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Campus Current

The award-winning newspaper of Anne Arundel Community College.

Campus Current

Students, staff and community members can get help with their tax returns through a federal program on campus.

Accounting students do taxes for free

Jose Gonzalez, Editor-in-Chief February 14, 2025

Volunteers are available on campus to file taxes for Maryland residents who make less than $67,000 a year.   Twenty-six students and other volunteers participate in the federal Volunteer Income Tax...

Some students say they didn’t have success while using dating apps such as Tinder.

Online dating: ‘It was so bad’

Lily Peaper, Associate Editor January 29, 2025

AACC students said they have trouble meeting romantic partners on dating apps. Online dating sites like Tinder, Bumble and Hinge sit at the top of Apple’s must-have apps list. These apps allow singles...

Students find that chess helps them retain valuable information.

Chess teaches useful academic, life skills

Divine Mesumbe, Reporter January 28, 2025

AACC students and faculty who play chess say the game can help with critical thinking skills and planning ahead. Kenneth Gilliard, AACC’s student success and retention adviser, said students who play...

Third-year student Zoë Sharp says joining a campus club can help first-year students feel at home.

Students offer advice to AACC newcomes

Morgan Brown, Reporter January 28, 2025

Students returning to campus this semester say they wish they had known a few things before they started their first classes at AACC. Specifically, they said their first few weeks might have gone better...

Some students say they fear the changes the president will make, while others look forward to them.

Some worry potential change may do harm

Lily Peaper, Associate Editor January 28, 2025

Students and faculty said in January they are expecting big changes now that President Donald Trump has returned to office. Trump has announced numerous efforts, including tariffs—a high tax on imported...

Campus Current editors know what's in and out in 2025. Shown, rapper Doechii.

What’s In? What’s Out?

Waleska Cruz and Lily Peaper January 28, 2025

What’s in and what’s out this new year?   IN: Kylie Kelce Kylie’s new podcast, “Not Gonna Lie,” debuted on Dec. 5 and quickly topped the podcast charts. Every Thursday, she shares...

Students play with toys, like Legos, visit playgrounds and play video games to embrace their inner child.

Students enjoy their childhood activities

Ayla Cole, Reporter December 2, 2024

Some AACC students are embracing their inner child by spending time with old toys, visiting playgrounds and playing the video games they liked when they were younger. Students told Campus Current they...

Some students are wearing ’90s-style clothes, like cargo pants, around campus.

’90s fashion returns to community college

Morgan Brown, Reporter December 2, 2024

Students are walking around campus wearing platform shoes, checkered flannel and cargo pants, keeping up with a national fashion trend that harkens back to the 1990s. When the weather was warmer, women...

Second-year communications student Darian Moya Perez says she enjoys studying in a nook in CALT 238.

AACC contains many hidden study spaces

Divine Mesumbe, Associate Editor December 2, 2024

A handful of little-known study spots around campus could be the best places to do homework. For example, third-year business administration student MacKenzie Williams said, the best hidden study spots...

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