during the early half of the 20th century. Today some children get the day o# from school in his honor, which seems a bit ludicrous to me.

Sure, Columbus established the first-known permanent settlement of Europeans in the New World. He should be remembered for that, no doubt, because without his foolish estimations American history would have been di#erent. But should he be placed upon a pedestal and lauded as a heroic character in history?

Columbus Day should be reevaluated. Most Americans remember him for the myths, not for the reality.

If, however, America continues to celebrate Columbus Day by giving kids a day o# from school, then I want to make Talk Like a Pirate Day a national holiday as well.

Once we’re a good chunk into the $rst part of the semester, we seem to work ourselves into some sort of a regimented routine that we will continue to follow for the remaining part of the semester.

Some of us choose to be involved in a number of activities on or o# campus. Clearly, to be good students and to stay good students, we need to plan out our days accordingly in order to accomplish everything on time.

For those of you reading this who haven’t met her yet, I would encourage you to get to know a junior by the name of Ali Schuerman. I would consider her to have mastered the idea of time management to a T.

Ali is involved in a number of activities on and o# campus to which she dedicates nearly all her free time.

On campus, Ali is captain of the Concordia Dance Team, a barista at 10:31 Coffee Shop, photo manager and contributor to the marketing department, an active member of the art club and a Brommer Hall night monitor.

O# campus, Ali works at Rue 21 in Lincoln and is currently doing graphic design for her church, Mosaic, located in Lincoln as well.

To top things off Ali also owns her own

photography company, Ali Schuerman Photography, where she is sure to have multiple photo shoots each weekend for various occasions.

Ali is pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Art degree in graphic design and a marketing minor, averaging 18 credits per semester and loving every second of it.

Ali keenly describes her involvement with the school and community as being “busy and sleepless,” but she said she wouldn’t trade what she does for anything else.

Ever feel like you don’t have enough time in the world to get everything you want accomplished? I encourage you to keep Ali in mind as someone to refer to when all of your homework assignments and activities feel jumbled.

Remember to try as hard as you can not to procrastinate because your best work certainly will not to come out of a severe time crunch.

Lastly, don’t ever hesitate to get involved with activities on and o# campus that will help prepare you for graduating and leaping into the professional world.

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Recognize time management

Hold up. Wait. What?If you just read the title of this piece you

may be thinking that I am crazy. Yeah, maybe, but hear me out.

By making this statement, I am not telling you to stay in your dorm room and count the "owers on the wall or become a hermit. Instead, I am asking you to make a choice.

Last week, I was reading “Habitudes” by Tim Elmore for my Leadership Lab course and I was struck with an insight.

As college students, we are incredibly involved—even more so because we attend a small private college. But that is the problem: we are involved.

Despite what you may be thinking, I am not talking about of how many clubs you are a member of or which sports teams you play on. I am talking about your level of commitment.

!e problem I am talking about is that we are only involved in di#erent activities at college, but when it comes down to it, we are not committed. But let me tell you this: being committed is incredibly attractive.

So, what does it look like to be committed?Being committed means doing more

than just attending the meeting. It requires opening new doors, trying di#erent pathways and making changes to the way you currently live.

Yes, being committed to a sport, club or job is scary. When you are only involved, you are not held responsible. Commitment asks

for responsibility and demands leadership, focus and passion.

Have you ever met someone who is passionate? I have.

People who are passionate are dynamic. !ey make you want to be passionate for the same thing they are. People are drawn to people who are passionate.

Here is the choice I am asking you to make: instead of just being involved in something, be committed to it. Be passionate about it. Take a risk and see it through.

When you are committed to something, you will be amazed at what doors you can open. You can scale mountains you never knew existed. You can cross oceans in record time.

I believe that when you are committed to something, nothing can stop you; and when you are passionate, no one can stand in your way.

Stop being involved. Make the choice to be committed and change the world.

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!e Sower is a periodical providing news and a forum for free expression to the students of Concordia University, Seward, Neb. All editors and sta# members are students of Concordia University. Opinions expressed in the Sower are not necessarily those of the entire Sower sta#, the Concordia student body, faculty or administration or the governing bodies of the University. !e University does not engage in prior review or restraint of materials printed in the Sower. Readers may reach the Sower by e-mail at Sower@cune.org, or by phone at (402) 643-7307.

Managing EditorEmily Hemphill

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Sometimes it’s OK to talk to strangers.I don’t mean the super fakey creepy

ones o#ering candy out the back doors of their beat-up Chevy vans.

I mean the ones at the trap range you end up at because someone gave you bad directions to an event you were supposed to cover.

!e ones who o#er you a map with the correct route all written out.

!e ones with connections who call the right place to see if the team is still there shooting.

Strangers are the people who make journalists thrive. Without strangers, this paper and my job wouldn’t exist.

Daily, I talk to people I’ve never met before and may never meet again. I learn about them and have the chance to tell their stories.

Examining this issue of !e Sower, I can think of, well, eight pages’ worth of strangers our editors interacted with.

The photo on page one of the Colorado "oods was taken by someone we’ve never met.

Dr. Merold Westphal, also featured on page one, is a stranger to us, yet we had the chance to tell about him.

Bryan Scherbarth is new to campus, and we’d never heard of him until the story on page two.

I’ll admit on page four, some of us (cough, cough) didn’t know Joshua Smith was a professor here.

On page five we have two girls from Ethiopia and an illustrator from Connecticut whom we’ve never met and probably never will.

!at’s seven strangers right there, not even including all the people our reporters talked to to get their stories and photos.

It’s always interesting to see how people react to the press. Some people can’t run away fast enough (are we really that scary?). Others will talk to us on the phone for hours (two and a half is my record).

And then we have the strangers. !e ones we run into by chance or the people we look up in the phone book and call at odd hours on a whim, hoping for a lead. Yes, we still use phone books.

!e other cool aspect is that once we talk to strangers, they’re not strangers anymore. !ey become sources, maybe regular contacts even. In some cases, they become friends.

So thank you, strangers, whoever you are, for making our jobs and this paper possible. We couldn’t do it without you, and we can’t wait to meet you.

Thanks, Mr. Guy at the Trap RangeEmily Hemphill

Staff Writer

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