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The award-winning newspaper of Anne Arundel Community College.

Campus Current

Rise Up Coffee Roasters will serve coffee and breakfast snacks on the first floor of CALT. The kiosk will become the fourth fresh-food shop on campus, joining the Hawk’s Nest, Subway and Chick-fil-A. Shown, the Rise Up store in Arnold.

Rise Up coffee kiosk to open on W. Campus

Tomi Brunton, Editor-in-Chief November 6, 2023

Rise Up Coffee Roasters will open a kiosk on the Arnold campus in November. The kiosk, in the CALT atrium on West Campus, will sell coffee, smoothies, pastries and breakfast sandwiches. “We haven’t...

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...

Political science professor Dan Nataf is asking students who have dropped classes for their reasons why.

Countywide survey includes questions for AACC students

Tomi Brunton, Editor-in-Chief October 27, 2023

A political science professor is asking students who have dropped a course or received a low grade because they didn’t complete a class for their reasons why. Professor Dan Nataf said research showing...

The number of charter buses taking students between the east and west sides of campus has dwindled from two to one.

College trims number of buses during footbridge repairs

Izzy Chase, Associate Editor October 26, 2023

AACC officials have decided to cut the number of charter buses that take students between the east and west sides of campus from two to one. The single bus will continue to run from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m....

Since Oct. 1, students are making payments on their college loans after a three-plus-year pause.

Student loan payments resume

Izzy Chase, Associate Editor October 19, 2023

AACC students who have college loans resumed making payments starting Oct. 1 after the end of the three-and-a-half-year pause. The U.S. Department of Education started the student loan forbearance program...

High food prices and a post-pandemic economic slump are among the pressures that are sending more students and staff to the campus food pantry for groceries.

Demand increases at campus food pantry

Tomi Brunton, Editor-in-Chief October 19, 2023

Demand for free groceries from AACC’s food pantry has increased 30% this semester compared with this time last year. The pantry, located in Room 219 of the Student Union, offers free food and personal...

Adjunct professor LaToya Nkongolo is running for a seat on the Anne Arundel County Board of Education.

Adjunct professor runs for Board of Education

Tomi Brunton, Editor-in-Chief October 5, 2023

An AACC adjunct professor is campaigning for a seat on the Anne Arundel County Board of Education. LaToya Nkongolo, who has taught human services at AACC for about a decade, will run for District 5...

Police plan to go from building to building checking every classroom and office during a mock "lockdown" beginning on Monday.

Lockdown drills to begin on campus on Monday

Tomi Brunton, Editor-in-Chief September 28, 2023

AACC’s Department of Public Safety and Police will begin campus-wide active shooter drills on Oct. 2. Public safety will play a message over the alarm system, prompting students and faculty to undergo...

First-year business student Sparsh Verma is the Student Government Association's new vice president of public relations.

2 new VPs complete SGA executive board

Connor Graham, Reporter September 26, 2023

The Student Government Association appointed two students as vice presidents last week to fill open positions on its seven-member executive board. SGA President Zack Buster said the officers used...

Crime on campus barely increased between 2021 and 2022, according to an annual safety report. Shown, campus Police Chief Sean Kapfhammer.

Police report shows low crime on campus

Zack Buckingham and Dulcie Metro September 21, 2023

Incidents of stalking and petty theft increased on the Arnold campus between 2021 and 2022, while most other crime was nonexistent, according to a report last week. “I’d like to say it’s because...

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid will be available in December this year instead of on Oct. 1 as in prior years.

Government delays release of financial aid forms

Tomi Brunton, Editor-in-Chief September 21, 2023

The 2024-2025 Free Application for Federal Student Aid will be available in December instead of October this year. The FAFSA Simplification Act, which Congress passed in December 2020, will significantly...

During a Constitution Day presentation, law professors explained the U.S. Supreme Court decision to put a stop to the use of affirmative action in universities' admissions proceses

Law profs explain Supreme Court’s affirmative action decision

Connor Graham, Reporter September 19, 2023

AACC legal studies professors explained the U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial affirmative action ruling to students in a presentation on Tuesday. Affirmative action is the idea that colleges can...

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