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The Rice Thresher
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by Rebecca Vigen for the Thresher
The 1999-'00 Campanile, the undergraduate yearbook, arrived yesterday, and the books will be available at the Coffeehouse beginning Tuesday evening. This is the second consecutive year the book has been on time after being thrown off by a history of late books that culminated with last fall's simultaneous arrival of the 1998 and 1999 books. Jamie Bartling, co-editor in chief of the 1999-'00 Campanile, said she was glad the book will arrive soon. "I'm really excited about seeing it and seeing people's reactions to it and am just glad that the Campanile's finally on track again and we can start establishing a good reputation for the book," Bartling, a Lovett College junior, said. "I would like it if some of the bad reputation could be part of the history and we could just move on from here." Student Media Adviser Jen Cooper said delayed Campaniles go back to 1995, caused by lack of student participation, computer errors and the fact that the media adviser position had not yet been created. These problems helped create a cycle of late yearbooks because editors had to complete the previous year's book before they could concentrate on their own. Sarah Clark (Jones '98), editor in chief of the 1998 Campanile, ended the cycle of late books by finishing the 1997 yearbook and then continuing to work on the 1998 book until its completion, which was after her graduation from Rice. While Clark was finishing the 1998 book, 1999 Editor in Chief Louren Reed Li (Brown '99) was able to start work on her book at the beginning of the 1999 school year. Cooper said the Campanile's main goal in producing the 1998 and 1999 yearbooks simultaneously was to get production back on schedule. "The '98 book was in some ways a sacrifice, because it's unusual that we gave it to a student who left the university to finish up, but that way it meant that the next book could start fresh," Cooper said. Cooper said one significant problem in the production of the yearbook is the lack of cohesiveness in the Campanile staff. "It is something that doesn't have to all be done at the same time, by everyone in the same office," Cooper said. "The college sections can work from their colleges, so you don't have the same kind of staff cohesiveness as the Thresher or the SA end up with." Another problem has been that the college section editors are chosen by the colleges and not by the editor in chief, Cooper said. "Every year, there's usually a couple of college section editors that just have to be hounded and nagged and coerced into producing their sections," she said. Cooper said the production of the yearbook went smoothly this year because the two editors in chief, Bartling and Rosemary Castler, a Lovett junior, were dedicated to improving the book. Hanszen College senior Jen Frazer, 2000-'01 Campanile editor, said it was also helpful that neither Bartling nor Castler were seniors because they were able to work over the summer and complete the distribution themselves without hindering the production of this year's book. Each undergraduate student pays $24 for the Campanile as part of the annual student fees. Any student who paid her fees last year can pick up a yearbook next week.
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