Candler Lowe, Campus Carrier Deputy News Editor
After 82 years of publishing, the final Cabin Log yearbook has just come off the press. Next year, the organization looks to become a magazine.
Although the request to be a magazine has not been given approval from the president and the president’s cabinet, the Cabin Log will plan for their future as a magazine. The current staff is already discussing the changes in name, content and logo.
Senior Gabby Guevara, the current editor-in-chief of the Cabin Log, said she is excited for the future of the magazine and that she hopes that the new format and the change in content will help reach more students.
Guevara said the content will include six sections: sports, style, funk, arts and music, buzz and food. She also said that the magazine will be more diverse and cover student interests.
“The yearbook was more of a highlight reel of the year, but the magazine will tell people’s stories,” Guevara said.
Junior Emilee Burroughs, current managing editor who will take over as editor-in-chief for the 2016-17 academic year, said that while it is bittersweet to be changing from a yearbook to a magazine, she is also looking forward to the future of the Cabin Log.
“I am really excited to create a magazine from the ground up and hopefully start a new legacy,” Burroughs said.
The magazine will cover a variety of topics.
“We’ll have sections like food and funk,” Burroughs said. “We’ll have more more broader things in the magazine so it won’t be just hard stories, it will be more soft news and feature stories which is something a lot of students will like and want to get involved in.”
Kevin Kleine, student publications adviser who has been with the Cabin Log for the past 27 years, hopes that becoming a magazine tailored for students and young alumni will provide new opportunities for the students on staff.
“The magazine gives the opportunity to focus on different kinds of stories that are more unique, more in depth, and have some issues-based things they have not had the opportunity to do,” Kleine said. “I think it will provide a new medium for the Berry student body to appreciate.”
Freshman Sara Arms, the current issues editor and the rising managing editor, said that although she is disappointed to see the yearbook go, she thinks that it will be a good transition for the Cabin Log to make.
“I think that change is a part of journalism,” Arms said. “I think that as a learning environment all the staff will get the experience that they need.”
Arms also said that the changes should be seen as progress for Berry and that the magazine will take what the yearbook has taught them to plan the magazine to serve students.
The magazine will be digital, but the staff are hopeful that they will be able to have a print and digital version.