Yearbooks signing off.WHEN PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH nominated Judge Samuel Alito Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. (born April 1, 1950) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Educated at Princeton University and Yale Law School, Alito served as a United States attorney and a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to the U.S. Supreme Court in October, journalists went digging for information. A photo of Alito from his Princeton University (N.J.) yearbook appeared online along with the original text saying he intended to eventually "warm a seat on the Supreme Court." If Alito were in college today, such an entry might never have appeared. Declining yearbook Sales have been a fact for decades, and some schools are now putting the final nails in the yearbook coffin. The University of Arizona (body, education) University of Arizona - The University was founded in 1885 as a Land Grant institution with a three-fold mission of teaching, research and public service. has officially eliminated yearbooks this year after reviving the concept through a special program from Texas-based Taylor Publishing. Arizona State University Arizona State University, at Tempe; coeducational; opened 1886 as a normal school, became 1925 Tempe State Teachers College, renamed 1945 Arizona State College at Tempe. Its present name was adopted in 1958. has also decided to bit the brakes on yearbooks. "I've been here 12 years, and the yearbook was never especially successful financially," says Mark Woodhams, director of Student Media at the University of Arizona. To Woodhams, a combination of factors--including online community tools, larger class sizes, and changes in the way students experience community--has led to declining yearbook sates. Many schools sell books to less than 2 percent of their senior classes. Arvli Ward, director of Student Media for the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. , cautions against generalizing low yearbook sales. At UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , the books are struggling--but still alive. "If you look at different kinds of colleges, you'll find all kinds of stories," Ward says. |
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