The American River Current

President Rebeca Rico-Chavez and Parlamentarian Tamara Dunning listen in at the Student Body Senate meeting on Feb. 2 at American River College. (Photo by Gabe Carlos)

ASB discusses new feminist center and more

Gabe Carlos February 6, 2019

The American River College Associated Student Body Senate held its first meeting of the spring 2019 semester on Feb. 2 to approve a new bill that will provide funds for healthy foods. Bill S19-01,...

File photo by Ashley Hayes-Stone.

Model U.N. receives funds at CAEB meeting for annual conference

Felix Oliveros December 12, 2018

On Dec. 4, Associated Student Body Club and Events Board members and representatives unanimously agreed to grant American River College’s Model United Nations Club $300 to fund its trip to the Model...

Signs were posted throughout the Fine and Applied Arts Department warning students about the lockers which were vandalized on the weekend of Oct. 12, 2018. (Photo courtesy of Luis Gael Jimenez)

Surveillance increased after Art Department locker break-ins

Gabe Carlos October 29, 2018

On the weekend of Oct. 12, multiple lockers were broken into outside of the Fine and Applied Arts Department at American River College, according to staff in the Fine and Applied Arts offices. Public...

Students have a guide to connect to that tricky American River College Wi-Fi network. (photo illustration by Ashley Hayes-Stone)

How to connect to ARC’s Wi-Fi

Cheyenne Drury and Tracy Holmes August 27, 2018

By Tracy Holmes and Cheyenne Drury In the beginning of each semester, students flock to the library and Student Center to use the internet to get their course work done. When the computer labs in...

(Left) Tracy Mapes staff photo from his time on the AR Current in the spring of 2016. (File photo)

(Right) Tracy Mapes mugshot at the Santa Clara Police Department on Nov. 26 after being arrested for allegedly dropping anti-media leaflets over Levi Stadium. (Photo courtesy of Santa Clara Police Department)

ARC student arrested for allegedly flying drone over NFL game

Luis Gael November 28, 2017

[UPDATED] An American River College student was arrested on Sunday after allegedly dropping anti-media leaflets from a drone over Levi’s Stadium and Oakland-Alameda Stadium during two different NFL games.  Tracy...

Journalist Dave Kempa stands near the Capitol Mall  in Sacramento, California on Sept. 7, 2017. Kempa is a winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and recently founded Voices: River City, a news website focused on keeping Sacramento weird, bright and talking, according to Kempa. (Photo by Luis Gael Jimenez)

Award-winning journalist and ARC professor launches local media outlet

Ashley Hayes-Stone September 11, 2017

The neon red cross that reads “Jesus saves,” hangs over The Union Gospel Mission’s front door. The red glow illuminates the barbed wire fence that holds back the line of sweaty, hungry men waiting...

People should pay attention to the news even in depressing times. A student reads the ARC Current. (photo by Lidiya Grib)

Opinion: The importance of staying informed

Jared Smith February 6, 2017

“The news is too depressing and too sad to read,” is a phrase that seems to be thrown around often these days. Yet without the news we would be lost. In fact, when the news is most depressing is...

Wi-fi at ARC is available for free to all enrolled students, but it doesnt come without its problems. (File photo)

Everything you need to know about ARC’s Wi-Fi

Cheyenne Drury January 25, 2017

Every semester, students flood the library and student center to use the internet in order to get their work done . When the computer labs in the library and Learning Resource Center are full, students...

ARC students should take advantage of their campus newspaper which has useful information in it that relates to them. Illustration by Lidiya Grib

ARC students should read the college newspaper

Lidiya Grib October 19, 2016

Most students don’t realize how useful it is to be aware of social events, news, and important information that occurs on campus at American River College. One of the best ways to be aware of current...

Two economics books that require access codes available in the ARC bookstore. Access codes are becoming a new strategy for publishers to raise revenue. (Photo by Robert Hansen)

Access codes becoming new textbook monopoly

Robert Hansen September 22, 2016

The costs of access codes for college courses are quickly becoming the new, dangerous face of the textbook monopoly according to a report released by the Student Public Interest Research Groups (Student...

CAEB President Justin Nocholson (left) listens with Ashlee Nicholson (right) to introductions from the board at the Sept. 20, 2016 meeting in the board room. (Photo by Robert Hansen)

A collaborative meeting for Student Senate and CAEB

Mychael Jones September 21, 2016

The American River College Associated Student Body Clubs and Events Board (CAEB) and Student Senate met on Sept. 20 in a joint meeting. They prepared for the Welcome Day and Greek Week celebrations,...

Professor Julie Blaney (right) gives her proposal for creating a Certified Nurse Assistant & Home Health Aid department separate from the Nursing Department to the board of the American River College Academic Senate as President Gray Aguilar (left) reads the proposal at their September 8, 2016 meeting. (Photo by Robert Hansen)

Academic Senate supports proposal of new department, listens to struggling departments

Robert Hansen September 11, 2016

The Academic Senate of American River College heard the head of the nursing department, professor Julie Blaney, make her case for creating a Certified Nurse Assistant/Home Health Aide(CNA/HHA) department...

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