In every high school, summer camp or stereotypical teen movie, it seems like there’s a cafeteria scene depicting people chucking giant trays of lunch food at each other while an upbeat song plays in the background. While these food fight scenes may seem funny in the magical Hollywood settings, in reality, all they result in is a big mess.

Last week, the scene in the cafeteria during C lunch was anything but a funny movie montage. What was supposed to be a harmless senior prank left the school in a state of chaos and its students and administrators in distress.

What we here at The Oracle want to stress is that even though we weren’t involved, we’re sincerely sorry for what happened. The fact that students came to lunch that day and were worried for their safety leaves us feeling ashamed to be grouped together with certain immature members of the student body.

While we understand the severity of the event and the impending investigation, it’s upsetting for the majority of seniors to know that their activities could be jeopardized when they had nothing to do with the ruckus and were spending time in their scheduled classes. It also seems strange that the seniors are the only ones taking the blame for the fight. While the event was rumored to be set up by the senior students, the entire cafeteria erupting in anarchy cannot be put on only one grade.

The event was embarrassing, to say the least. It seems sad that our school was made into an environment where students’ safety is jeopardized for a simple laugh. What’s even more heartbreaking is that the Spartans are gaining the reputation of disturbing the peace.

On the day WS hosted Relay for Life in order to fight cancer, news crews circled the school to record reaction to the food fight and the possible cancellation of student activities. It is more upsetting to us that the community would like to flock around the negative commotion of one lunch period instead of a year’s worth of positive work toward helping the community.

Our point is, the food fight and fire alarm event was not a proud day for Spartans. We hope that the Class of 2011 will not go down in history as bad people, and that the stupidity of one day will not overshadow the four years we called  WS our home.