I want to begin this editorial with a personal experience. When I was in the seventh grade my house was trashed. My brother was a freshman at the time and a group of boys vandalized our house, three times in the span of one month. They tee-peed our trees, poured spaghetti sauce all over our driveway and in my mothers gardens, sprayed cheese on our garage door, dumped trash and cereal everywhere and left empty beer cans with notes mocking us on our front step.

For those of you who don’t know my mother, this crushed her. She puts so much hard work into keeping our house nice and presentable, her gardens are her other children. We ended up calling the police and the boys were caught, but from that day on I swore I would never vandalize any one’s house, property, or car. My mother never understood why these kids would do this to our house, and even as a senior I don’t understand.

Boys can be jerks, but girls can be evil. When a senior boy shaves an underclassmen’s head they have the parents permission. The boy has crazy hair for a day and then shaves it off. You’re a cool underclassmen if you get your head shaved.

For girls, it’s a completely different story. Senior week sucks for underclassmen and some of the things other senior girls do to sophomore and junior girl’s houses and cars is sickening. Pouring syrup into a cracked car window, smearing dog feces on someones car, writing evil messages on their driveway and windows.

Girls, we all know we let our emotions get the best of us sometimes, but when you do this to someone you’re not only affecting that person but you’re affecting her family. Her mother has to wake up and see that, her dad has to read “asian whore” written on the car windows. No matter what you justify your actions with, no matter what this girl did to you to make you so upset that you would smear dog poop on her car, it doesn’t matter. You’re no better than her now.

I think that hazing is a part of high school and that it will happen no matter what, but I believe that seniors should be responsible about it. Boys, keep shaving heads. Girls, if you’re going to vandalize some one’s house/property, just don’t. Writing on cars, teepeeing, post-it note egging, (not real egging) anything that’s legal is okay. Be nice, it isn’t worth getting in trouble with the law, no matter how much you hate her.