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Women’s bball travels to national tournament Chance Iheoma Photo Co-Editor Arianna Beers Sports Editor AACC Women’s Basketball came in last place in the Division III National Tournament in March, yet the coach said he couldn’t be

SGA President Jacob Smith says he is confident his replacement will do well next year.

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prouder of the team.

“They got an experience of a lifetime,” coach Lionel Makell said. “[We’re] one of eight teams in the country at our level.”

With just six players, the team qualified for nationals by winning the Division III Region Tournament.

“I only have six young ladies, and they are probably the hardest-working six student athletes that I have been around in a long time,” said Makell, who graduated from AACC in 1984. “It’s an honor to be coaching them.”

Daniel Nickerson Multimedia Editor For the first time, all candidates for an officer position on the Student Government Association will run for election this semester.

Traditionally, only the president has run for office, and representatives from campus clubs—who belong to an SGA “general forum”— elected the officers.

For each of the officer positions except one, a single, unopposed candidate is

running. For one of the positions—the vice president of finance—nobody is running, so the SGA will fill that post in September.

Still, the SGA will hold elections from April 1 to April 5.

SGA members voted to change the election process in February.

Second-year creative writing and psychology student Mitchell Santos, the sole candidate for SGA president, said he fears the new system might discourage students

from joining the SGA. “In terms of filling positions, I don’t think it was the best change,” Santos said.

But SGA faculty adviser Leslie Cook said electing all of the officers at the same time will help them bond together over the summer so they will be ready to work when school starts.

Bri Barone, a second-year elementary education student who is running for vice president of public relations, said she supports an election for all officers.

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The Associated Collegiate Press/College Media Business and Advertising Managers National College Journalism Convention took place from Feb. 28 to March 3 in La Jolla, California. Seven Campus Current editors attended.

The Associated Collegiate Press based its choice of Best of Show finalists from four-year and two-year col-

leges on outstanding coverage of the news, quality of writing, leadership, design, photography and graphics.

“I think our team is really dedicated to what we do and it was a proud moment for everybody because we know it’s not just one person’s award,” Campus Current Editor-in-Chief Alexandra Radovic, a third-year elementary education and journalism student, said.

Editor-in-Chief Alexandra Radovic and Multimedia Editor Daniel Nickerson display the awards Campus Current won for the student newspaper and website.

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SGA officers to run in elections

Campus Current takes 2 awards at convention Alex Fregger Podcaster AACC’s Campus Current newspaper staff visited the San Diego area for a college journalism convention in early March and left with two awards.

The student newspaper won second place for Best of Show Award among two-year college newspapers, and third place for its website, which

Women’s Basketball center Sarah Healy takes a shot at this season’s national tournament.

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“I want [the student body] to know that I’m there for them,” she said.

“My ultimate goal is, even though I am currently running unopposed, I want people to know my name.”

Outgoing SGA President Jacob Smith, a graduating business student, said he is hopeful for the success of the upcoming group of officers. “[Mitchell] seems very [poised] and professional; I think he’ll do very well with administration,” Smith said.

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Earth: Keep it clean this spring Editorial Board AACC students can take small steps to clean up the planet—right here on campus—in celebration of Earth Day on April 22.

First, students in Humanities and CALT can fill up their water bottles at those buildings’ automatic fountains.

With this feature, students can place their bottles under the fountain and the water will automatically fill them, without anyone holding down a button.

Not only does this defeat the hassle of using two hands to fill up a water bottle, but it also saves thousands of pounds of plastic bottle waste that otherwise would flood trash cans across campus, according to a digital tracker on each fountain.

Next, students can conserve energy by walking across the footbridge that connects the east and west sides of the campus, instead of driving.

Although it may seem more convenient to drive from one side of campus to

the other to get to class, the bridge eliminates the necessity for carbon emissions from burning gasoline. And Mother Nature gives back with sunlight, fresh air and a view of Dividing Creek.

This body of water is maintained by the Environmental Center on campus and leveled off in layers of running streams to reduce runoff and preserve native plants and wildlife.

Also, students can tell AACC faculty members and administrators which environmentally friendly features they’d like to see in the new buildings going up around campus. Send an email to the Facilities, Planning and Construction staff to share your ideas.

Who knows, the ideas you have today could set up future students to take even bigger steps toward changes in the health of the campus and the planet.

The college has built some environmental benefits into campus buildings already.

The Ludlum Building and Truxal Library on cam-

Students can help keep the environment clean in April by walking across campus instead of driving.

Photo by Alexandra Radovic pus are both LEED certified, which means their features focus on reducing waste, conserving water, supporting efficient transportation and elevating the human experience.

The college is aiming to achieve gold LEED certification for the Health and Life Sciences Building under construction on campus. It will feature habitat protection, materials and colors that reflect heat, low-flow toilets and faucets, and quieter, more efficient HVAC equipment.

Campus Facilities, Planning and Construction also

will conserve plant species during the building’s construction by replacing lost greenery from site work to create a “living wall” on the side of the Physical Plant Building.

Along with this, the college will renovate the Dragun Science Building with environmental factors starting in 2020, at a cost of $34,336.

If every student makes these small changes, we can together create a domino effect that could inspire other colleges to pay more attention to the environment, too.

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Student athlete excels on court, academically Alexandra Radovic Editor-in-Chief As a junior and senior at South River High School, Sarah Healy sat on the bench game after game as she watched her friends crowd the giant Seahawk logo, in center court, to fire shots at the basketball hoop.

It wasn’t until she became a Riverhawk, Healy said, that she flourished on the court.

“In high school … I did not play whatsoever,” Healy, a first-year transfer studies student, said. “I’d be lucky if I even looked at the court.”

Healy plays center for AACC Women’s Basketball.

She played softball, tennis and basketball just to make friends in high school, and didn’t plan to play in college.

“I played because I liked the people playing the sports,” Healy said. “They were my friends.”

But she said she joined Women’s Basketball this season as a way to stay in shape.

However, Healy said AACC Athletics does more than just keep her in shape.

She said sports here offer her opportunities to excel and show off the skills she never got a chance to in high school.

“Now I actually enjoy playing the sport, and you can tell,” Healy said. “I’m better because I’m enjoying it.”

In fact, Healy said now that she is getting play time, she’s more eager to try sports outside of her comfort zone.

She will be a goalie for AACC Women’s Lacrosse this spring, although she has no experience with the sport.

“I heard they were looking for a goalie and I thought, ‘I’ve always wanted to be a laxer, why not?’” Healy said.

She said she is taking more chances off the field as well, as she plans to study pre-med.

Healy earned a 4.0 GPA last semester, and won MVP during regionals this season.

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Students voice issues to Maryland legislators Ashley Sokolowski Reporter On a cold morning in March, seven AACC students joined 500 others from community colleges all over Maryland for a day of persuading state senators and delegates to vote for education-friendly legislation.

The 17th annual Student Advocacy Day gave AACC students, including Student Government Association President Jacob Smith and Board of Trustees member Caleb Schaeffer, a chance to talk with legislators about college funding and a bill to help disabled students.

Schaeffer, a full-time nursing student who works two jobs to put himself through school, advocated for the state to increase funding to community colleges through a 1996 formula designed to keep student tuition low.

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the Cade Funding Formula to grow community college funding to 29 percent of the state’s higher education budget and to reach that goal by 2012. But legislators changed the goal seven times over the years, and have never reached it.

In 2018, 15 percent of the Maryland budget went to higher education. The latest change to the Cade Formula assigned the state a deadline of 2023 to reach 29 percent.

Schaeffer, who is a voting member of AACC’s Board of Trustees, told a legislative assistant to Del. Alice Cain he is thankful to the county “for supplying us extra funding for trying to keep … the tuition per credit low for students.” Cain represents Anne Arundel County.

He added, however: “But in order to keep this tuition low for the students we are going to need to have this support from the state as we move forward into the next

year.”

Business administration student Tyler Hood also spoke to legislators in support of the Cade Formula.

“I feel like pulling more funding from the state to the schools and helping … the students that get access to those resources really alleviates a lot of that stress and a lot of the anxiety that I see students exhibit … day to day,” Hood said.

Matthew Barzal, a Spanish education and electrical engineering student, also showed support for the formula.

Barzal said he cannot afford to buy the musical instrument he learned to play in high school and wouldn’t have time to play it if he could because he works so many hours at his part-time job.

“When I talk to other friends I have seen around campus that I used to be great friends with in the band, I will say, ‘Hey do you

AACC President Dawn Lindsay poses with Director of Student Engagement Leon Thomas and seven students at this year’s Student Advocacy Day. At the event, students spoke to Maryland legislators.

Photo by Ashley Sokolowski guys still play?’” Barzal said.

“A lot of times they will say, ‘No, the instrument I was playing was a school instrument, and now that I am here at community college, I can’t buy an instrument. All of my money is going straight to college.”

Smith, a business administration and web design student, supported another cause.

He spoke in support of the Supplemental Services and Supports for Students

with Disabilities Grant Program, a bill that would fund grants to community colleges to add services and accomodations for students with disabilities.

“The idea that people might have the money to go to college, but it doesn’t matter because their college doesn’t support their disability—it really kind of ... makes you think,” Smith said. “I want everyone to have equal opportunity to go to college and have an education.”

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Graduation to move to Maryland Live! in May Sarah Noble Daily Editor

gree-granting institution.”

Lydia Outland, a second-year transfer studies student, said having graduation “at a casino is sleazy.

a tax break for a new hotel and event center that Live! opened last spring. As part AACC will hold its 57th of the deal, Live! must allow commencement on May 23 Anne Arundel County high at Maryland schools and the Live! Casino & community colHotel in Arundel lege to hold comMills. mencement cereSome AACC monies there. professors and The Show students said Place Arena in they don’t apUpper Marlboro prove. has traditionally “[The casino hosted the counis] not an eduty’s high school cational faciligraduations. ty,” English proHowever, fessor Suzanne starting in 2020, Spoor said. “If high school gradour mission is AACC will hold graduation at Maryland Live! uates will receive about learning Casino & Hotel in Arundel Mills on May 23. their diplomas at … does going to Photo by Christina Browning Live! a casino underDan Baum, mine that mission?”

What does that mean for AACC’s executive director of She added: “A college people who have issues with strategic communications, graduation at a casino de- gambling and alcohol to be in said the community college tracts from the seriousness a casino? It doesn’t feel right is “getting the opportunity of the degree students re- to me.” early because the venue has ceive and hurts the crediAnne Arundel County in been completed sooner than bility of the college as a de- November 2017 approved [the casino] anticipated.”

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Graduation at Live! - May 23rd 9 am: School of Liberal Arts 2 pm: School of Science & Technology; Mathema�cs 7 pm: Health Sciences; School of Business & Law; Con�nuing Educa�on & Workforce Development Students may attend whichever ceremony they choose Graphic by Kenzie Airey Because of the 4,000seat event center’s limited size, AACC will split its graduation into three separate events for graduates in Liberal Arts; Science and Technology, and Mathematics; and Health Sciences, Business and Law, and Continuing Education and Workforce Development.

Students may attend whichever ceremony they choose, although administrators are encouraging them to participate in the one that coincides with their area of study.

Science professor Dr. Anthony Santorelli said individual ceremonies will allow more time for student recognition, but added,

“Having an off-campus graduation does detract from the ‘community feel’ to the ceremony.”

Spoor said she objects to the societal dangers of a casino. “[When a casino is built] it’s documented that social workers come flooding in because people become addicted to gambling,” she said.

“It’s a major issue in our society. I don’t think having a graduation of an institution of higher learning at a casino is a good pairing. That’s entertainment and this is education.”

Still, Baum said, “The thing to keep in mind is that it’s an event center. We’re not bringing them to a casino.”

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Hood will award $500 to incoming transfers Daniel Nickerson Multimedia Editor Students who transfer from AACC to Hood College in Frederick qualify for a $500-per-semester break on tuition.

Hood College President Andrea E. Chapdelaine and AACC President Dawn Lindsay signed an agreement in January to guarantee the extra $500 break and access to on-campus housing for

AACC plans to make more adjuncts full-time.

Pictured, part-time game development professor Aaron Granofsky.

Photo by Jesseca Greene

AACC transfer students.

“It would be an upper-class[men] housing opportunity,” Hood Vice President for Enrollment Management William Brown Jr. said.

That’s on top of a tuition discount for students with GPAs of at least 2.5, which Hood offers to transfer students from any school.

AACC students with a 3.5 GPA can qualify for up to a 50 percent tuition reduction;

those with a 3.0 can qualify for up to 33 percent off; and those with a 2.5 get up to a quarter off.

AACC has transfer agreements with Frostburg State University, McDaniel College, Morgan State University and 13 other in-state colleges, which promise to accept up to 62 community college credits.

But those four-year schools limit those credits to specific programs of study.

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Gavin said AACC started adding to the full-time faculty ranks three years ago in an effort to reach a 60 percent goal by next school year.

“It’s not that we want to try to get rid of adjuncts,” Gavin said, noting that the college often hires part-time faculty into full-time positions when professor jobs

Andrea Chapdelaine, president of Hood College, and AACC President Dawn Lindsay sign a transfer plan.

Photo courtesy of AACC Strategic Communications Under the AACC agreement, however, Hood will accept the credits into any major the student chooses.

“That’s one great thing Hood College has done,” Marcus Wright, AACC’s director of transfer articulation

and career alignment, said.

“They are looking at not only the high-achieving students but also, ‘OK, what about those students that have a 2.7, that have a 3.0?’ They should be considered for scholarship opportunities as well.”

open. “It’s not that adjuncts are individually not doing an excellent job. It’s that the institution and students can be served better by people whose full-time job it is to be on campus,” Gavin said.

Gavin said full-time professors must designate office hours for students to see them outside of class, while

adjuncts do not have the same requirement.

Still, Gavin said students can benefit from taking classes with adjuncts. He said they bring their real-world professional experiences into their classrooms.

For example, working nurses teach nursing classes on the Arnold campus.

Profs-adjuncts ratio to change AACC officials said they plan to increase the number of full-time professors on campus next school year.

According to Vice President for Learning Mike Gavin, full-time professors teach 51 percent of classes at AACC.

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FAFSA proposal to help if parents unavailable Alexandra Radovic Editor-in-Chief Students applying for financial aid who aren’t able to get access to their parents’ tax returns will have an easier time qualifying if Congress passes a proposed law.

U.S. senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, both Maryland Democrats, introduced the FAFSA Fairness Act of 2019 to the House Committee on Education and Labor on Feb. 7.

This act would apply to students whose parents are unavailable because, for example, they are deceased, in jail, have abandoned the applicant or have forced the child to escape abuse.

The law would give each college’s administrators the authority to decide, on a case-by-case basis, which students deserve special treatment because of their circumstances.

“This is designed to help

students where the parent is really absent,” Van Hollen said. “The judgment does ultimately come down to the schools as to whether or not you meet the criteria.”

“Historically, community colleges work to meet the needs of first-generation and low-income students,” Cardin said. “Our community colleges [are] partners in eliminating barriers that our most vulnerable students face when working towards their college degree.”

He added: “For the students who have faced difficult and abusive life circumstances that leave them unable to obtain their parents’ financial data, we believe that they should be able to follow the same process as their peers to apply for federal student aid.”

Under the proposal, students would file as “provisionally independent,” which means the college could immediately calculate their fi-

nancial aid and give them an estimated amount of money they could expect once their applications are approved.

The law also would allow financial aid administrators to tell whether they would qualify for federal funds even before they fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. Without that information, some students assumed they wouldn’t be eligible for any aid and gave up on pursuing the FAFSA and their educations, AACC’s Director of Financial Aid Tara Carew said.

“There are special provisions that students have to follow if their parents aren’t available,” Van Hollen said.

“Under the current process, that is such a burdensome and cumbersome process that a lot of those students, who are already in a very difficult position, don’t apply [for the FAFSA].”

“If you can see what your

ministration opposed, by the March deadline.

The proposed law would have allowed Maryland community colleges to form bargaining units to represent full- and part-time faculty, hourly and salaried employees, and police officers.

AACC President Dawn Lindsay said she doesn’t see a need for collective bargaining on campus. “I have frequently said there is no better place to work than a community college,” she said. “I don’t believe there is a work-related issue we cannot address and resolve

when we work together.”

Ken Jarvis, president of The Faculty Organization, which represents faculty in discussions with administrators, agreed, saying professors already work with the administration to negotiate workplace issues.

“We work really closely with our administration on things like … health benefits, insurance, retirement, and just good working conditions and good salary conditions,” Jarvis said.

But some professors said they support collective bargaining on campus.

“We want to make the jobs better,” Richard Otten, an adjunct instructor who teaches American studies and gender and sexuality studies, said. “If we improve our working conditions, we will improve the students’ learning conditions.”

He added: “I think labor should be organized. … People who share self-interests connected with the workplace should work together to improve their circumstances.”

History professor Frank Alduino also said he supports collective bargaining.

“I think that it is something that, at least here, would add to collegiality,” Alduino said. “I think it is a good thing. I think at any collective bargaining arena there is a high morale, there’s a greater input from the faculty.”

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Brooke Raino, a registered nurse, said she is most proud that the center offers STD testing.

Students who receive positive results after testing are sent to the Anne Arundel County Department of Health for free treatment.

Raino said she hopes students are aware of the StressLess room on campus. “As much as you need to be aware of your status and your body, you also need to let yourself decompress,” she said.

Some students said they didn’t know about the free resources.

“I don’t think there’s enough awareness,” Brandon Bailey, a first-year nursing student, said.

Bailey said students with a health issue should seek help and “if you know someone going through something like that, help them.”

Although students may be afraid to ask for medical advice, Raino encourages them to “just do it. We are so

easily approachable.”

“We want students to reach out and feel like they’re in a safe place,” Raino said.

The center also offers a private lactation room for nursing mothers, blood pressure screening and a gender-neutral, single-stall restroom.

Additionally, any AACC students, staff and faculty are able to collect free BandAids, condoms, cough drops and tampons at the center’s Self-Care Station.

AACC students who are estranged from their parents may be able to fill out FAFSA quicker if Congress passes a new bill.

Photo by Alexandra Radovic projected or anticipated aid would be, it gives you incentive to be able to say, ‘Oh, you know, I can get this appeal approved and I could

Collective bargaining bill dies Ashley Sokolowski Reporter Alexandra Radovic Editor-in-Chief For the third year in a row, a proposal that would have allowed AACC employees to engage in collective bargaining—organized negotiations between staff and administration over pay raises, benefits and better working conditions—has failed in the state Legislature.

The House of Delegates neglected to vote on the legislation, which AACC ad-

The Self-Care Station in the Health & Wellness Center offers free condoms, tampons, cough drops and more.

Photo by Daniel Nickerson

qualify for the Pell Grant’ … to see the light at the end of the tunnel before going through the [FAFSA] process,” Carew said.

The House of Delegates did not pass a bill to allow collective bargaining at community colleges.

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Health Center gives free stuff AACC students have access to more than just first aid at the on-campus Health & Wellness Center.

Students who visit the center in the SUN Building can nap in a StressLess room with dim lighting and a massage chair.

They also can take a free STD test, get over-the-counter medications and get help to quit smoking.

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Advice: Get involved in new campus activities Alexandra Radovic Editor-in-Chief

learning communities.

But don’t get too comfortable in your own nest of Romeo came from a fam- friends and extracurriculars. ily of Montagues, and Juliet Don’t be afraid to get inwas a Capulet. The feud be- volved on campus outside of tween their families made your normal community. it impossible for them to be Maybe that means you together, but that didn’t stop register for a summer class them from fallto learn about ing in love. a hobby that The Shakeyou’ve always ’s Alexandra spearean play, wanted to try, which Theatre like photograat AACC will phy or cerampremiere on ics.

April 12, teachOr you es a lesson of could go to an openmindedevent or two ness that stuthis semester dents can apfor a club you ply to their lives on campus. aren’t a member of but have Even though everyone in always wondered about. their hometown of Verona, The campus has 66 acItaly, told Romeo and Juliet tive clubs, and most of their they didn’t belong together, events are open to anyone they did what made them who is interested. happy anyway.

You never know who you Riverhawks fly to many might meet. Sometimes the nests at AACC, from classes, people who have different into sports, to art, to clubs and terests from you are the ones

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you can learn the most from.

Maybe you study in the same spot every day. Try exploring the campus and changing your scenery this spring, or even take your books outside and enjoy the nice weather while you study.

If you are struggling with an assignment, don’t just ask classmates for help or take to YouTube tutorials and Quizlet like you normally do. Take a chance and go to your professors for office hours or visit the writing and math centers to see if you could benefit from one-on-one help.

Stepping out of your comfort zone can happen off campus, too.

This spring, try to find opportunities that take your studies beyond the classroom and the library. Ask your professors about volunteer and internship opportunities.

You can’t go wrong by challenging yourself in your social and educational life.

You may feel like there is

Campus Current Editor-in-Chief Alexandra Radovic recommends branching out and trying new clubs on campus.

Photo by Daniel Salomon no point in making friends at a two-year college.

But AACC is all about redefining yourself. Your experience here is no one’s but your own.

So take the classes you are curious about, even if

Did you know?

they aren’t in your field of interest. Make friendships even if you think they won’t last.

Sometimes straying from your usual path can take you places that would otherwise be undiscovered.

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Students with an AACC ID have free access to the Fitness Center on the Arnold campus.

The Fitness Center offers equipment for endurance, strength training and cardiovascular conditioning.

The spring schedule: Monday/Wednesday: 12-1 p.m., 4-6 p.m.

Tuesday/Thursday: 6:30-8 a.m., 12:30-2 p.m., 4-6 p.m.

Friday: 12-1 p.m., 2:30-5:30 p.m.

Saturday: 9 a.m.-noon Students can find the Fitness Center at the Jenkins Gym in Room 213.

Reporting by Kenzie Airey Photo by Gage Savoy

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Students turn to CBD in place of prescriptions Kenzie Airey Graphic Designer A growing number of students are relying on a cannabis extract called CBD as a natural alternative to prescription medications for their ailments.

CBD—cannabidiol—is a compound found in the cannabis plant. It is known for its health and wellness benefits.

CBD is different from THC, the psychoactive compound in marijuana. In other words, CBD doesn’t cause the user to get high.

Maryland approved the use of medical marijuana in 2013, and legal sales started in 2017. Both medical marijuana and CBD are legal in Maryland, but CBD doesn’t require a prescription.

“I think [CBD is] a good alternative” to prescription medicine, fifth-year business management student and CBD user Marcus Hayes said.

“It’s a good natural remedy for healing.”

Hayes has used CBD products such as a CBD rollon for back pain and a CBD vape pen. He is trying to get his father to trade some of his prescription medicines for CBD. Hayes’ father “has had some ailments and he uses more prescriptions,” Hayes said. “I’m trying to wean him off and find alternate methods, and CBD oils and other products seem to be very helpful. … [CBD] could perhaps not hold the side effects that other medications or prescriptions could hold, which is crucial and concerning.”

Students said they like CBD over opioids as a form of medicine.

“I think if people had medical marijuana it wouldn’t be abused as much as opioids,” first-year transfer studies student Shawn Pollard said.

“Weed is just less detrimental to people’s lives than anything else, and it doesn’t have any addictive properties.”

Studies have proven CBD can help with a range of physical and mental ailments, from seizures and chronic pain to anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.

In a 2015 review in the medical journal “Neurotherapeutics,” researchers said CBD can help with disorders stemming from post-traumatic stress, general anxiety, panic, social anxiety and obsessive-compulsive behavior.

“CBD is an incredible resource for a lot of people,” second-year financial accounting student, veteran and CBD user Eli Barnard said. “Whether it actually helps or if a lot of it [is] placebo, it doesn’t matter. I know a lot of people who suffer from severe psychological

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CBD, also known as cannabidiol, comes in many forms. Students on campus say they use the natural compund to remedy anxiety.

Illustration by Kenzie Airey trauma and the only reason they actually function and have families is because they use cannabis.”

Former film student Rico Donnelly said CBD is a stress reliever.

“I have family in the military,” he said. “They’re … veterans, and they say it’s good for PTSD. It’s a better stress reliever for psycholog-

ical issues instead of overthe-counter medicines. … It’s good for insomnia, too.”

Students said they buy CBD products, such as oil, gummies, chewing gum and topical ointments in local pharmacies and smoke shops.

Some varieties of CBD oil cost around $30 for a small dropper bottle.

LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) A sudden change of mind by someone you relied on could cause a delay in moving ahead with your plans. But those whom you've helped out before are prepared to return the favor.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Your indecision about a personal situation might come out of those mixed signals you're getting. Best not to make any commitments until you have a better sense of how things are going.

SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) You start the week feeling too shy to speak up in front of others. However, your self-assurance soon takes over, giving you the confidence you need to make yourself heard.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) A dispute appears to be getting out of hand. But you should be able to step in and bring it all under control soon. Be patient. News about a potential career move might be delayed.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) One way to deal with a pesky personal dilemma this week is to meet it head-on. Insist on an explanation of why the situation reached this point and what can be done to change it.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Career obligations could interfere with important personal plans. But using a combination of common sense and compromise helps resolve the dilemma to everyone's satisfaction.

CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) The creative Capricorn finds several outlets for her or his talents this week.

Also note that while a romantic connection looks promising, remember to allow it to develop on its own.

LEO (July 23 to August 22) A stressful situation drains some of your energy reserves. But you soon bounce back in time to finish your tasks and enjoy a well-deserved weekend getaway.

AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) You stand out this week as the best friend a friend can have. But be careful that you don't take too many bows, or you might see gratitude replaced with resentment.

VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) This is a good time to throw a party for friends and colleagues, and surprise them with your dazzling domestic skills.

You also might want to reconsider that career move you put on hold.

PISCES (February 19 to March 20) What seems to be an ideal investment should be checked out thoroughly before you snap at the offer and find yourself hooked by an expensive scam.

Horoscopes

ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Although you tend to bore easily and leave others to finish what you start, this is one time when you'd be wise to complete things on your own. Then you can move on to something new.

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Campus Life

Arnold campus faculty teach classes in prison Alexandra Radovic Editor-in-Chief This is the second of a three-part series on an AACC program to take community college classes to students incarcerated at Jessup Correctional Institution. Part 3 will appear in the May print edition of Campus Current.

“When you are waiting to get in, the door opens slowly and closes, and you can’t get out,” Steve Berry, who teaches business at an all-male maximum-security prison, said. “These doors are between you and your home.”

Berry is one of four AACC professors who work parttime at Jessup Correctional Institution, teaching classes as part of the two, six-course programs the college started offering there in 2014.

Through the program, professors certify prisoners in business management and entrepreneurial studies.

Faculty reported both positive and negative experiences working there.

“The men are unusually kind,” adjunct instructor Lou Carloni, who teaches Introduction to Business at both Arnold and Jessup, said.

“They are the most dedicated students I’ve ever had.

I’ve taught for four semesters there and every semester all my students have earned an A, because they’ll do anything it takes to get there.”

Carloni said hundreds of prisoners apply each year for the 12 spots in each class.

Students must be able to pay tuition, pass a basic knowledge placement test and have no offenses on their records while in prison.

Not everyone at the prison is happy the professors are there, Carloni said.

“Any time prisoners are given special opportunities, sometimes it leaves a bad taste in the mouths of the authority,” he said.

Carloni recalled a time when a guard confronted him for bringing a paper clip into the prison and asked him what he planned to use it for.

“That’s probably the silliest thing I’ve ever been asked,” Carloni said.

But Carloni and other professors agreed that the dedication the inmates show makes up for the harsh security. “[The students] are very smart, very attentive. They want the education,” said adjunct instructor Ann Pinto, who teaches business management at Arnold and Jessup. “I set up a no-fear policy.”

Berry said it is sometimes a relief to leave the prison.

“You feel grateful that you can go home,” Berry said.

“You wonder what it’s like for them to feel that they can’t.”

According to a 2016 study by the U.S. Sentencing Commission, former inmates with college degrees are

AACC faculty teach business and entrepreneurship classes at Jessup Correctional Institution, similar to the prison pictured above.

Unsplash photo re-arrested nearly 40 percent less often than those without.

“A college degree opens up doors,” Shad Ewart, chair of AACC’s Department of Business Management, said.

“Anne Arundel Community College, we can be the one

thing, that one thing in this person’s life among a bunch of crap.”

He added: “We’re like the best thing in that person’s life. … It sure makes it feel like the work we do is really meaningful.”

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School spirit sporadic among AACC students Bethany Probst Reporter AACC students said in March that they feel proud to be Riverhawks.

In an informal poll of 35 students on the Arnold campus, 29 said they’re happy with their choice to attend community college, while six called the experience less than “exciting.”

“I’ve saved a lot of money and I’ve changed my major like, two times,” said thirdyear nursing student Deborah Athens. “At the end of the day, you’re taking classes and they’re going to transfer to four-year schools. …

Just because you’re super smart or getting good grades doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go to a community college.”

Still, second-year archaeology student Gabby Rapine said community college wasn’t her first choice.

“In a way I felt like I was missing out because all of my other friends, besides three or four of them, were going to four-year universities,” Rapine said. “They were going off to the big schools.”

But Rapine said she … I’m competing with people might not have been able who have been there longer to go to college at all if she or they got a full ride,” Pathadn’t enrolled here. ton said.

“I never really knew if Dan Baum, AACC’s excollege was going to be an ecutive director of strategic option for me [because] of communications, said he has financial reasons,” Rapine observed that Riverhawks said. “So I was very excited to show their school spirit, even go to a community college.” off campus.

Some students, like sec“Nearly half of all college ond-year business manage- students in Maryland attend ment and entrepreneurship community colleges,” Baum student Immanuel Patton, said. “That says to me that said community college gives people recognize the value of students a good foundation. community colleges. It’s in “I feel proud to go here the numbers.” because I feel like you get Baum added he has seen more bare opportunities students celebrating the colhere,” Patlege, even ton said.

“Just because you’re o u t s i d e “For super smart or getting of Anne me as a Arundel good grades doesn’t business County. mean you shouldn’t go major, “I see it’s more to a community college.” Riverhawk [about] Nursing student stickers, the opporDeborah Athens T-shirts tunities I and sweatcan get and more networking shirts all over the county,” situations I can do.”

Baum said.

Patton said students can Still, in a review of 40 get more help at a two-year student Instagram accounts, college compared with a 32 showed no sign that they four-year school. attend AACC. The other eight “If I went to a university mentioned their affiliation

Influencers go viral on social Bethany Probst Reporter Former AACC student Dominique Barrett sits across the desk from a group of potential employers, who ask, “What are your special talents?”

He answers by flipping a water bottle, which lands upright on the table with such force that the interviewers fall out of their seats.

He filmed that staged video in AACC’s library in 2016. It drew more than 30 million views on Vine.

Today, Barrett goes by “King Vader” on his YouTube channel, which has 1.4 million subscribers and features funny music videos.

Barrett said the inspiration for his content came from watching TV and playing video games.

And action movies, he said, “just kind of made me really in tune to action-packed stuff and special effects.”

Vader isn’t the only YouTube star with an AACC connection.

Genesis Hayes, a second-year communications student and social media influencer, has a following of 334 subscribers on YouTube and 9,000 on Instagram.

She posts her clothing hauls, advice for college students and storytime videos on social media.

Honesty and authenticity online make influencers stand out to attracting advertisers, Hayes said.

“Personally, I do brand deals,” Hayes said. “But I always make sure that it’s something I would use in real life and enjoy. When you go down my profile, it’s not just over-saturated with advertisements.”

Hayes said she earns $6,000 to $8,000 a year from Forever 21, Fashion Nova and other fashion and cosmetic lines by showing their products online.

Campus Life

AACC Riverhawks like second-year creative writing student Rani Jenkins show their school spirit by wearing the Riverhawks logo on their clothing.

Photo by Arianna Beers in social media biographies, photos or posts.

Brittany Greene, a second-year nursing student, said she chooses not to broadcast anything about AACC. Greene said she doesn’t focus on her time at AACC much because it’s only a precursor to another college.

“I’m in this mindset of [of] this is not where I’m going to end up, so it’s not re-

ally worth sharing,” Greene said.

Greene said some people view her differently for not making it into a university right out of high school and attending a community college instead. “[There’s] this stigma behind it that AACC is like, [students] are going to be there for years and they’re not motivated,” Greene said.

Second-year communications student Genesis Hayes has built an online brand with more than 9,000 Instagram followers.

Photo by Bethany Probst Second-year communications student Lauren Orcutt, a social media influencer, said influencers need to work hard and have perseverance.

Orcutt said the goal of her YouTube channel, which has 147 subscribers, is to simply make her viewers smile.

Her channel consists of videos of her Zaful clothing hauls; vlogs of her personal life; and parodies of ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) videos.

Entrepreneurial studies professor Stephanie Goldenberg said learning how to

market is key to the influencers’ success.

“My suggestion is to refine what they are doing as an individual and think of themselves as a brand,” she said. “Taking business classes ... will help them shape their personal brand.”

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Arts

Co-stars share true love tales Tyreesha Bolton Reporter Like Juliet in the classic Shakespeare play, second-year theater student Katie Laubert said she has experienced forbidden love.

Laubert, who is playing the doomed Juliet in Theatre at AACC’s production of “Romeo and Juliet” in April, said the parents of both of her previous boyfriends disapproved of their relationships with her.

“They were very conservative families and they didn’t think it was right to date in high school,” she said.

“We weren’t even supposed to text each other. ... They would restrict [my second boyfriend] from seeing me.”

She added: “I was 14. ... I wanted to marry these guys.

I really thought I was going to marry the second guy. We talked about it all the time.”

Jack Venton, a former AACC theater student who

will play Romeo, has a similarly tragic dating past.

He said his only romantic relationship lasted a month when he was 17.

“I came on too strong,” he said. “I had never really been in a relationship before.”

Venton said his age, lack of maturity and inexperience were the reasons the relationship didn’t last. He said he wanted a relationship his partner wasn’t ready for.

Both actors said they drew on their personal experiences to get into character for the play, which will premiere in Kauffman Theater on April 12. They said their real-life romances helped them relate to their characters and agreed that their young ages factored into the end of their relationships, just as Romeo and Juliet’s youth, in part, defined theirs.

Though both Laubert and Venton remain single, they said they try to still re-

Second-year theater student Katie Laubert and former AACC theater student Jack Venton, who will play Romeo and Juliet in the April production on campus, say they, too, have tragic love stories—sort of.

Photo by Chance Iheoma main optimistic about love. “[Love] is a messy business, but I think that if you can find the right person I think that it’s worth all that

mess,” Venton said.

Stage manager Sarah Valerien, a first-year transfer studies student, said she thinks the pair will be better

actors because of their past.

“It’s good to draw on your personal experiences so you can be more realistic,” she said.

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Sports

Past high school coach to lead Golf this spring Luke Gabel Reporter The former leader of Chesapeake High School’s varsity golf team is AACC Golf’s new head coach.

Kevin Lyons, who coached at Chesapeake for four years, replaced Joel Thorne, who left AACC at the end of last year’s season after seven years.

Five student golfers also left the team after it earned first place at the National Junior College Athletic Association’s Division III Regional Championships last year.

Only second-year player Michael Weller returned from last year’s team to start this season.

Weller said he hopes to continue the team’s success this spring. “I’m the only returning starter this year, so I hope I can help my new teammates adapt to a new style of team play,� Weller said.

At the 2018 NJCAA Di-

vision III Region Championship tournament in Apollo, Pennsylvania, Weller shot a 16-over score of 87 on Day 1 and fired a 7-over 78 the fol-

“While there are a few new players, they are very solid, so I do feel good about our chances.�

Coach Kevin Lyons lowing day to help the team to victory.

Lyons said inexperience could affect the team. Golf is “not like a football team, where all players play as a whole on the field,� he said. “Our golfers have the freedom to play their own game to contribute to the team score.�

Still, Lyons added, “While there are a few new players, they are very solid, so I do feel good about our chances.�

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Lyons said he hopes to repeat last year’s success this season. “The goal is to do what they did last year,� Lyons said. “Win regionals and send a team to the national tournament. That’s pretty much our first-line goal.�

He added, “There is a little bit of pressure, and I’m definitely excited for this opportunity.�

Weller said although the Riverhawks ranked first at regionals, he was still pleased with the team’s 10th-place finish at nationals.

Weller, who will attend the University of Maryland next semester for business management, said he hopes the team will move up into the Top 5 this year. “I played three seasons on the varsity golf team at South River High School,�

Weller said. “Playing for a college team is a lot different compared to high school, but I had the chance to learn a

First-year golfer Alex Colonna practices with AACC Men’s Golf, which former Chesapeake High School varsity coach Kevin Lyons will lead this season. All but one player this season is new to the team.

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Sports

Women’s bball plays nationals Continued from Page 1

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Makell wins Coach of the Year award

Women’s Basketball head coach Lionel Makell won the NJCAA’s 2019 Coach of the Year award for Division III District G for 2019.

Makell, who graduated from AACC in 1984, has coached for 30 years—six of them at AACC. “I’m honored to have [received the award] but without those six girls ... that award means nothing,” Makell said.

The Riverhawks finished off the regular season with 9 wins and 13 losses, and beat Butler County Community College to win regionals on Feb. 24, 74-54.

AACC ended the first half of the game five points ahead of Butler County Community College, with a score of 3732.

Makell said at halftime he motivated his players to keep up their energy in the second half and worked with the team’s only center, Sarah Healy.

“I went and told her, I said, ‘Have you ever been a MVP?’” Makell said. “She said, ‘No, coach,’ and I said, ‘Well, if you keep playing like you are you will be the MVP in this tournament.’”

Makell was right.

Healy scored 30 points, made 22 rebounds against Butler and earned the Most Valuable Player award for the regional tournament.

Healy, a first-year transfer studies student, said the

team’s chemistry and bond season she felt a spark at the gave them an advantage over first practice this year. their opponent.

“I felt the chemistry from “We were very energetic the jump,” Augustin said. and lively [during the tour- “There wasn’t really an awknament],” Healy said. “Ev- ward phase. It just came nateryone was on edge at first, urally.” but then we snapped out of it In the first round of the and went beast mode.” national tournament, AACC Healy’s fell to teammates, the top“I think one thing Karley Haensranked ler, a sec- that remained steady H o s t o s o n d - y e a r throughout the game Commuwas our hustle and forward, and nity ColCaitlyn Stanour heart out on the lege with bery, a firsta final court.” year guard, score of agreed their 91-37 in Guard Caitlyn Stanbery bond and “sisthe Arter vibe” was thur L. a key factor in their regional Scott Center in Bethlehem, win.

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“When one is down evHostos went on to win eryone is down and if one’s the national championship up everyone’s up,” Haensler game. said. “So I think ... clapping, “We had a really good cheering and slapping hands energy before the game, during the game makes us Stanbery said. “We’re a very stay positive.” supportive team. Before the Marcy Augustin, a sec- game we said a prayer. … We ond-year guard, said even really wanted to win.” though the team hadn’t After the first half of the played together before this game against Hostos Com-

Men’s Lacrosse player out due to car accident Philip Van Slooten Reporter A Riverhawks Men’s Lacrosse defensive player is out for the season after a near-fatal car accident on March 8.

Robert Gilman III, a second-year business administration student, his parents and brother were headed out for pizza when the accident occurred.

Gilman, who was in the hospital for 12 days and had surgery on his intestines, said he is surprised they survived.

“I’m here and I’m alive, not six feet under the ground,” said Gilman, who has withdrawn from classes. Still, he said he hopes to attend some of his team’s games and cheer on his teammates.

Gilman said he is recovering the use of the abdominal muscles that were injured in the accident.

“It’s all core,” he explained. “I do exercises [at home] my physical therapist told me to do.”

He said he will re-enroll at AACC next semester.

A GoFundMe page, set up

to raise money to help cover the family’s accident-related bills, exceeded its $20,000 goal in the first 15 days after the accident.

Gilman said he is looking forward to returning to the lacrosse team when he can.

“I’m going to try to get back as soon as I can start running and doing all of the

Men’s Lacrosse defender Robert Gilman III is out for the season after a major car accident.

Photo by Rahsaan Johnson things I need to do to play,” he said.

Gilman said he and his brother were “on Snapchat one second and the next we

were groaning and in pain.

My dad was driving and my mom was in the passenger seat. I was behind my mom and my brother was behind my dad. Then someone hit us head on.”

The family was rushed to the hospital in critical condition.

“We initially [were sent] into shock trauma,” Gilman said. “All five of us, even the driver who hit us.”

Gilman said he later learned the driver had broken his ankle in the crash.

The family’s GoFundMe page says the driver was impaired.

Gilman’s mother broke her ribs on the left side from the airbag, Gilman explained. “The doctors were shocked that she was still alive. Her lungs were coming through her rib cage.”

He added: “My mother and I both had internal bleeding. My dad broke [bones] in his left leg. My brother broke his nose and chipped his tooth.”

Despite their injuries, Gilman said he and his family members are “recovering faster than expected.”

munity College, AACC was down 46-17. Makell sat his team down at halftime and encouraged the players to not let their opponent control the game.

“I told them all in the second half, I said, ‘You know what? First half they got us; we played their game,’” Makell said. “Second half, let’s play our game … let’s play Riverhawk basketball.”

The Riverhawks came back offensively in the third quarter, scoring 15 points.

However, AACC’s offensive jump was not enough to catch up before the end of the game.

“I think one thing that remained steady throughout the game was our hustle and our heart out on the court,” Stanbery said.

Following AACC’s loss in round one of nationals, the team played two rounds in a consolation bracket, but lost both games.

The team lost its main shooting guard mid-season, so each player has had to run for 40 minutes in the past four games.

The Child Development Center at AACC EVENING CHILD CARE

(A free program for Pell Grant-eligible students) The Child Development Center at AACC in Arnold is providing evening child care for children ages 3 through 12 years.

This program is funded by the U.S. Department of Education – CCAMPIS (Child Care Access Means Parents In School) Grant.

Child care will be available from 6 to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday.

An application and preregistration are required. Registration for Fall 2019 begins July 1.

For information contact the center at 410-777-2450 or email LaVette Curtis, lvcurtis@aacc.edu.

We offer: Homework help Snacks Arts and crafts Indoor/outdoor play Toys and games Experienced staff

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