The award-winning newspaper of Anne Arundel Community College.

Campus Current
The award-winning newspaper of Anne Arundel Community College.

Campus Current
The award-winning newspaper of Anne Arundel Community College.

Campus Current
Dominic Salacki

Dominic Salacki, Advertising Manager

Dominic Salacki has been writing for over ten years. He first found his love for films, starting with “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Dominic’s number one favorite film. Dominic’s love for film made him want to write about them. He learned about movie reviewing, which ultimately led to a new love for journalism in general. Dominic wrote his first movie review in 2009 for his high school’s student newspaper. He then attended AACC from 2011-2013, writing for the Campus Current, and then in 2015, Dominic received a Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Communications: Journalism and New Media from Towson University; minoring in Electronic Media and Film. Today, Dominic is writing for the Campus Current once again while studying to earn an Associate’s Degree in Media Production.
All content by Dominic Salacki
Students taking professor Wilfredo Valladares new Outdoor Public Art class will build a sculpture to display at the South County Senior Center.

‘Perpetual’ students design sculpture for Edgewater senior center

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
March 1, 2022
Pals Caleb Lewis, a third-year business administration student (left), and Tommie Parker, a second-year undecided student, read the Bible together in the Student Union’s dining hall.

Students make friends on campus by joining clubs

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
January 31, 2022
A man sitting, playing a bongo

New director is pro dancer

Dominic Salacki, Contributor
January 24, 2022
Campus Currents editor-in-chief finishes his term with a letter of gratitude to the people on campus who helped him throughout the semester.

Editor-in-chief says good-bye with gratitude for Campus Current role

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief
December 9, 2021
The college is aiming to have 50% of course sections on campus in the spring semester. Shown, students in a communications course wear masks to every class this semester.

[Photo] College aims to offer 50% of classes on campus in spring

Sydney Klabnik, Reporter
December 2, 2021
AACC alum Conway Johnson, who created the student ESports Club in 2014, is the new head coach of an athletic esports team set to start competing in the spring. Shown, Johnson checks out a new esports lab in CALT where the team will practice and compete.

New lab for esports athletic team opens in CALT

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief
November 30, 2021
Business student Audrey Wais (middle) visits HawkTrade last week while Allison Baumbusch of the office of Strategic Communications makes a purchase from a student entrepreneur.

HawkTrade show returns to Arnold campus

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief
November 15, 2021
The Student Government Association added 10 senators to its board this week.

SGA adds 10 student senators to board

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief
November 11, 2021
Students who attended a wellness workshop learned how to wrangle their inner saboteurs.

Students learn to wrestle ‘saboteurs’

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief
October 29, 2021
Student Government Association officers wore Halloween costumes to campus for Costume Day on Wednesday. From left to right: Michael Amwoga, vice president of finance; Abigail Billovits-Hayes, vice president of public relations; Ben Nussbaumer, president.

Campus celebrates Halloween with costumes, events

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief
October 28, 2021
College and community officials gather at the new Health and Life Sciences building for a grand opening ceremony.

Grand opening ceremony showcases Health and Life Sciences Building

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief
October 27, 2021
Professor Lisa Starkey led the “Creating a Growth Mindset” session at a Riverhawks Rise leadership conference for students this week.

Student conference teaches leadership skills

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief
October 21, 2021
The Gay-Straight Alliance, a student club, hosted an online panel about resources for LGBTQ students this week.

Panelists offer resources to LGBTQ students

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief
October 15, 2021
The Clauson Center for Innovation and Skilled Trades will open in January. Shown, an artists rendering of the finished building, which is still under construction

Skilled trades building could help recruit students

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief
October 14, 2021
Campus Current staff members sit in their newsroom to watch as the colleges vice presidents explain their plan to shut down the campus in March 2020. The student journalists lost the newsroom, located in the Humanities building, to a ventilation issue this semester.

Poor ventilation shuts down Campus Current newsroom

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief
October 7, 2021
Student Emily Newcomb

Student clubs meet on Quad for Involvement Fair

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief
October 4, 2021
Runner Madison Palmer is leading the womens cross country team on a winning steak. The Riverhawks next meet is tomorrow.

Riverhawks athlete is Runner of the Week

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief
October 1, 2021
AACC celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month every year in September and October.

College celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief
September 30, 2021
health and life sciences building

College to renovate Florestano, Dragun after programs move to new building

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief
September 29, 2021
COVID vaccination card

College posts form for submitting proof of COVID vaccination

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief
September 24, 2021
AACC small class size

Enrollment dips by 12%

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief
September 24, 2021
Riverhawks womens cross country

Cross country back after 2-year break

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief
September 16, 2021
Photography professor Matt Moores photos of discarded statues of Cold War-era Soviet leaders will be on display at a Portland, Oregon, gallery in May. Shown here is a statue of Joseph Stalin, a leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953, in the Czech Republic.

Photo prof to exhibit project showing dismantled Soviet statues

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief
September 16, 2021
Riverhawks mens soccer team

Fall sports season begins for soccer, volleyball, cross country

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief
September 16, 2021
Fall 1974 student union groundbreaking

AACC celebrates 60th anniversary

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief
September 9, 2021
Esports gamers

Esports to join Athletic Department

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief
September 8, 2021
SGA President Ben Nussbaumer

SGA VPs elect new president

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief
September 7, 2021
COVID vaccine clinic at AACC

Students weigh in on vaccine requirement

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief
September 2, 2021
Health and Life Sciences Building

175,000-sq-ft building opens on campus

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief
September 2, 2021
Students back on campus

Students ‘excited’ to be back on campus

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief
September 1, 2021
COVID vaccine

AACC campuses reopen with vaccine mandate

Dominic Salacki, Editor-in-Chief
August 30, 2021
The mens lacrosse team finishes its season with a loss to CCBC Essex after being selected for an at-large berth to the national championship tournament. Pictured, defenseman Sam Weisshaar, a second-year transfer studies student.

Men’s lacrosse finishes season in national quarterfinals

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
May 20, 2021
First-year business administration student Michael Amwoga is the Student Government Associations new vice president of finance. He is one of five new SGA officers elected by the student body during May 10-14 voting.

SGA has 5 new vice presidents

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
May 18, 2021
Students feeling more stress as the semester winds down should get enough sleep, eat nutritious meals and meditate, a campus nurse says.

Sleep, healthy food, exercise help relieve stress, nurse says

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
May 12, 2021
Students tell Campus Current they want the college to require students and staff to take the COVID-19 vaccine before they come to campus in the fall.

Students favor mandatory vaccine for return to campus

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
May 10, 2021
President Joe Biden proposes two years of tuition-free community college.

AACC students support Biden plan for free community college

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
May 7, 2021
Outgoing Student Government Association President Ryan Kim says the incoming executive vice president will temporarily take his place until a candidate for the top slot comes forward.

5 students run for SGA seats–but none for president

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
May 4, 2021
Campus Current, AACCs digital student newspaper, wins the Student Government Associations Club of the Year award for the second time. Shown, issues of the print edition of Campus Current, which temporarily suspended publication a year ago because of the pandemic.

Campus Current is SGA Club of the Year

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
May 4, 2021
Protestors gather outside the Hennepin County Government Center, where former police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of killing George Floyd this week. AACC legal studies professors explained the legal aspects of the trial to students during a virtual meeting on Wednesday.

Legal Studies Institute helps students understand Derek Chauvin trial 

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
April 29, 2021
The bookshelf in the home of third-year communications student Amber Nathan is stocked with classics. Nathan, like other students, says she has been reading more since the pandemic has kept her at home.

Students reading for fun more often during pandemic

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
April 27, 2021
Student Government Association President Ryan Kim will graduate in May after serving a one-year term. Students wishing to run for SGA president or other offices can sign up as candidates until 11:59 p.m. on Monday.

Monday is deadline for SGA candidates to sign up

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
April 23, 2021
Nurses from AACCs Health and Wellness Center tell students that smoking can compromise lung function--an especially high risk during a pandemic.

Campus Wellness Center helps students kick the habit

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
April 23, 2021
AACC students are rooting for two animated films, Soul and Onward, to sweep the Oscars on Sunday.

Student movie lovers weigh in with Oscar picks

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
April 23, 2021
Students who fill out the FAFSA and the AACC Foundation scholarship application can choose among hundreds of awards to pursue.

AACC offers 200-plus scholarships

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
April 16, 2021
Triplets Nate, Jake and Ben Nussbaumer (left to right) say working with life coaches helped them set short-term and long-term goals.

Free life coaches help students set goals, priorities

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
April 15, 2021
Math tutors helped students with the grade of Incomplete finish their courses last semester in a new program called Project to Complete Incompletes.

Project to Complete Incompletes helps math students finish classes

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
April 14, 2021
A campus sexual violence prevention coordinator urges students to step in and say something when they witness potentially harmful situations.

Advice: Step in to stop sexual assault

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
April 9, 2021
Members of the student Drone Club say they hope to return to campus soon so they can fly their drones.

Student Drone Club back in business

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
April 5, 2021
Bullying--especially cyberbullying--doesnt end when students move from high school into college, an AACC counselor says.

Counselor: Fight back against bullies

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
April 2, 2021
Students tell Campus Current they plan to hunker down at home over spring break and catch up on homework.

Spring break: Students plan to stay home, catch up on homework

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
March 19, 2021
Two wellness experts advise students to stay safe during spring break celebrations.

Alcohol, social distancing top concerns for spring break

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
March 19, 2021
Basic needs coordinator Caitlin Silver says keeping a calendar can bring order to a busy schedule.

Workshop teaches organization, time-management skills

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
March 17, 2021
AACC students said they support Joe Bidens decision to extend the student loan debt freeze.

Joe Biden extends student payment freeze

Dominic Salacki, Advertising Manager
March 9, 2021
AACCs student Drone Club will meet in April for the first time in a year.

Inactive Drone Club set to ‘reboot’ 

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
March 4, 2021
Arnold Fuentes, digital media developer for the virtual campus, films cooking demonstrations and Zoom meetings for AACC’s Hotel, Culinary Arts and Tourism Institute.

Essential employees still report to campus

Dominic Salacki, Advertising Manager
March 3, 2021
The AACC Health and Wellness Center needed to hire another nurse to help handle COVID-19. Shown, nurse Kathleen  Loukides.

AACC hires COVID-19 nurse

Dominic Salacki, Advertising Manager
February 25, 2021
Student Government Association members created a Nest Guidebook for clubs and organizations.

SGA creates guidebook for The Nest 

Dominic Salacki, Advertising Manager
February 18, 2021
The Health & Wellness Center hosts an information session on  communication, support, respect and boundaries.

Wellness seminar promotes healthy relationships, safe sex

Dominic Salacki, Advertising Manager
February 16, 2021
AACC students say they prefer Biden as the next U.S. president.

AACC Students Favor Biden

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
October 29, 2020
Coming Out Week and Black Male Initiative coordinators win the annual Equity and Inclusion Champion Award. Featured: Student and faculty marches in Annapolis’s first-ever Pride Parade in June 2019.

Black Male Initiative and Coming Out Week coordinators win Equity and Inclusion Champion Award

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
October 9, 2020
Enrollment at AACC is down by approximately 6% this fall.

Fall enrollment at AACC is down by approximately 6%

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
October 7, 2020
Steve Pegg started his 44-year career on campus as a part-timer in the bookstore while he took classes and played baseball for the AACC Pioneers.

Pioneer baseball legend celebrates 44 years as AACC employee

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
October 2, 2020
Students in performing arts classes are at greater risk of spreading coronavirus and catching COVID-19. Shown, an AACC Dance Company rehearsal from 2017.

Dance classes sit out fall semester; other arts go online

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
September 18, 2020
South African native Johannes Haasbroek becomes Campus Currents new editor-in-chief.

Campus Current gets new editor-in-chief

Dominic Salacki, Reporter
August 17, 2020
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