Do you remember that kid who used to sit next to you in freshman English, the guy with the orange hair and freckles, who used to wear a Dave Matthews Band hat to class everyday? Or that girl who used to get really worked up and pound her fists on the table at Student Government Association meetings? You know that face-but you can’t quite place the name. Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a picture?That’s about the time you turn to your college yearbook-if you have one.As of next year, you might not.Last Spring, the student body voted to cut funding from Archive, the University yearbook. Because Archive is no longer a University-funded organization-and, as such, has lost the $62,000 of funding it needed to function every year-there may no longer be a concrete record of your classmates’ names and faces.The free yearbooks that came out yesterday were the last that will be funded by the student body. Under current circumstances, if the yearbook continues to be made and is released next year or in future years, it will be sold to students individually (speculatively for about $35 per copy). Yet, another yearbook may never be produced at all. Collecting and editing 272 pages of pictures, cutlines and commentary is a grueling task, and in addition to cutting funding to production of the yearbook, the University cut all compensation for Archive employees. Archive staff this year was only ten students, all of whom spent a considerable amount of time on this project. Traditionally, Archive staff has been small. As recently as 2000, the staff was as small as one-the editor in chief. The Archive yearbook is an integral part of SLU history: It is SLU’s oldest publication. Morover, by keeping record of SLU, it reminds us of how great our SLU history is.There has been a recent movement by SGA to improve school spirit. The Billiken Spirit Initiative proposes that student organizations display their proud histories-old concert posters and issues of The University News that address SLU throughout history, for instance. The Initiative also proposes that SLU as a whole bring attention to famous Billikens who have graduated and are doing incredible things in the world. What better way to remember these faces and names than through the yearbook?To bring life back to the yearbook, SGA should tack onto its Billiken Pride Initiative a request to reinstate the student yearbook fee. Five dollars-that’s all that every student pays to maintain this important part of SLU life. Five dollars-that’s about the price of a burrito at Salsarita’s. It’s not much. Kurt Vonnegut once said: “True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” That high school class is now our college class. Remember that guy with the sideways-cocked hat and the too-low pants, who was always shirtless and yelling at the campus bar? Someday, what if he were in charge? Wouldn’t be nice to put a name to the face?