The Criterion Archive
The Criterion
The La Sierra University student newspaper spans the years 1929 to the present. Digital PDF files of each volume are available from the list below. Clicking on a link will open the file in a new browser window. Please note that these files are large and may take a few moments to download.
To keyword search the entire collection, use the box below. Once the PDF file has opened, hit Ctrl+F (for a PC) or Cmmd+F (for a Mac) to keyword search within the document.
*Number 10 is the only known extant issue of volume 4. If you have any other issues from this volume or know where they can be located, we'd love to hear from you!
**The Criterion appeared in an online blog format for the school year 2006-2007. No Criterion newspaper was published.
For the last several years, The Criterion has been an online-only publication. You can read it at criterionnow.com.
Yearbooks at the Internet Archive
This collection includes school yearbooks from 1924 to the present. El Serrano (The Mountaineer) was the name given to the first five yearbooks (1924-1928). With the 1930s and the onset of the Great Depression, campus administration suspended yearbook publication as a cost-saving measure. A few creative students however, decided to redesign the yearbook to appear as the final "Commencement Edition" of The College Criterion, the school newspaper, from 1930-1932. In 1939, the student body voted to print The Meteor, a name that lasted through 1972. The current title, Visions, was first published in 1978.
Yearbooks have been published intermittently over the years. The yearbooks are added to this list five years after publication for privacy reasons. Our collection is believed to be complete; however, if you discover a yearbook we don't have, please let us know!
The collection is available here: Yearbook Collection at Internet Archive, or by choosing a year from the list below.
*The 1930-1932 Criterion Commencement issues will open the Criterion volume PDF. Scroll to the end for the commencement issue.
| 1924 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1990 | - | - |
| 1925 | - | 1951 | 1961 | 1971 | - | 2001 | 2011 |
| 1926 | - | 1952 | 1962 | 1972 | 1992 | - | 2012 |
| 1927 | - | 1953 | 1963 | 1978 | 1993 | 2003 | - |
| 1928 | 1944 | 1954 | 1964 | - | 1994 | - | - |
| - | 1945 | 1955 | 1965 | 1984 | 1995 | - | - |
| 1930* | 1946 | 1956 | 1966 | 1985 | 1996 | - | - |
| 1931* | 1947 | 1957 | 1967 | 1986 | - | 2007 | - |
| 1932* | 1948 | 1958 | 1968 | 1987 | - | 2008 | - |
| 1939 | 1949 | 1959 | 1969 | 1988 | - | 2009 | - |
Online Theses & Dissertations
Terminal works by La Sierra University graduate students can be found here: ProQuest: Dissertations & Theses @ La Sierra University (LSU login required)
Photographs
Click the link above to take a look at our photograph collections and tell us what you think!
What would you like to see?
We are planning the future of digital collections! What would you like to see online next? Do you have an idea thats not listed here? Let us know! Email library@lasierra.edu or call 2396.
The First Twenty Years
The First Twenty Years by Keld J. Reynolds. Click to access the ebook.
