SCO's Plans for This Week

SCO's newly formed Social Committee has organized a series of school-spirit events this week leading up to Homecoming weekend. Themed dress days, hall decorating, a school spirit assembly, a movie, and more have been planned to stir up excitement in a student body settling into the drudgery of fall school work. The hall-decorating contest, in which every class decorates a hall, has an attractive incentive: the class with the best ("best" being defined by a set of impartial judges) decorations goes first to lunch one day and gets ice cream as well. This prize is notably unfair to seniors, who have nothing to gain except ice cream, and stand to lose their hard-won place in the lunch line.

Both Thursday and Friday will be special dress days. On Thursday we are instructed to wear formal clothes, and on Friday clothes of blue and gold, the school colors. For those who wish to join in, poster and tee-shirt making are planned after school both days.

These activities will culminate in a school spirit assembly on Friday. Here we will recognize the achievements and hard work of athletic teams, especially on the varsity level, and those who have tirelessly devoted themselves to the upcoming musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Some sort of competitive game will also take place at this assembly, spurring us on to greater acedemic heights.

This assembly will be followed in the evening on Friday with a movie for the high school, Sydney King's Pearl Diver. It will be shown at 8:00 PM on the soccer field. We are all encouraged to bring blankets and snacks.

- Nathan Hershberger