“Sorry for the confusion”

story by Kelby Dressler ≫

On Friday January 6th of 2017, Eudora Basketball played a game against DeSoto. While the team focused on the battle on the court, a different battle was going on in the stands. The student section came to a slight disagreement and had a tough time when trying to decide a theme for the game.

It all started when several Eudora High School students created a twitter account called “EHS Student Section”.

“There’s 3 people that run it,” said Collin Decker, Jr. “Alex Brown, Nate Gomez and me and we have like seasons that we’re supposed to do, Alex and I run the winter sports, Nate runs the fall and Alex runs spring sports.”

The theme for Friday night was “neon”, originally decided by Student Council. Later EHS Student Section tweeted that the theme was “white out”. This caused confusion because two different themes were floating around in the hours before the game from two different groups.

Nate Gomez, Jr., tweeted out on the EHS Student Section account offering “white out” as the new theme because not everyone has neon clothing.

“So white out would be better theme for that type of game,” Gomez said. “Also, most people don’t have neon. Sorry about the confusion — just trying to make everyone happy.”

After word got around, the original theme was reconfirmed to be “white out” by  EHS Student Council.

With everything that was happening a better question might be: who should be in charge of picking and posting the themes for Eudora games?

Gomez believes students should pick.

“Yeah my opinion on this topic is  100% the students should pick what the theme should be and what is right for everyone not just some people,” Gomez said. He feels that the student’s voice collectively should be louder. “We respect StuCo 100 percent, we just think students should have more say.”

“I love the fact that we have a student section twitter page,” says Catherine Grosdidier, Jr. She then briefly explained the process put into deciding themes. “There is a process that goes into planning and picking the themes. Most of the time, StuCo keeps get in touch with each other and we discuss ideas and then decide on a theme,” Grosdidier said. She thinks differently than Gomez: “StuCo has always decided what the themes would be and I think it should stay like that.”

Collin Decker, like Gomez, thinks the students need more say.

“I think that the StuCo should ask the students section what they think the theme should be before they tweet out what it is,” said Decker.

In addition to themes, Decker believes that  students arriving early to the game deserve a spot in the first or second row as well.

“As I said last game, I think that it’s ridiculous that like you can get there at like 6, start of the girls game and you can be in the front row, but then there’s a group of seniors that show up 2 minutes before the varsity boys start and they expect you to move, just because they’re seniors.”

Decker feels that if you want to come support, you should be willing to support the girls team as well.

“Like if you’re not going to put in the dedication to the girls team then you shouldn’t be there for the boys team in the front row,” said Decker.