Points out that it is not necessary and is sometimes undesirable for a school yearbook to have a theme. Provides guidelines for choosing and using a theme. (TJ)

Indicates that to build a successful yearbook advertising program an adviser must instill enthusiasm and then find students willing to sell advertising. Provides eight guidelines for structuring an advertising sales program. (TJ)

Argues in favor of summer delivery yearbooks, telling how they permit coverage of end-of-the-year school events. (GT)

Recommends that publications staffs obtain staff artists and offers several suggestions for working with a staff cartoonist. Includes cartooning tips and sample cartoons from a high school cartoonist. (GT)

Describes the successful organization of a high school yearbook staff into three-member teams, each responsible for layout, copy, and pictures for assigned spreads throughout the yearbook. (GT)

Points out the importance of the editorial page in student publications; suggests that student editorials tend to be trite and too often fail to provide serious examination of the local educational process and other important issues that directly affect students. (TJ)

Examines the evolution of an Austin (Texas) high school yearbook over 80 years, examines some of the changes in its style and content, and considers the issue of proper content and coverage in a high school yearbook. (TJ)

Provides pointers for writing yearbook picture captions and discusses ways of getting ideas for captions. (GT)

Suggests ways of planning and conducting a workshop session to teach yearbook staff members about layout design. (GT)

Urges yearbook staffs to experiment with graphics; describes the use of the "modular geometrick design," and includes reproductions of yearbook pages based on this design. (GT)

Suggests that school newspapers pursue out-of-school news in areas such as school-related concerns, government, community agencies and services, entertainment, service agencies and programs, sports, first-person accounts, national problems, and problem investigation. (TJ)

Reports on three court cases involving high school students and freedom of the press issues relating to both official and underground high school newspapers. (TJ)

Describes grading systems used in student publications production classes at several Texas high schools; includes a copy of the contract used in one contract grading system. (GT)

Reports that significantly greater numbers of high school students have jobs now than did in the past, limiting the time student publication staff members can give to their publications. Offers suggestions to advisers with busy staff Members. (GT)

Describes six common weaknesses of student publications advisers and suggests ways of overcoming them. (GT)