Students Showcase Side-Hustles at Entrepreneur Fair
Sophomore Dayton Merli was helping out at his grandmother’s house over spring break in 2024 when he stumbled upon a vintage clothing goldmine: hundreds of his dad’s old NASCAR t-shirts from the 90s and early 2000s. After combing through his discovery, he…
Cereal-Eating Event Causes a Stir in Crossroads
Diners at Crossroads were met with quite the bizarre sight on Feb. 2 as a group of around 30 people flooded into the cafeteria at 5 p.m., swiping their Cougar Cards and forming a single-file line in front of the cereal dispensers. The group then…
Festivalgoers Celebrate 20 Years of Riot Fest
For three days at the end of every summer, a relatively small park in Chicago is the home of tens of thousands of stoned and tipsy-to-drunk punk rock fans celebrating several decades of rock. What is normally an empty field for 362 days of the year is…
Emmy-Winner Paul Walter Hauser Looks Back on His Time at CUC
Before he was an Emmy Award-winning actor, Paul Walter Hauser was a student at Concordia University Chicago. Hauser, who appeared this summer in the films Fantastic Four: First Steps and The Naked Gun, attended CUC from January of 2008 to May of 2009.…
Turning Lemons into LemonAid: Community Comes Together for 9/11 Memorial, Charity Event
The sounds of live music and the occasional cowbell drifted down the 700 block of Bonnie Brae on Thursday. Bicycles littered front lawns as children and teens flocked to a festive event, where volunteers served cotton candy, popcorn, and of course,…
Why Do Some Professors Assign Homework Over Spring Break?
As the bus left the hotel in Minnesota at 6 a.m. on day seven of the Wind Symphony’s Spring Break tour, freshman Kierra Mohalley took out her iPad to work on assignments due the Monday after break. Though the exhaustion from the tour was…
CUC Students Taste Hispanic Culture
A line snaked from from Krentz Center all the way through the Triangle on Sept. 15, as CUC students waited to be served a taste of Latino culture during the Hispanic Heritage Month kickoff event. The annual event, hosted by the Latino Student Union…
Brewpoint Craft Oak Park Hosts Community Food Drive
A local Oak Park café that’s popular with CUC students recently combined live music and free coffee to collect food donations for the community. On Sunday, Sept. 18, Brewpoint Craft Oak Park offered tastes of CBD-infused coffee while local rap…
Current Job Market Favors Interns and Young Job Seekers
An internship can sound like a golden ticket for job seekers. With many companies struggling to hire and retain employees in the current job market, they have looked to promote their own interns and young staffers who show dedication and passion rather…
Radio Station WCGR ‘The Underground’ Makes a Campus Revival
Concordia University Chicago’s own WCGR is live and broadcasting student shows again on campus for all to hear after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Streaming online from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. daily, seven student shows this spring semester…