California Baptist University 2022

Managing Editor’s Not e

A At what I like to call “the heart of CBU,” in the basement of the James Building, near the infamous catacombs, there lies an old cozy room lined with computers, decked with hanging twinkle lights — the Newsroom. This year consisted of many nights working in the Newsroom until 3 a.m., bumping music in the car at top volume to get tacos at night and waking up at 6 a.m. to go to a journalism conference. It was filled with leaving highlighter all over proof pages, surviving computer crashes, fixing picas, adjusting bleed lines, editing articles, color correcting photos and chasing down people for their name for a photo. At the end of it all, you might ask, why do we do it? Why make this yearbook? Perhaps in the moment we would sigh. But even behind our tired, dark-circled eyes, there’s a glimmer of a smile. When we take a step back, this mixture of chaotic yet tireless striving towards summing up this year at CBU, we seek to comprehend what it means to RESTRUCTURE our lives in the midst of a global pandemic. In a year where our lives have lost their structure and consistency, where so many things are unknown and things are constantly changing, we are learning to change our habits for the better. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, to restructure means to organize a system in a new way to operate more effectively. Not only are we rebuilding our lives after so much has been stripped from our daily routines, but we are finding ways that make our life even more efficient and fruitful. While the chaos is what we seem to be constantly trying to escape, perhaps this chaos is what drives us forward in motion, toward improvement, innovation, and imagining a brighter future. I hope as you flip through the pages of this book, you will recall all the change we have accepted in stride, be inspired by the endeavors of your peers and feel the nostalgia and how far we have come in our 70th yearbook.

WORDS Kia Harlan

PHOTO Courtesy of Emily Ma

DESIGN Kia Harlan