By Lori Bredemeyer, Copy Editor

The Alumni Relations Office has requested seniors’ photographs from their college experience to include in the senior class video.

Dr. Dwayne VanRheenen, provost, sent a letter April 1 to Students’ Association executive officers and candidates asking for help incorporating more diversity into the video.

“What I’m struck by is that when I see the video, sometimes it doesn’t reflect the whole student body,” VanRheenen said in an interview. “The question is, ‘Does the video represent fully the rich texture of what we’re about?'”

Jama Cadle, coordinator of alumni inreach, and Kayla Christianson, the video’s producer, select the photographs to use, but Cadle said the problem is not in which pictures are chosen, but in which students submit photos.

“I think a lot of times you get the SA folks or you get the social club folks,” she said, “and when you think about it, that’s just a small amount of the senior population.”

VanRheenen said he believes photos normally in the video should stay, but others of students with different backgrounds and ethnicities should be included.

“There’s such a rich texture of who we are as an institution, so let’s try to represent it the best way we can,” he said.

Cadle said she may try to seek help from cultural groups such as Hispanos Unidos or

Essence of Ebony in obtaining an assortment of photos.

“We want everybody represented because the video’s going to last a long time,” she said, “and we want to remember their ACU experience fondly.”

Portions of the video will be shown at the senior dinner May 7 at 6 p.m. in the Teague

Special Events Center. Seniors can purchase the full-length, 30-45 minute video, and Cadle said she is still negotiating the price for the VHS and DVD.