Dancing fever
Yesterday, during fourth hour, I found out from fellow Gargoyle staff members that there have been new limitations set on dancing to curb inappropriate behavior at school-sponsored dances. From what I've heard, there will be no more "sandwich dancing," and Assistant Director Sue Kovacs will be using her judgment to pull apart and discipline extreme cases of inappropriate dancing.
Now, I don't know about you, but I don't really understand why some people are separated and not others. At winter formal, for example, some of my friends were dancing in a somewhat inappropriate fashion, and no one seemed bothered by it, least of all Kovacs. In fact, she actually walked right by us and didn't say a word. I myself have never seen her pulling people apart and therefore don't really know what she classifies as "raunchy."
Maybe I'm just immune to "dirty dancing." If you have ever gone to public school, especially on the East Coast, the dancing is on a whole new level. I've seen fifth-graders dancing the way Uni kids do.
Kovacs has pointed out that other local high schools have rules about the extent to which dancing can go, but I'd like to point out that at those schools the primary rule is probably, "Don't have sex on the dance floor." I think we're pretty safe without those rules at Uni.
Maybe it's just me. Or maybe I'm thick-headed and didn't get the point. It seems that the administration is trying to curb something that isn't a problem in the first place.
While I acknowledge that some people really don't like how we dance, with all due respect, maybe they shouldn't watch. It's just dancing.
Devika Bagchi