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Northland alumni director Jackie Moore holds up photo of Ida and Cabbie Meyer at the Stagecoach Inn, formerly Cabbie's.

Ex-watering hole owner leaves $200,000 to Northland College

…to the college,” Ida Meyer told her lawyer, Michael Rider, as she planned her estate. “Those kids were good to us.” Ida died in Lake Placid, Fla., March 22 at age 103. During the 1950s and 60s, she and her husband, Casper, ran Cabbie’s Tap in Ashland, just a short…

Graduate Jenise Swartley gives commencement address.

The Power of Action

2019 Commencement Address

Gun

SA: Why Are White Men Stockpiling Guns?

…question is this: men, who on average possess almost twice the number of guns female owners do. But not all men. Some groups of men are much more avid gun consumers than others. The American citizen most likely to own a gun is a white male—but not just any white…

Alumni standing at bowling alley

MACNC Noise: Of Jacks and Quacks

…smaller version of tenpins; and you roll three balls per frame, not just two. There are other differences, but we’ll leave that to the experts out there to explain. You know who you are. This, the LumberJack and Jill Duckpin Bowling Night, was the Mid-Atlantic Club of Northland College’s (aka…

Alumna wilderness fire chief

Northland Alum named one of Time magazine’s ‘Silence Breakers’

…forced to report incidents at professional, personal, emotional and financial expense. “I just thought, ‘If it’s not me, then who?’” Martin said. ”‘If not now, when?’” Martin joins celebrities such as Ashley Judd, Taylor Swift and Selma Blair who were recognized as what Time described as “the voices that launched…

Exploring Interactions Between Humans and Wildlife

Andrew East `10 Uses Northland Lessons for Science & Teaching

…teaching, my lab management would not be fostering successful scientists. One of the unique things about working in a university research setting is that I just can’t shake the feeling that my teams are missing the passion and family feeling that I had at Northland. I’ve been on stellar crews,…

solar garden

CRC Helps City Plan for Renewable Future

Center for Rural Communities Updates Ashland City Plan for Energy Independence

…the planet will warm to around 1.5°C in just 12 years, triggering a sequence of increasingly catastrophic impacts—it is imperative that Ashland continues to do what it can. Pursuing renewable energy is one of the essential and right things to do at this time,” Hofstedt said. Lewis agrees. “It is…

NYT: Waukesha Plan for Lake Michigan Water Raises Worries

…contamination problem in its aquifer, the answer seemed simple: Get water from the big lake. Surely, city leaders imagined, the needs of Waukesha, with a population just over 70,000, would be but a drop from the gigantic Great Lakes bucket, which amounts to one-fifth of the earth’s fresh surface water….

Northland College student Isa Meyer works with a display in the Native American Museum

Combining Forestry and Native American Studies

…She added a Native American studies major after taking an Introduction to Native American Studies course her first semester at Northland, spurring her interest in traditional ecological knowledge. “She’s just an incredibly dedicated, articulate, and smart Northland College student,” said Stacy Craig, coordinator of applied learning. Meyer said Northland College…

High school boy looking through magnifying glass at lumber.

Changing Lives

…career fields. The impact on participants in this academy is incredible. As Olivia Oeker wrote in her evaluation: “In just four days, I have learned more about nature and myself than I thought possible. This area near Forest Lodge is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen.”…