Florida State University - Renegade / Tally Ho Yearbook (Tallahassee, FL)

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The yearbook is dead The fact is, like it or not, we have outlived it. It died somewhere between bobby sox and Vietnam, somewhere between booze and dope, somewhere between Guy Lombardo and the Beatles. It died sometime between those days when college life was full of rah-rahs, pom-poms, boola-boolas, class teas, pep rallies, and freshman beanies... sometime between those days and now. Producing a yearbook then was a fairly routine task- organize the class sections and the clubs, organize the Greeks, organize the academe, organize the organizations, organize them all. Photograph them, paste them up, print it and sell it to them. Everyone was certain to want one because they were in it, right? And then there would be a big annual signing party, so you could fill up the half-dozen or so pages (provided for autographs) with well-wishes from class chums and best of luck to a great guy... Well, it used to work that way, didn ' t it? Well, maybe it did work then, whenever then was, and whenever a college class was a closely knit group which shared four years of common experiences, climaxed by one afternoon or evening in June when everyone showed up for graduation— together— because you had to be there to get the degree.... That concept of a senior class is no longer valid in 1971. We how have senior classes of December, March, June August; and the particular sense of attachment that once was felt among graduating seniors is no longer here. There are simply too many of us to enjoy that sense of camaraderie. During our lives at Florida State, neither the senior class nor the student body will ever be assembled on any one occasion. ..We ' ll never get together to attend concerts, plays or ball games or attend commencement exercises- together. We will probably never get-it-together to do anything together, because there are too many of us. Consequently, the college yearbook that attempts to appeal to any specific element within the university, or a traditional association of elements, such as a senior class, the Greeks or the club system, is hokey comma i period e period comma contrived. The scope of such a publication is much too narrow to appeal to the university at large, and can (at best) enjoy only limited success.