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Earlier this semester our "Introduction to Film" class screened what is considered the greatest and scariest documentary of all time, Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will." Shot during the 1934 Nazi Party Rally in the city of...

Fourteen Northampton Community College students traveled to Demark for spring break in a joint program with Roskilde Handelsskole, a Danish business college. Many of the students had never been abroad before. Each morning as we gathered, their faces showed...

Spring Break! Cancun! Party! Wooooooo! Wouldn't it be nice if spring break really was like what you see on TV? Beach bunnies lying in the sand on the shore of Cancun, Mexico. Drinks flowing and poolside parties. Too bad most of us live in the real...

The death of J.D. Salinger, the author of The Catcher and the Rye and several other classic American novels and short stories, made me think of one of the strangest – and saddest – stories of my lifetime: the killing of former Beatle John...

Since the January 15 posting of the Fall 2009 dean's list on Northampton NOW, over 3,859 people clicked to see if they or a friend or family member made the list. Making the dean's list is a big deal for Northampton Community College students...

Civil War buffs will tell you that the first “deadline” was the barrier around the notorious Andersonville prison . Prisoners who crossed the line would be shot dead. We have deadlines around here, too. Thankfully, this isn’t Andersonville...

Finals week at Northampton Community College begins on December 14 and ends on December 19. That's right. Students only have one more week to cram in a semester's worth of knowledge into their brains just to pour it all back out onto a blue book...