BY DEBBIE WONG
Armed with scientific calculators, students at Carleton College were doing math – but not just any math. They were adding up calories and cents, selecting foods to buy from a small-scale model grocery store they’d built in the classroom. Their goal: to satisfy their dietary needs with limited money.
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Food Stamps Fail to Reach the Elderly Poor in Northfield, Carleton Students Find
Former Young Addicts Speak About Drug Abuse in Northfield
BY DEBBIE WONG
“In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, love.”
Those words are displayed on the front wall of the Main Street Moravian Church in Northfield, and they are the words that Pastor Amy Gohdes-Luhman used to open the Town Hall Meeting on drug abuse held in Northfield on Nov. 8.
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In a College Town, a Thriving School for Seniors (Retired, That is)
BY DEBBIE WONG
A yearning for learning
On a recent sunny Wednesday afternoon, I found myself, a 19-year-old college student, listening to a psychology lecture with 13 other students. Nothing unusual about that, of course, except that every one of the students was over 50.
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“Coming Out Day” Raises Issues and Eyebrows in Northfield
BY DEBBIE WONG
We all know July 4, Feb. 14, Dec. 25, May 1 and Jan. 1. For the most part, it wouldn’t cause a ruckus to say we wholeheartedly love those days.
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Gao Hong’s Northfield: Chinese, Culture and Community
BY DEBBIE WONG
On one of the coldest days of autumn so far, I headed to the basement of the Carleton College Concert Hall to practice the piano, and to seek a refuge from the outdoor chill.
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