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Published: December 21, 1999

Babblin with Brook
Sweet Hearts or Sadie Hawkins, What do you think?
Brook Clark
Columnist
I am really not much in the complaining mood these days, but something is bothering me.
I know it is barely winter, but i'd like to bring up an event that won't occur until February.
Why is there a Sweet Heart dance this year? If my memory servers me correctly, I believe this is the year that a Sadie Hawkins dance should be held.
I don't know if administrators forgot which dance was to be held or what, but I just wanted to bring the fact to someone's attention.
Rumor is that the reason there is to be a Sweet Heart dance again this year is so that the freshmen and sophomores can have their royal Sweet Heart Court.
If this is the reason, I don't find it fair. I don't think that a routine should be changed to satisfy half of the students at East. Plus, the freshmen/sophomore court was just started last year.
I am not going to go on bad mouthing the freshmen/sophomore court because I really don't have much of an opinion on that. I just don't see why it has to be a Sweet Heart Court. Why can't it be the Spring Court? Therefore, they can have their court and the school can have a Sadie Hawkins dance as well.
Personally, I don't see the whole point of even holding a Sweet Heart dance. I have attended both a Sweet Heart dance and a Sadie Hawkins dance, and I enjoyed the Sadie Hawkins dance more.
I also remember seeing a lot of more people at the Sadie Hawkins dance than I did at the Sweet Heart dance I attended. No one ever seems to show for a Sweet Heart dance.
The number one reason, and only reason people don't show up for Sweet Heart dances is because not everyone has a sweetheart.
The Sweet Heart dance is related to Valentines Day, love and all that mushy stuff. Not everyone that attends East has someone special to ask to the dance, and they don't want to feel out of place showing up with a bunch of friends.
Having a Sadie Hawkins dance doesn't cause so many complications. The main thing most people worry about it finding stylish, matching shirts to wear. No worries of if they have a date or not.
Sadie Hawkins gives the opportunity for couples to wear matching outfits, as well as grabbing a group of your closest friends to go shopping with and then to a dance. No hassle about having a date, if you have one, you have one, if you don't, you don't
Giving up
I also don't see why the school hasn't given up on Sweet Heart dances all together. As I said earlier, more people seem to attend Sadie Hawkins dances more, so that means more tickets are sold, which results in more money. Money is a good thing when it comes to school, isn't it?

Updated 2/20/00 by Mike Bowser