UP: Football season is back

Friday night lights are back and shining bright. Here come roars and cheers from the rowdy crowd, boneheads dressed head to toe in orange, concession stand nachos, bright smiles and the best pregames ever—pep rallies. Everybody hold your L’s up and be prepared to lose your voice.

DOWN: Down with the dress code laws

The few students who dress daily in Nike shorts aren’t the only ones who are against the dress code rules. Students can’t have holes in their jeans that are above the knee. Name one person who has jeans with holes only on the shin area. As a teenager, it is very difficult to shop and abide by the dress code with how clothes are designed nowadays. Students also can’t wear spaghetti straps, but they can wear shirts with shoulder cutouts? The dress code continuously contradicts itself and brings a constant uproar in the fashion community.

UP: Loving the open doors

No more taking the long way around. Fine Arts students riding buses between classes can once again enter through the D-wing doors. Gone with the jostling crowds and holding up traffic when digging for IDs, like it has been for the past two years since they locked the doors over safety concerns. With the reopening, busing transitions will be more efficient, less crowded and less stressful.

DOWN: Fast food

The week long advisory lunch is causing more problems than it’s solving. With only thirty minutes to get and eat lunch, students are having to return to classes with their lunches, or in most cases, having to throw them away because their teachers don’t allow food in their rooms. Not to mention the portion of the school that students are allowed to roam has been way overcrowded. Hopefully with all three campuses participating in block lunch, the week long advisory can either be cut down to a few days or removed completely.

UP: New and improved buses

This years school buses have changed for the better. With the exception of charter buses, the school buses rarely had air conditioners installed in them. For all the people who ride the bus, the heat can be unbearable from time to time. Especially when you are the last stop on the bus route. Now, after waiting in the hot Texas weather, you can never walk onto a bus without saying “Ah.”

DOWN: Hustle and bustle

Whose idea was it to put a first period class on the far end of the first floor, and then a second period class on the opposite side of the building on the third floor? How are students supposed to have time to use the restroom, take care of any issues they have with classes and be able to show up on time? We only have five minutes to do as much as we can between classes, so teachers should cut us some slack for our hustle.