If you have not logged on to the internet lately, you might want to check out the new Campus Times Web site at laverne.edu/campus-times. The site has been revamped, featuring a cleaner layout, a home-page slideshow and new reader interactivity features.
With newspapers across the country taking a slow plunge and in some areas disappearing altogether, a new form of journalism – “hyperlocal” Web based publications have begun to fill the void – even in La Verne.
The University of La Verne’s official Web site has been noticeably modified for the fall semester, receiving both positive and negative response to its new design and functionality. The Office of Information Technology, in charge of maintaining laverne.edu, altered the Web site design and also added new user-friendly features.
Leigh Devereaux, project manager of the redesigned University of La Verne Web site, and Christopher Frazier, designer of the site, chat at an ice cream social in celebration of the launch of the Web site Tuesday in the Campus Center Ballroom.
Between the lack of abundant parking spaces and masses of students walking around the University of La Verne, one might assume that an increase in enrollment has occurred. To the contrary, the fall semester opened under the projected number of undergraduate students.