VOL. XXII, NO. 3
OCTOBER 24, 1980

Editorial
Homecoming Shows School Spirit Lack
School spirit has slipped once again at Maine West. Homecoming more than demonstrated the lack.

During the three dress-up days, only a small minority of the students bothered to even attempt to dress up. Most of the students who came dressed to school as Warriors and/or Cowboys belonged to some organization like Pom Pon or Orchesis. On Blue, Gold, and White Day even fewer people dressed appropriately. Surely it would not have taken much time looking for clothes containing the school colors to wear on that day.

Not many students attended the Pep Rally. Those who decided not to go for the most part offered no legitimate excuses. Most students claimed they could not see the point in a Pep Rally. Upperclassmen who didn't go said that the rally would be boring. Freshmen who didn't go even though they have never attended a Maine West Pep Rally thought that going home would be better for them than raising their school spirit.
 Few students who did attend the Pep Rally participated enthusiastically. The response to the competition cheer hardly carried through the stadium. Worse yet, it seemed that hardly anyone knew the words to the Alma Mater and Pep Song. These two songs, which should convey the feelings the students have about their school, appear to be virtually unknown.

The football game, instead of being a gathering of the student body to support its team, turned out to be a social gathering only. The band and the people sitting in the band's general area were the only ones actively cheering our team on. In the rest of the stands, the people who don't attend Maine West seemed to have more interest in the game than the Maine West students.

The reasons for a dwindling school spirit are not known. Students everywhere don't seem to care anymore about school. This lack of interest should not exist. It would not exist if the student body would look on its school as something more than a place to go for seven hours a day.