Rounding up tourist dollars
BY KAITLIN MUTH
“People come to Northfield for a lot of different reasons,” says Northfield Mayor Mary Rossing.
Last Saturday, for example, Will Rolf, a St. Paul realtor, came to see a show in town.
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BY MARIKO CONNER
"The Blackwater Incident" by Daniel Heyman
“I wanted to have breakfast.”
The larger-than-life face of Baghdad attorney Hassan Jaber Salman gazes away, haunted.
Although his hands are folded to his side, they appear in flux, as though he is wringing them.
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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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BY EMILY HARTLEY
A new “rideshare” web site is being discussed for Northfield that would provide the most extensive database available for matching people who want to carpool during their daily commutes, on longer one-time trips or for short errands around town.
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BY NORA CASSIDY
Ted Mullin
This past Saturday, all over the world, swimmers swam their hardest for a man they never met.
From Carleton College in Northfield to Windhoek, Namibia and Townsville, Australia, swimmers “left it all in the pool” for the 4th annual Ted Mullin Hour of Power. The event is a non-stop relay that raises...
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Sam Dunnewold, a Carleton sophomore, speaks at "This Is My Story." Photo courtesy of Veasey Conway.
BY MAIA RODRIGUEZ
When Sarah Carter was first tested in grade school for a possible learning disability, the test results were disappointing – she had dyslexia. But even more disappointing in some ways was the response of the school...
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BY JULIA OLSON
A recent talk on health care at Carleton College began with members of the audience, mostly students, telling the group why they had come.
Nearly every student said they felt under-informed about the present national debate on health care reform.
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BY MARIKO CONNER
As the Star Tribune crawls out of bankruptcy and other major newspapers face similar struggles and worse, including shutting down for good, online journalism is emerging as a new standard for news in the U.S.
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BY SHREYA SINGH
“My name is Kati,” the letter begins. “I’m short, funny, cute, have lots of friends and now you’re one of them!”
Mahal Burr working on her book in the Gould Library
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BY MEGHAN KEANE
“Literature is a fundamental element to understanding people,” said Najat El Hachmi, a renowned novelist and college professor, in a talk on Oct. 30 at Carleton College. “It’s vital.”
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