COLLEGIAN WEEKLY: Winona, Towerlight changes dazzle
Issue date: 3/13/08 Section: Opinion
Poetry, fiction and art submitted in greater quantity than ever to the Towerlight showed a long-needed change in Hillsdale students' mentality. Students are taking their publications more seriously than ever.
Towerlight gives students a venue to expose their artistic work. And the yearbook, the Winona, documents the lives of the students. Both these publications are important.
And in turn, both have taken their tasks seriously and set a precedent this year.
Predictions say this year's Winona departs radically from previous years, which have borne the brunt of layout and design struggles. This year, Winona staff decided to make all photos black and white, and they're incorporating essays, too. Even though the results aren't yet between the covers and on the stands for students to enjoy, the prospect is intriguing and merits any enthusiasm students are already showing.
Likewise, the Towerlight staff has generated excitement by better advertising. The eye-catching posters mounted all over campus promise that the booklet will also be more inviting than before.
Hopefully, students creating Towerlight and Winona can wed tradition with ambition, creating a new and exciting product while keeping the legacy of years past in mind, too.
As students at Hillsdale, our work merits the investment. Towerlight shows we can think not only logically but also creatively. The lessons our classes instill in us manifest themselves in more relatable ways through the writing and art Towerlight publishes. Moreover, the lessons learned outside of the classroom often merit page space, and this is just the place. Towerlight challenges us to give our thoughts a form and lends us a podium to share them.
And the yearbook documents the ways we choose to spend our lives here. And although we no longer tuck the yearbook under our armpit and spend the last five minutes of class in desperate pursuit of as many signatures as we can get, it's still going to be a valuable memoir. It'll stay tucked on our shelves, perhaps, or in a box in our garage for several years. But then, when a middle-aged version of ourselves pulls it out, we can remember the importance of the lessons we learned here. We can see where we began, and we can better appreciate the significance of how far we've come. (And, our children can see our days of glory and mock our Ugg boots - an odd fashion flashback in the making, to be sure.)
Both the Towerlight and the Winona help us document our existence at Hillsdale College. We believe what we do is significant; these publications mark down our thoughts and actions for years to come.
For these reasons, the advancements made by student editors and writers are important. These students know the significance of the publications they've invested so much time in.
The rest of us will benefit immensely from their hard work and careful preparation.
Towerlight gives students a venue to expose their artistic work. And the yearbook, the Winona, documents the lives of the students. Both these publications are important.
And in turn, both have taken their tasks seriously and set a precedent this year.
Predictions say this year's Winona departs radically from previous years, which have borne the brunt of layout and design struggles. This year, Winona staff decided to make all photos black and white, and they're incorporating essays, too. Even though the results aren't yet between the covers and on the stands for students to enjoy, the prospect is intriguing and merits any enthusiasm students are already showing.
Likewise, the Towerlight staff has generated excitement by better advertising. The eye-catching posters mounted all over campus promise that the booklet will also be more inviting than before.
Hopefully, students creating Towerlight and Winona can wed tradition with ambition, creating a new and exciting product while keeping the legacy of years past in mind, too.
As students at Hillsdale, our work merits the investment. Towerlight shows we can think not only logically but also creatively. The lessons our classes instill in us manifest themselves in more relatable ways through the writing and art Towerlight publishes. Moreover, the lessons learned outside of the classroom often merit page space, and this is just the place. Towerlight challenges us to give our thoughts a form and lends us a podium to share them.
And the yearbook documents the ways we choose to spend our lives here. And although we no longer tuck the yearbook under our armpit and spend the last five minutes of class in desperate pursuit of as many signatures as we can get, it's still going to be a valuable memoir. It'll stay tucked on our shelves, perhaps, or in a box in our garage for several years. But then, when a middle-aged version of ourselves pulls it out, we can remember the importance of the lessons we learned here. We can see where we began, and we can better appreciate the significance of how far we've come. (And, our children can see our days of glory and mock our Ugg boots - an odd fashion flashback in the making, to be sure.)
Both the Towerlight and the Winona help us document our existence at Hillsdale College. We believe what we do is significant; these publications mark down our thoughts and actions for years to come.
For these reasons, the advancements made by student editors and writers are important. These students know the significance of the publications they've invested so much time in.
The rest of us will benefit immensely from their hard work and careful preparation.
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