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Quick and Healthy Lunch

By Sarah Polan • Apr 9th, 2009 • Category: Student Life

Ingredients 1 large sweet potato, scrubbed clean 1/4 cup diced ham 1/4 cup chopped vegetables or precooked meat of your choice. Salt Pepper Margarine or butter Directions Poke several holes in the sweet potato with a fork or knife. Cook the potato in the microwave for 6 -7 minutes on high, until done. In a [...]



Babka, A Polish Easter Delight

By Sarah Polan • Apr 9th, 2009 • Category: Student Life

Ingredients 1 cup milk 3 cups flour 1/4 cup slightly warm milk 2 packages Yeast 1/2 cup sugar 1 tablespoon sugar 2 teaspoons salt 15 egg yolks 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/4 teaspoon almond extract 1 cup chopped almonds 1/3 cup chopped citron 1/3 cup chopped orange rind 1/3 cup chopped lemon rind 1/2 cup melted [...]



Money Saving Recipes

By Pam Linkous • Mar 26th, 2009 • Category: Student Life

Tough economic times call for saving money wherever you can.  Recipes that are fast but use basic ingredients are good when the grocery money does not go very far but you still are rushed for time. Leftover Hash Ingredients 1 cup chopped left over meat (steak, pork chops, chicken, turkey, etc) 2 cups cubed potatoes 1 medium onion, chopped 2 tablespoons [...]



Spring Break Ideas

By Sarah Polan • Mar 12th, 2009 • Category: Featured, Student Life

Do you need ideas concerning how to spend your spring break? Here are a few things that other students are doing! Mission work in Haiti Beach rip NRCC Baseball Video game marathon Coach a swim meet Re-model your house Get a drivers license Study Catch up on DE course work Spend Time With Your Family Work on your [...]



Flash Game Reviews

By Cameron Sonnenberg • Mar 12th, 2009 • Category: Featured, Student Life

All of today’s flash game productions are presented from Newgrounds.com. Ultimate Crab Battle! •In The Ultimate Crab Battle you play as a young boy riding a laser eyed, rocket shooting torpedo blasting shark whose sole goal is to destroy the evil crab king. •Whether it is the music box, water-sucking, eel-claw transforming crab or super-man [...]



The True Golden Age of Gaming

By Alex • Feb 25th, 2009 • Category: Student Life

For many of us the Super Nintendo represents the true golden age of video games. With nostalgia I think back to those early mornings before school, waking up before anyone else did so I would have a chance to play some classic Super Mario World or the legendary Mega Man X series. The Super Nintendo Entertainment [...]



Age and Enrollment at NRCC

By Alex • Feb 25th, 2009 • Category: Student Life

As the world shudders under the weight of economic crisis, every aspect of American society is feeling the downturn. College campuses are no exception. Let’s take a moment now to break the zombie-like trance we float in from class to class and look at campus trends here at New River. Community colleges have different norms for [...]



The Person Behind The Story: Sean McGrady

By Sarah Polan • Feb 11th, 2009 • Category: Student Life

Sean McGrady is a 4th semester student in NRCC. A lifeguard, a tutor, he prefers hambugers with only mustard and tries to participate in Phi Theta Kappa. Sean enjoys swimming, reading, running, writing and playing the occasional video game.



From Strangeness to Sameness: Music of 2008

By Alex • Jan 28th, 2009 • Category: Featured, Student Life

2008 has been an exceptional year in music. The listening world witnessed many births and resurrections, with artist’s new and old scoring hit after hit on the charts. Some were good, some great, and some were god awful. I mean unholy reeking waste of everybody’s time awful. Not to say the bad outweighed the good, [...]



Lord of the Rings: Conquest, Worth Playing?

By Sean McGrady • Jan 28th, 2009 • Category: Featured, Student Life

Lord of the Rings: Conquest was made by Pandemic, creators of the Star Wars: Battlefront, Mercenaries and Destroy All Humans! series. When I heard they building a Battlefront-esque “Lord of the Rings” game, I marked my calendar and reserved $60 like every good nerd should. But my nerdy anticipation was met with a one-armed hug. The [...]