The fall and rise of class color day

Class Color Day is a tradition honored to distinguish each of the classes during homecoming week, by bringing everyone in the class together, from friends to strangers, all wearing the colors of their class: freshmen in green, sophomores in yellow, juniors in red and seniors in blue.

Class colors have been discussed frequently by administration and parents since the class prank of the Class of 2014.

On the eve of homecoming Friday, the senior prank was to spray paint the student parking lot blue to represent the seniors at the top of the class hierarchy.

This all turned against the seniors, as their prank went out of hand and they vandalized school property. This enraged the administration as they had to spend money to replace the blue-tagged features in the parking lot.

“It was just meant to be a funny prank, we didn’t think they would be that hurt,” said Ricky Patel, graduate of the Class of 2014. “Instead of working out the problem, it seemed as if they suspended every kid whose name was brought up, even if they did not participate.”

Along with suspending students, the administrators suspended class color day. As students’ pleas for the return of class color day were repeatedly rejected, they took matters into their own hands by creating unofficial class color day on Thursday. On Friday, during the assembly, students throw streamers of their class’s color and attempt to show that their class is the superior one.

“I love unofficial class color day because it is like breaking the law without actually getting in trouble, since they can’t get mad at you for wearing a certain color,” said Vivek Ekkirala, senior at Urbana High.

This year, class color day is officially back, as traditions should be: unbreakable.