Fetty, Shunk will advise, edit Lambda
Campus Times
September 18, 1998
Never in the history of humankind has one year been the same as the
year that preceded or succeeded it.
An academic year at the University of La Verne is no exception. As the
new adviser of ULV's yearbook, Lambda, Instructor of English Carol
W. Fetty plans to make sure that the 1998-99 academic year is not going
to be forgotten.
Senior Darla Shunk, the new editor in chief of the yearbook and sophomore
Teresa Burgoyne, the book's new managing editor, will help Fetty make the
book a success.
Additionally, PRISM, ULV's art and literary magazine, which is
will celebrate its 21st year of production this year, will be published
once a year rather than once a semester.
"The whole idea is to make them [Lambda and PRISM]
bigger and better," Fetty said. "That is not to say that bigger
is better," she added.
"A year book should incapsulate a whole year. It is a piece of
history," Fetty said. "My ultimate goal is to have a picture of
every student on campus [in the yearbook]."
Shunk said she liked "putting something together that people can
look at after you're gone and say 'Hey, that was a pretty good year.'"
Fetty agreed that she enjoyed putting it together.
"It [the yearbook] should reflect a whole year of each student's
life," she said.
Fetty and Shunk want students to know that the yearbook, nor the portrait
pictures of students, will not cost anything -- that is, unless one requests
several and/or different sizes. The senior pictures will be taken from Sept.
28 through Oct. 2.
Several of the planned changes for the new yearbook include a section
in the back for personal messages, as well as a new production size. Rather
than the original 8 1/2" x 11" book, this year's yearbook will
be 9 " x 12" in size.
A new advertisement package will enable people to advertise in PRISM
and the yearbook with the same deal.
Fetty also plans to ask every department for a list of its outstanding
seniors from which the yearbook staff will pick candidates to be featured
in the book.
"We also want more color and fancier covers," Fetty said,
"and we want to improve the quality of the photographs.
"We are welcoming suggestions from anybody out there."
Concerning PRISM, Fetty said she wanted to make it more of a
magazine.
"It is important to me," she said, "to be able to say
that a talent for literature exceeds the major. There could be a pre-med
major who writes beautiful poetry."
Fetty regrets turning down some good material in the past because it
was too long. With a larger annual issue, that problem is not expected to
happen in the future.
Fetty said, "I'm thrilled with the energy that seems to come from
the students [toward the yearbook and PRISM]."
Indeed, students seem to appreciate having a year book.
"A yearbook is important to have, to reminisce about old times
and old friends," senior Michael Comingore said.
"It is sharing old news -- the do's and don'ts for the future,"
he said.
Although many institutions of higher learning in Europe lack a yearbook,
the concept of having one is not an entirely American thing.
Senior Arnaud Llamas, a French international student, said, "It
is a nice memory. Sometimes, I look at it and see things I don't even remember."
Referring to the growth in faculty and the size of the University in
general, Fetty said, "As the University grows, we're hoping the yearbook
is going to grow with it."
