Editor:

Though it seems like an eternity, it has been less than half a year since I graduated from high school at "Dear Ol' Davis." I will admit that I was never incredibly filled with school spirit, but recent events and comments on those events have spurred me to action.

Comments following the events of a recent Davis vs. Layton football game suggests that the administration at Davis, namely Principal Dr. Homer, are lax in their attitudes toward students' behavior when it comes to rivalry pranks. There is no way at all that Dr. Homer would allow or support such actions. In the years that I attended Davis far more trivial pranks have not escaped the attention of the administration, Dr. Homer in particular. He wouldn't allow students to throw water balloons on the last week of school and he threatened to have the drinking fountains removed if students failed to stop turning the spouts around so that they soaked unsuspecting drinkers. If a bit of water can't escape notice and punishment, then why would something more serious?

However, it is true that this year was not the beginning of any serious rivalry. The night before last year's Homecoming game, students from Layton spray-painted the cement around Davis' field with not only Layton Lancer emblems, but also drug references and obscenities of the worst kind. Now I don't mention this to place blame on Layton, to give Davis an air of moral superiority or anything of the sort. There is an existing rivalry here, which in and of itself is not a bad thing. In ninth grade, around the time of the BYU vs. Utah football game, a teacher's BYU flag he had displayed in his room was replaced by a ransom note demanding that if he ever wanted to see his flag again he'd have to sing the Utes' fight song over the school intercom. It was all done in good fun and no one got hurt. But what is happening between Davis and Layton is far from good fun. Something needs to be done, and I don't believe for a second that administrators are turning a blind eye to the situation.



Kyle Williams

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