After all the class Quad Day performances on the first week of October, rumors circulated around school about the many reasons regarding the possible disqualifications of the freshman, sophomore and the junior class.
“There were many reasons I heard why grades got disqualified including racism, ruining decorations violating deadlines and jokes,” sophomore Sabrina Clark said.
However, according to Homecoming commissioner Amanda Le, no grade was actually disqualified.
“There were some violations during some of the Quad Days, but none of the classes have been disqualified,” Le said. “It wouldn’t be fair to do so because none of the violations were really intentional.”
Some jokes were controversial because of their ambiguity and their ability to understood in another way.
“We made a joke and in a way it could have been perceived as suggestive, but personally I don’t understand why people made such a big deal about it,” sophomore Zhan Ng said. “It was a simple innuendo that was engineered to be slightly provoking but it was blown out of proportion.”
The junior Quad Day performance included an abundance of jokes mostly centered around teachers, some of which prompted students to wonder if they were in good taste.
“A majority of the jokes didn’t really make sense to me,” junior Samuel Breck said, “although there were a couple of jokes that were funny and tied well into our theme.”
Another change imposed on Homecoming week was the elimination of the traditional night rally which has happened on the Wednesday night of Homecoming week and it’s when the Homecoming court is announced.
“Since a lot of people couldn’t make the night rally because of sports, band and other commitments, we decided to cancel it.” said junior Natalie Miller. “The rally commission had to decrease the number of rallies in the year so that we could make each rally bigger, longer, and more spirited.”
