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Campus Current

The award-winning newspaper of Anne Arundel Community College.

Campus Current

A group of AACC students visited the pandas at the national zoo on Saturday to say goodbye before they left for China.

Students visit zoo to say goodbye to pandas

Mischa Green, Reporter November 8, 2023

A group of students visited the National Zoo in Washington on Nov. 4 to say goodbye to the giant pandas before they returned to China on Wednesday. Six students, mostly members of AACC’s Super Science...

Students buy products from AACC students with their own businesses at the HawkTrade event.

Students promote their businesses at HawkTrade

Izzy Chase, Associate Editor November 8, 2023

AACC student business owners participated in a trade show hosted by the Entrepreneurial Studies Institute on Tuesday. HawkTrade, which is hosted every semester, started as a student service learning...

Students get free produce and pedometers at Wellness Wednesday event.

Wellness Wednesday event encourages healthy eating

Jack Sarnese, Reporter November 8, 2023

The Health and Wellness Center gave out free fresh produce and pedometers to students to encourage health and exercise at an event on Wednesday.  To prevent food waste, the center partnered with an...

Students enjoy mocktails while solving a murder mystery game on Thursday

Students enjoy mocktails and solve murder mystery game

Izzy Chase, Associate Editor November 6, 2023

Students enjoyed mocktails while they used clues to solve a murder mystery in a game hosted by the Health and Wellness Center on Thursday.  Students and staff members participated in the “Mocktails...

Math professors say they are “disappointed” the renovations that would have let them move to the Dragun building fell through.

Math professors go without renovations

Izzy Chase, Associate Editor November 6, 2023

Multiple AACC math professors have expressed “disappointment” that plans to make room for math faculty and their classes in the soon-to-be-renovated Dragun Building fell through. The college approved...

Students like Sophia Spiegel, left, and Samantha Wasley in Biology 105, AACC’s only zoology class, will perform multiple dissections by the end of the semester.

AACC class teaches dissection

Faith McKisson, Reporter November 6, 2023

By the end of the semester, students taking Biology 105 will have dissected a clam, a blue crab, a crayfish, a lamprey, a shark, a perch, a frog, and either a lab rat or a pig. Students enrolled in the...

In a poll of 50 students on campus, 31 say they do not use the new “X” platform.

‘X’ social media loses popularity with users

Dulcie Metro, Reporter November 6, 2023

Students said last month they don’t use the social media platform X, which used to be called Twitter. In an informal poll of 50 students on the Arnold campus, 31 said they do not use X, while 19 said...

AACC testing coordinator Kelly Fay works full time at the college during the week and lives a second life as an equestrian on the weekend. Photo courtesy of Kelly Fay.

AACC staffer doubles as equestrian

Cass Hay, Reporter November 6, 2023

AACC testing coordinator Kelly Fay schedules exam times for students during the week. But on weekends, she rides her 20-year-old thoroughbred, named “Enough Testing,” in shows. Fay, who has worked...

Blue-tailed skinks are slithering around all over the Arnold campus.

Arnold campus home to blue-tailed skinks

Divine Mesumbe, Reporter November 6, 2023

AACC’s campus is a habitat for thousands of blue-tailed lizards known as five-lined skinks, according to a biology professor. Professor Benjamin Weibell said the Arnold campus’s proximity to a forest...

Amaranth, AACC's student literary magazine, and Campus Current, the student newspaper, win national awards for last year's publications.

Amaranth, Campus Current win national awards

Tomi Brunton, Editor-in-Chief November 3, 2023

Two AACC student publications won national awards this week. The College Media Association awarded Amaranth, a journal that publishes student works of art and writing, second place for Literary Magazine...

Korean-American artists showcase their art that explores identity.

AACC hosts exhibit featuring work from Korean-American artists

Divine Mesumbe, Reporter November 2, 2023

AACC hosted an art exhibit featuring work from Korean-American artists about their relationship with their identity on Wednesday. The exhibit, “Disconnect/Connect,” displayed work from the Han-Mee...

Students dressed in Star Wars Mandalorian costumes roast marshmallows at the AACC Pumpkin Patch event on Friday.

Public Safety dept. offers candy, free hayrides in Halloween event

Divine Mesumbe, Reporter October 30, 2023

Students dressed up in Halloween costumes to get candy, s’mores and ride free hayrides at the AACC Pumpkin Patch event on Friday. The Department of Public Safety organizes the event annually in order...

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