Homecoming Drinking Shocks Administrators
Rachel Guetta ’13
Staff Writer
On the first morning of school after Saturday’s homecoming football game, Principal John Dodig made a school–wide announcement congratulating students for their school spirit and all their team’s victory over the weekend.
He then continued, “I’d also like to congratulate all the people who organized parties on Saturday morning and showed up to the game drunk—it was a disgusting display of recklessness and may be our last homecoming event.”
During the game, according to Dodig, “hundreds” of students were either drinking in the stands or had come to homecoming intoxicated.
“There was very quick evidence that many were drinking,” Dodig said.
According to Dodig, the people who were selling tickets reported that students were drinking. Dodig said that he smelled alcohol as he walked through the stands and heard similar reports from ticket vendors at the game.
Three students are confirmed to have been taken to Norwalk Hospital during the game, although some sources said there were more students who sought medical attention. The custodial staff reported that they found one girl unconscious after vomiting on the bathroom floor inside the school.
Michael Nussbaum ’11, who writes and edits for Inklings, was on the sidelines broadcasting the game with WWPT-FM. Although he was trying to focus on calling the game, he reported that he kept getting distracted by the drinking in the stands.
Kaylea • Nov 13, 2011 at 4:31 am
Brilliance for free; your peatrns must be a sweetheart and a certified genius.
Nicholas Weiner • Aug 17, 2010 at 12:29 am
Staples had an even worse homecoming in 1991… that year, the Homecoming King and Queen played the role of a Pimp and Prostitute, seniors threw eggs at the underclassmen, and many were not even admitted to the Homecoming Dance due to intoxication. And yes, students were very drunk at the game and even the motorcade before that.
Mike Schneider • Nov 9, 2009 at 10:04 pm
To even threaten to cancel homecoming is absolutely ludicrous. Just breathalyze if you have to; there's no need to threaten the children by saying in essence that if they're bad there won't be Christmas next year.
Stephen Rexford • Oct 4, 2009 at 12:09 am
I am dissapointed, but can we really be shocked. Look at the image of drinking and sports that we see every weekend on the TV. The message we get is clear: being a fan means drinking Think of that one fake infomercial in which the styrofoam fan finger has been turned into a drinking device. And so it goes. Not only are our young athletes increasingly acting and being treated in the same manner as the “pro,” the fan behavior seems to be invading high school sports as well. One can only wonder what will happen at night under Friday night lights.