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'Aerie' closes final chapter of its yearbook
Carrie Sands
Issue date: 7/24/08 Section: NEWS
After 26 years, the "Aerie" yearbook will no longer be published. This is the second time a yearbook has been discontinued at UNT.
According to an email from Mary Finley, the advisor to the "Aerie" and assistant director of the union administration, the publication stopped because of an increase in social networking, increased cost of production, declining sales, and her retirement from UNT.
"Yearbooks are still popular with high school students and I understand the TAMS program still has a yearbook," Finley said. "But, the national trend has been for yearbooks to be discontinued," for universities.
Finley added that other Texas universities do not have a yearbook, such as he University of Houston, the University of Texas at Arlington and Texas State University.
UNT's yearbook has undergone several changes. The yearbook was first called "The Cottontail" in 1905 and the following year changed to "The Yucca." The name lasted until 1974 when publication ended, but according to the Aerie web site, UNT had a small "senior's yearbook" called "Wings" that was published in 1977, 1979 and 1980.
"UNT did not have a yearbook during the mid-late 70s. And, in the future UNT may decide to have a book again," Finley said.
- Carrie Sands
According to an email from Mary Finley, the advisor to the "Aerie" and assistant director of the union administration, the publication stopped because of an increase in social networking, increased cost of production, declining sales, and her retirement from UNT.
"Yearbooks are still popular with high school students and I understand the TAMS program still has a yearbook," Finley said. "But, the national trend has been for yearbooks to be discontinued," for universities.
Finley added that other Texas universities do not have a yearbook, such as he University of Houston, the University of Texas at Arlington and Texas State University.
UNT's yearbook has undergone several changes. The yearbook was first called "The Cottontail" in 1905 and the following year changed to "The Yucca." The name lasted until 1974 when publication ended, but according to the Aerie web site, UNT had a small "senior's yearbook" called "Wings" that was published in 1977, 1979 and 1980.
"UNT did not have a yearbook during the mid-late 70s. And, in the future UNT may decide to have a book again," Finley said.
- Carrie Sands
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