High school yearbooks were the best, most fun way to say goodbye to schoolmates for the summer, or even forever. At the end of the school year students could be found all over the school trading yearbooks so they could write messages to be remembered by. Also, students wanted their pictures in the yearbook so that they could always look back on what they and others used to be like, whether for comical or sentimental value. Why is it then, that yearbook sales at Buffalo State College are decreasing every year?

Shaeina Bailey, treasurer/business manager of the Elms yearbook here at BSC , says that not many people have been purchasing the school's yearbook for the past couple of years and it is getting thinner every year because of this. Just three years ago the Elms yearbook contained 177 pages and this year it will have 88, according to Editor-in Chief Dave Meinzer.

“There's always that handful of students who want something to keep the memories ,” Bailey adds.

Virtually no profit is made after most of the money made goes to the photographer and the printing, according to Bailey, and whether or not the yearbook will have a hard or soft cover is still unclear (price will not change).

The price of the yearbook is $ 10 to activity fee-paying students at Buffalo State. To be included in this year's Elms yearbook, seniors must provide their photos to the yearbook staff in Cassety Hall Room 106, no later than Feb. 16 .