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Glass of beer sitting next to Cabbie's Tap logo.

Ten-cent Taps, Lasting Romance & Ida's Special Sauce

Alums Remember Cabbie’s Tap owners   Jean Anne (O’Brien) Case 1958 I grew up in Ashland but attended Northland and did stay in the dorm one year. I mostly remember spending a lot of time in Cabbie’s because the age to get into a beer bar was eighteen and they…

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Advocacy and Public Discourse

…thinking required to create the pathways of healing and enlightened stewardship necessary for our security and survival. As an institution of higher education, Northland College actively engages in both examination and discourse regarding the contentious and difficult issues of our society today, tomorrow, and in the past. We encourage our…

Travis Proctor

Fake News, Forgeries, & Frauds

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Travis Proctor's New Course

…were really written by the people to whom they are attributed (in these cases, the apostle Paul). Two recent controversies caught my attention and demonstrated how these continue to be issues significant for today—the controversy over fraudulent manuscripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls featured in the Museum of the Bible…

Lake Superior and beach

Geologic Perspectives on Climate Change

…4. The recent increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has a unique chemical signature indicative of the burning of fossil fuels. The geologic record also tells us of times in the distant past where greenhouse gas concentrations and temperatures were much higher than today. During these periods of warmth,…

Muddy fish creek watershed

Northland Project Aims to Clear Chequamegon Bay’s Muddy Waters

…for market, the dams were removed and water and logs rushed downstream to mills. “That tears all the natural fish habitat and straightens out the stream,” Hudson said. “We are still living with that today.” Studies done by the U.S. Geological Survey show that the key to cutting runoff is…

Great Lakes map

Buffalo News Editorial: Battle is brewing

…just outside the Great Lakes watershed. A century ago, Waukesha was sprinkled with clear, gurgling, nationally renowned freshwater springs. Today, most of the springs are gone, and Waukesha sits atop a declining, contaminated deep aquifer. It has applied for a Lake Michigan water diversion of up to 10.1 million gallons…

Graduate riding a bike with no hands

Graduates, especially, be astounded by the wonder all around us

By Mark Peterson, SOEI Executive Director For the Duluth News Tribune Socrates wrote over 2,000 years ago that, “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” But wonder gets short shrift in our world today, and the sense of wonder dims in many people as they grow older. Thus, to all of…