Student story- Yearbook vs. Newspaper isn't such a grudge match

By Brooke Pritchett

The scenes in the Wildcat yearbook and Kedzie Krier newspaper rooms are pretty much the same: students discussing page layouts, writing and conducting interviews.

Yearbooks and newspapers have differences, but at the Flint Hills Publication Workshop, members of newspaper and yearbook staffs chill and work together. One reason they may get along is because had their schedules worked out differently they could be a part of the other staff.

“I wasn’t sure which one I wanted to take,” Bailey Buer, of Kapaun Mt. Carmel. “But that (newspaper) was the easiest with my schedule.”

Katie Gilbaugh is also in newspaper at Kapaun.

“I like putting out an issue every month, as opposed to once a year” Gilbaugh said.

Daniela Morales, a senior on McPherson High School, choose yearbook because she like’s to design.

“I don’t like to write a lot,” Morales said.

At McPherson there are no bad feelings between the two staffs. In fact, they share the same room — just at different times.

“We all get along,” Morales said.

“I wanted to be in newspaper originally,” said Hailey Lapin, a senior at Blue Valley Northwest High School.

Because of problems with her class schedule, she decided to take yearbook instead. She’s glad she did.

“We do some joking…that Yearbook is better than newspaper,” Lapin said.

Lapin adds that at the end of the day they’re still a team.

“We’re all just trying to put out good publications,” she said. “At the heart of it, yearbook and newspaper are the same. We’re just trying to put out a good story.”

Brooke Pritchett is a sophomore at Derby High School and a student in the advanced writing class at the Flint Hills Publication Workshop.