By MIKE DESOCIO
Photo Editor
As a veteran “hot list “ member, I already knew how it felt to hear the rumor that took over my classroom this morning. Another list in the bathroom. I had one question, again – who was the author?
To me, it was another prank to be shrugged off and forgotten. If the author was a member of the opposite sex, it could mean something, I thought. But I would still view it as a hopeless ploy to stir up drama and liven up the social scene of this otherwise apathetic and dull middle-of-the-year period.
Regardless of the author’s identity, I think I can speak for all of the male “hot list” members when I say the list was neither offensive nor flattering. I am not the type of person who bases their social ranking off of a list of 20 male students taped to a bathroom wall, nor am I one who evaluates their social ranking at all, for that matter. Let’s face it: if the author was tacky enough to use Comic Sans font, then they clearly don’t have good judgment, anyway.
I am obligated to say that the author did succeed in their attempt to trigger a social explosion for a day. But they failed in every other aspect of their actions. The “hot list” was obviously a mistake the first time around when it happened two years ago. Repeating it was useless. Not to mention, the author was especially foolish in their ignorance of the new state bullying laws that were blatantly violated.
At the end of this list-filled day, I can safely say that while I’m not personally affected by any piece of paper taped to the bathroom wall, it is still an immature publicity stunt that belongs in Mean Girls, not the halls of Communications High School.