Get out your face paint and your duct tape, class color day is officially brought back for Spirit Week 2011.
Class color day will be held Thursday, Oct. 27, the day of the Powderpuff game.
“Being a junior makes you more involved in class color day because of the Powderpuff game. It gives me the opportunity to cheer for the girls in my class,” junior Trey Ford said.
Class color day was not included in Spirit Week festivities last year due to problems caused in the past, such as people painting cars green or blue, a brick by the senior bench being painted green, hair color in sinks, painting on the windows, and student’s throwing punches.
“Class color day had degenerated into a free-for-all, and anything that divides us as a community should be eliminated,” SAC Moderator Rodney Johnson said.
The senior members of the SAC proposed the idea of reinstating class color day to Principal Madelyn Ball during a meeting discussing Spirit Week.
“I think it is important to have class color day because it gives the classes a chance to bond together as a class and be unified for a day. It will also help with getting more spirit at John Carroll,” senior and SAC President Callie Hentz said.
“As a senior, it means a lot to have class color day because I have been waiting for Spirit Week [as a senior] since I was a freshman,” Hentz said. “As president of the SAC, it will help me get a better understanding of how well the classes will obey the rules to see what kinds of things we would be able to do in the future.”
According to Ball, students who come to school dressed outside of the guidelines will have a chance to correct the problem. These students can call home for different clothing to be brought in or change into a spare uniform from the nurse’s office.
“If students can’t get clothes from home or borrow a uniform, they won’t participate. They’ll sit in an office all day,” Ball said.
“If students do not enjoy the day in the spirit that it is intended, it will disappear. My advice to the students is make good decisions during Spirit Week, and do not be the one that ruins it for everyone. That is the way it is. It only takes one or two to ruin it for everyone,” Johnson said.
The colors will follow tradition with the seniors in green, juniors in blue, sophomores in red, and freshmen in white.
“Class color day is important to me because I feel like I am a part of JC tradition. As a freshman, I saw how much fun it was for individuals to show how proud they were of their class,” junior Emma Minnis said.
“I really want to give the current seniors a chance to prove that they’re not the same as last’s year seniors,” Ball said.
Emily Clarke is a Managing Editor for The Patriot and jcpatriot.com.