Long after the chalk has washed away, the effects are still felt. Administration calling the police to campus and $5000 worth of damages, nothing to show for it. Call me impressed.

Sure anyone can destroy school property, you can chalk “$eniors” on the walls, but there is nothing worthwhile about that, there is no skill, there is nothing remotely impressive. Dump some glue in the locks, waste a few grand of the school’s money. Regardless of who did it, you should not slander the senior class with your juvenile antics. If you want to use our name, at least do something memorable, at least do something that we can be proud of, something that we can look back on and laugh about.

The PPD was called in to deal with this act of vandalism, an unprecedented development. Where administration previously dealt with senior pranks as an internal matter, the severity of their response reveals the gravity of this act.

Administration and many students would say that this never should have happened at all. Though I do not disagree, I am not going to go that far. All I have to say is that if you are going to use the senior class’s name, it ought to be memorable and not require police intervention.

Create something that passerby’s wonder about. Hunt the freshman with water guns, furnish a small house in the quad or block off the breezeway with an eight foot wall of ice, those all left the school talking. If the intent is to make other classes “bow down”, leave something memorable as our class’s legacy in the school. If that means planning the senior prank, go ahead, make it great, but the specter of this embarrassment remains.

A petty act, like filling locks with glue, merits no respect; students barely noticed. It achieved nothing but wasting the school’s money and the custodian’s time. The Class of 2015 deserves better. If you are going to use our name, at least do something we can be proud of. Or don’t do it at all.