The lunch bell rings at precisely 12:33 p.m. on a normal school day. While some race through traffic in the hallways to get to their lockers, others are well on their way to grab their lunch of a hamburger or pizza.
As on any other day, you sit, eat and talk to your friends. While everything seems to be going smoothly, 15 minutes into your lunch you hear a loud �thud� and realize that chocolate milk has splattered all over your leg…

How, you ask?
Yet another ignorant student launched their half-drunken beverage from the third floor.
Since the beginning of the year, the quad has been victimized by unending stupidity and one-sided food fights.
�I was walking to fifth period when I saw a girl get hit [with] marinara sauce from the bread sticks, [while] another girl got hit on the head with an apple,� said Eric Ji (�06).
The most obvious reason behind these immature attacks is that these food fights are triggered by a domino effect amongst students � one student throws a pizza from the third floor, then another sees how much �fun� the previous student is having and throws his or her own lunch remains over the balcony, and so on.
The results of all this chaos are dirty, sticky and angry students, along with more trash, and of course, a flashback of elementary school.
The funny thing about this mess is that these transgressors are the same people who demand to be treated like adults. It is no wonder that adults do not take teenagers seriously: these judgments are justified by our actions on campus.
Moreover, these food fights heighten the issue of trash. It is completely unfair for students to deliberately make a mess and expect others to clean up after them.
Yet the school has not done anything drastic to end such actions. It is not enough for students to receive a ticket or trash pick-up for starting or participating in food fights. Instead, the school should make delinquents clean the quad after school. This way, cheating punishments, like getting trash from the garbage cans instead of picking up litter when given trash pick-up, is impossible.
Another option is to close off the third floor during snack and lunch altogether. That way, a guaranteed decline in food fights would occur.
Besides the fact that food fights create more trash, it is also morally wrong. Think about it: while students are living in the lap of luxury, wasting food by chucking it at unsuspecting victims, millions in third world countries starve every day and would only be so lucky to eat the waste thrown over the balcony. This is outright saddening.
Students need to be more conscious of their actions and after effects. They need to be more mature and simply stop hurling food from the third floor. This is everyone�s school, and it is time we all started treating it as if it were our own home.

The lunch bell rings at precisely 12:33 p.m. on a normal school day. While some race through traffic in the hallways to get to their lockers, others are well on their way to grab their lunch of a hamburger or pizza.
As on any other day, you sit, eat and talk to your friends. While everything seems to be going smoothly, 15 minutes into your lunch you hear a loud �thud� and realize that chocolate milk has splattered all over your leg…

How, you ask?
Yet another ignorant student launched their half-drunken beverage from the third floor.
Since the beginning of the year, the quad has been victimized by unending stupidity and one-sided food fights.
�I was walking to fifth period when I saw a girl get hit [with] marinara sauce from the bread sticks, [while] another girl got hit on the head with an apple,� said Eric Ji (�06).
The most obvious reason behind these immature attacks is that these food fights are triggered by a domino effect amongst students � one student throws a pizza from the third floor, then another sees how much �fun� the previous student is having and throws his or her own lunch remains over the balcony, and so on.
The results of all this chaos are dirty, sticky and angry students, along with more trash, and of course, a flashback of elementary school.
The funny thing about this mess is that these transgressors are the same people who demand to be treated like adults. It is no wonder that adults do not take teenagers seriously: these judgments are justified by our actions on campus.
Moreover, these food fights heighten the issue of trash. It is completely unfair for students to deliberately make a mess and expect others to clean up after them.
Yet the school has not done anything drastic to end such actions. It is not enough for students to receive a ticket or trash pick-up for starting or participating in food fights. Instead, the school should make delinquents clean the quad after school. This way, cheating punishments, like getting trash from the garbage cans instead of picking up litter when given trash pick-up, is impossible.
Another option is to close off the third floor during snack and lunch altogether. That way, a guaranteed decline in food fights would occur.
Besides the fact that food fights create more trash, it is also morally wrong. Think about it: while students are living in the lap of luxury, wasting food by chucking it at unsuspecting victims, millions in third world countries starve every day and would only be so lucky to eat the waste thrown over the balcony. This is outright saddening.
Students need to be more conscious of their actions and after effects. They need to be more mature and simply stop hurling food from the third floor. This is everyone�s school, and it is time we all started treating it as if it were our own home.