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| Photographs have filled Ricks College and BYU-Idaho newspapers over the past century. One feature at the Gallery exhibit: Scroll Through History: 100 Years of Headlines is a compilation of many photographs that have appeared in the newspaper. |
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Student Rays. The Purple Flash. Viking Flashes. Scroll.
These are some of the titles used for Ricks College newspapers during the last century. Now, as a part of BYU-Idaho, Scroll is celebrating 100 years of student-produced news publications with a commemorative exhibit to be displayed this week in the Spori Art Gallery.
The exhibit, entitled Scroll Through History: 100 Years of Headlines, will present the history of the newspaper, as well as a brief summary of world and local history in relation to the newspaper.
“Scroll is important for the school in that it has been a student voice for the last 100 years and is an integral part of the university,” said Benjamin Wyeth, a senior from Rexburg, and a director of public relations for Scroll.
Wyeth and the public relations staff have prepared the exhibit to present the paper’s legacy to students and faculty both within and without the communications program.
“The students are a part of what we do, and it’s a chance for them to see where they fit,” Wyeth said. “We’ve designed it so that people will leave with a greater understanding and respect for the newspaper.”
The exhibit will show the names and evolution of Scroll, including some of the equipment used to publish the paper in its early history. Examples of past issues will be displayed, as well as a collection of photos from the last century.
A book will be published later this semester, with the same title as the exhibit. The book will contain additional information, stories and experiences from the newspaper’s history.
“[The exhibit] is a good opportunity to say, ‘this is where we’ve been, this is where we are, and this is where we want to be in the future,’” Wyeth said.
He said that the exhibit would act as a bridge to greater things for the award-winning newspaper. Scroll received a Pacemaker Award, awarded by the Associated College Press for outstanding achievement for university newspapers in 2004.
