“The long looked for is here.” Volume one of The Cardinal began a legacy that would become the longest running student media outlet in the University’s long history. It started a tradition of sentimental and comedic cartoons, pictures, poetry, and everything in between.

“The name The Razorback, almost anyone in the South or Middle-West will recognize the book as a University of Arkansas publication.” As the University community and everyone else came to know us as the Razorbacks, it only made sense to adopt the name. The yearbook has been published under this new name for over 100 years.

This yearbook includes an article entitled “Journalism — A Profession”, discussing the founding of the Journalism program here at Arkansas. The University has a duty to train young men and women to the “standards of this new profession”.

Arguably one of the first modern layouts in The Razorback’s history, this yearbook includes all the cartoons, commentary, and information of past editions, as well as many more photos of the student body outside of just the standard portraits. This yearbook gives an excellent glimpse into student life in pre-war 1930’s Arkansas.

According to the editor, “no yearbook in the history of the University was ever published under more trying conditions”. This edition was published with a much smaller staff than it had in years before, facing a shortage of students given the ongoing war. It is dedicated to General Douglas A. MacArthur, a WWII-era leader born in Arkansas.

This yearbook’s focus is community, which “finds continuity of purpose in the desire for knowledge and the striving for excellence”. This yearbook discusses many issues, such as the volume of re-enrolled students post-war, and a housing shortage reminiscent of a modern-day Fayetteville.

“This book is an attempt to recapture the spirit” of the college experience which is so important to us. This yearbook does a great job of capturing both the chaos and enjoyment of a typical year at the University. It covers topics that have changed in every way but somehow not at all, like the chaos of enrolling in next semester’s classes or the experience of playing around on Old Main Lawn in the snow.

Initially, the focus of the 1963 edition would be contrast of the new and old on campus. “We are left with the disquieting feeling that what we have shown is not so much contrast as continuity. That’s life.” They discuss the disrepair that Old Main had fallen into and it’s bittersweet. If only they saw it now.

The photography is what stands out in this yearbook. It’s phenomenal. This edition opens with poetry paired with landscape photography and goes on to cover the usual topics, portraits, sports, and everything else, as well as many concerts. This seems to have been a great year for the Fayetteville music scene. While it isn’t the first edition to include color, it did utilize it extremely well.

Among other things, this yearbook includes a spread about the dinosaur that apparently was exhibited on campus for almost two months in the Fall semester, 1986. This edition also showcased another instance of the ever-present student activism at the University. Bill Clinton discusses issues of budget cuts to higher education with students.

Enrollment in ’95 was fourteen and a half thousand, under half the size of Arkansas’ current student body. This edition also commemorates the centennial season of the Football team, which happened to be a losing one. Several students got Hog tattoos to celebrate, which are also photographed for this edition.

This edition, published in black and white includes several spreads focusing on our many athletics programs at the University, highlighting those that aren’t focused on in yearbooks past. It also highlights the full version of our Alma Mater, which most don’t know includes two more verses after “Mother Of Mothers”.

This yearbook highlights many modern topics. It includes a four page spread on the Rio olympics, where seventeen alumni represented eight countries and took home four medals. It also covers the Fall 2016 semester, one which was marred by political division that sparked several protests on campus. It was a school year that brought astronauts, activists, journalists, celebrities, floods, an earthquake, and everything in between.