The themes for dances are always a controversial subject.  Homecoming is the biggest dance at Niles West every year, and so the pressure is on the Homecoming Committee to come up with a theme that will satisfy everybody without being too general.  The students in charge of homecoming have this overwhelming fear that if they pick anything to specific, students will rebel and it will be pure chaos.  Or at least I hope they do, because if the committee doesn’t have an excuse for their repetitively bad themes… We have some problems here.

Neon lights.

Well, it is interesting. There are so many ways to go with Neon Lights.  Do they expect everybody to pull a Flatley (last year’s hilarious and eccentric School President, to all of you Freshman) and wear neon orange tuxes or crazy bright green formal dresses?  It’s funny if one guy does it, but the whole school?  Sounds a bit janky if you ask me.  Or is it going to be like everybody has to wear white dresses so the lights can reflect off neon colors and make it seem like we’re part of a traveling circus? If that’s the case, I am equally concerned.

When I googled Neon Lights, all of the top results were about the neon signs that go on the front of drug stores.  I can see it now, students walking in to Homecoming.  Instead of walking down at red carpet like we have in the past few years it will be the normal hallway, but groceries will be all up and down the sides.  Once they get in it will be completely dark except for signs screaming: OPEN 24 HOURS!  Tattoos!  Laundry.  OPEN.  Too literal?  Maybe.

Clarification?  Please.

Maridsa Choute, a member of the Homecoming Committee, said, “We went through a number of themes before landing on Neon Lights, but principal Osburn did not approve any of them until this.”  Some other theme ideas were Rio and Party at a Rich Dude’s House (a Ke$ha song), she said.  Both of these were deemed inappropriate, which landed us here.

I do give the HC props for not choosing a repetitive theme.  My freshman and sophomore years were basically the same theme with a different name.  If I’m not wrong, isn’t the Red Carpet and Black and White Tie Affair?  Just out of curiosity.  Luckily, Neon Lights is a theme that hasn’t really been visited at Niles West before.  If I can say anything for it it’s totally origin–  Oh wait… Turnabout did the exact same thing last year.  Or at least I think that it did.  It’s hard to get that sort of thing for sure when only about five people attended.  Still, from what I’ve been told Turnabout was a dance that had “neon lights.”  Except the whole thing completely failed.

Someone reminded me that the emergency lights have to be turned on, by law, at all times, as they did during last year’s Turnabout.  Which messes with the lights (what kind of lights I am still unsure of) and then things just don’t work out.   Of course, Homecoming is a big dance and tons of people will go, but that doesn’t mean the theme is cool.  It means that people choose to attend the dance in spite of the theme.  Way to persevere, Wolves.