Observer Department: Features

Only yesterday: A look back at NECC and its legacy over 60 years

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 When Northern Essex Community College opened its doors in 1961, few would’ve expected the former schoolhouse would one day morph into two sprawling campuses, with an enrollment of nearly 4,000. Northern Essex Community College was one of only four community colleges in Massachusetts when it was founded and its inaugural…

Unidos Paint Night: Special night celebrates creativity, art, music and meditation

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Unidos Paint Night at NECC Lawrence Campus on the night of Tuesday, Sept. 27, brought together a group of women to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. This wonderful group of all ages, and Hispanic demographics were brought together with a meditation guided by Elizabeth Delgado, owner of Colectiva Wellness & Healing,…

A glimpse into the writing major option

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Northern Essex Community College provides students with the tools needed to succeed, and the Liberal Arts Writing Option program gives students the opportunity to expand their career while they are enhancing their skills. The Liberal Arts Writing Option major has been around for a long time. Northern Essex’s English department…

Games Club offers opportunity make new friends, play new games

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 The Northern Essex Community College Games Club is a fun and unique club that is great for meeting friends while playing a myriad of different types of games. This past semester the games club has been meeting consistently. As advisor Matt Gingras says, “This semester we met in C-107, alternating…

Stop the trend

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Everyone has somewhat fallen into a need for greed or small desire to be recognized at some point, but when the quality of the idea to bring them there has lost its originality then it should be forgotten instead of repeated again and again. In today’s current state of the…

The mastermind behind Student Activities

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If you find yourself looking through Northern Essex's event calendar, one name starts to stick out from the rest: Student Life Coordinator Stephanie Haskell.  Haskell has been with NECC for nearly four years now, and her role in student life has been essential in almost all major events on campus.…

Hold me back as time flies

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It is no secret that time starts to fly by at an incomprehensible rate as we get older. As unexplainable as this is, the trials and tribulations of life slowly weigh on the human race creating a paradox of what we used to know as one day now feels like…

New Year’s resolutions: The lie we keep telling ourselves

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Many make New Year's resolutions but are unable to keep them. Working out, eating healthier, reading more. But how are some able to complete their resolutions and even make them into a habit? I asked two current and one former NECC student about this to try to examine what factors…

Life vs. travel

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With all of the factors at play in your everyday life, it is hard to just pick up your bags and travel. The typical job would not help you have any available time to actually go on this trip, especially if you are trying to actually experience the location of…

The Perspectives of NECC professor and philosopher, Dermot Luddy

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In South Ireland, in the big city of Cork, Dermot Luddy grew up quite adventurously. He felt a sense of belonging in his historic, neighborly community. To Luddy, a prodigious music fan, the theaters excited him as well as Cork’s annual jazz music festival. He says “When I was old…