"Nerdcore Marches to a Different Beat"
By Joshua Worn
The Commuter

Nerdcore was founded in 2001 on the Main Campus by two groups of friends who met in the corner of the cafeteria known as the "quiet section".
That corner became the gathering place for the seven founders. Mark, Rob, Natalie, Samantha, Scott, Sean, and Wayne asked that their last names remain secret, fearing that the College might retaliate because of their pranks on campus.
Numerous official clubs exist at Northampton Community College, including the Anime Club, The Commuter, Computer Club, and the Gay/Lesbian and Bi Student Union.
Nerdcore is unofficial. There are no scheduled meetings and no adviser. The group is not funded by the college, nor are there any dues.
Nerdcore is for students and by students.
“Anyone with an interest can join.” Rob said.
Nerdcore was established for those who felt like they were outcasts in high school. It was created to help them realize that there were others like them, said Wayne, who gradutated from Northampton in 2002.
There is no such thing as a member or rank in Nerdcore, Wayne said. Since Nerdcore cannot have names, such as, members or titles; Wayne said that the have compromised.
“We have come up with various names for ourselves over the years, but Nerdcorians is a pretty good one.” Wayne said.
“You either are or you aren’t.” said Steve, a fellow Nerdcorian.
In the beginning, Nerdcore was about pranks. It was about making themselves and others think.
Nerdcorians turned trash cans in school around to make people drop trays full of garbage on the floor. The Nerdcore once turned off the automatic door openers that lead into the cafeteria.
“It’s amazing what students would do when they couldn’t get the doors open.” Rob said, smiling broadly.
In facts, pranks ensued so often that Nerdcore founders say that the school has a file on their activities that is an inch thick.
“We never hurt anyone, never broke anything.” Wayne said. “We were never for that.”
The funniest thing, Rob said, was that no one knew who we were, except for those people who walked up and wanted to join.
Nerdcore began to build, not only with more people, but in the creative arts. It created it’s own movie, “Nerdcore Movie Number One.” The production took about a year using stop animation with Lego characters. Nerdcore sold about 20 copies at $5 each.
They also created their own magazine, “No Trespassing,” and are writing their fourth issue. “No Trespassing” received celebrity endorsements from Steve Burns of Blues Clues and directors/actors Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes from the “Jay and Silent Bob” movies.
Nerdcore also created a Website, www.nerdcore.tk, which contained daily rants from members including fake reviews. It became popular, getting as many as 1,000 hits a day.
But even as more people joined, Nerdcore began to calm down once it’s founders left college, the founders said.
“Nerdcore is dwindling,” Rob said. “They forget what it is about. They(the remaining Nerdcorians at NCC) have lost their vision and goals.”
There is no guiding light for them to follow anymore, Wayne said.
The founders say Nerdcore is merely a breeding ground for resurgence perhaps beyond NCC.
Through the Internet, Rob said, he and the other founders want to make Nerdcore global.
“We had a home with Nerdcore,” Wayne said. “I had some of the best times of my life(with them).”

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Well, there it is. This article doesn't tell the whole story...but we'd need a book for that. Nonetheless, this shows Nerdcore still is an integral part of NCC society. Despite all the problems, we're front page on the commuter. "Big Deal" you may say, before ditching this site to look at porn or read fark.... But keep in mind, NCC as a school does not care for us much, and yet what has happened? We end up front page on their official newspaper.

What this says is that NCC needs us, my friends. They hate it, but they need it. We were a force...a culture all to ourselves, and we were a presence there that noone can deny. It's time to set things straight, and it's time to stage our return.
Get ready folks, because from here it only gets bigger and better.