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Construction clears way for science quad
Without home, some struggle Elizabeth Spearman Associate Editor
Construction crews removed the Modular Building near Student Services as part of AACC’s Master Plan to renovate the area. After construction of a new Health Sciences buiding nearby, college officials plan to convert the cleared area into a quad for the science buildings.
It’s 9:30 p.m. on a Thursday and the library will close in 15 minutes. The last few students are packing up their books, ready to call it a night and head for home. But not third-year transfer studies major Terri Taylor. When she leaves the library, she will sleep on the couch at her best friend’s apartment, as she has for the past three weeks.
Clubs face new SGA penalties Roxanne Ready Editor-in-Chief The Student Government Association has approved its goals for the 20172018 school year, and will change penalties for student clubs that do not send representatives to attend monthly meetings. SGA President Johnathan O’Dea announced plans to create a series of gradually increasing penalties—like warnings and probationary periods—for student organizations that do not send a representative to monthly Advisory Council meetings. The Student Advisory Council is a group of student organization leaders. At the
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council meetings, club presidents or their representatives hear announcements and vote on club issues such as budgets for student clubs or approvals of new student organizations. Advisory Council meetings are mandatory, but O’Dea said fewer than half of active student organizations attended the Nov. 6 meeting. Club secretary and second-year web design student Daniel Nickerson said the ESports Club has not sent a representative to the meetings recently. “It doesn’t seem like [there’s] much for us to do [at the meetings],” Nickerson said. “A lot of it feels like it’s not really involved with
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Taylor has no home of her own. “I guess I am not technically ‘homeless,’” Taylor said. “I am not living out of my car or staying in a shelter. I have a roof over my head.” Taylor had a stable living situation up until a month ago, when she lost her job and could no longer afford her apartment. “I don’t have any family around here, and the cost of moving out of state is a little bit too much,” she said.
AACC gives textbooks and food to homeless students on a case-by-case basis. Photo by Tre Mooring AACC classifies students like Taylor as “on the verge” of homelessness or “homeless insecure.” Those students “could be kicked out [of a home] at any time, due to an argument
or something going wrong,” Rich Heath, who has been AACC’s financial aid director since 2000, said. According to a 2015 study
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us. … It’s stuff that affects other clubs and just general school things.” O’Dea said the SGA’s constitution allows it to withhold funding from organizations that do not attend Advisory Council meetings. “[But] that’s a big step,” O’Dea said. “That’s not where we want to go first.”
AACC police arrested a former employee on Nov. 14 who had been banned from campus for yelling threats at another employee on Oct 9. Police said they found Andrew Manley on Ring Road in front of the pool after they got a call from someone who reported he was in the gym. Police Chief Sean Kapfhammer said Manley was possibly taking a shower or trying to steal towels from the gym. Manley, a former parttime employee, did not work on campus at the time of the arrest. Kapfhammer said Man-
ley was banned from campus on Oct. 21 after making threats of violence in a parking lot during a traffic dispute about two weeks earlier. Police charged Manley with trespassing on campus. Campus police also banned Jason Gann, 30, from all AACC locations. Police said Gann exhibited disruptive behavior at the Arnold and Glen Burnie Town Center campuses. Students, faculty or staff who see any suspicious behavior or need to report a crime should use a blue emergency phone pole located around campus. They can also call (410) 777-1818 from a cell phone or off-campus phone.
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SGA members say monthly mandatory Advisory Council meeting attendance is low. Photo by Daniel Salomon
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