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The award-winning newspaper of Anne Arundel Community College.

Campus Current

The award-winning newspaper of Anne Arundel Community College.

Campus Current

People making a quilt

AACC community crafts quilt for Coming Out Week

Tomi Brunton, Reporter October 13, 2022

Students and faculty celebrated Coming Out Week on Tuesday by working on a community quilt while listening to a speaker who talked about the “use of quilts as a mechanism for political activism.” “Tools...

Marta Perez-Garcia working on print

Local artist makes 12-foot print with AACC students

Sam Gauntt, Associate Editor October 13, 2022

A local artist is collaborating with AACC printmaking students to create a 12-foot wide print to display in the Cade gallery during October. Marta Pérez-García, a Washington-based artist, began work...

Health and Life Sciences building

Students praise new health building after 1 year

Tomi Brunton, Reporter October 11, 2022

After one year, AACC students and faculty said they like the Health and Life Sciences building, praising its open spaces, study rooms and Science Tutoring Center. The building is the college’s second-newest...

The student Genders and Sexualities Alliance is hosting eight events next week for Coming Out Week.

LQBTQ students, faculty celebrate Coming Out Week

Ellianna Shields, Reporter October 10, 2022

A student club will host in-person events for Coming Out Week Oct. 10-14 for the first time since 2019.  The Genders and Sexualities Alliance, formerly the Gay-Straight Alliance, will sponsor eight...

Students learn gender inclusivity in Hispanic Heritage event

Students learn gender inclusivity in Hispanic Heritage event

Ava Herring, Diversity Editor October 10, 2022

Many in the Latinx culture believe men are superior to women, a speaker at a Hispanic Heritage Month event said on Oct. 4. Men who are aggressive with women, try to dominate others, are ultra-competitive...

Students make pinatas from paper-mache at a Hispanic Heritage Month event.

Students make pinatas, learn Hispanic history

Zoe Hammond, Reporter October 4, 2022

Students learned about the history and process of making a pinata on Wednesday as part of Hispanic Heritage Month.  English language learning technician Ana Derr, who oganized the event, said she designed...

In an informal Campus Current poll, many students expressed hesitancy over voting this November.

Students split about whether they will vote

Sam Gauntt, Associate Editor September 29, 2022

More than half of the students in a Campus Current poll in September said they do not intend to vote in the midterm elections in November.  In an informal poll of 25 students on the Arnold campus,...

Steuart Pittman speaking at an event

AACC adjunct faculty gets right to form union

Sam Gauntt, Associate Editor September 27, 2022

Some AACC adjunct faculty members are collecting signatures in an effort to form a union. A vote in the Maryland Legislature in 2021 allowed community college faculty and staff to unionize after Sept....

A kickoff meeting on Thursday prepared student entrepreneurs for a November business pitch contest that will award cash prizes.

Students learn to pitch in kickoff event

Ellianna Shields, Reporter September 22, 2022

Would-be student entrepreneurs on Thursday learned how to compete in a November competition that could earn them prizes of up to $1,000. The kickoff meeting was a prelude to November’s Big Idea Competition,...

Sculpture student Sergio Alvarez, a retired surgeon, stands outside the Health and Life Sciences building with five statues he created for the new butterfly garden.

Clubs come together to plant butterfly garden

Jenna Lagoey, Senior Reporter September 19, 2022

Students from multiple clubs and the Biology Department planted a garden on campus last spring designed to attract Monarch butterflies. The garden, outside the Health and Life Sciences Building, is...

Hispanic Heritage Month sign

AACC holds in-person events for Hispanic Heritage Month

Ellianna Shields, Reporter September 16, 2022

For the first time in three years, AACC’s Hispanic Heritage Month celebration will include in-person events.  Student success and retention adviser Samuel Cordero-Puchales said this year's celebration...

Alford Shinaberry, AACC’s mailroom supervisor, will retire on Oct. 1 after 52 years with the college. His hobbies include skydiving. Shown, in a jump over Laurel Delaware.

AACC mailworker retires after 52 years

Ava Herring, Diversity Editor September 14, 2022

The employee who has worked the longest at AACC retired on Oct. 1 after 52 years in the mailroom.  Alford Shinaberry, who turns 70 in November, started working in the campus mailroom in September 1970...

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