| Summary: | 2 NEWS cTHE ONCORDIAN Concordia College Alison Weis, News Editor THE CONCORDIAN Concordia has a student unemployment rate of 25% (in other words, 75% have jobs). "We want the world and we want it now." Jim Morrison wisted THE CONCORDIAN If the Village People couldn't sing cool songs about the Young Menrs Christian Association, would they just be a bunch of guys who get regularly beaten up by rednecks? The doors come to Livedalen New locking policy completes security changes Mike Raum COPY EDITOR And the doors were finally locked. Livedalen Hall recently received new front doors as part of an effort to bring security policies in the residence hall in conformity with other residence halls. Allen Drees, a former Livedalen R.A. who wrote "Beating my head against a dorm," an opinion column about efforts for increased security in Livedalen which appeared in the September 17 issue of The Concordiant was pleased with the change. "Before [the new doors] there was absolutely no control over who came or left the dorm. Now there's more control. It should help prevent anything that could happen in the future. The change is the culmination of a series of measures taken since Livedalen security issues were first raised in September. Desk hours were extended in October. The desk is now staffed each morning until seven a.m. ==«! This will help tighten the security. Ken Baker Livedalen R.A. The new Livedalen doors arrived shortly after Christmas. Livedalen Hall Director Rick Frederickson explained that one reason the doors were not previously locked is that they didn't have a mechanism which allowed them to be locked, and still allow exit while denying access. The new doors, can be, and are, Iockable. Weekday mornings the doors are locked at two and re-opened at seven. Weekends the doors lock at three, and open again at seven. Students wishing to be admitted during locked hours need only to knock, and the desk worker will admit them. If the desk worker does not recognize the student, he asks for ID; but this has never been a problem. Will the locked doors solve any security risks? Junior Ken Baker, Livedalen RA, feels it will: "This will help tighten the security.it1ll help not only with security, but with the residents' feeling of security." Likewise, Livedalen Hall Manager BJ Polley feels the doors will help prevent past problems, such as vandalism, from reoccurring. "We don't know to what extent violations had been occurring, but whatever that extent, it will be lessened by this," Polley said. Career Fair '94 held at Fargo Civic Center The annual Tri-Coilege University Career Fair will be held at the Fargo Civic Center on Tuesday, January 25, from 8:30—11:50 am and 1:00—3:30 pm. Representatives from over 90 companies will be available to meet students and distribute career information. The morning session will be set aside for graduating seniors who have preregistered in the Placement Office and paid a $5.00 registration fee. The afternoon session is free of charge and open to all students who are seeking career information and possible co-op or internship opportunities. Students with co-op or internship interests should contact the Cooperative Education Office for application procedures and interview schedules. Students with interests in full-time employment should contact the Placement Office. Parking is limited at the Civic Center. You may wish to take advantage of free transportation provided to and from the Civic Center by Concordia. A college van will be departing from the west door of the Knutson Center at various times through out the day. lag, flak*' Bill NEWS . -in brief Concordia forum addresses Native American health issues The Native American Programs, along with the Nursing Department, will hold a forum on community health issues affecting the Native American population* The session is open to the public and is scheduled for January 21 at 11:00 pm, in the Science Building, room 292. Cynthia Smith, of North Dakota Health Task Force, will speak along with two medical officers from the Indian Health Service of Beicourt, North Dakota. This forum will deal with health care reform issues confronting Native American people, and will also focus on opportunities that are and will be available in the health care field. Habitat For Humanity plans four spring break projects About 120 students from Concordia will spend their spring break working on Habitat For Humanity projects in four different locations. The trips are scheduled for February 20—27. Forty Concordia students will work in New Iberia, Louisiana, 40 will woric in Circleville, West Virginia and 20 will help build homes in Tampa, Florida. The trip will cost each student about $275, and each is responsible for raising his or her own funds. Most of the money comes from Clubs, churches, and relatives in tbe student's home town. Students provide manual construction work, often working with the family that will own the home* Supplies are donated, and families purchase the home on an interest-free mortgage from Habitat For Humanity, Each group of students will travel by bus to the woric site and live in a group setting. Faculty will accompany students on photo/Alan Bjerga The new, improved doors of Livedalen Hall. Speech team triumphs on the tundra Concordia finished as the top team at both the Concordia and Moorhead State speech meets this past weekend. Competition started early on a Friday afternoon for the aptly named "Talk of the Tundra" speech tournament on Concordia's campus, and finished early on a Sunday evening at Moorhead State. "Three day tournaments are rare and grueling," said speech team president Eric Wolff. "By the last day everything is mostly a battle of those who can display energy and intensity that they really don't have." Although Wolff speaks as though the Concordia team lacked such energy, by the last day, their results surely didn't show much to be lacking. At the Moorhead tournament, seniors Kevin Koester, Heather Riddle, Laurie Holm, Kirsten Bredlie, and Meryl Irwin, juniors Eric Wolff and Sarah Jones, sophomore Jen Hlavinka and Jason Edwards, and first-year students Rick Purrington, Steven Wray, and Kari Zimprich all found themselves in final or semifinal rounds. Although no Concordia speakers won any of those finals, Kevin Koester and Rick Purrington placed second and third in poetry interpretation, Heather Riddle placed second in extemporaneous speaking and communication analysis, Laurie Holm placed second in informative speaking, and Eric Wolff placed second in after dinner speaking. Due to his presence in three final rounds at Moorhead and his high scores at Concordia, first-year student Rick Purrington was awarded the outstanding novice speaker award concluding the Moorhead tournament. The team's victory at Moorhead came only 24 hours after an even more impressive tournament on their own campus. At their own tournament, Concordia speakers won four different events. Heather Riddle won impromptu speaking and extemporaneous speaking and finished second in informative speaking. Kevin Koester won poetry interpretation and Eric Wolff won after-dinner speaking. Both Kevin and Eric repeated their winning of those same events only a week prior in Lincoln, Nebraska. Other results of note included Steven Wray and Laurie Holm placing second and third in impromptu speaking, and Eric Wolff placing second in extemporaneous speaking. These finishes helped Concordia's team to claim the top spot in team sweepstakes at the "tournament on the tundra." THE CONCORDIAN, January 21,1994
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