Cuffing season

When you were in ele­men­tary school you might have been told that there are four sea­sons: win­ter, spring, sum­mer, and fall. Well, let me be the first to break it to you, that’s false. There are five sea­sons, win­ter, spring, sum­mer, fall, and cuff­ing sea­son. What is “Cuff­ing Sea­son,” you might ask? Let me elaborate. […]

Animation class added to Media Studies roster

You can learn to ani­mate dig­i­tally in a new spring semes­ter class offered in the media stud­ies department’s new Mac lab. “I’ve been want­ing to teach this since I arrived, but I haven’t had the facilites to real­is­ti­cally teach it,” said media stud­ies pro­fes­sor David Smith. The class will be offi­cially called Spe­cial Top­ics in […]

The sentimentalism of Adele

Read­ing the lyrics alone, I’m sure there is some­thing stir­ring in you already. If you’ve heard the song (which, by now, of course you have), read­ing these lyrics is remind­ing you of how the song, with its sub­tle piano accom­pa­nied by Adele’s pow­er­house vocals, breaks your heart. The song is prac­ti­cally cry­ing. The wave of […]

Hairspray dances on to GTA’s stage

Cult clas­sic and fan favorite, Hair­spray, is next on the Gainesville The­atre Alliance’s set for the 2011–2012 sea­son. “I remem­ber last year when we would announce to the audi­ence mem­bers what we were doing the next year, every time I said Hair­spray there was a huge reac­tion,”  said Jim Ham­mond, the GTA’s man­ag­ing direc­tor, who […]

Culture of peace for domestic violence awareness month

This year for domes­tic vio­lence aware­ness month, GSC’s school of Social Sci­ences theme is “Cre­at­ing a Cul­ture of Domes­tic Peace”. The video below was made by GSC’s film club and stars stu­dents and pro­fes­sors speak­ing on domes­tic vio­lence in Geor­gia and as a whole. Press Release from GSC:  The Gainesville State Col­lege School of Social Sci­ences is […]

GSC attracts students from across the world

Flags from var­i­ous coun­tries line the ceil­ing of Gainesville State’s stu­dent cen­ter. Stu­dents of every race, color and creed crowd the halls stum­bling into the same class­rooms every­day. Despite Hall County’s low rate of diver­sity, with 89.7 % of its pop­u­la­tion being white as of 2009, it’s clear that this col­lege embraces the world outside […]

We want your spring break photos

Please sub­mit your pho­tos from spring break to compass@gsc.edu for con­sid­er­a­tion in the Com­pass news­pa­per. We’d love to see our stu­dents hav­ing fun in excit­ing new places. Let us know who are the GSC stu­dents in the pic­ture so that we can spot­light them. Thank you and have a great spring break.

GSC celebrates Brazilian Carnival

 One of the biggest par­ties in the world found it’s way to GSC Fri­day, Jan. 18th.  The Latino Stu­dent Asso­ci­a­tion,  Black Stu­dent Asso­ci­a­tion and Inter­na­tional Stu­dent Asso­ci­a­tion came together to intro­duce the Brazil­ian car­ni­val to stu­dents.  The three clubs from the Office for Diver­sity Ini­tia­tives and Inter­cul­tural rela­tions wanted stu­dents “ to appre­ci­ate and learn how other coun­tries cel­e­brate car­ni­val, while […]

A day without Facebook

Face­book is old news, yes, we know. It’s been around for seven years and has suc­cess­fully dom­i­nated the lives of many. And by dom­i­nated I mean is our lives. In the vir­tual world, our Face­book page is an exten­sion of our bod­ies. Peo­ple use Face­book as a rep­re­sen­ta­tion of them­selves. Just about any­thing you could ever […]

Rinse, Reuse Recycle: The Golden Rule of Thrift Shopping

Some peo­ple might be squea­mish when it comes to thrift shop­ping. When it comes down to it, you really are buy­ing clothes that have been worn by strangers who’ve done who-knows-what while in them. People’s hes­i­ta­tions are under­stand­able, but today thrift­ing is as pop­u­lar as going to your local mall. With the econ­omy the way it […]

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