When people pay $17 for something, they want to see the purchase in their hands in a timely manner.

Two years-by any stretch of the imagination- is not timely.

Many students are becoming aggrivated and angry that year after year they continue to pay $17 for a yearbook and have nothing to show for it. Nothing.

The blame lies with The Spirit staff and their lack of work ethic.

We advocate an entire overhaul of the staff policy that continues to hire incompetent people every year.

We agree with Dr. Nanney: the yearbook has yet to catch up to the 21st century. In the age of MySpace and Facebook, there is really no need for a printed yearbook.

Students pay enough money every year for textbooks, but at least we have a product that we can hold in our hands, even if we never open it.

Many things at UTM would better benefit from the special $17 yearbook fee.

Only a few people really care about UTM’s “misplaced” yearbooks. Most people are angry that they have been swindled out of $17.

The Spirit is exactly what the name implies: something that doesn’t exist in the real world, but is alive in the minds of a very few.

We hope that the UTM Publications Board will address this issue in a real-world way.

We hope they will find an intelligent solution to the yearbook debacle. Additionally, we advocate a refund to the affected students.