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Show Page 4 SIGNPOST February 11, 1955 NOW HEAR THIS! Should Yeber Continue Yearbook After This Year? (Editor's Note: This is the second In a series of pro-con discussions In the Signpost, this week is Should Weber College continue publishing a yearbook after 1954-1955?) PRO By Roy Davies The question Should Weber College continue publishing a yearbook after 1954- 1955? Stephen Vincent Benet once wrote, "Books are not men and yet they are alive, They are man's memory and his aspiration, i The link between his present and his past." Priority consideration in this discussion must be given to the fact that yearbooks are a part of college life. If we were to analyze a yearbook we would find that it is a Saturday night football game, a matinee dance, or a Friday afternoon assembly. Between the leather bindings we can't help but to find a wealth of happy memories which increase more and more with time. Answers Question The yearbook itself answers the question above.. In its way it relates a complete record of the student's college career. It gives the student a sense of accomplishment. A yearbook is the comedy in the student lounge, the adventures on a field trip, the morning lectures; to sum it up, the yearbook is you. It's you in all your moods, and doing without it would take away that part of your life. How much would you take foryour high Roy Davies school yearbook? You wouldn't sell it, would you? Because time is more important to you than money and you want to look back and say that was me in the 1950's. Take Yearbook Away If we take the yearbooks away why not take away the basketball games, the dances, the assemblies and all the social activities, because the yearbook is those very things. How many times do you live over a certain event just by looking at a picture of it? Each time you will find it as pleasing as before. How many times do you recall old faces but can't recall their names until a quick trip to the student body section reveals their identities? Popularity of Yearbook The popularity of yearbook proves its success. Look at all the millions of high schools, colleges and universities with annuals. Not to mention other organizations that publish yearbooks for the benefit of their employees. Let's face it; we like to see ourselves and our friends the way we were five, ten, twenty years ago. What possible drawbacks could a yearbook have? Money? A corsage for a Saturday night date and a yearbook cost the same. Furthermore, you pay more for your student activity card in one quarter than you would for a yearbook. What about it? Can you do without a yearbook? New Arrangement "So now you and your son are carrying on the business together?""Not exactly. I run the business and my son does the carrying on." Con 3 By 'Lois McDonough Weber College, being a small school, really cannot afford to publish a yearbook the students are not behind it. Every fall we go through the same doubtful question, namely, "Can we get enough subscriptions to merit publishing a yearbook?" And every fall the business staff of the book has to put in many hours contacting and pleading with students to order their book. In fact, the busi-n e s s managers even go so far as to break the pay- t Iments in half for tithe convenience -Zi of the students a wno reaiiy can t I afford a book, but who must ) buy one in order ' that the number i o f subscriptions Lois McDonough meet a quota which will merit publication of the book. Even club competition for selling subscriptions to members has been initiated in the last few years in or"der to reach this quota. And even after the subscriptions are taken, there is still a fight between student and staff to have pictures taken for the book. Every morning for weeks we hear over the loud speaker: "This week is absolutely the final week for yearbook pictures to be taken. Please make your appointment immediately."However, when students refuse to respond, the deadline is extend-( Continued on Column 4) Would You Like a Date Bureau And Who Voufd You Like to Run It? Nancy Sanders The question asked by your roving reporter this week was: "Do you think Weber College should have a dating bureau, and who would you like to see in charge?" 1 1 "I believe they should bee ause then I could get some more dates with the girls. I don't care who is in charge just as long as it is someone who knows enough girls to get me lined up with : , v; someone good enough to go out i l with." (You Larry Campbell mean someone who would like you, Larry?) "I don't think that we should have a dating bu-reau. Human na- ture just doesn't j: ' ' work that way. i . A date should be S-something t h a t j somebody gets R when they want , it and with whom ' they want it. A Sedating bureau wouldn't have things work out that way." Pat Penrod Perplexing, eh? Here's one thing I can't understand about women. They scream at a little, tiny mouse, and then go out and get into a car with a wolf. JOHNNY BELINDA Pins are pretty But I'm going steady with STARLIGHTS A of Hollywood. Black I ) Red I V J Navy V u XX And your 'pin$" will be pin-ups when you accent them with Starlights) Colorful . . . comfortable fit . . . California styling . . . all for flattering wear at budget prices. $7.95 starfmhts Yearbook? ed. This extension sets back the work of the editors who are anxious to complete as much work on the book as soon as possible. Eventually, though, the work begins to pile up on the editors and either their class work must suffer or their yearbook work is not at its best. They begin to rush their yearbook work in order to meet deadlines with their printers who are constantly breathing down their necks for copy. I feel that unless we can get the cooperation of the entire student body and faculty of Weber College, the Acorn should not be continued next year. "What is it? Gee, I really can't say whether we should have a dating bu- ' reau or not. I never heard of it before. I really don't know who should be put in jcharge, but I think the girls should definitely run it if one v snouia De put m- Marl Lou Fifield to effect.' "A dating bu-'r reau? Oh, I think 1 - it would be good ' especially just before the Pref- Ball be- f- -f . erence .,; ' 5 cause then every- r" j b o d y wouldn't , J get mixed up on "jwho they were j going to ask. I think they should fly in Louella Parsons or somebody like that. 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