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Campus Current

The award-winning newspaper of Anne Arundel Community College.

Campus Current

Second-year entrepreneurship student Kaylah Rashid
and second-year information systems student Kevin
Lemus try on their graduation regalia.

Congrats to our 2022 grads

Editorial Board May 16, 2022

Dear Riverhawks Class of 2022: Campus Current congratulates you for completing two years of community college under the worst possible circumstances. We congratulate you for sticking to your studies...

Nurse Stephanie Jenkins wears a KN95 mask, the
kind that the college recommends.

Comfort determines choice of face mask

Cordell Mackall, Reporter May 15, 2022

AACC students said they choose their face masks based on how comfortable they feel. Students have three basic masks to choose from: cloth, disposable and KN95. KN95 masks, which the Centers for Disease...

Campus Current reporter Ava Moore, a communications student, says she buys
most of her clothes in thrift stores like Uptown Cheapskate in Annapolis, shown.

Thrifters save cash, planet

Ava Moore, Reporter May 15, 2022

Yasa Mastoi, a first-year business student, typically buys his sneakers brand-new from a store like Champs. But when he found a pair of unused Polo sneakers at Uptown Cheapskate, a thrift shop in Annapolis,...

Second-year business administration student Brandon Timmins says he's happy to have a college graduation because he didn't have one for high school.

AACC grads happy to have normal ceremony

D'Angelo Williams, Reporter May 13, 2022

Students who are graduating in May said they expect their AACC commencement ceremony to far surpass what they experienced when they finished high school. For some, the AACC graduation on May 26 at Live!...

Students hunker down with the books to prepare for final exams, which begin next week.

Students prepare for final exams

Vance Wild, Reporter May 13, 2022

AACC students said they are doing everything from drinking their favorite coffee to designing flash cards to prepare for finals. “I will often use flashcards,” Madeline Knowles, a business student...

Second-year psychology student Hamza Iqbal at
-
tends a Zoom meeting for his online SYNC class.

SYNC class meetings to mirror face-to-face

Zack Buster and Dan Elson May 11, 2022

Students who take online SYNC courses this summer and fall could be meeting more often over Zoom or Microsoft Teams with their professors and classmates. Online SYNC courses that have included a single...

U.S. Supreme Court

AACC students speak out against possible abortion ban

Zack Buster, Associate Editor May 11, 2022

AACC students said this week they would oppose any decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, the case that established abortion as a constitutional right. In an informal poll of 50...

According to library policy, groups have priority over
individuals for study rooms and may ask single users
to leave a room.

Groups take priority in library study rooms

Dan Elson, Editor-in-Chief May 10, 2022

Second-year communications student Maggie Brown said she waited on the second floor of Truxal Library the week before spring break because she needed a quiet place to prepare for a midterm and hoped to...

students pet dogs at stress relief event

Students get massages, pet service animals at stress-relief event

Zack Buster, Associate Editor May 4, 2022

AACC’s Health and Wellness Center partnered with the Student Government Association to hold its first stress-relief event in two years. Health and Wellness Center nurse Stephanie Jenkins said...

Second-year marketing and psychology student Abigail Billovits-Hayes is SGA's president-elect. Billovits-Hayes will take office on June 1.

2nd-year student wins SGA election with unanimous vote

Zack Buster, Associate Editor May 3, 2022

A second-year marketing and psychology student will become the Student Government Association president on June 1. In an election that drew just nine voters, Abigail Billovits-Hayes and four vice presidents,...

Second-year entrepreneurship student Andrew Parr, who won first place in the business pitch competition, presents his ideas for a popup biergarten dressed as Mary Poppins.

Student entrepreneurs win $50,500 in annual business pitch

Vance Wild, Reporter May 3, 2022

AACC’s Entrepreneurial Studies Institute awarded $50,500 to six student entrepreneurs during its annual Business Pitch competition on Tuesday. Second-year entrepreneurship student Andrew Parr, who...

The student Art Association hosts a videoconference meeting with local painter Mike Dowley.

Artist tells students, ‘Be willing to go’ with experimental styles

Jenna Lagoey, Reporter May 2, 2022

An abstract painter told AACC students Thursday that experimenting with colors, textures, canvases and styles over his career resulted in a body of work that isn’t “always … really connected together.” In...

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