Observer Department: News

Are ‘murder hornets’ cause for concern?

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As if living through a pandemic isn’t anxiety inducing enough by itself, social media rumors are now being spread about a mysterious “murder hornet” that has migrated to the United States. In late 2019 two bees were spotted in Washington, later determined to be Asian giant hornets, the world’s largest…

A conversation with student trustee Courtney Morin

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Courtney Morin serves as the Northern Essex Community College Student Government Association's Vice President of Haverhill and also as the Student Trustee on NECC's Board of Trustees. In recent SGA meetings, she and Stephanie Haskell, a member of NECC's staff and the advisor to the SGA (a position whose holder…

Life after coronavirus

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Times ae changing and our lifestyle as we know it will never be the same as it was because of the Covid-19. Until a short time ago we could hug our friends or family without fear, the students attended their respective schools or universities, people worked without any problem, masks…

Being a student in the time of COVID-19

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The pandemic has affected everyone, but for college students it's really been a major shift in their academic career. Especially for those who were enrolled in in-person classes, due to the rather abrupt change to a remote format of learning and even then just because every student is taking online…

Conversations in quarantine

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The spread of coronavirus across the United States has resulted in many people staying at home, thus reducing physical interaction. Nevertheless, some businesses need to communicate with others, resulting in the applications of new technologies for long distance communication.  At Northern Essex Community College, many professors have begun using Zoom…

Life changes post-virus

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Salisbury, Massachusetts- Coronavirus, or COVID-19 has been traumatizing the globe since December 2019. As the virus continues to spread around the world, killing hundreds of thousands and infecting millions more, there is no certainty of when this will end. As we look towards the future, I think a lot of…

Keeping creative with Professor Victor

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Marquis Victor is a new professor at Northern Essex Community College who teaches Intro to Film Studies and Communication through Film. He started teaching spring 2020, not only as a way to scratch that teaching itch he’s had, but also to contribute to the college’s education offering in the city.…

SGA discusses possibilities for 2020 graduates

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The Northern Essex Community College Commencement and Executive Committees conferred with the school's Student Government Association recently to address how NECC's 2020 graduation proceedings and teaching rules will be affected by coronavirus-caused social distancing guidelines recently mandated by Mass. Governor Charlie Baker (R).  Via the first-ever SGA public Zoom meeting, a communication…

Student government reacts, responds to campus closure

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Members of Northern Essex Community College Student Government Association and their college-employed advisor, who together hold weekly public SGA meetings at NECC, say that the indefinite closure of most NECC public services and operations due to the spread of novel coronavirus has plunged the college's student government into unchartered, unfriendly…

NECC adminstrators explore adding a chief diversity officer

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Higher-ups in Northern Essex Community College's (NECC) administration are reporting that NECC is working to establish a chief diversity officer (CDO) position, an occupation whose primary functions are planned by higher-ups to mainly consist of bridging the seeming academic success gap between white students and students of ethnic minorities, ethnically…