The Collegian

Issue date: 10/8/09 Section: Opinion

Media Credit: Michael Mayday

Media Credit: Michael Mayday

Media Credit: Michael Mayday

By their senior year in high school, a lot of students don't care about who is on homecoming court. Many are more worried about bigger life decisions: test scores, grades and college applications.

If those students decide to go to Hillsdale, however, they will just have to vote for homecoming court all over again. Learning this little tidbit, these students may wonder if they went away to college, or high school part two.

Hillsdale praises its students for their intelligence and awareness of problems in our nation and world. We would like to agree. While students at other colleges may vote for homecoming representatives, they also do plenty of other things that Hillsdale students do not.

We would like to think that by the time students reach this academic institution, they are more concerned about the future of our nation than the future of our homecoming court. Furthermore, we would like to think that our seniors are more concerned about getting jobs and what they can do to better the world than getting homecoming nominations and what they can do to better their chances of becoming homecoming royalty.

After all, what do the homecoming king and queen do? How does one student's election impact other students lives? Not at all, unless of course the winning student represents a fraternity or sorority whose members will care about the marketing opportunity.

Speaking of fraternities and sororities, why the distinction? Why must each Greek house designate one representative from each house? We think this only furthers the gap between Greeks and independents. There may be more than one "worthy" representative in a Greek house-whatever it means to be "worthy" of homecoming court-and all of them should have the chance to be on the court. Greeks should be able to vote for independents. Independents should be able to vote for Greeks.

We should let students simply vote for other students, erasing any Greek distinctions. This would avoid the confusion many students complained of experiencing in the voting process, allowing them to devote their energy to figuring out something more worthwhile. Also, if we can't take the Greek/Non-Greek rift out of something as inconsequential as homecoming voting, we can't the groups to unite in any important matter.

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