Seaholm Highlander

Since the news got out that Sadies would be a lights-on affair, the general sentiment has been one of ridiculing the administration and deciding not to go to the dance, and to instead rent a party bus and dance all night.

Clearly, for some, having raunchy good time and doing things better done with the lights off in the middle of a high school cafeteria is higher on the list of priorities than, say, quickly finding an exit out of the very same cafeteria in the event of a fire.

The Highlander understands that a dance just isn’t a dance with the lights on. No one student can seem to put their finger on what makes a lights-on dance so devoid of fun.

Maybe it’s because with the lights out, it’s easier to make believe that you and you’re date are dancing somewhere other than a high school cafeteria.

Maybe it’s because when the lights are on, there’s really no avoiding seeing the couples who decide to have a prolonged make-out session in the middle of the dance floor.

Maybe it’s because, if you’re having second thoughts about whether or not your date is good looking, the dark cafeteria solves that problem for you by making your date’s features indistinguishable.

Maybe it’s because with the lights on, people will come to the stunning realization that everyone has been doing the same stale dance move for each song (except the Cha-Cha Slide) at each of the dances for as long as any student can remember.

Whatever the reason, it is clear that walking down the stairs to the cafeteria expecting to see a bumpin’ party only to see the same sight seen earlier that day at lunch minus lunch tables really takes the fun out of the night.

We predict that the dance will amount to six or seven groups of kids awkwardly standing around on the well lit cafeteria floor, vacantly nodding their heads to the music, sipping the fruit punch provided by the school, and glancing up at one of the clocks about once every 30 seconds.

However, the administration doesn’t really have a choice on this one. The safety of those attending the school-sponsored function has to come before all other details. The absolute last thing this (or any district) needs is a school dance disaster where a student gets injured, or worse.

Though there have been rumors that the dance floor area is going to be moved the other side of the cafeteria to reduce the brightness, they have yet to be confirmed. It is unknown how much good moving the dance floor would do in terms of making the dance more enjoyable.

Unfortunately, the nature of the situation is such that the administration can expect a significant drop in ticket sales from last year to this year unless they can figure out a way to keep the dance dark and safe at the same time.