Nick Vernon, Campus Carrier Deputy News Editor
This year, Berry’s award-winning student yearbook, the Cabin Log, is springing forward.
Rather than releasing the yearbook in the upcoming fall 2014 term, the Cabin Log yearbook will be released later this semester.
Bailey Harper, marketing and public relations director at the Cabin Log, said she hopes the earlier distribution will help “students to get excited about the release of the yearbook.”
“We are hoping that the change to a spring delivery will change the ‘yearbook culture’ here at Berry,” Harper said. “In the past, students haven’t gotten their yearbooks until the next fall, once they’ve forgotten that they even ordered one and lost all the anticipation of seeing it. Now, you will buy and receive the yearbook within the same school year.”
With the new spring delivery, new traditions are beginning to form.
“We are planning to have an end of the year party to kick off Berry’s first spring delivery, where students can pick up this year’s copy of the Cabin Log and have their friends sign,” Harper said.
Harper said she is “hoping that the event will be popular enough to make it a new tradition at Berry and that those who have chosen not to purchase yearbooks this year will want to buy one next year so that they too can participate in the signing party.”
Kirstie Broadwell, editor-in-chief of the Cabin Log, detailed some of the changes people can expect because of the spring delivery.
“I can say with certainty that, yes, the yearbook will be different,” Broadwell said. “But more so, it will be better. For the second time ever, it will be in full color.”
Broadwell also detailed the changes concerning to content of the yearbook.
“We are adding an academics section in addition to the current sections in the yearbook,” Broadwell said. “We are also striving to include more students because this book is for Berry and we want to try to include as many as we can. The only thing that we are losing by moving to a spring delivery is the spread on spring graduation, but we are including fall graduation.”
The price of the yearbook is normally $50. However, due to popular demand, the Cabin Log has reduced the price for a limited time. Students can buy the yearbook for half price, $25, until Feb. 7 at the distribution website, yearbookforever.com. Students can expect to receive their yearbooks the week before finals week.