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AACC Hawk’s Nest Grill may sell food at games Brady Reilly Sports Co-Editor AACC is considering selling food at large-scale sports games to draw in more fans.

After Campus Current reported last month that fans would be more likely to attend home games if they

AACC Athletics has invited “Last Chance U” star Brittany Wagner to visit the Arnold Campus.

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could buy food there, Athletics Director Duane Herr met with Richard Buenaventura, who runs The Hawk’s Nest Grill & Deli, to float the idea.

“He reached out to me and said, ‘Do you think it’s realistic and feasible?’” Herr said. “If we have 50 to 100 people come out to a game,

how much money would that make? Would it be worth it?

Just those types of logistics.”

Their tentative plan is to sell hot food, such as hamburgers and hot dogs, chips, sodas and other snacks at regional tournaments and

Tommy Parker Sports Co-Editor

to take the athletes’ normal competitive energy and help them gear it toward their school work.

He said he bases his teaching philosophy on development, discipline and domination to create a championship atmosphere to contribute to the overall success of athletes.

Athletics Director Duane

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AACC may offer hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, sodas and other snacks at big games in the future.

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‘Last Chance U’ celeb to speak AACC hired a new academic adviser exclusively for student athletes in October.

Trey Anderson will be the new student success coordinator here after working the same position at Coppin State University.

Anderson said he wants

Herr said the new position was inspired by East Mississippi Community College adviser Brittany Wagner, who starred in the first two seasons of the Netflix docuseries “Last Chance U.” The title came from the nickname for the two-year school, where troubled Division I football players transfer to reclaim their eligibility

and reputations by improving their grades and playing on the community college team.

In the series, Wagner helps the athletes with schoolwork, schedules and personal problems.

After she left the show, Wagner started 10 Thousand

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Some faculty question College reverses plan to abolish dept. chairs admins on split power Sarah Noble Multimedia Editor

A campus-wide organization that represents AACC faculty voted in October to review whether administrators are honoring a college policy to share decision-making with professors.

English professor Suzanne Spoor and Coordinator of Gender and Sexuality Studies Heather Rellihan proposed that The Faculty Organization start an ad hoc committee to study best practices in shared governance among other colleges, and to

determine if AACC administrators are following those practices here.

Rellihan said shared governance is the foundation of academia and it is important for the college to regularly review how it is honoring that principle.

According to Rellihan, shared governance at the college is “uneven.”

“In certain cases, the college is doing a great job … and I think in other cases they’re not doing so well,” she said.

Astronomy professor Debra Levine, who volunteered to be a part of the com-

mittee, said faculty members at a California college where she taught before coming to AACC belonged to a union and did not have a shared governance committee.

“Shared governance is an important thing at any academic institution,” she said.

“It’s something I’d like to learn more about and something the college should learn more about, too.”

According to The Faculty Organization’s charter, “TFO is the governance body through which the faculty participates in the formation and implementation of col-

The college administration reversed its plan to eliminate department chairs next fall, Vice President for Learning Mike Gavin told faculty on Oct. 11.

Instead, the college is keeping the chair positions, he said.

When Gavin had announced the decision to remove chairs at a faculty meeting on Aug. 17, faculty members had mixed reactions.

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lege policy affecting faculty status, welfare and workplace issues.”

The charter outlines requirements for “joint involvement” of faculty and staff and “early consultation” with faculty by administrators. The charter also specifies that “faculty is kept informed of

all relevant issues.”

After Vice President for Learning Mike Gavin announced in August the college would eliminate department chairs in fall 2019, faculty complained that administrators did not consult with

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Entrepreneurs: Shaping Gen Z Editorial Board Campus Current’s editors think students of every major should have to take an entrepreneurship class at AACC during their first year.

The college’s Introduction to Entrepreneurship class teaches students the beginnings of how to run their own businesses. Lots of students on campus could be future business owners without even knowing it.

Those born after 1996 belong to Generation Z, which includes rising innovators.

People ages 21 and younger are gravitating away from college and opting out to create their own businesses, so it would be in AACC’s best interest to take advantage of this creative drive by offering them the necessary education to follow that path.

A Gallup student poll, a 24-question survey that measures the engagement, hope, entrepreneurial aspiration and financial literacy

of students in fifth through 12th grades, showed in 2017 that 40 percent of those students plan to start their own businesses, while 24 percent are already learning how to run one.

With the rise of social media, young entrepreneurs are learning how to turn digital platforms into paid jobs.

20-year-old Luka Sabbat, who stars in ABC’s “Grown-ish,” ditched acting school, sought out an internship to build a fashion brand, and now models for Dolce & Gabbana. He boasts more than 1 million followers on Instagram.

21-year-old Eva Baker created a blog called TeensGotCents, which teaches teens to budget. Instead of choosing to go to a four-year school, she saved money going to a community college.

Baker now runs her own “Teenpreneur” conference to teach other Gen Zers how to plan and start a business too.

With early introduction

Gigi Maresca, owner of Blue Photo Bus photography, is a first-year entrepreneurship student and her son, Nikko Maresca, is a first-year photography student.

Photo by Brooke Carneal to an entrepreneurship class, the possibilities are endless.

Culinary students planning to work at high-end restaurants could end up running the eateries themselves.

On the other hand, undecided students could discover a new passion to teleport them from the whirlwind of wasted prerequisite credits to the land of possibilities, where they can paint a real future for themselves.

Millennial Marketing data shows that Gen Z contributes $143 billion a year in consumer spending and is set to comprise 40 percent of all shoppers by 2020.

To follow the trend, a recent report by the Center for Generational Kinetics showed 21 percent of Gen Zers already have savings accounts.

According to Dean of Student Success Bonnie Garrett, only students enrolled in the Entrepreneurial Studies Institute are required to take entrepreneurship classes at AACC. But any students can take the courses as electives and can meet with an adviser to see if ESI fits into their program of study.

However, entrepreneurship has a place in all programs of study.

To stand true to AACC’s new marketing campaign this fall, which features slogans like “Reboot Yourself” and “Recharge Yourself,” the college should require all students to take an entrepreneurship class to expand their skills and soar outside the box.

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EMT balances classes with saving lives in MD Alexandra Radovic Editor-in-Chief When she’s not in class, an 18-year-old AACC mechanical engineering student is busy saving lives as an emergency medical technician.

First-semester student Lydia Rutledge said her interest in the profession started when her friend encouraged her to come along with her to fire school last summer.

Rutledge said she decided not to follow her friend to training, but instead pursue her lifelong hobby of horseback riding.

But this changed when her friend returned from her training in New Jersey and Rutledge felt guilty for missing out on the shared experience.

So, Rutledge said, she gave up riding to follow in her friend’s footsteps. Although the friend chose to pursue fire school, Rutledge decided to become an EMT.

She finished her training in July.

Rutledge said she planned to go to Loyola University for engineering, but decided on AACC instead.

“The environment [of AACC] is different,” she said. “It has made me appreciate my education more.”

She said balancing school and work is worth the benefits she gains as an EMT. “You need that aspect of life,” she said. “Once you do it, you love it. I even met my boyfriend doing it.”

“The things you see aren’t easy, but I can confidently say that if someone were about to die right now, I could save them.”

Rutledge said one of the most memorable experiences she’s had as an EMT was when she helped rescue a seizing man who overdosed on heroin.

“The paramedic I worked with had to call the hospital, which left me alone with the patient,” Rutledge said. “It was really my first time doing

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Rutledge once bandaged up the foot of a boy, who stepped on a nail, a skill she said she wished she would have known when her brother had the same injury years before.

“It just reminded me of the skills I had acquired and the person I had become because of it,” Rutledge said.

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Faculty asks for shared power Continued from Page 1 faculty before making that decision, according to several professors.

This left 42 department chairs unsure of their future at AACC and faculty members concerned they would have no way to gain administrative experience in the absence of a chair position, they said.

Gavin reversed the decision to eliminate chairs at a faculty meeting on Oct. 11.

Still, professors told Campus Current that recent administrative decisions about classrooms and faculty offices did not involve input from faculty.

“Decisions are being made about faculty [offices and classrooms] that were averse to the best learning environment,” Spoor said.

She pointed to a classroom in Careers that the college converted to a lounge for adjunct instructors with televisions and desks. Spoor said adjuncts “don’t watch TV during work.”

Similarly, she said, administrators planned to

change a computer classroom on the second floor of the Humanities Building to a student lounge without consulting faculty. Spoor said English and communications professors need the classroom because of its location and computers, and that the room is too close to faculty offices to house a lounge.

Faculty members successfully petitioned for it to remain a classroom.

Spoor and other English professors recently objected when administrators removed a faculty member from a small faculty office in Humanities so they could turn it into a conference room.

That professor was assigned to share another office with two other colleagues.

One of them, English professor Simon Ward, said the arrangement makes it difficult to focus on work, find space for his reference books or meet with students.

TFO President Ken Jarvis agreed the arrangement could create an issue with student and faculty privacy.

After President Dawn

Lindsay met with several faculty members and department chairs, Spoor said, administrators agreed to convert the conference room back to an office. She said administrators like Lindsay are just “coming around” to see the issues with shared office spaces.

Dr. Amy Allen-Chabot, chair of the faculty Academic Forum, said she is looking forward to what the TFO ad hoc committee will do for the college.

Some professors told Campus Current that disputes over shared governance, office spaces and job titles are nothing new.

“The issue goes back to [President Thomas] Florestano,” who was president from 1979 to 1994, Dr. David Tengwall, who has taught history at AACC for more than 40 years, said.

“To say [shared governance] has become an issue under this administration, it hasn’t,” he said. “It’s always been like this.”

Tengwall said when he first joined AACC, he knew

every faculty member, but now the college is “much more of a business.”

In an interview with Campus Current, Gavin sometimes referred to AACC as a business.

Despite backlash from professors and department chairs over the lack of faculty input into the short-lived decision to eliminate department chairs, Gavin said making that call was “good leadership.”

He said some people on campus define shared governance incorrectly.

“We need to figure out whose decisions are whose … and when input is absolutely necessary from faculty,” he said.

Gavin said he would like an administrator to sit on the TFO’s ad hoc committee.

“It would be ironic to have a shared governance committee without an administrator on it,” he said.

Rellihan and Spoor said they are unsure if an administrator should be on the committee.

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Professor Suzanne Spoor said she supports AACC’s having department chairs.

Photo by Ashley Sokolowski the recent discussion of shared governance “healthy.”

“It’s going to create a stronger degree of collaboration and … assist people with understanding the role of faculty,” Lindsay said.

Lindsay said she defines shared governance as “people working together through their backgrounds and areas of expertise and come to a common understanding of what is best for the students.”

According to Spoor, once the ad hoc committee forms, members will interview faculty, staff and administration about shared governance.

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New building to uphold eco-friendly elements Alexandra Radovic Editor-in-Chief Construction of the new Health and Life Sciences Building next summer will focus on environmentally friendly building practices.

According to the college’s Director of Facilities Planning and Construction Jim Taylor, the state will require the building to be silver certified under LEED, or the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.

To achieve this, a building must earn between 50 and 59 LEED points out of 100. The project team’s performance rating is based on the amount of energy and water the builders conserve during construction, waste efficiency from transportation and a rating of human experience on the property.

Vice President for Learning Resources Management Melissa Beardmore said she hopes to reach gold status,

which LEED grants to building teams that earn between 60 and 79 points.

According to Beardmore, the vision for the new building includes efficiency, fiscal responsibility and sustainability.

Sustainability features will include dry swales— dams used to filter rainwater—as well as rain gardens, flexible roofing to catch excess rain water and meadows to house outdoor pollinators like honey bees. The new building will also feature outdoor classrooms.

“I think it’s great,” Susan Lamont, an environmental science professor and adviser of the college’s Biology and Environmental Club, said. “The outdoor environment is just as important as the indoor classroom, so having these resources on campus will make it much easier for me to teach students about native species and the ecosystem services

they provide.”

“I love being part of a school that gives back to the planet, and [I] am impressed

by AACC’s efforts to design a cleaner, greener school,” Biology and Environmental Club President Marjorie Rose Butler said.

“Our pollinators are in dire need of more pollinator-friendly areas, especially with the decline of many butterfly and bee species.”

Butler, a second-year horticulture student, added: “One thing I would also like to see in the new building and around campus is more extensive efforts for recycling, such as a recycling bin in every classroom. Hopefully, with the help of both students and faculty, this can be accomplished.”

Taylor said the building is five points away from reaching a gold certification, but the construction team is aiming to earn between eight and 10 more points, as

The Truxal Library is one of two AACC gold status buildings in Leadership in Energy and Enviromental Design, which is a goal for the Health and Life Sciences Building.

Photo by Daniel Salomon LEED may reject some after analyzing the design.

Taylor said that achieving gold is more difficult than it was when the Library and Ludlum buildings earned it in 2013 and 2014, under an earlier version of LEED. Under the new version, Taylor said, earning gold is “much more difficult,” because the state now requires some efficiency features that were once worth LEED points.

“What was once gold is now silver,” he said.

Taylor said the main focuses of the new building are lighting, storm water man-

agement, water conservation and energy efficiency.

As it strives for gold, the college’s construction team will focus on habitat protection, using materials and colors that reflect heat, and installing low-flow toilets and faucets and quieter, more efficient HVAC equipment.

According to Taylor, the team plans to reuse bricks, concrete and metal from the demolition of the pool and old Schwartz Building in the new building, as a way to earn points.

“We want to get better than what [gold] requires,” Taylor said.

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College to present 1st video on opioid abuse Alexandra Radovic Editor-in-Chief The college this semester will premiere a video about drug addictions, which may become required viewing for new students.

The video, titled, “Opioids: Hope, Help & Understanding,” will premiere in Room 101 of the Florestano Building on Nov. 15 at 1:30 p.m.

Registered Nurse Beth Mays, the college’s manager of health services, produced the film, which features recovering drug addicts at AACC sharing personal stories.

Students can access the video, which covers the signs of addiction and the resources available for addicts, on Canvas after the premiere.

Mays said she hopes the college will eventually require new students to watch the video and answer a short quiz to show understanding.

“Once it launches, we will engage in a strong marketing campaign, to include students, faculty and staff, to encourage incoming students to view the video,” Dean of Student Engagement Tiffany Boykin said.

Mays said the main reason the college should require students to watch the video is to raise awareness about addiction and how students can find help at AACC. “We all know someone or loved someone or are someone who is experiencing, firsthand, the devastation [of drug addiction],” Mays said.

“We want to make the education positive.”

Mays said the intention of the video, which she has been working on for a year, is to inform the student body and to let addicts know it is possible for them to get better.

Coordinator of Substance Abuse Education Loretta Lawson-Munsey said the idea for this video came from the

Maryland Start Talking Act of 2017, which required schools to make sure students are aware of the opioid epidemic and resources on campus and in the community.

Lawson-Munsey said she hopes the video makes people go through a self-screening process to think about whether they or someone they know could have a drug problem.

“I think it’s great,” Lawson-Munsey said. “I think it’s better than anything we’ve seen put on by others.”

The video features Ron Easley, a second-year addictions counseling student.

Easley said he lived on the streets for 25 years before seeking rehabilitation at the Damascus House in Maryland and eventually coming to AACC. Easley said he was getting high every day on a variety of drugs.

“I would take [drugs] if it would alter my mood,” said

The promotional banner for a new drug abuse awareness video features recovering addicts at AACC. Photo courtesy of Beth Mays Easley of his past. “Whichever drug I chose to use, the consequence was the same.”

“As I started getting into my recovery, I had to figure out what I wanted to do with the rest of my life,” Easley said. “I went from homeless to happy.”

Easley has made the dean’s list since coming to AACC, is finishing his certification in peer recovery support and was recently accepted into the Association of Recovery in Higher Education Leadership Program.

“This has become my savior,” Easley said. “This is what I found that is greater than me to put my time and effort

into in the hopes that I’ll become a better person. … Before AACC, my existence was bleak.”

Easley said requiring new students to watch the video is an “awesome” idea.

Lawson-Munsey said students will connect more with the video than with lectures from adults, because it features real-life stories from students.

“As enthusiastic and compassionate and passionate as I am about recovery, I’m not in recovery,” Lawson-Munsey said. “I can only give a student so much, which is why we need them to watch the video.”

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College prof to design new abstract art class Coleman Guthrie Reporter An AACC art professor conducted research during her spring 2018 sabbatical to create a new abstract art class for students next fall.

Lindsay McCulloch, a full-time art professor at the college since 2010, said she came up with the idea for the class while on a semester-long sabbatical. AACC allows some faculty members to take a one-semester break from teaching—called a sabbatical—to do research, finish graduate school, travel or do other work that will lead to improved teaching.

“I’ve come back from this semester thinking about things in a new way; just a new perspective about art-making and teaching,” McCulloch said. “All of that goes back into the class.” “[Sabbaticals] let the teacher have more knowledge and allow students to

learn new things,” thirdyear paralegal student Perla Cordero-Toledo said.

During her time off, McCulloch created a nine-piece collection of oil paintings that she said reflects her personal thoughts and memories in an abstract way.

McCulloch said she enjoyed experimenting with abstraction so much that she wanted to offer the techniques to interested students in a new credit class.

In the class, which McCulloch said she hopes to teach in fall 2019, students will learn about the style of other abstract artists, the concepts and theories behind their work, and how to develop a personalized painting style.

First-year art student Woody Townshend said he would take McCulloch’s class, because “[it] stretches the mind.” “[Abstract art] is something I could sink my teeth

into … something to get my brain juices flowing.” “[We are] looking at history of abstraction, particularly as it relates to painting, then looking at all these sort of offshoots of abstractions ... performative type painting,” McCulloch said. “We will look at the different [media] forms and will do projects based on it.”

In addition to creating a new class during her sabbatical, McCulloch published her own art catalogue, titled “Without Boundaries,” which includes close-up views and details about each of the paintings in her collection.

Students can see one of the paintings, “Lessons in Risk and Reward,” in the Cade art gallery on West Campus.

McCulloch said the shape of a crashed Wright brothers’ airplane inspired the border of this piece, which she said is about solving problems through failure.

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Art professor Lindsay McCulloch used her sabbatical last semester to design a new abstract art class for the college and create nine original paintings.

Photo by Nikko Maresca The American Poetry Museum will feature some of her work from sabbatical starting Nov. 4, as will the Linda Matney Gallery in Virginia in early December.

“If people are interested in learning more about

painting or abstraction, the abstract painting class is going to be phenomenal,” McCulloch said. It will be “a fun way to study painting conceptually and apply lots of different processes to get your own creative vision.”

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AACC students said in October what students do in high school and college should not follow them for the rest of their lives, unless the offense is sexual assault.

In an informal poll of 45 students on the Arnold campus two weeks after the U.S. Senate confirmed Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice, 25 said college students make immature mistakes that should not affect their chances for success when they are older.

Eighteen men and seven women in the poll said what they do at this age should not have any major impact on their future. But 14 women and four men disagreed, saying students are old enough to understand the difference between right and wrong.

“As a current 18-yearold, [I] am fully aware of my actions and repercussions for

flourish as a person.”

Second-year visual arts student Jackson Truth Williams, agreed.

If “they did this way back when, and it doesn’t reflect on them now, it should,” he said. “In Kavanaugh’s case, he was definitely a jerk when he was younger and it is a tricky issue.

“You shouldn’t just ignore it.”

Some women took offense with the confirmation.

“It justifies men that sexual assault [won’t] follow him,” first-year computer science student Chanel Grant said. “The results of Kavanaugh … deeply affect me as a female.”

First-year theater student Kyle Roderick said college students are old enough to know that what they do now will affect them later.

“It’s your life, so if you slack off in high school you’re not going to succeed in the future,” he said.

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them,” said first-year transfer studies student Shawn Pollard. “That being said, if I were to do something unspeakable, I deserve to be punished for it.”

“Anyone who cannot agree with that is plainly irresponsible.”

The Senate confirmed Kavanaugh on Oct. 6 despite accusations of sexual assault and misconduct from several women. The most serious came from Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who said he attempted to rape her while they were both in high school.

“If someone were to be proud of something they accomplished at 17 or 18, then yes, have that achievement follow them and accept it as a part of who they are,” said Jump Start student Elizabeth Riley. “If one were to be a typical teenager and make mistakes, the actions should be followed throughout life, not to be ashamed of but only to learn from and help

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More men than women say what they do now should not count against them later in life.

Graphic by Daniel Nickerson Other students, like Gloria David, a second-year elementary education student, disagreed.

“I don’t think something you did far off in the past … should be held against you,” David said. “As humans we are evolving beings. We are constantly changing, constantly moving. We do dumb stuff in the past and then we mold and get better in the future.”

Second-year nursing student Marcy Augustin called college “your learning years and you’re supposed to make your mistakes.

“I’m not saying go rape a girl but it just depends on what it is,” Augustin said.

“If it’s just a little thing it

shouldn’t follow you.”

Similarly, third-year human services student Trevar McGritt said, “People grow from their mistakes so basically [it’s] a bump in the road, so they shouldn’t be affected by their past.”

Not all students decided for certain where they stand on this issue.

“I feel like it depends on what it is that you did,” Marrissa Parker, a second-year psychology student, said. “In the Kavanaugh case, I feel like sometimes if it really … damages them then I feel like they should forgive the person but I don’t think it should be forgotten. I don’t necessarily think he shouldn’t suffer any consequences.”

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AACC psych professor tries new seating style Alexandra Radovic Editor-in-Chief When an AACC psychology professor rearranged her classroom so students could sit facing each other, they became more engaged and she became a better teacher, she said.

“I wanted to change from the person that stands up in front of the class and gives knowledge to students to more of a facilitator of learning that moves around among the students to guide them through their own learning,” professor Julie Grignon said of her decision to arrange her class into table groups.

Grignon, an adjunct here for 13 years who is in her second year as a fulltime professor, said her students used to sit in “isolating” rows until last fall when she decided to move them into table groups, where they face each other instead

of the front of the room.

According to Grignon, once she moved the tables to accomodate the new collaborative work style of her class her lesson planning strategies changed.

Her plan answers the question: “How could I build a lesson that really involves [students] engaging with each other as opposed to just everyone looking at me standing in front of the room?” Grignon said.

After the change, she said, “I was engaging more and I was getting to know students on a more personal level.”

She added that when she rearranged her classroom for the first time, “I was planning my lessons not around a PowerPoint presentation, but what I could do with them in their groups and what they could do with each other. They were working in the class instead of just taking notes and listening.”

Grignon said she continues to set up her classes this way because it creates an active learning environment for students rather than a passive one.

She said that although there is no concrete proof that her students’ grades improved, their energy and class participation did.

“My students are no longer sitting quietly waiting for me,” she said. They are talking already; they are comparing homework before I even start the lesson.”

Grignon said her students build relationships that last outside the classroom.

“To me that’s really important,” Grignon said.

Although she said she doesn’t have formal data to compare student success before and after the students started working in groups, Grignon said her next plan is to collect specific data and find out if her desk arrangement could directly contrib-

Psychology professor Julie Grignon has rearranged her class into groups to help engage students.

Photo by Alexandra Radovic ute to student satisfaction, which she said leads to retention.

Jump Start student Katie Macindae, who takes one of Grignon’s psychology classes, said she prefers this style of seating to traditional rows.

“I make friends and it’s easier to work together,” she said.

“If you have a question, you don’t have to ask the teacher; you can just ask a friend [who sits at your table],” first-year nursing student Kimmy Agachinsky, a student in Grignon’s psychology class, said.

Grignon’s colleagues have taken an interest in her experiment as well.

“I’m looking forward to hearing more from professor Grignon about her experiences, especially once she starts collecting more data,” psychology professor Rachelle Tannenbaum said.

“I know that there are other professors at the college who emphasize group work, and there may be some who turn the desks around, but I don’t know of any personally [who set up their room like Grignon].”

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Bus riders say too little stops Daniel Nickerson Web Designer Students riding the MTA LocalLink 70 and Gold Route buses to AACC this semester have complained about poor timing and cramped conditions.

“Sometimes they’re late, but not all the time,” Nikkie Stevens, a fourth-year transfer studies student, said. “It’s just annoying.”

Stevens started taking the bus home from school this semester because she doesn’t have a car and no one is available to drive her.

Some students told Campus Current they had to drop classes, pay for rideshares like Lyft or Uber, or drop out of AACC because they couldn’t get to school.

Mary Noe, a first-year health information technology student, said she was left behind one day at a connecting bus stop when the bus left a few minutes early. Noe

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Daniel Salomon Multimedia Producer AACC offers classes for students who need help with their reading and writing skills.

The Department of Reading offers developmental courses that teach students how to read and write analytically, create a thesis and organize essays.

According to assistant professor Antione Tomlin, the intention of the reading

was getting off of a connecting bus when the one she was transferring to made a turn and left.

Otha Hamlett, a thirdyear American studies student, said he has to stand on the bus in the mornings because “the buses are overcrowded. They’re always late, always. They’re never on time.”

Students who have needed rides during an emergency told Campus Current the buses were not always available to them.

James Haggerty, a student in 2016 and 2017, said he had to pay for Uber to get to class every day. “Some people live in places where you can go to a bus stop, but sometimes, when you live in the neighborhoods, it’s not that simple,” Haggerty said.

When Haggerty got sick in 2017 and could no longer drive himself to school, he dropped all of his classes.

“I take Uber almost every

AACC students who take the bus to and from the college take MTA LocalLink 70, by way of Link 69. They may also take the Annapolis Transit Gold bus route.

Photo by Daniel Nickerson day, because the buses don’t come to my neighborhood and it’s pretty expensive,” third-year education student Alexandra Radovic said. Student bus passes are available at the campus bookstore for $52. The passes are for a single month and available to any student taking at least six credits.

Students may pay for the bus passes at the college with financial aid if it is needbased financial aid, such as

Professor Forrest Caskey teaches first-year interior design student Jalaya Stevens (left), and first-year physical therapy student Mariah Melendez.

Photo by Daniel Salomon program is to prepare students for college courses.

“We want to see them go above and beyond,” Tomlin said. “We want to see them be successful in their next level of college English.”

One of the program’s three courses is Reading 040: Academic Literacies

Reading 040, a developmental AACC class, teaches students how to improve reading and writing, and enhances their essay organization skills.

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and, according to assistant professor Forrest Caskey, discussion topics focus mainly on the concepts of family, education, technology, race, culture, and gender and sexuality.

“I think certain people who aren’t good at essays should be recommended for this class,” Mariah Melendez, a first-year physical therapy student who takes Reading 040, said.

Another course, Reading 026: Reading Your World, is “for our students whose placement indicates that they are the lowest skilled,” Kerry Taylor, chair of the Reading Department, said.

“Even if you’re good at writing essays you could always use the extra help because you can always get better,” Jalaya Stevens, a first-year interior design student taking Reading 040, said.

the federal Pell Grant.

Students can find printed bus schedules in pamphlet stands around campus. Additionally, the Maryland Transit Administration website also has the schedule online.

The Maryland Transit Administration has also put out an app that has the schedule. It updates arrival times as the buses are operating. For more information, students can go to the app store and download “Tran-

sit” on Apple or Android.

AACC students who ride buses to campus take bus route LocalLink 70, often by way of Link 69, or they take the Annapolis Transit Gold route.

According to Director of Facilites Planning and Construction Jim Taylor, bus transportation isn’t extensive because AACC is a suburban area and not as many people depend on buses as they do in cities.

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Wise said he joined to “follow in his father’s footsteps.” Wise’s father worked on the facilities staff for several decades.

Wise cleans and restocks the Johnson, Math, Humanities and Dragun buildings.

“I like working here on campus, keeping the buildings clean and helping the students,” Wise said.

“I think the campus is always clean, especially the bigger buildings on campus,” said first-year student Elise Krauss.

Gregory said his staff is preparing for the winter months by planning how much salt the campus will need in case of snow.

Full-time team sustains AACC It takes a staff of 52 fulltime workers to maintain the AACC Arnold campus.

Larry Gregory leads the team responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of the buildings and grounds.

In addition, Gregory manages a contracted custodial staff of 35 individuals.

In a poll of 10 students, all said the campus is clean.

“I always see the maintenance staff working so hard,” second-year student Diana Lynch said.

Mike Wise has worked on the custodial staff for more than 32 years.

The campus maintenance crew helps control the heating and cooling of the water at the college.

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Entrepreneur students can earn certification Ashley Sokolowski Associate Editor AACC students interested in starting businesses can earn a degree or certificate from the Entrepreneurial Studies Institute on campus.

The certificate and degree programs consist of six required core classes. “All of our classes in the certificate program are part of the degree program,” Carlene Cassidy, the chair of the Entrepreneurial Studies Institute, said.

These classes include Introduction to Entrepreneur-

ship (ESI 103); Entrepreneurship: Sales and Marketing for Small Businesses (ESI 104); Small Business Management (ESI 120); Small Business Accounting (ESI 217); Legal Issues for Business (ESI 250); and Entrepreneurship: New Venture Planning (ESI 270).

“I enjoy the classes I have had with this program,” Nathanial Disney, a second-year ESI certificate student, said. “I think there is a lot of neat resources you can really find by being involved in this program and a lot of neat networking opportunities to further yourself once

E-Club inspires business ideas Alexis Cochran Reporter The Entrepreneurship Club, or E-Club, is a student-run organization on campus for people who own or hope to start their own businesses.

The club meets on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month in The Hatchery, in Careers 326.

“It’s a supportive network for students who are interested in starting their own businesses, but also a place for students of all backgrounds and majors to socialize,” Stephanie Goldenberg, the club’s adviser, said.

“We hold different categories of meetings. … Sometimes it’s a social meeting with food and talking.”

“We also have something a little more structured, like workshops. So it is kind of a mixture of social and business.”

The E-Club has resources for students looking to start businesses or grow the ones they already run.

“You have access to mentors, coaches, guest speakers; we have all the resources in terms of textbooks, subscriptions, field trips,” said Nick Kiraly, whose business Annapolis Ascent uses drones to take pictures of properties for real estate agents.

Club workshops help students manage their businesses, or explore the idea of becoming entrepreneurs.

Nathanial Disney, a student who works with Kiraly, hasn’t been to E-Club yet,

you go past college.”

According to Cassidy, besides the six core classes students must take, the degree program includes program electives in addition to general education requirements.

Other classes that students can take are Business and Its Environment (ESI 111); eMarketing (ESI 127); Business Communications (ESI 162); Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship; and Nonprofit Management (ESI 231) and Internship in Business 1 (ESI 275). “eMarketing with Stephanie Goldenberg, I think, was

Entrepreneurship

Students who want to start businesses can earn degrees at AACC by taking entrepreneurial classes.

Photo by Ashley Sokolowski my favorite class because it’s so real world today,” Nicholas Kiraly, a second-year ESI certificate and business management student, said.

“It’s not dated. It almost felt like it had been created for people of this generation for marketing tactics in social media, in where we are now.”

Cassidy said she has seen a growing interest among students in Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship and Nonprofit Management “because we do have people who

want to do … something that is more of a social cause as opposed to just a for-profit type of a venture.”

Social entrepreneurship is the use of business ideas and principles to help others and produce social change.

An example of a social-minded company is Toms Shoes, a for-profit company in California that based its work on the slogan “One for One,” meaning for every product the company sells, it donates one to help a person in need.

The E-Club on campus helps students learn how to run their own businesses.

Photo by Brandon Hamilton but said he plans to go to a meeting soon.

“The premise of the club looks interesting because [bringing] lots of entrepreneurs and people who are growing their businesses in one room is a good thing to have,” Disney said.

Ethan Romesburg, a student who owns a graphic design business called Aureus Armory, said he plans to join the club.

“It’s a great opportunity,” Romesburg said. “First for learning and expanding

knowledge, and creating business ties, but it’s also just a fun experience because I know [they] do a lot of trips and it’s inspiring because I heard [they] get to [hear successful] entrepreneurs talk.” “[E-Club] is a great opportunity to develop your professional self in multiple disciplines,” said student Daniel Levy, who owns New Fin, a company that helps teenagers with the mental and spiritual aspects of recovering from brain surgery by giving them merchan-

dise to entertain themselves during recovery.

Goldenberg said students join E-Club mainly for the support it offers.

“There’s such expertise in the room and advice from students and faculty in the room [like] the peer-to-peer learning,” Goldenberg said.

The E-Club lists its events, including an upcoming lecture from Annapolis Gov. Gavin Buckley on Nov. 27 at 2 p.m. in Humanities Room 112, on The Nest at www.nest.aacc.edu.

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Students can develop self-made businesses Ashley Sokolowski Associate Editor Entrepreneurial-minded AACC students can hatch their small businesses right here on campus.

The Hatchery, an incubator, or space, for new small businesses to start and grow, is on the third floor of Careers. There, student entrepreneurs can use wireless printers, a 3D printer, a vinyl cutter, a button maker, a sewing machine and a tool called a CNC router for cutting materials like steel, wood and aluminum.

During any given week, about 40 to 50 business students are in The Hatchery printing advertising pamphlets, meeting with potential investors or using the 3D printer to produce prototypes of the new products they hope to manufacture someday.

Up to eight of them run their businesses from The

Hatchery while they fine- at Hagerstown Communitune them and take business ty College. She said nobody classes. tracks the number of comOpened in fall 2005, The munity colleges with incuHatchery has helped stu- bators nationwide. dents move their ideas from But Trish Truitt, memconcept to sale for products bership coordinator for the ranging from real estate pho- National Association for tography to custom-designed Community College Entreaquariums. preneurship, said she sus“The Hatchery is a small pects fewer community colbusiness releges have “It is a place for source cenincubators ter,” profes- people who have an now than interest in starting four years sor Carlene Cassidy, the their own business or ago. Truitt chair of the [if] they already have said when o n - c a m p u s a business, they can the econoEntrepremy is good, work in there.” neurial Studfewer peoies Institute, —Professor Carlene Cassidy ple enroll in said. “It is a place for people community colleges to learn who have an interest in start- how to start businesses. ing their own business or [if] University of Maryland they already have a business, partnered with the Maryland they can work in there.”

Department of Commerce to At least three communi- create the Maryland Internaty colleges in Maryland have tional Incubator, or MI2, in incubators, according to College Park.

Janice Riley, the Technical Shanice Ruffin, a busiInnovation Center manager ness accounting certificate

EMT from AACC employs alums Alexandra Radovic Editor-in-Chief A former AACC student hires emergency medical technicians trained on this campus to help run his selfmade patient transportation company.

Three years ago, EMT and AACC alum Tom Sfakiyanudis used the training he got at the college to start his own ambulance transportation business, dubbed Anchor Transport.

He hires AACC-trained EMTs to transport patients, via Anchor Transport ambulances, to doctor’s appointments, therapy and rehab, and then back to their homes.

Sfakiyanudis said five of his EMTs graduated from the college.

“While working in a hospital [as a patient attendant], I began to see that there was a need for patient transport,” Sfakiyanudis said. “When we would need a patient transferred, often times the wait [for an ambulance] could be three to four hours.”

“I thought I could do better,” he said.

According to Sfakiyanudis, his business allows him to work with “truly amazing” patients who have “become like family.”

But he said it wasn’t easy starting a business.

After going through a long state licensing process, he said, “There [were] so many challenges when starting a new business. One of my biggest was finding employees.”

He said it was difficult to find EMTs who could work without losing compassion.

“Many of the doctor’s appointments or surgeries that we transport our patients to are very early in the morning, so the day typically starts when the sun is coming up,” Sfakiyanudis said. He said the EMTs work all day taking patients back and forth as needed. “It’s very fast-paced.

We have taken patients as far as Connecticut.”

Sfakiyanudis said when he started the company three years ago several people wanted to invest in the business and expand it immediately.

“But that’s not for me.

Students can start their own businesses on campus through The Hatchery, a space for their entrepreneurial ideas to start and grow.

Photo by Nikko Maresca student, won $8,000 in spring 2018 in AACC’s Business Pitch Competition—a “Shark Tank”-style contest to convince judges to invest in a business. Ruffin, the business manager for Elated Harmonies Massage, a mobile massage therapy service, uses The Hatchery for printing.

“We do a lot of marketing at our studio downtown and we need flyers or something to put in the studio,” said Ruffin, a recipient of the Ratcliffe Scholarship for busi-

ness students. “I was able to do some of that quality printing here.”

Levy is the CEO of New Fin, a company he started to “help teenagers with the mental and spiritual aspects of recovering from brain surgery,” Levy said.

The Hatchery “has provided me with really great collaborating opportunities,” Levy said. “Students and other entrepreneurs have been able to assist me with marketing.”

Former AACC student Tom Sfakiyanudis runs his own ambulance transportation business, called Anchor Transport, and employs EMTs trained at the college.

Photo courtesy of Tom Sfakiyanudis My advice would really be to dig in,” Sfakiyanudis said.

“Know your business inside and out. When you start your own business, there is no punch-out time.”

“Every entrepreneur is different,” he said. “I enjoy a slow build … working hard to be the best I can be in my specific area of expertise.”

Sfakiyanudis credited his former EMT professor, Sue Colborn, with letting him recruit his trasport em-

ployees from her class.

“I do recommend anyone looking to go into the emergency services field to definitely take her class,” said Monique White, one of Sfakiyanudis’s EMTs, who earned her National Registered Emergency Medical Technician certificate from AACC in 2016.

“Everyone wants to see you grow and wants to train you to not only be the best EMT, but the best version of

you,” Jenn Trinor, a thirdyear anchor transport EMT and AACC graduate, said.

We are rapidly growing and that is because of our professionalism and our individual personalities that all bring a sense of comfort and joy to our patients.”

“Surround yourself with good employees who believe in the business, and look to good mentors who have been through it on some level before,” Sfakiyanudis said.

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Student shares business ideas Alexandra Radovic Editor-in-Chief An AACC student who owns a million-dollar company said students who wish to start their own businesses should organize their time, try new things and follow their interests.

Last year’s winner of the college’s Big Idea Business Pitch Competition, fifthyear business student Dalton Leonard, won $10,000 to start up his business, “Fantasea Aquariums,” which designs, installs and maintains aquariums for office buildings, doctor’s offices and residential properties.

The college awarded him $12,000 in scholarships, along with a mentorship and on-campus work space to jump start his company.

Although he insured his business for $1.5 million, Leonard said developing it wasn’t all easy.

Leonard said he strug-

gled to organize his time and learned to rely on Google Calendars, a free time-management and scheduling service that he advises entrepreneurship students to use.

“I knew where I was going to be minute by minute,” he said of the early days of his business.

He said the extra work of organizing a daily online itinerary is worth the payoff.

Leonard has hired staff to help run his company so he can focus on growing it.

“We travel across the country investigating the industry’s latest technologies and going to aquarium conferences,” he said.

“I want to take my experience with entrepreneurship and growing up with my mom and dad as small business owners, as well as my education at AACC, and create one of the biggest companies the D.C. area has to offer.”

Leonard said students who want to start their own

Adjunct offers start-up tricks A fifth-year business student owns Fantasea Aquariums.

Photo courtesy of Dalton Leonard businesses can develop his same level of passion by trying out as many ideas as possible and surrounding themselves with people who share their interests.

“If you go out and you do enough in life, and you try enough things, [your passion] will find you,” Leonard said. “You’ve got to put that effort in. … You’re not going to find it sitting on your couch.”

Leonard said he wants future student business owners to know they will only get out of a business what they put into it.

“Don’t do it for the money,” Leonard said. “Do it for the love, because love will outweigh the money every day.”

Alexandra Radovic Editor-in-Chief An AACC entrepreneurship instructor said any student interested in starting a business should prepare to work hard, seek mentoring and get involved on campus.

Adjunct instructor Candice Pruett, who teaches Introduction to Entrepreneurship, suggested that would-be business owners meet regularly with a faculty adviser. “It keeps you accountable,” said Pruett, who helps students start up their companies.

“You’re going to fail 10 times before you succeed, but you have to keep pushing,” added Pruett, a small business consultant for Anne Arundel County.

Pruett also advised students to improve their communication skills.

“You have to know how to talk to people and know who your target customer is

and what their needs are, because it’s always changing,” Pruett said.

To keep organized, Pruett said she recommends students verify their businesses on Google, so they can create a free website where people can leave their reviews and comments.

If students need a place to start their businesses, Pruett said to get involved in The Hatchery in Careers 326.

This is an incubator or space where student entrepreneurs can test their ideas.

Pruett also recommended joining the E-Club for student entrepreneurs. The club teaches students the skills and resources they need to kick-start their businesses.

The club sponsors an annual Best of Business Big Idea Virtual Pitch Competition, which Pruett also said she recommends as a good first step for any student who needs some help putting a business idea into motion.

New York City

Bus Trip December 19th Hosted by the Entrepreneurs’ Club AACC Students, Faculty and Staff - $30 Guests - $40 Buy tickets in the Office of Student Engagement, Student Union, Room 225 Minors need to be accompanied by a parent or guardian

Depart at 6:00 a.m. Return at 11:00 p.m

There is no planned agenda Shop, go to a museum, ice skate, see a show or visit other places in NY City

For more information, email slgoldenberg@aacc.edu

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LGBTQ+ students have school support system Daniel Salomon Multimedia Producer Students who identify as LGBTQ+ can find support through specially trained administrators, faculty and staff who are part of a campus-wide Rainbow Network.

The creators of the 5-year-old AACC Rainbow Network, or ARN, set it up so faculty and staff could understand that the campus community is diverse, “so that the students would know there were welcoming people in the college … if they just wanted to talk [or] if they needed resources,” Lynne Edwards Tucker, coordinator of the AACC Rainbow Network, said.

Edwards said some LGBTQ+ students have come to her to discuss the issue of coming out to their parents.

“We actually had a student who left home as Ralph and in their car changed into Susan. [Her] parents did not

know. At school we knew and know her as Susan, so her big issue was, ‘How and when do I come out?’ [Coming out at home] could have been really devastating for her, so she just chose to stay in the closet.”

Second-year psychology student Garrett Hutchinson, who said his parents know he is gay, said he has gone to professors in the Rainbow Network on multiple occasions.

“People look at me and they automatically know I’m some level of queer or gay,” said Hutchinson, president of the student club Gay-Straight Alliance. “So, it’s not coming out that’s hard for me; it’s still going through life with very little knowledge on how I’m supposed to do this or react to this. It’s very hard to describe, but there are subtle things that you never really thought of when you came out that would be different.

The Rainbow Network is trained to help people in the [LGBTQ+] community to help them go through it, to help them understand.”

Edwards added that one of the biggest issues LGBTQ+ students talk to her about is homelessness. “I’ve had a student who, when they did come out, immediately was kicked out [of her parents’ home]. So, as a group, we got together and helped her as best we could.”

“Regardless of how long somebody has been out in the LGBTQ+ community, there’s always struggles,” Hutchinson said. “It’s very different and as you continue to grow older you experience all these different struggles that you didn’t expect to ever experience before, so it’s really cool that the Rainbow Network is there as a fallback.”

Faculty and staff must take two training sessions, called ARN 1 and ARN 2, to become part of the Rainbow

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Garrett Hutchinson, a second-year psychology student and president of the Gay-Straight Alliance, has discussed LGBTQ+ issues with Rainbow Network member Rachelle Tannenbaum, a professor in the psychology department.

Photo by Daniel Salomon Network, according to English professor Robert Hurd, an ARN 1 instructor.

“Essentially, it’s a threehour session where we talk about the purpose of having such a network, why people want to join it and so forth,” Hurd said.

According to Hurd, those in the training discuss

LGBTQ+ terminology, the campus climate surrounding people who identify as LGBTQ+ and straight privilege.

Students can find a list of the 101 faculty and staff members who are part of the Rainbow Network on the AACC website at www.aacc. edu.

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Don’t let family stress you out on turkey day Alexandra Radovic Editor-in-Chief

unique personality.

One way to simmer the chaos is to selectively socialAACC students who still ize, not giving a particularly live with their parents are probing relative too much no strangers to family dra- attention. Choose to spend ma. But even those who live most of your time with the on their own should prepare relative you get along with this month for some ups and best and escape the hectic downs over the Thanksgiving environment together by weekend. going on a refreshing walk We all love our families, outside. but having everyone all toPart of being a memgether at once ber of a closecan feel just knit family is ’s Alexandra as stressful enduring the as a big exam endless prying with too many and constant questions that nagging. If the you don’t feel criticism and like answercommentary ing. are coming at you too fast But don’t worry. Just like with test-tak- and from all directions, try ing, you can use a few tips laughing off the passive-agand tricks to ace family func- gressive comments and tions. back-handed compliments All the while, your family to keep the mood light, inexpects you to put on a good stead of getting offended face for the endless num- and arguing. ber of visitors, each with a When someone asks a

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question that you feel uncomfortable answering, use it as an opportunity to change the subject. Tell a story about a funny professor you have, or share something interesting you learned in class.

It may feel forced and uncomfortable to jump into lengthy conversations with family you haven’t seen in years, or with relatives who are much younger or older than you. Try connecting with them in small, less-intense ways. These could include sledding, playing board games, doing crafts or baking cookies.

You may think you’ll have no time for frivolous holiday activities when the homework assignments and exam reviews are piling up and creating a sense of stress in your day-to-day life.

Even so, ditching the festivities and taking to your cluttered bedroom with your laptop and a plate full of mashed potatoes won’t go

Campus Current Editor-in-Chief Alexandra Radovic recommends getting ahead on class assignments before the holidays.

Photo by Daniel Salomon over well with the hordes of family members who traveled miles and miles to be part of your life for the weekend.

Instead, get ahead of the game. The week before Thanksgiving, check your syllabus on Canvas so you know the assignments that are due after break. This way, you can get most of the work done beforehand, and take the weekend to relax.

Look at your work before

you start it, so you can ask your professor any questions you may have, since they may not respond over break.

Above all, don’t forget how lucky you are to have family. Holidays bring a heaping portion of craziness, but also a lot of love.

Take time to let your family know how thankful you are to have them in your life, even if you have to do it with a mouth full of stuffing and a large glass of wine.

Did you know?

Hawk’s Nest has a donation box Students who make a purchase at The Hawk’s Nest can donate their change to AACC’s “HelpLink,” which goes toward scholarships and expenses like child care, transportation and textbooks for qualifying students.

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‘Hairspray’ to open with seasoned acting group Daniel Nickerson Web Designer The cast of AACC’s production of “Hairspray”— which opens on Nov. 9 in the Kauffman Theater—is a collection of seasoned actors and those who are relatively new to the acting game.

“I’ve done theater ever since I was like, 9 years old,” Johnny Dunkerly, a second-year transfer studies student, said.

Dunkerly, who plays Link Larkin, the love interest of heroine Tracy Turnblad, acted in elementary and middle

school, at his church and in community theater before winning the role in “Hairspray,” his first show at AACC. “It was nerve-racking,” Dunkerly said about trying out for the first time at AACC, but admitted he already “feels a lot better. Everyone’s nice and open and excited to hear [my] ideas.”

Annie Gorenflo, who plays Tracy Turnblad, also started acting as a child.

“I took a drama class when I was 5, and I just fell in love with it,” said Gorenflo, a third-year theater arts student. She said “Hairspray” is

Winning artist comes to AACC Mike Pierorazio Reporter An internationally renowned photographer told AACC students in October he uses his art to show that America’s race problems are aging—but still alive.

In a speech about his photos and artistic process in the Cade Building, Ken Gonzales-Day told a packed lecture hall that his photographs capture uncomfortable moments in American history, often centered around race.

Gonzalez-Day shared the ideas from his series “Erased Lynching,” “Hang Trees,” “Profiled” and “Surface Tension: Mapping Murals in Los

Angeles,” and read from his 2006 book, “Lynching in the West: 1850–1935.”

Gonzales-Day said his work focuses on the concept of lynching, or killing done by a mob, usually by hanging, because he discovered it was widely practiced in California, where he is from.

For the “Hang Trees” series, Gonzalez-Day photographed modern trees near lynching sites that might have been used as 19th century gallows, to connect past lynchings to present-day problems.

“I like the fact that it’s not just a cool idea, it can be something like eye-opening and life-altering,” Amanda Garrett, a 10th-year film stu-

her favorite play yet, despite acting since seventh grade.

“I enjoy all aspects of theater,” Gorenflo said. “I’ve been raising myself in it.”

Jonas Pallaro-Sonneborn, a fourth-year creative writing student, will play Edna Turnblad, Tracy’s mother.

“I get to wear a drag costume,” said Pallaro-Sonneborn, who played the same role in his high school’s production of the show. He defined this opportunity as coming “full circle.”

Pallaro-Sonneborn said he stopped acting for his first

The AACC School of Business and Law is hosting a conference this month to teach students about diversity, technology, global marketing, emergency preparedness and economics.

Students can attend the Contemporary Issues in Business and Law conference for $55 on Nov. 16.

Local industry leaders will teach students how to

build an inclusive workplace, protect themselves from internet hackers, intern internationally, create an emergency preparedness plan and understand economics.

Students also will hear from speaker Julie Mussog, president and CEO of Anne Arundel Economic Development Corp.

Karen Cook, the dean of the School of Business and Law, said her vision for the conference is to create an educational experience for

Alum Izzy Amor, first-year theater student Allison Vallario, third-year culinary student Annie Gorenflo and second-year transfer studies student Johnny Dunkerly (left to right) will be in “Hairspray” this fall.

Photo by Nikko Maresca two years of college, and then performed in the production “Neverwhere,” a fantasy story that takes place in London.

Pallaro-Sonneborn went beyond acting to assistant direct the AACC double feature of “The Actor’s Nightmare” and “Other Stage Dreams” in

April, which details the struggles actors face while auditioning.

He also wrote and directed a play titled “Dragon Hunting Support Group,” which AACC actors performed at last year’s Capital Fringe Festival.

Internationally renowned photographer Ken Gonzales-Day speaks to a packed lecture hall in Cade about the racial issues his photos capture.

Photo by Mike Pierorazio dent, said of Gonzalez-Day’s work.

“It shows how you can explore history and reality in ways that go beyond what you can pin down factually,” Sarah Ristaino, a second-year film student, said after the speech.

“This understanding that we can’t know everything about history allows us to refocus on storytelling without the worry of being scientifi-

Business and law dept. puts on 1st conference Arianna Beers Reporter

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local, industrial and legal leaders to come together and learn more about contemporary business-related issues.

Cook said she hopes to make the conference a reoccurring event at AACC because it will offer new perspectives on business and law each year.

“Things change and grow,” Cook said. “Especially in the legal field, things are changing constantly.”

“The main point of the conference is for people who

cally accurate. There is a lot of truth in things that are fictional or things that are not fictional but cannot be proven.”

Gonzalez-Day said artists should recognize the differences among the biological, historical and social categories of their art.

Referring to sociologists Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s 1986 book “Racial Formation in the United

States,” he told the crowd, “Race is not biological. Race is historical, race is cultural.

It’s a lot of things, but it’s not biological.

“From our perspective today, what we have to ask is how do we reconcile that [scientific knowledge] with what we know about the Black Lives Matter movement or with any other movements we know—that just doesn’t make sense.”

AACC’s School of Business and Law will hold its first “Contemporary Issues” conference this semester.

Photo by Nikko Maresca run businesses in the state of Maryland to talk about the various different components of running a business,” said legal studies professor Mary Bachkosky, who will encourage her students to attend.

“I think it’s helpful for students to attend, so they

can see the direct application of business law in the business world,” Bachkosky said.

“While [students] get theory and practical knowledge in their classes, this opportunity illuminates that for them.”

To register for the conference, visit www.aacc.edu/ businesslaw.

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Diversity

Students returning to college share advice Nick Burns Reporter For students who have not entered the halls of higher education for years, returning to college can be an anxious and terrifying proposition.

Students older than 25 make up 36 percent of the population on campus, according to public relations administrative assistant Amy Gurtshaw.

“The biggest obstacle for me was overcoming the fear that I was not capable of doing college work,” said Ronald Easley, 49, a second-year student studying addiction counseling.

More than 30 years after graduating from high school, Easley said readjusting to school has been a challenge.

Easley said he wondered if he had “the brain capacity” to handle college.

But he added, “The staff at AACC has made the tran-

sition back much easier than I could have imagined.”

First-year addiction counseling student Kathy Chandler, 54, said her lack of computer skills made returning to college “the most challenging.”

She uses the Technical Call Center for computer assistance; the Math Lab in Careers; and the Writing Center in the library for help with school projects.

She said earning a certificate in addiction counseling will help her pursue her “passion [for] working with teenagers.”

English professor Candace Hill said nontraditional students have a different mindset than younger students in their approach to classes.

“They have a better understanding of the value of time and money spent,” she said. “I take into account the additional pressures of kids and ongoing careers with

non-traditional students in my classes.”

Bonnie Lasher Kimmel, the assistant director for transfer advising, said older students need to finetune their time-management skills to succeed in college.

“Adults have many responsibilities and they will need to make room in their already full lives for college,” Kimmel said.

Kimmel said returning adult students should get involved in student life and take advantage of college resources like tutoring, advising, the Student Achievement and Success Program and clubs.

“Be an active participant in the class,” she said. “Adult students have a unique perspective because of their life experiences. Therefore, [they] have much to contribute to class discussions.”

Easley said his young classmates seem interested in his perspective.

Returning college student Kathy Chandler is in her first year of studying addiction counseling.

Photo by Nikko Maresco “The younger students appreciate my life experience I bring to the classroom,” he said. “It is comfortable being in class with [them].”

Matthew Vale, 30, a second-year addiction counseling student, said balancing two jobs, kids and school

can be difficult.

“I’m much more serious about school now,” Vale said.

“If I’m paying for [school] I want to do well.”

Vale’s advice for nontraditional students considering returning to school: “Go for it. Don’t settle. You only live once.”

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Diversity

AACC offers one-time class on Dr. King’s life Alayshia Florida Advertising Manager AACC offered a class about the legacy and relevance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the CALT Building on Oct. 20 to a packed audience of students, faculty and community members.

The lecture, by AACC history professor Dr. Lester Brooks and longtime civil rights activist Carl Snowden, was part of the college’s “His-

tory and Heritage” series, which offers non-credit history courses on topics like the history of Annapolis and the life of Frederick Douglass.

Attendees paid $49 to attend the four-hour October class, “The Life and Impact of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” which covered the history of King’s life and the conspiracy theories surrounding his death.

Snowden told the audience that society should not

send a message to black people saying, “Keep your mouth shut and survive.”

“The attitude we should have is, ‘We’re not accepting that; we’re not going to treat our children disrespectfully,’” Snowden said.

AACC students later told Campus Current they are in favor of having more classes like this on campus.

“There should be more classes like this with historical figures that made a sig-

truth, how is that administration going to have any respect for the people whose job it is to tell the truth?” Eric Wemple told an audience of about 40 people during the second speech of the college’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Citizenship and Social Justice lecture series.

Wemple criticized Trump

for regularly making statements that are “false, misleading or unsupported by the evidence.” And he criticized the media for being “careful about pointing out his falsehoods but generally very careful about saying that he lied.”

Wemple cited several instances when Trump made

Civil rights activist Carl Snowden and Dr. Lester Brooks lecture on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the CALT Building.

Photo by Nikko Maresca nificant difference in society,” third-year journalism student Vincent Moreland said.

“A [permanent] class about racial injustices would be incredible for the student

Media critic speaks on campus Ashley Sokolowski Associate Editor The Washington Post media critic said in October Americans’ dwindling trust in journalism stems from President Donald Trump’s lack of respect for the truth.

“In an administration that has no respect for the

statements that were later proven untrue.

“This is the only issue that really, really spreads across everything because you can’t have ... debate ... if you are not telling the truth,” he said.

“This is the No. 1 issue and it should never ever go away.”

body at AACC,” Student Government Association President Jacob Smith said.

Students can register for “History and Heritage” classes at www.aacc.edu.

The Post’s Eric Wemple gives an October lecture.

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Tech

Students can create 3D objects using printers Alex Fregger Technology Editor

The Hatchery on the third floor of Careers in Room 326 has a 3D printer that allows students to print models to help them with their business plans and ideas.

Photo by Nikko Maresca

dent Nick Kiraly, president of the Drone Club and Entrepreneurs Club, said he uses AACC students can bring 3D printers to modify and retheir two-dimensional de- place parts of drones. signs to life using 3D printers Dean of Science and on campus.

Technology Lance Bowen 3D printing, called “ad- and Dean of the Virtual Camditive manufacturing,” uses pus Colleen Eisenbeiser are molten plasworking “Students using 3D to create tic to build an object printing [have] a good a makerlayer by layspace lab opportunity to see er by print“where their ideas come to ing over the students life.” same area would have again and ­—Student Destyni Fermaint access to again. come in According to Manager and design and build things, of Instructional Technology print things,” Bowen said.

Cathy Bosse, this gives stuFor example, students in dents the opportunity for- the Entrepreneurs Club who hands-on experiences with- design widgets—small meout leaving campus. chanical devices—could print For instance, to look at 3D versions of the objects in ancient fossils in person, stu- the lab. dents would normally have Bowen said the lab might to go to a museum. With 3D include laser cutters, which printing, however, they can are high-powered machines print a model of a fossil. that cut materials; etchers, Third-year business stu- which create patterns or de-

Nursing program uses lifelike practice robots Alex Fregger Technology Editor AACC nursing students can practice delivering babies and caring for patients on campus in hospital simulations with high-tech, life-like mannequins.

High-tech, battery-operated mannequins in the Florestano Building have pulses and can blink, pee, bleed, and make bowel and breathing noises. They have speakers in their heads that an operator

Mannequins like this one help nursing students.

Photo by Daniel Salomon

can speak through so it apStudents also can practice pears they are talking. changing bandages or placing According to nursing pro- catheters on lower-tech manfessor Myra Dennis, AACC’s nequins. nursing simulation room uses According to Dean of mannequins and occasionally Health Sciences Elizabeth paid actors to create realistic Appel, the new Health and experiences.

Life Sciences Building will Aside from the manne- include similar simulation quins that simulate birth, oth- labs for students studying to ers resemble become EMTs, newborns or paramedics, To see more, visit: male adults. physical therwww.

Some have inapists or surTheCampusCurrent terchangeable gical techni.com body parts. cians. & search “robots” FlorestaWhen the no houses new Health simulation lab and Life Scirooms, where ences Building students opens in 2021, studying to be nurses, physi- the health sciences program cian assistants and emergen- will move from Florestano. cy medical technicians can Appel said students practice managing patients studying social work can use in emergency situations that simulation space in the new could happen on the job. building to role-play as they First-year physician as- learn about how to console sistant student Rita Younes and appropriately manage said her experiences in the patients in hospitals during rooms were “very cool.” distress.

Future nurses who witShe said the new buildness the mannequins as they ing’s labs could include simusimulate giving birth can lations of emergencies in dinprepare for what to expect in ers or apartments, instead of their fields. just hospital rooms.

signs on an object’s surface; and a CNC machine, a tool for carving and engraving wood.

“It’s just talk right now,” Bowen said. “I think I would like to see … [the] makerspace go up here in the next year or so. I think it’s doable.”

“Students using 3D printing [have] a good opportunity to see their ideas come to life,” second-year business administration student Destyni Fermaint said.

According to Bowen, architecture and interior design students already use 3D printers in class to test the integrity of the structures they design.

“You could pretty much use it anywhere,” Bowen said.

“Imagine printing out the Globe Theatre and talking about Shakespeare. This is what it was like, this is how they did it.”

Bosse said groups of students that want to see a demonstration can contact her to make an appointment.

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Sports

AACC student athletes do not support eSports Brady Reilly Sports Co-Editor Student athletes said eSports, or electronic sports, should not be considered a sport, and the participants should not be considered athletes.

None of the 20 athletes who participated in an informal Campus Current poll in October said they believe that competitive video games are sports or their players are athletes.

Esports involve established teams that play video games competitively for fun, rankings or money. They were made popular by Fortnite gamer Tyler Blevins, better known as “Ninja,” and have spread like a virus in the United States.

More than 100 colleges across the U.S. have added eSports teams to their

athletics departments and consider the participants as student athletes. AACC’s Athletics Department plans to make eSports part of its program within the next two years.

“It shouldn’t be considered a sport and they’re not athletes,” said first-year engineering major Matt Kern, who plays small forward for Men’s Basketball.

“They don’t train like athletes do on a basketball, baseball ... [or] really any sport that you can think of,” Kern said. “I don’t think these players can be considered athletes, no matter if it is competitive or not.”

First-year undecided student Cole Switzer, who plays defense for Men’s Soccer, said he doesn’t like the idea of calling these video gamers athletes.

“The definition of an

athlete is someone who performs physical exercise,” Switzer said. “Gaming has no aspect of physical exercise; therefore, it should not be considered a sport.”

Switzer’s teammate, Elias Guzman, a first-year transfer studies student who plays midfield for Men’s Soccer, agreed.

“There is not enough physical activity happening for it to be considered a sport,” said Guzman. “Any truly athletic sport would help you live a healthy life.

Video games are simply not healthy.”

Some of the athletes did, however, say that eSports are competitive.

“There is competitive nature,” said first-year nursing major Tara Gabrielsen, who plays right side hitter and defensive specialist for Volleyball. “Besides the compet-

ketball coach Joe Snowden.

“You like to have that tournament.”

Basketball was the only Maryland JUCO sport that used an end-of-season conference tournament to choose a top team. In other sports, the winner of the regular season is the conference champion.

Going forward, the team with the best regular-season record will become the conference champion—the same way every other JUCO sport decides its winners. Starting with the 2019-2020 season, the best regular-season Maryland JUCO team will

earn a spot at the regional JUCO championship tournament.

The change will make the road to regionals different for community college basketball teams than it is for Division I squads. In the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the winner of each conference tournament receives an automatic bid to the national tournament.

Maryland JUCO basketball teams did not earn “an automatic bid [to the regional tournament] or anything,” said Women’s Basketball coach Lonnie Makell. “[The state tournament] could be

ents of team members who couldn’t make it to campus would watch them on the Athletics Department YouTube channel.

More than 6,000 viewers have watched the games online—either live or after, Herr said. The mostwatched AACC game so far, with 462 views, was a basketball competition between the Riverhawks and the Howard Community College

Dragons. The Riverhawks won 91-89.

“We have had multiple streams that have reached a couple hundred … when we have bigger tournaments,” said sports information specialist Zach Malone.

“We wanted to reach people who weren’t able to see the games. Once the stream is finished, it is saved and uploaded to our YouTube channel, where we al-

In a Campus Current poll, student athletes said they do not think eSports club members should be considered athletes.

Photo by Jesseca Greene itiveness, there’s no physical aspect to it. If you can’t consider gaming a sport, then you can’t consider the participants as athletes.”

First-year architecture major Jonathan Adams agreed.

“I agree with the part that it’s considered a sport, because the people are doing something competitive,” said Adams, who plays midfield and defense for Men’s Soccer. “I don’t agree with

Conference tournament ends Tommy Parker Sports Co-Editor Maryland’s junior college athletic directors have decided to discontinue the end-ofseason basketball conference championship tournament after the March 2019 games.

Men’s and women’s basketball champions for the Maryland Junior College Athletic Conference—or JUCO—have always been the winners of an end-of-season tournament, but the 20182019 competition will end that tradition.

“I have mixed feelings about it,” said Men’s Bas-

Streaming on YouTube helps fans view games Sanyee Barjogar Jr. Sports Co-Editor

AACC’s athletics director said in October more people have been watching live streaming for sports games when they can’t attend them.

Live streaming started in fall 2017 with soccer and lacrosse home games. Athletics Director Duane Herr said he hoped fans and par-

three extra games at the end of the season to tune up for the regional tournament.”

The seeding for the conference tournament is determined by each team’s regular season record.

“I’d rather have everyone play,” said second-year forward Clinton Smith. “[In the tournament] the underdogs can upset the top seeds.”

Athletics Director Duane Herr said part of the reasoning behind ending the state tournament was a desire to treat all teams [equally].

Basketball is the only team with a Maryland conference championship.

the athletic part because you wouldn’t train the same way that any normal sport usually would.”

Still, first-year transfer studies student Will Belcher said, “I consider an athlete to be someone who exerts themselves physically on a playing field or court. These people simply aren’t doing that.”

Belcher plays center back and defensive midfield for Men’s Soccer.

Basketball guard Javon Smith will play in the final tournament.

Photo by Ashley Sokolowski The final state tournament will start on Friday, March 1, at Hagerstown Community College.

Volleyball is one of the sports AACC Athletics streams on its YouTube channel.

Photo by Nikko Maresca ways want people to have access to,” Malone said.

“In real time it might not be that many [people attending], but we are trying to engage an audience that might not be able to get to a

game,” Herr said.

Basketball forward Matt Kern said his grandfather watches the streams instead of coming to campus.

“Streaming helps people see their family,” he said.

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Sports

Players on more than 1 team span fall, spring Brady Reilly Sports Co-Editor Three AACC Riverhawks who are playing fall sports this semester will switch teams in the spring.

Second-year transfer studies student Ryan Owens, a Men’s Soccer defensive player, will be a goalie for Men’s Lacrosse next semester. Two members of next semester’s Softball team, Sylvia Frye, a first-year ultrasound technician student, and Randal Graham, a second-year health, fitness and exercise studies student, play on this fall’s Volleyball and Women’s Soccer teams, respectively.

“When it makes sense we certainly encourage them to” play more than one sport, Athletics Director Duane Herr said. “Even high school coaches are encouraging non-specialization to their athletes to open other opportunities for them.”

Herr said year-round athletes tend to be academ-

ically motivated. “You have your support system, your teammates that are depending on you to stay eligible,” he said. “You want to make sure you’re successful so you can continue to participate in your second sport.”

Owens said playing two sports has a positive impact on him.

“It has allowed me to stay involved year-round,” said Owens. “Knowing that you have practice or a game later in the day gives you extra motivation to go to school.”

Still, time management can be an issue for dual-sport athletes at the college level.

“Sports can cut into time for schoolwork,” Owens said.

“Playing two sports leaves you very tired and cuts into your schoolwork time tremendously. There are definitely times when I have to put school before sports.”

“Time is obviously a huge problem for any two-sport athlete,” AACC Men’s Soccer coach Nick Cosentino said.

“But it does help him aca-

demically and athletically.

That’s what’s great about a community college, because being a dual-sport athlete at a four-year is virtually impossible.”

Frye, who is an outside hitter for Riverhawks Volleyball and a shortstop for Softball, agreed.

“It can be hard to manage school, volleyball and work,” she said. “But I always make school and work my first priorities.”

Blake Rebstock, a second-year criminal justice student who played three sports each year in high school, said he learned time management by necessity. “So, the adjustment to college life went pretty smooth,” he said.

Athletes playing more than one sport are more susceptible to injury because of the stress on their bodies when they practice and play for so many months each year, Herr said.

“If you’re over-training, it very well could be an issue,” Herr said. “Our Softball

Sylvia Frye, a first-year ultrasound technician student, plays volleyball in the fall and softball in the spring. She is one of three Riverhawks who play dual sports.

Photo by Nikko Maresca coach has reached out to our Volleyball and Soccer coaches and said, ‘I’d like to have these couple athletes participate when they can.’ But, obviously the moment we see fatigue or stress, we have to back off.”

“I do worry about overdoing it,” Graham said. “Soccer is big on contact and that’s where I get most of my

Men’s championship turns 20 Tommy Parker Sports Co-Editor

The college is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the 1998 Men’s Lacrosse National Junior Collegiate Athletic Association championship victory.

Photos courtesy of Alistair Howard

The last time an AACC sports team won a national championship was in 1998, when Men’s Lacrosse brought home the trophy.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of that National Junior College Athletic Association—or NJCAA—victory, back when the Riverhawks were known as the Pioneers.

“It was a very memorable year,” said Bill Gorrow, the winning team’s head coach from 1993 to 2001. “We had a great group of young men and a great staff.”

Gorrow, who is now the head lacrosse coach and assistant athletics director at Wesley College in Delaware, led the championship team to the national tournament’s Final Four in seven of his nine years at AACC. The team boasted an overall 10629 record during that time.

Alistair Howard, who played attack on the championship team, said he recalls those days fondly.

“We thought we would be pretty successful when we went 3-0 to start the season,” said Howard, now a major

in the Marine Corps. “Beating Catonsville and Essex in the regional tournament was huge for us.”

The team, which never ranked higher than fourth during that championship season, beat the first-, secondand third-ranked teams in the country in three straight games on its way to becoming national champions.

The Pioneers were the national runners-up in 1994 and 1996. In 1998, they played Nassau Community College of New York—the 1997 national champions— in the semi-finals. Despite a loss to that team earlier in the season, AACC won to move on to the championship.

At the tournament, they met Herkimer County Community College, another New York school that was the 1997 runner-up and had been national champions for five consecutive years.

When Gorrow, who doubled as AACC’s athletics director, got to campus at 6:45 a.m. the day of the final game, he recalled, he expected to be the first one at the gym. But every player was already there, taking ice baths and stretching, ready to go

injuries. A big injury can not only affect soccer but also the other sports I play.”

“Being an athlete, you cannot worry about injuries,” said Rebstock, who plays outfielder on AACC’s Baseball teams in the spring and fall. “You have to prepare your body to the best of your ability to prevent injuries as much as possible.”

The team plaque hangs in the AACC Hall of Fame in the gym.

Photo by Tommy Parker over the game plan for what would be the biggest game of the players’ young lives.

“We were not intimidated,” Howard said. “We got ahead early and we never looked back.”

Gorrow said they were locked into one goal and then they “brought 120 percent and went out and got it.”

“When the final horn blew I was standing there shivering,” said Gorrow, who said he still blames athletic trainer Jim Fontaine for putting as much ice as possible in the bucket of water that the players dumped on him after their victory.

Howard and Gorrow still keep in touch with some coaches and members of the championship team.

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Sports

AACC basketball teams look forward to season Noah Reem Sports Co-Editor AACC’s Men’s and Women’s Basketball players said they look forward to the upcoming season after winning pre-season scrimmages in October.

Men’s Basketball won a scrimmage against Delaware State University, 91-67, on Oct. 13, while Women’s Basketball won against Delaware Technical Community College, 50-47, on the same day.

“The guys played well start to finish,” Men’s Basketball coach Joe Snowden said. “They played really well together.”

Women’s Basketball coach Lionel Mackell said

he is pleased with his team’s performance, saying the women showed a lot of hustle and perseverance.

“Across the board, there’s a lot of talent on both teams,” Athletics Director Duane Herr said.

The players agreed.

“We got a lot of hungry guys who are all competitive and bring a unique piece to the table,” said forward Jacoby Rojas, a second-year transfer studies student who returned for a second season with the Riverhawks. “A lot of the teams this year are good, but we have the team chemistry.”

Second-year player Deondre McNeill, who took a break last year from the team

to focus on his education, is back for a second season with the Riverhawks.

“We looked really good in the scrimmage,” the 5-foot8-inch center said. “This season so far is already looking better than last year.”

The Women’s Basketball coach said his team has shown promise during practices and an early scrimmage.

“We have a lot of great freshmen and transfers,” Mackell said. “We have a great inside game.”

Sophomore Marcy Augustine, who is a guard for the second year, agreed.

“Our first scrimmage was a big confidence booster,” she said.

Guard Karley Haensler,

playoff games on campus.

“For the fans, the parents, I want to help get more people to the games,” Buenaventura said.

Selling food at regularseason games, which attract few fans, would not be profitable, Buenaventura said.

So, Buenaventura said, “We’re looking at certain events, trying to see which ones have bigger crowds.

Athletics invites Netflix star to Arnold campus Continued from Page 1 Pencils. She travels to colleges to coach advisers and help athletes who are at risk in their academic lives.

Wagner will visit AACC in November to mentor the new adviser. She will give a speech here on the Monday after Thanksgiving.

AACC student athletes said they are excited about the new position.

“It [is] a great addition to the Athletic[s] Department,” said Men’s Lacrosse defensive midfielder James Dipietro Jr., the team’s captain.

“Now there is no room for

error in making sure players know what they need to do to be eligible.”

While some look at it as a way to help eligibility, others said having a dedicated adviser will help when it comes time to transfer.

“It’ll help keep the athletes’ grades up so they can transfer out to other schools,” said Thomas McNamara, Men’s Baseball catcher.

Herr, who pushed for the position, said he is pleased the department has created it.

“We [wanted] it to happen very bad,” said Herr.

“It’s very important for us to

who transferred to AACC this semester from Baltimore City Community College, said the scrimmage showed the team that it “meshed together from the beginning.

We played really well in the scrimmage.”

Both coaches said community college basketball is especially competitive.

The Maryland Junior College Athletic Conference—or JUCO—“has always

been loaded for basketball,” Snowden said. “That’s probably the Maryland JUCO’s main sport.”

Women’s Basketball’s regular season will begin Thursday, Nov. 1, with a home game against Sinclair Community College.

Men’s Basketball will play their first regular-season game on Wednesday, Nov. 7, against Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology.

Some of the games only draw between 20 to 30 people, which in that case, we unfortunately wouldn’t make a profit off of concessions. I don’t want to outright say no, but we are looking at a plan for next year.”

First-year criminal justice student Sam Charles said he likes the idea.

“I think it would definitely make some people come to the games more,” he said. “If the food is really good, peo-

ple would definitely come more.”

But another student said while fans who already attend games might like to buy food, it wouldn’t sway him to attend an event.

“It would better accommodate the people that already go to the games,” said first-year transfer studies student Trace Carleton. “People don’t attend an athletic game for the purpose of eating food.

They go for entertainment.”

Grill may start offering food during big games Continued from Page 1

Athletics Director Duane Herr and The Hawk’s Nest’s manager, Richard Buenaventura, may work together to offer food at big games.

Photo By Nikko Maresca

Deondre McNeill, one of AACC’s Men’s Basketball captains, shoots during a pre-season scrimmage.

Photo by Justin Baker

set up the success of our student athletes.”

Coaches at the college agreed.

“It’s a great resource,” said Men’s Soccer coach Nick Cosentino. “It definitely will give our student athletes the needed guidance. … This helps our programs continue to be successful.”

Women’s Soccer coach Karin Victorio said the position will help the athletics program grow.

“Having an academic adviser who specializes in athletics is very valuable to the school,” said Victorio. “I believe it’s a good thing to

AACC Athletics has hired a student success coordinator, who will help athletes stay on track academically. Pictured, members of Riverhawks Volleyball.

Photo by Gerald M. Maravanyika keep improving our athletics offerings.”

Anderson will start working on Nov. 16.

“My main goal is to have the students go from [Junior College Athletic Association] level to four-year level students and athletes,” Ander-

son said. “I can’t wait to get started.”

AACC Athletics also hired a new office manager.

Jessica Mathes was a dean of students and director of athletics at Options Charter School and served in the U.S. Army for 24 years.

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The Theatre at AACC presents

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