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'Hie Campftnile, the yearbook named tor
the landmark smokestack disguised as a hell
tower, debuted in 1915 and has gone through
many changes in its production of 82 volumes.
Jones College senior Sarah Clark, 1998
editor in chief, plans to continue the senior
portraits, a new addition to last, year's year-
book. A survey completed by students ranked
this as a top priority. The photos are informal
and allow for students to display their indi-
viduality.
"Picture Yourself is an important section
for students, so photo-taking for this event
has been extended to two days — one in the
fall and the other in the spring. The fall photo
session will be Oct. 9 from 3:00 p.m. to mid-
night in the Grand Hall.
Other changes prompted by the survey
included dropping the faculty and staff sec-
tion and club portraits. However, club groups
shots may return for this year's Campanile.
Even though printing costs have increased
drastically this year, color photos will still
he a part of this year's book.
Clark's goals for this year in
elude "focusing a lot on re-
cruiting help and setting
up the Campanile as
more of a con-
tinuing club."
She wants to en-
sure staff continuity
so that experienced
people stay on staff in
the future.
Clark said, "The job
gets hard when people don't
live up to what they said they
would do and when they don't
do what they are assigned to do
It is hard to pick up the slack."
"When you have help, it's fun for
.everyone," she said'.
Students agree that the Campanile
is an important part of Rice, because it pro-
► vides pages of memories.
"I am so glad that I have a Campanile from
last year, because every time I flip through it,
I think back to the good times 1 had and the
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Sarah Clark
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10-20% advertising revenue
Advertising? yes
Contest: (713) 527-6097
nightowl@rice.edu
friends that I made," Lovett College junior Joe
Potvin said.
Lovett fifth year Travis Hopp said, "People
don't realize how much effort it takes to pro-
duce a 500-page book, and considering Rice's
size, the Campanile is an amazing production
with a lot of variety that effectively ca[>-
tures life at Rice."
Ixist year's Campanile was dis-
tributed to undergraduate students
as two soft cover volumes con-
tained in a box. ITiis design
broke the mold of the typical
hard cover annual and re-
ceived varied reaction from
students.
'The 1996 Campanile
was definitely creative,
but I found the ease
design cumber-
some," Hopp said.
Clark said that
she most enjoys her
job because it involves her
with "everything that goes on
in the whole university."
1 have the opportunity to interact
with people from every club and every col-
lege," she said.
The Campanile allows her to attend many
events and activities that are part of Rice stu-
dent life. "It's something I enjoy, and at the
same time I'm getting work done for the Cam-
panile," Clark said.
U. Blue' shows artistic flair
Michelle Guchereau
Contributor
University Blue, Rice's student-run literary
and visual arts magazine, annually displays
new creative work from the Rice community
in glossy black-and-white books.
The staff of last year's Volume XIV helped
the magazine undergo two aesthetic changes
— a new format and an innovative cover de-
sign. The smaller page dimensions allowed
almost every original work to receive its own
page. The U. Blue staff transformed the cover
from what editor and Brown College junior
Grace Ho said was becoming "the standard
photo-on-the-front design to the more entic-
ing modern form, created by art editor land
Brown sophomore] Matt Hine."
"I think that the magazine's fresh and origi-
nal exterior looks promising for what is held
within," Ho said.
The variety of original work ranges from
poetry and short prose to varying types of
artwork and photography. The staff anony-
mously chooses material from a large "num-
ber of excellent submissions by a lot of tal-
ented people on staff," editor and Brown se-
nior Lindsey Schechter said last year.
Finding high caliber work in the Rice com-
munity was not a problem for the U. Blue staff,
Schechter said. The real problem, aside from
narrowing down the many submissions to
only a few pieces, was raising enough money
for publication. Although the magazine is par-
tially funded by the university blanket tax,
Schechter said that the lack of sufficient funds
was still a problem.
"I think the V. Blue runs into this problem
every year. The blanket tax money just is not
enough. We get help from various depart-
ments on campus and raise some money by
making Thresher deliveries, but it still does
not give us the funds we would need to publish
the kind of magazine 1 think this university
deserves." Some benefits of a greater budget
would be to increase publication and to add
color to the cover and some of the art and
photography printed within the magazine.
Ixist year's production effort was both time
consuming and fulfilling, Ho said. "It was a lot
of time spent in the library reading, in the
meeting rooms discussing and judging and in
the thresher office laying out and proofing,
but I think we produced a splendid magazine,
1 like what's between the covers."
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'Hooter' brings news, offbeat
humor to graduate students
Susan Egeland
Features Editor
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Jones College senior and 199H Campanile editor Sarah Clark works on a page design, for one of the
1997 Campanile's 496 pages in the yearbook's office in the Student Center.
M any who pick up copies of [heJones Hooter
will find that it is both informative and humor-
ous, Launched by three graduate students of
the Jesse H.Jones Graduate School
of Administration last year, the pub
litation-provides news pertinent to
the Jones School and serves as a
forum for graduate students in its
"Hoots and Hollers" section.
"Everyone at the Jones
School is invited to contribute
to the paper," editor David
Bixby said. "At this point, we
have only had contributions J§
from students and adminis-
trators, although professors
have been asked I to sub-
mit]."
In an attempt to expand I
the monthly publication. *
this year's Hooter editors,
Bixby and fellow Jones
School graduate students Chris
Burkhart and Chris McCauley, sought to in
elude more student submissions and cover
subject matter that extends beyond Herring
Hall
In its second year, the Hooter has no actual
office and no formal means of distributing the
publication.
"We have a primitive distribution network
whereby we leave papers on the windowsill in
the downstairs hallway at Herring — the only
special deliveries <ne to the faculty floor and to
the dean's office," Bixby said.
While the Hooter's primary purpose is to
bring information to Jones School students,
Bixby said that it also serves to "help the
| humor-challenged business school students
™ develop beyond the classroom."
At this point, the Hooter has met with some
«dminiBtrativecanceamv£Ejqu£8tianable lftn-
guage used in some of its features, but for the
most part they have had the freedom to print
whatever they have wanted to
"'Hie very best part [of working with the
Hooter] is the laughs and the compliments we
get as a result of our work," Bixby said.
The editors of the Hooter contend that the
publication has no affiliation with a restau-
rant of the same name known
for employing vo-
luptuous women
as waitresses.
Regardless, they
opted to change the
name over the sum-
mer since the name,
which was "intended
to be a joke, gives a
negative impression
before people oven read
the Hooter," Bixby said,
The editors have not se-yf
lecled a new name at this | |(|,iV
lime, but the August edi*
lion of the publication bore
the title The Taper Formally
Known as the Hooter. §J|
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The Hooter
Jonas School newsmagaiine
Format:
8.5 x 11 in.
on medium brown paper
Published: monthly
First issue: 1996
Editors: David Bixby
Chris Burkhart
Chris McCauley
Funding: 100% advertising revenue
Advertising? yes
Contact: hooter@rice.edu
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Hardi, Joel & Siy, Angelique. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, October 3, 1997, newspaper, October 3, 1997; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth246602/m1/7/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.