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Campus Current

The award-winning newspaper of Anne Arundel Community College.

Campus Current

Some students agree-to-disagree on the price of concert tickets. Shown, Thee Sacred Souls at a live performance.

Concert ticket prices not an issue for some

Lily Peaper, Associate Editor April 10, 2025

AACC students said In April an outrageous price tag won’t stop them from seeing their favorite artists in concert. Live concerts are in high demand, and the current ticket pricing proves it. Pop singer...

More than 80% of people don’t have a time-management system in place, one study says.

Students need skills to balance their time

Waleska Cruz, Features Editor April 2, 2025

Second-year biology student Kimora Barrow recalls the moment when she realized she had a problem managing her time. A senior in high school, she had already fallen behind in her statistics class early...

A room designed to help students relax and destress is home to a massage chair, yoga mat and aromatherapy defuser.

Take a break from all stressors in SUN 120

Waleska Cruz, Features Editor April 1, 2025

A quiet space in the Student Union building helps students feel less stress. In fact, it’s called the StressLess Room. The StressLess Room in SUN 120 gives students, faculty and staff 20 to 30 minutes...

A sand plotter on the second floor of CALT draws intricate patterns using magnets and a metal ball.

Mechatronics device ups interest in class

Divine Mesumbe, Reporter April 1, 2025

A mechatronics professor is refining a sand plotter—a device that uses magnets and a metal ball to draw shapes in sand—that one of his pre-pandemic classes built. Professor Tim Callinan said the...

Too much screen time can make students anxious and irritable, and can cause insomnia.

Students say hobbies cut down screen time

Ayla Cole, Reporter April 1, 2025

Students who researched the impact of excessive screen time for a mass media class have some advice for their classmates: Get a hobby. First-year nursing student Jayla Jones is “trying to be outside,...

Sculpting student Dylan Kirkpatrick works on a piece inspired by the poem of another student, whose identity Kirkpatrick does not know.

Poets, sculptors swap art for interpretation

Waleska Cruz, Features Editor March 5, 2025

Five creative writing students have given original poems to student sculptors to use as inspiration as they create sculptures. In turn, the sculptors have given original pieces to the poets to interpret...

Business professor Shad Ewart accepts donations of rainwater barrels for his students to sell.

Business majors sell rain barrels for $100

Lily Peaper, Associate Editor March 5, 2025

Business students at AACC have sold $30,000 worth of rain barrels—containers used to collect and store water that drains from rooftops and would otherwise be wasted. Since 2009, professor Shad Ewart...

Five years later, some students notice changes to their social lives, mental health and classes because of the effects of COVID.

Students feel impact of COVID 5 years later

Jose Gonzalez, Editor-in-Chief March 5, 2025

Five years after the start of COVID-19, students still feel the effect of the pandemic. Some AACC students said they have noticed a lingering change in social interactions, their eagerness to take in-person...

43-year-old forward Jasmine Mauldin said she appreciates her coaches for getting her back on the basketball court.

Women’s bball player plays at 43 years old

Lily Peaper, Associate Editor March 5, 2025

Fourth-year public relations student Jasmine Mauldin returned to the basketball court in October—after a 20-year hiatus. Mauldin is 43. Mauldin, a forward for the Riverhawks women’s basketball team,...

First-year psychology student Dylan Shriner catches up on episodes of the reality TV show “The Traitors” between classes.

Students cannot get enough of reality TV

Lily Peaper, Associate Editor March 4, 2025

AACC students love to  watch reality television. Among their favorite shows are “Love Island,” “Too Hot to Handle” and “Jersey Shore.” “It makes you remember that you’re not the weirdest...

Some students collect various Sonny Angels series, including the Birthday Gift Bear series.

Gen Z collects Sonny Angels

Waleska Cruz, Features Editor March 4, 2025

The latest must-have collectables for trend-setting college students is a tiny figurine with angel wings on its back—the Sonny Angel. Students are collecting the miniature vinyl dolls, which are sold...

The campus bookstore sells Snoopy T-shirts for children.

Bookstore sells Snoopy tees

Julissa Mendoza Robles, Reporter March 4, 2025

Snoopy, the charming beagle Peanuts character debuted by cartoonist Charles Schulz in 1950, is beloved among students because it is iconic and reminds them of their childhood. Last year, the AACC Bookstore...

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