CONCORDIA FORENSICS

a co-curricular program of the

Communication Studies and Theatre Art Department

Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota

Squad Room: Olin Center 337
Phone: 218-299-4341
E-mail: sternhag@cord.edu

WHAT WE ARE ABOUT

Concordia Forensics is a co-curricular academic program of the Concordia Communication Studies and Theatre Art Department. Students of any and all experience levels are welcome in the program. Then program enters students in intercollegiate speech and debate tournaments and sponsors a variety of events and activities.

Activities Sponsored by Concordia Forensics

Our Competitive Progam more information about the competitive program
Concordia Summer Debate Institute more information about the Summer Debate Institute
W.E. Lillo Invitational Tournament for high school students more information about Lillo
"Talk of the Tundra" Tournament for college students more information about the Tundra
Minnesota Zeta chapter of Pi Kappa Delta more information about Pi Kappa Delta

SCHOLARSHIPS AND FINANCIAL AID

Applications are presently being screened for the 2005 Speech and Debate Scholarship program. However, most people who compete on our team do NOT have designated speech and debate scholarships. For more information about financial aid at Concordia you can look at the Admissions website.

If you'd like information right away--contact the Concordia Admissions Office.

SQUIDLY THINGS

You might ask, "What's with this stuff about the squid?"

Just as many members of the Concordia Forensics Program have totems, so there is a totem for the squad as a whole. That totem is, indeed, the giant squid. As is usually true with totemic choices, there were a number of reasons leading to the choice of the squid.

Phonetics: It's just a cheap phonetic link between "squad" and "squid."
Diversity and Unity: We have a lot of difference within the Concordia Forensics program--hard core competitors and dabblers; interpers, public address folk and debaters; straight arrows and seriously twisted people; big high school experience, no high school experience...
The giant squid "is able to withstand tremendous pressure."
Mike Wentworth and "the squid introduction," which led to "squid fantasy which is actualized upon the crossing of "squid threshold."

This page created and maintained by Fred Sternhagen (sternhag@cord.edu).

Date of last update: 12/21/2004.

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