| Summary: | theCONCORDIAN EDITORIAL Emily Meyer Editor- in -Chief Kent Kolstad Managing Editor Karla Tetreault News & Features Editor Trevor Murchison A&E Editor Adam Voge Sports Editor Gia Rassier Opinions Editor Laura Ingalls Copy Editor Cathy McMullen Facutty Adviser PRESENTATION Hanna Stevens Photo Editor Naomi Nix Graphic Designer WRITING Jessica Ballou taff Writer Jennifer Harvey taff Writer Marisa Paulson Staff Writer Leif Stavig Staff Writer Katie Jahnig A&E Writer Anthony Pilloud A&E Writer Tim Pipinich A&E Water Chelsea Spanier A&E Writer Katie Wolf A&E Writer Nathan Haase Sports Writer Sara Grasmon Sports Writer Kyle Kazemi Sports Writer Ross Uglem Sports Writer Sean Volk Opinions Columnist Eric Brown Photographer Tana Flaten Photographer Kristin Langerud Photographer Megan Rice Photographer Zachariah Roe' Photographer Olivia Skari Photographer Nick Weisser Photographer BUSINESS Terence Tang Business Manager Suzanne Maanum Advertising Manager Pamela Jolicoeur Publisher You make our dreams come true (yeah you, ooh ooh) THE CONCORDIAN You can pick up THE CONCORDIAN all over campus! New issues delivered every Friday morning! Hoyum Hvidsten Library Livedalen Lorentzsen Park Region Welcome Center Online at www.TheConcordian.org the CO N CO RD IAN Bogstad East Bogstad Manor Brown, Unit 1 Campus Center Near Post Office The Maize East Complex Facilities Management Fjelstad Frances Frazier Comstock Theater WS SPOTS CONCORDIAN ASSOCATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — All the world from the Sydney Opera House to the Empire State Building turned Irish, or at least Irish for the day, as revelers marked St. Patrick's Day with bag-pipes, dancing, emerald lights and green body paint in a flurry of celebration. New Yorkers and visitors from all over the globe lined Manhattan's Fifth Avenue a dozen deep for the world's oldest and largest St. Patrick's Day parade Wednesday, as crowds gathered along sun-warmed routes in Dublin and cities around the U.S. to mark the holiday. The day simultaneously served as a celebration of spring in many cities, with participants in parades and other outdoor gatherings basking in temperatures in the 6os after a harsh winter. The 249th St. Patrick's Day extravaganza in New York City was to be the last of the Big Apple's world-famous parades to take place before new restrictions go into effect April i requiring all parades to be shorter to save money. The city issued the new rules in February, requiring all pa-rades to trim routes by 25 percent and reduce time to less than five hours, changes estimated to save $3.1 million in police ex-penses. ASSOCATED PRESS PITTSBURGH (AP) — Police say a man broke into a Pittsburgh home and climbed into bed with its owner, appar-ently because he was drunk and cold following a rap concert. Homeowner Frank Fontana says he was in bed when the man climbed in about 5:3o Wednesday morning. Fontana says he asked whether it was a woman who has keys to his home — and he grabbed a baseball bat when a deep male voice answered, "No, it's hot." Police say Fontana kept the man at bay until police arrived but didn't hit him with the bat. 2 MARCH 19, 2010 ASSOCATED PRESS DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A string of steamy text messages has resulted in a jail sentence for an Indian cou-ple, local media announced Wednesday, in the latest case of passions clashing with the law in the cosmopolitan, yet occasionally conservative, Gulf city of Dubai. The conviction said the sexual content of the texts suggested the unnamed pair planned to "commit sin" — a reference to an extra-marital affair, which is illegal in the United Arab Emirates. The pair, who worked as cabin crew for Emirates airlines, each were sentenced to three months in jail, said authorities. Court docu-ments only gave their initials and their ages: 42 for her and 47 for him. The court ruling said there was not enough evidence to determine whether the couple had an af-fair, which would have likely brought a harsher sentence. ASSOCATED PRESS WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Whale researchers returned from Antarctic waters Monday after a six-week expedition that they said proved Japan's annual kill of whales for scientific purposes is unnecessary. The voyage was a challenge to Japan's scientific program, which kills up to i,000 of the mammals a year — an allowed exception to the International Whaling Commission's 1986 ban on commer cial whaling. The scientists' research focused on whale numbers, what they eat, how they move between food patches and how they travel to and from their breeding grounds in the central Pacific. "All of those questions can be and are being answered using nonlethal techniques," expedition leader Nick Gales told reporters Monday. Police say the intruder told them he was looking for shelter after a Tuesday night concert by rapper Jay-Z at the Mellon Arena. The 33-year-old man faces a preliminary hear ing on charges of criminal mischief and criminal trespass. Bishop Joseph Bvumbwe, head of the Malawi Council of Church-es, says the leaders gathered Wednesday in the southern town of Mangochi to discuss homosexuality as an issue "most Malawians do not understand." Blantyre magistrate Nyakwawa Usiwa-Usiwa is scheduled to deliver a verdict Monday on Steven Monjeza, 26, and Tiwonge Chimbal-anga, 20, arrested and jailed since Dec. 26 after holding a public engagement ceremony. Homosexuality is illegal in most sub-Saharan African countries. The arrests have outraged human rights groups and Western donors in Malawi, one of Africa's poorest nations. KENT KOLSTAD Managing Editor gadget corner BY ANDREW LISZEWSKI When it comes to being a robot OhGizmo.com vacuum the G182, available from Chinavasion, does everything you'd expect a reasonably equipped model to do these days, like automatically dock with the charging base when the battery gets low, and it comes with a wireless IR virtual fence to keep it from wandering into places it shouldn't go. But the inclusion of a remote controlled pan and tilt IR-equipped webcam, which has the unfortunate side effect of ensuring it won't fit under most couches, means the G182 also doubles as a remote cleaning tool and surveil-lance unit that can be controlled and monitored from anywhere in the world you have a net connection. It connects to your home wi-fi network providing both a live video and audio feed, and the whole setup is perfect for anyone who's ever worried that someone might break into their home only to be horrified to find the floors are dirty. How embarrassing! -$500. ASSOCATED PRESS BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Church leaders say they have met in this fiercely conservative southern African nation to "understand the phenomenon" of same sex partners days ahead of a court verdict that could send two gay men to jail for up to 14 years. Campus Calendar Sunday Monday Tuesday 3/21 3/22 3/23 9:5o a.m. to 10:55 a.m. Chapel @ Centrum 2:4o p.m. to 4 P.M. Colonization of Anishinaabe and the White Pines @ Knut-son/ Jone A-B 3:3o p.m. to 7 p.m. Pathways to Careers in the Arts @ U of M Continuing Education & Conference Center, Minneapolis Friday 3/19 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. CEC Swing Night @ Centrum Summer and Fall Registration 9:20 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. America Reads Interest Meeting @ BWz49 9:20 a.m. to 10:20 a.m. Community Time 2:40 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tor Who Lost His Hammer, NORW 112 Class @ Jones 212 Saturday 3/20 9 p.m. to II p.m. Magician Peter Boie @ Centrum* 9 p.m. to to p.m. Sunday Night @ East 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Gold-N-Motion @ Memorial Auditorium 9:50 a.m. to to:15 a.m. Chapel @ Centrum 7 p.m. to 8:3o p.m. Anishinaabe Ethnobotanical Teachings @ Knutsonjones A-B 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Phi Alpha Theta Initiation @ Frida Nilsen Lounge Wednesday 3/24 9:5o a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Chapel @ Centrum ro p.m. to ri p.m. Prayer around the Cross @ Centrum Thursday 3/25 to p.m. to ti p.m. CEC Thursday Night Open Nile @ Maize 9:50 a.m. to to:15 a.m. Chapel @ Centrum 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. National Book Award: Readings and Conversation @ Centrum 9 p.m. to to p.m. Tabernacle The purpose of The Concordian is to affirm the mission of Concordia College by cultivating thoughtful and informed students, faculty and staff through the awareness and discussion of college, local, national and world affairs. 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