Oliver Yuval
With the school year in full swing, the school’s annual Homecoming theme has been announced to the student body, filing in various opinions.
“I initially heard the theme, Golden Hour, and I thought it would be really cool, but seeing it, it’s really not Golden Hour,” an anonymous senior said. “It just feels more like a fall theme, and I’m not the biggest fan of [that].”
The Homecoming theme was announced to be Golden Hour, Monday, Sept. 22, to surprise students when they returned to school from the weekend. The daily announcements rang out the theme for the student body to hear, and Student Council made a large poster in the main hallway to display this year’s theme.
“When I think of Golden Hour, I think more, like, beaches and sunsets and that perfect photo, not really
so much pumpkins, and apples and leaves,” an anonymous senior said. “It’s just more fall than it is Golden Hour.”
For many students, the colorful and decorated hallway poster that was used to promote the event misrepresented their idea of what the theme meant. The various pumpkins, falling leaves and baskets of newly harvested apples shifted their perceptions of a golden night to that of a calmer autumn one.
“I just think [Golden Hour] is a really odd theme to be having for Homecoming,” junior Natalie Teng said. “The year before [last year], we had an Enchanted Garden [theme]. This [year’s theme] just seems like yellow and my first thought was ‘What is this?’”
While some people criticized the theme and disliked the idea of it, there were others who had more golden feelings about the choice.
“I think there’s gonna be a lot of variety with what people are gonna wear for it, so I think that’s pretty good,”
senior Amari Anderson said. “I like the brighter colors, and I think that would be good for this Homecoming too.”
Regardless of the theme, many students remain excited for the normal, fun activities that come along with Homecoming, including the various games they see every year as well as some new activities to fill time, like pumpkin painting and dancing with their friends dressed to the nines.
“I’m looking forward to seeing a sea of people in yellow and gold,” Anderson said. “It’s going to be a good send-off for us [seniors] this year.”