MSU’s yearbook, the Red Cedar Log, has changed its distribution process this year to better ensure students receive the book.
In previous years, the yearbook was available to students to pick up at local bookstores. But for the 2001-02 yearbook, Editor in Chief Kate Harper said the books are available at all residence halls and bookstores. The yearbook staff also will begin to pass out books at the rock.
“We plan on getting a table outside once a week to get rid of some,” Harper said. “We find ways to get rid of them.”
But mathematics sophomore Emily Kahn said giving away yearbooks in other places, such as the rock, isn’t a good idea.
“People would not want to get them,” she said. “Everyone goes to the bookstore, and they come out with bags. So picking up a yearbook would not be hard to carry. Distribution at the rock would just be a waste because no one wants to carry a heavy yearbook to their classes.”
Harper said although the staff had the same number of yearbooks published as last year, more people seem interested.
“From what I’ve seen, people want them,” she said. “I think the response has been better than last year.”
But Harper said not as many yearbooks were passed out in the dorms as she had hoped because the books arrived late.
“The distribution in the dorms didn’t go as we have hoped,” she said. “But now that more people are starting to know about the book, people are getting more.”
Sarah Lindow, an advertising junior and College Store, 4790 S. Hagadorn Road, employee said the best way to get the books in the hands of students is through the bookstores.
“When we set them out, people picked them up rather quickly,” she said. “I think handing them out at the rock would be another good location for people to get them.”
Harper said the yearbook staff is giving books to the bookstores as stores need them.
But not all students are familiar with the Red Cedar Log.
Engineering freshman Kendrick Lee said he doesn’t know what the Red Cedar Log is, and isn’t interested in picking one up - especially at the rock.
“Giving them out at the rock would be an excuse for people to socialize,” he said.
Many students don’t respect the yearbooks as they should, Harper said, but she said she’s sure they will in time.
“It’s definitely something people aren’t going to appreciate until they find it in there closet in 20 years, and they happen to open it up and look at it,” she said.
