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October 18, 2019
Despite conflicting opinions on theme, students underperform in spirit
Ana Malagon Opinion Editor
Homecoming week is a great time to show school pride. However, the WHS student body seems to lack school spirit. As the week of homecoming progressed, less and less people dressed for the daily spirit week themes. For some, homecoming week is an exciting time to dress up according to the
Homecoming spirit poster that shows the daily themes and lunch time activities.
Spanish teacher Erin Pedersen shows her WHS pride by wearing rainbow socks and rainbow glitter on her eyes.
theme. “I want to be able to go all out like other schools do. It’s not fun when nobody dresses up for the theme,” Martha Szczepanski, sophomore, said. Others disagree. “The themes are not great. Many people don’t have clothes to match the theme,” Julia Kwietniewski, sophomore, said.
Ana Malagon and Daniella Perez show thier school pride by wearing rainbow striped socks.
The freshman class show their school pride by wearing white.
Editorial:
O ve r the past few we eks, m e mbers o f Sp o ke s ma n h ave c a ught mult ip le s t ude nts va pi n g in t h e b at hrooms. Even af ter t he whole bat h ro o m lo ck i ng s cen ar io, s t ude nts s ti ll co nt in ue
Students believe that this year’s themes were not something they could have fun or be creative with. It is evident that Student Council and the WHS student body fell flat in terms of communication regarding this year’s homecoming theme. Nevertheless, it is still very disappointing
that Student Council put in hours of hard work decorating the foyer and gym to have the majority of the student body not participate in the daily themes. It is important to have school pride and showcase it, especially during the week of Homecoming when the opportunity is given.
The sophomore class show their school pride by wearing gold.
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The junior class show their school pride by wearing blue.
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13 out of 13 editorial members agree
Erica Hayden
Important reminder: pick up after yourself
Arts Editor
Homecoming: yay or nay?
The foyer was just renovated, and there is already an abundace of garbage. Help make the janitors’ jobs easier and stop leaving garbage behind. Clean up after youself; it’s really not that hard.
Garbage under new sofas in the WHS foyer.
The senior class show their school pride by wearing black.
Suits, dresses, corsages, high heels and crowns. All of these items make you think of one thing: school dances – Homecoming to be exact. Now, I’m not the biggest fan of school dances. I think we can all agree that a lot of the movies we watched growing up exaggerated the whole concept. “High School Musical”, “Mean Girls” and “Grease” are all examples of this overdramatization. To me, the Wizard of Oz theme
was very creative, especially with how all the decorations turned out. The foyer was turned into a whole different place, from the darkened lights to the realistic balloon trees. Before the foyer was remodeled with the new furniture, I worried about how they were going to be able to pull off this year’s decorations. It seems to me that it came out better than the previous years, regardless of the furniture situation, not to mention the cute door decorating contest that had everyone in Oz fever. I don’t know if I’m the only one to mention this, but there is a specific part of the Homecoming dance
that has to stop: grind circles. They make people uncomfortable, and they makes our school look bad. It is even weirder when the freshmen are doing it, since they are still about fourteen or fifteen and just a few months out of middle school. In all seriousness, Homecoming is a really great concept with spirit week, decorations, coronations, pep assemblies and various lunchtime activities. It is the first dance of the school year, which provides freshmen with the opportunity to hang out with their new friends and allows upperclassmen to enjoy what might be one of
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HOMECOMING KING AND QUEEN Garbage under new table in the WHS foyer.
Victor Gomez and Jocelyn Beltran