A student looks at his computer in an empty second floor hallway in the Spurk building on March 3. Examining the college experience on a commuter campus Anyone who spends a significant amount of time on Northern Essex Community College’s Haverhill campus is likely to acknowledge it is a place where people are made to feel welcome. Where does this sense of welcoming acceptance come from? Does it stem from a legitimately established sense of…
Observer Editor-in-Chief Daniela Valdivia-Terres, with her award from Associated Collegiate Presss. Observer Editor-in-Chief Daniela Valdivia-Terres was awarded honorable mention for Reporter of the Year for two year colleges from Associated Collegiate Press. The Observer also recently learned that two staff members will be honored with awards from the New England Newspaper and Press Association at their spring conference on March 29. Arts and Entertainment Editor Shaun Hood, along with Observer correspondents from Journalism I and…
Karoline Leavitt addressing the press pool in a White House Press briefing (February 25, 2025). For more than one hundred years, the White House Correspondents’ Association has been in control of the press pool, choosing which journalists get to be in the White House; now this system is being thrown out in favor of the White House choosing the journalists who get to be there. Since 1914, the White House Correspondents’ Association has chosen the…
The Red Card contains immigration rights in English and Spanish in the back. NECC immigrant students – with or without legal residency – keep on studying with uncertainty about their future immigration status. Staff and faculty are helping in creating awareness about their rights and encouraging them to be fearless but cautious. “I’m coming to Boston and I’m bringing hell with me,” said Tom Homan, director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, on Feb. 22. Homan, known as the “White House border czar,” criticized Boston and its police commissioner for not complying with…
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Rhaelyn Gutierrez As an avid basketball fan for the past seven years, I feel that I have a consistent knowledge when it comes to “good basketball.” And, sure, not every basketball team in the world can play at an elite competitive level like that of teams in the National Basketball Association (NBA), Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), or overseas in leagues like the EuroLeague and the National Basketball League (NBL) in Australia. But there is one team that reflects this ideal of “elite basketball”: The Knights of Northern Essex Community College, our beloved institution. Although I have only been here…
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Q&A with Professor Brianne Beatrice Mirrorajah Metcalfe, Ana Barrera and Theater Professor Brianne Beatrice. Recently, the NECC Observer had a chance to chat with Theater Program Coordinator Brianne Beatrice. We talked a lot about the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, as well as NECC Theater as a whole. Follow the program on Instagram @necctheater and check out the interview below! Shaun Hood: How was the theater festival this year? Brianne Beatrice: It was incredible. We participated in the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship competition. We had Mirrorajah Metcalfe, who is a student at the college, partnered with Ana Barrera team…
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I know it looks like a PSA public service announcement, but I promise you it’s not. It has a well-being message. First, I’d like to apologize for this late show-up of the year of the NECC Observer. If you have seen the blue post of our newspaper all winter, you may see a sun faded edition portraying last Christmas rehearsal although we are close to spring. The reason is that suddenly we were informed that our prior printer company would not be able to continue working with us. Our research into printing services took a while but finally, we got…
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