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The award-winning newspaper of Anne Arundel Community College.

Campus Current

Peer Learning Partnerships, an organization for part-time students, mostly in retirement, celebrates its 20-year anniversary.

Part-time student org celebrates 20 years

Dulcie Metro, Reporter April 5, 2024

A 300-plus-member org- anization of part-time AACC students—mostly older than 60—is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. To celebrate the anniversary, the Peer Learning Partnership’s Educational...

Heena Cook, a second-year graphic web design student, listens to music while studying.

Classical music top choice for studying

Waleska Cruz, Reporter April 5, 2024

AACC students say they prefer to listen to classical music while they’re studying. In an informal survey of 50 students on campus, 17 said they like to listen to classical music while they do assignments....

The campus bookstore sells attire from the casual wear line Carhartt. Shown, second-year homeland security student Philip Michaels in a Carhartt-brand hat.

AACC bookstore now offers Carhartt brand

Waleska Cruz, Reporter April 5, 2024

Sales of clothing at the AACC bookstore have more than doubled, thanks to the addition of the popular casual wear line Carhartt in November. Manager Christopher Walsh said the bookstore sold $20,579 worth...

Second-year engineering student Jonathan Simmons made a replica of the inner workings of the campus greenhouse.
Second-year engineering student Jonathan Simmons made a replica of the inner workings of the campus greenhouse.
Photos by Jonathan Simmons (left) and Divine Mesumbe (right).

Honors project yields greenhouse lookalike

Divine Mesumbe, Daily Editor April 5, 2024

An engineering student built a miniature replica of AACC’s greenhouse last fall for his physics honors project. Jonathan Simmons, a second-year engineering student, created a small model of the greenhouse,...

Shana Cosgrove, CEO of Nyla Technology Solutions, talks to AACC students about the company that she founded.

CEO of software company talks to AACC students about pursuing passions

Izzy Chase, Associate Editor April 4, 2024

A CEO with a computer science background visited AACC on Thursday to discuss career aspirations and navigating the world of STEM. Shana Cosgrove, the CEO of Nyla Technology Solutions, leads a company...

The new Game Development Club created an original video game in February in less than a week.

Campus Club creates original video game

Divine Mesumbe, Daily Editor April 4, 2024

Three AACC students developed an escape room video game in less than a week in February to promote their campus club. The AACC Game Development Club displayed the two-dimensional point-and-click escape...

Many students on campus carry Stanley Cup water tumblers.

Students use trendy Stanley Cup tumblers

Waleska Cruz, Reporter March 28, 2024

Trendy water bottles called Stanley Cups, with their variety of sizes, colors and styles, are popular around campus and around the world. AACC students said they like the oversize water bottles because...

University of Maryland, College Park student Micah Smith transferred there from AACC as a junior.

Professors update courses to transfer to 4-year universities

Tomi Brunton, Editor-in-Chief March 28, 2024

Some AACC professors are updating their course learning objectives so their classes will transfer to four-year universities. The Maryland Commission on Higher Education requires Maryland public universities...

Author Sufiya Abdur-Rahman reads from her award-winning memoir at a Writers Reading event on Tuesday.

Award-winning author reads memoir, essays at AACC event

David Rosenkoetter, Reporter March 13, 2024

An award-winning author read excerpts from her memoir and essays at an event on Tuesday about her experiences as a Black, Muslim woman. The English department invited Sufiya Abdur-Rahman, who won the...

More students seek out on-campus counseling services since the beginning of the pandemic.

More students seek on-campus counseling services

Izzy Chase and Eva Parry March 7, 2024

The number of AACC students who see on-campus counselors rose by 10% over the last year after a 71% bump the year before,  according to one of the college’s counselors. Melissa Boling, one of AACC’s...

Second-year information student Megan Meek prepares for the first lacrosse game of the season, which will be on March 24.

‘Hawks sports teams start spring training

Jose Gonzalez, Sports Editor February 29, 2024

Student athletes and coaches said they believe they have what it takes to make it to the national championships this year. The men’s and women’s lacrosse teams, along with the baseball and softball...

At Soapbox Sisters, one of the events for this year's Women's History Month, students will perform speeches and poems by women.

College Hosts Women’s History Month Events

Mischa Green, Club Editor February 29, 2024

AACC will host a spoken word event, a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon and more to celebrate Women’s History Month in March. The national Women’s History Month theme, “Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity...

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