STAFF EDITORIAL

Attending the homecoming parade and football game, hanging out with friends, taking pictures, and exchanging corsages and boutineers build up anticipation to the peak of the homecoming festivities: the homecoming dance.

But the dance itself was the low point of this year’s homecoming.

With students already waiting in line, the staff forced the start of the line to be moved to other side of the Event Center, causing frustrated students to scramble to keep their spots in line.

The line then resembled a mob, as a U-haul truck bottlenecked the line so only a few students could fit in it at a time.

Also, there were only two staff members searching students, further slowing the movement of the line.

Consequently, students spent more time waiting in line than enjoying the dance.

The security was sloppy. Some students were able to enter the dance without having to show their tickets and identification cards, giving them an unfair advantage over students who brought the appropriate tickets and I.D.

When students finally entered the dance, their excitement of dancing with their partners was stalled by the sound of the fire alarm.

The fire alarm rang several times because of the smoke machine, forcing staff members to push an anxious, frustrated crowd of students outside, depriving them of fun.

To top it off, the only beverage supplied to cool students off from the hot Event Center was terrible-tasting water.

It’s a shame that this year’s senior class had to have their last homecoming soured by poor planning.

Hopefully, the staff and leadership class take this year’s homecoming dance as a learning experience so future dances on campus will run much more smoothly.

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