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Alternative Title
Stories & Guides to the 804
Publisher
VCU Student Media Center (SMC)
Volume/Issue Number
2018
Frequency
Annual
Title Publication Dates
2018-
Contents
Finding your way in RVA / Zach Joachim, Hamman and Mai-Phuong Bui -- Top 10 things to do in your first month at VCU / SMC Staff, Steck Von, Mai-Phuong Bui -- Restaurants to save you from freshmen blues / Samuel Goodrich, Tina Harding -- Richmond film festivals challenge blockbuster culture / Tina Harding -- Rhoades, Rams regroup for 2018-19 / Jessica Wetzler, Zach Joachim, Erin Edgerton -- Need music in your school life? / Hayden Molchan, Craig Zirpolo -- Buses, bikes, and RamRide: how to get around Richmond / Georgia Geen, Steck Von, Mai-Phuong Bui -- Tuition trends project steep increase / Nia Tariq, Mai-Phuong Bui -- Top 3 local bookstores in Richmond / Andrew Salsbury, Ali Jones, Eli Christman -- A new student’s guide to local music / Kate Kistler, Josh Meister, Perry Conner, Anh Nguyen -- Social media synopsis: Your guide to navigating the modern digital campus / Daniel Puryear -- Wait, what is that again?: A slightly judgmental VCU dictionary of terms / Georgia Geen, Taber Andrew Bain -- Apps essentials: Every resource new students need to download / Daniel Puryear -- Murals of RVA / Tina Harding -- Billboard vs. NACC: Week of May 25, 2018 / Kate Kistler -- A freshman's guide to 'gyming' / Nia Tariq, Uri Hamman -- Intramural sports involvement / Adam Cheek, Byron Koranteng -- A river runs through it / Zach Joachim, Ross Catrow, Tina Harding, Joe Pyrek -- A Brief Public Service Announcement About All-Nighter Culture / Sammy Newman -- Dog Days in Richmond / Morgan Barnett -- A Day in RVA / Susie Grady -- Academic Calendar -- Resources
Description
The Compass is an annual orientation guide for VCU students produced by the Student Media Collective in the VCU Student Media Centered. The guide is distributed physically during summer orientation sessions for new and transfer students. The publication includes short articles, illustrations, letters of welcome from students and administrators, comics, and advertisements from VCU and Richmond organizations.
Corporate Name Subject
Virginia Commonwealth University -- Students -- Periodicals
Topical Subject
College students' writings, American -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Periodicals; College students' art -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Periodicals; College student newspapers and periodicals -- Virginia -- Richmond
Geographic Subject
Richmond (Va.) -- Periodicals
City/Location
Richmond (Va.)
Genre
magazines (periodicals)
Local Genre
university publication; text; artwork
Type
Text; Still Image
Digital Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
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Rights
This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection
VCU Student Newspapers and Magazines
Source
The Compass. VCU Student Media Center, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
compass_2018.pdf
Disciplines
Higher Education