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Student volunteer Kyle Neis plays the saxophone at the Swoop's Sweethearts Valentine's Day event, hosted by the Student Government Association, on Tuesday

Students celebrate Valentine’s Day with live music

David Rosenkoetter, Reporter February 14, 2024

Students hung out and ate cookies while listening to live music at a Valentine's-themed event on Tuesday. The Student Government Association hosted the “Swoop’s Sweethearts” event in the Student...

Art professor Matt Klos speaks at a gallery event for his new exhibit in the Cade Gallery in February.

Art professor displays sabbatical paintings

Tomi Brunton, Editor-in-Chief February 12, 2024

An AACC art professor will display 70 oil paintings he made of buildings in his community at the Cade Gallery from Feb.1 to Feb. 29. Matt Klos walked through his neighborhood, Sparrows Point in Baltimore...

Student Government Association President Zack Buster is one of a group of AACC students who met with state legislators on Student Advocacy Day.

Students ask legislators not to cut state funding

Tomi Brunton, Editor-in-Chief February 9, 2024

Almost a dozen AACC students gathered in Annapolis on Tuesday to lobby their state senators and delegates to support community colleges. Students from all of Maryland’s 16 community colleges gathered...

Students paint pet rocks and enjoy donuts at the "Adopt-A-Rock" event hosted by OSE.

Students paint rocks, enjoy donuts at back-to-school event

Faith McKisson, Reporter January 24, 2024

AACC’s Office of Student Engagement hosted an event for students to paint a pet rock home while enjoying hot beverages and donuts on Wednesday. The “Adopt-A-Rock” event is the third of the four...

Students used colorful string to create a visual map of their identities at an event on Monday.

Students share identities, eat pizza at back-to-school event

Tomi Brunton, Editor-in-Chief January 22, 2024

Students shared the identities and groups they belong to while eating pizza at an event on Monday. At the “Share a Pizz-a Your Identity” event, hosted by the Office of Student Engagement, students...

Improv club members Dax Goetia, left, Michael Dang and Éva Parry prepare for the club’s February performance at the Black Box Series productions.

Students to write, produce, direct original shows

Tomi Brunton, Editor-in-Chief January 22, 2024

Theatre AACC will show four 10- to 15-minute plays in February that are written, acted and directed entirely by students, with the improv club performing during intermissions. The student directors will...

Theatre AACC actors prep for their April performance of “Little Shop of Horrors.”

Theatre to show 1st musical since before COVID

Tomi Brunton, Editor-in-Chief January 22, 2024

Theatre AACC will show the comedic horror musical “Little Shop of Horrors” in April. The production, which will show April 12 to 14 and April 19 to 21 in the Kauffman Theater, will be the first musical...

The Performing Arts Department will update AACC’s music degree, adding classes that focus on recording technology and sound production.

AACC updates music degree, adds new classes

Tomi Brunton, Editor-in-Chief January 22, 2024

The Performing Arts Department will offer a new associate of arts degree in music, replacing the old one, starting this fall. The new degree requires students to take more of the music classes that will...

Students are spotting foxes, squirrels, deer, turkeys, skinks and other animals on campus.

Students find many critters

Mischa Green, Co-Editor January 20, 2024

The Arnold campus is home to reptiles, amphibians, mammals, insects, slugs and “everything else,” according to an AACC biology professor. “In the spring we go around and just, even in an hour,...

AACC plans to host multiple events on campus for Black History Month in February.

College plans events for Black History Mo.

Mischa Green, Co-Editor January 20, 2024

AACC will host an art exhibit, a sit-down lunch and more to celebrate Black History Month in February with the theme “Blackness in Full Bloom.” The theme signifies embracing and celebrating the...

Students submitted recipes to a cookbook using ingredients from AACC’s food pantry.

Cookbook focuses on food pantry supplies

Izzy Chase, Co-Editor January 20, 2024

A World Culture and Cuisine class in the fall created a cookbook of recipes using ingredients found in AACC’s food pantry.  Professors Forrest Caskey and Amy Carattini, who co-taught the class, ...

Students are studying horseshoe crabs in the Health and Life Sciences Building.

Students study crabs to conduct research

Divine Mesumbe, Co-Editor January 20, 2024

Students who want to conduct undergraduate science research can study horseshoe crabs in two labs in the Health and Life Sciences Building.  Students are able to create their own research projects...

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