Homecoming Thursday - Generation Day

Even though I like to avoid turning the school website into a senior propaganda machine during Homecoming, the freshmen need some constructive criticism.

There is a subtle distinction between decorating the school and covering it in colorful trash. For example, Styrofoam cups are not an effective ornament. Strewing sheaves upon sheaves of green paper on the floor that say, “Go Green” is not good publicity. When it is the second-to-last day of Homecoming week avoid using the phrase, “The one-one party’s just begun.”

The arch of green helium balloons spanning the amphitheater was good as was the canvas sign advised everyone to “get some $.” Especially because if you were clever enough, it was easy to follow instructions, in the halls the shrapnel actually included green eleven-dollar bills.

When asked how the homecoming decorations made him feel, janitor Derrick Ford said, “It actually doesn’t bother me, it’s the kids that come at 2:30 in the morning that have to deal with it.”

Today was generation day and it looked pretty good. Some people found ways to wear their class colors and dress as infants, toddlers, middle-aged persons and seniors, others came as pink toddlers or green seniors, oh well. One smart fellow, named Ian Allen, showed how far beyond high school he is by dressing as a coffin.

16 Responses

1. 7:02 PM on November 1st, 2007Anonymous:

   Even though im not a freshman, i dont think it is appropriate to critize the freshman decorations because each class has its own way to decorate. Besides, i dont think junior or senior class decorated well.

2. 7:34 PM on November 1st, 2007violet rose:

   this was a good article! go cougars

3. 7:46 PM on November 1st, 2007Senior:

   Go KQ go!

4. 10:13 PM on November 1st, 2007c'est moi:

   Hahaha, most of the stuff on the floor started out taped to the walls and not ripped apart xD

5. 9:23 AM on November 2nd, 2007not anonymous:

   hey anonymous, its stupid to criticize opinion

6. 3:53 PM on November 2nd, 2007sophomore:

   it’s also kind of ridiculous that the freshmen started challenging the juniors after they lost the boy’s volleyball prelims. 2011 - try ‘going green’ and not wasting paper on lame decorations. and stealing the juniors’ sign as freshman who’ve lost practically every event in homecoming week is a little over the top, don’t you think?

7. 4:27 PM on November 3rd, 2007sad freshie :(:

   As a freshman, I agree completely. I think our decorations were trash. The balloon arch and $11 bills were a great idea, but the shreds of paper on the floor and fliers were like pure litter. We need to know that in our coming years, we need to spread color in a positive way like the seniors and juniors. Trash doesnt’ ekwal pretty!

8. 7:27 PM on November 5th, 2007Senior:

   I think that all the underclassmen needs to be grateful enough that they even got to decorate. Because I know when we were underclassmen our stuff was torn down all the time. So just deal with it, and need to be more creative and not just copy the seniors ideas. Be original and wait your year will come we had to wait so stop complaining.

9. 11:51 AM on November 10th, 2007Jen the Sophmore.:

   How come the main pic is from WEDNESDAY: HALLOWEEN when SOPHEMORES decorated. lol when we’re tlaking about THURSDAY: GENERATION DAY, wen the FRESHMAN decorated….lol

10. 11:22 PM on November 30th, 2007Melanie Zhao:

    I agree that trashing the ground with pieces of paper and green confetti certainly wasn’t the best idea. I apologize if the “colorful trash” had caused any inconvience for anybody.

    The freshmen class counsel had been responsible enough in cleaning up, though. The secretary and I along with a few other helpers, stayed long after school sweeping up all of the confetti and removing posters. After the other clean-up crew members left, it took me on my own many more hours up until around seven in the night to finish the three floors, the two staircases, the gym lobby, the “trashed” lavatories, and the lunch shelter. The colorful trash definitely had not been a good idea and whoever came up with it likely had little idea that the freshmen class counsel and the janitors were responsible, but in the end we did take responsibility and we cleaned up everything. No extra work for the janitors from us, that’s good.

    Anyways. Thank you for the constructive criticism. Despite the floor trashing (which was a hassle for me to clean, but I earned four Leadership service hours and get to write an insane activity response on my prolonged co-working with the tools inside the janitor’s clothet; it was pretty fun now that I think back), I still think that our class worked very hard and finished with quite majestic results for a class that had never done such decorating before. The organization was great and everybody worked in unison (and I didn’t think twice about the floor being “trashed” until I was standing over all the mess with the janitor’s broomstick). We’ll surely improve next year!

11. 11:27 PM on November 30th, 2007Melanie Zhao:

    And the “green” part is indeed irony. We tried recycling most of the paper waste (lots and lots) but a large amount still got thrown away.

    I swept up all the campus trash I saw too. In one day, however, the campus grounds became the same again. D:

12. 7:20 PM on December 16th, 2007Anonymous:

    lets go 08.

13. 7:29 PM on December 16th, 2007sophmore:

    what waste of time the hard work of decorating the school.

14. 7:15 PM on April 4th, 2008Anonymous:

    Albany High needs to spend there time on more sensible articles and not bash the freshman class, it all sounds like pure jealously because the upper classmen didn’t think of the ideas first. I bet you next homecoming you will all bite off the freshman ideas. Grow up upper classmen, you sound like the freshmen, crying over such petty stuff. Did you really think the staff or judges of any the the homecoming activities would let the freshmen win? It really sounds like the upper classmen are intimidated.
    Come on out with the old in with new. Don’t hate. GREEN IS THE FUTURE.

15. 4:49 PM on May 11th, 2008sure:

    anonymous..sure

16. 3:32 PM on September 18th, 2008AHS is embarrassed by the class of 2011:

    To anonymous, #14: so we’re definitely not jealous.. obviously we didn’t think of your ideas because the ideas sucked… It’s not jealousy being expressed here in this article, its embarrassment of your class’ pathetic taste in decorations. straight. up. trashy. trust me, this year there will be no copying of your trash that you call “decorations”. Oh and don’t try to pull the whole “we didn’t win homecoming activities because we were freshmen” because you definitely didn’t even participate in the lip sync last year..

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