The annual Homecoming dance every year has a theme, and this year in chapel they announced the theme was “Starry Night”. It will be in the Yankee Wrestling Room with all kinds of food, entertainment, and music for students. Since it is a night theme it will be darker and barely any lights in the wrestling room. Last year it was hosted in the McCallie-Kennedy Student Center (The MacK) and many students thought the set up was cramped and uncoordinated. This year in the Yankee Wrestling Room it was still a smaller space.

“The plan is to not let any sunlight get in and we’re going to put some lights around the room to make it look like stars, it will be a bit darker because it is a night theme. When brainstorming the theme we were trying to think of something that was as good as the theme last year so everyone liked it,” Zain Elkhatib said.

Every year people wonder how the Homecoming dance theme gets picked, ever year it varies the way Student Activity Committee (SAC) decides, and this year the did it a very specific way.

“First Mrs. Inman [Tara Inman] and I sent out a form to all the SAC members and we allowed any SAC members to put up any options or idea, and once they gave their options we choose the ideas and options that we thought would be the best, then we allowed them to vote, and the one with most votes got chosen, which was Starry Night,” senior Ruthie Brinson said.

Along with the theme and how the idea came up sophomore Caroline Piller had many thoughts on the layout and decorations of the dance.

“I think Starry Night was a really good theme, and I thought they executed it really well with lining up the steps with the bags with lights in them,” Piller said. “I also really enjoyed the balloon arch I thought it was cool walking in, and the fairly lights matched the theme well.  The music at the beginning was better because it was more upbeat but overall the DJ was good besides the end it became not as good. The Wrestling room kind of felt more hot than the student center last year, and there was not a lot of room to walk around and outside of the dance floor. Also when the girls took their shoes off since it was more cramped than last year, most girls have bruises because it was a smaller space from getting stepped on.”