This isn’t high school people

Lauren Hollister - I was privileged to miss out on this little bit of drama earlier today otherwise I probably would have gone into some sort of flaming rage.  Band in itself is full of drama, I don’t think it’s unique to any other club or organization as far as the amount it has, but being in it exposes me to it just about every day.  And looking back on it, this whole situation is absolutely ridiculous.  But anyway, it basically happened like this.  Some guy takes some other girl’s music stand.  When she asks for it back he pulls “seniority” by saying that since he’s a senior and she’s a freshman he gets first choice of stands.  I guess it must be really difficult to walk the extra 5 or so feet to go grab one off the wrack, especially for someone as dignified and wise as this so-called “senior”.  The girl, incredibly, was the mature one in this situation and didn’t try to pursue any sort of argument, nor did she do anything like shoving his stuff off her stand and taking it back (which I probably would’ve done).  But seriously, who does that?  Who actually pulls seniority in college of all places?  As if high isn’t ridiculous enough, you have to bring stupid high school attitudes and traditions to college.  What’s even worse is it’s some guy in his 4th year of college, it’s not like he’s some freshman just out of high school, trying to pull seniority on a person just because she hasn’t been in college as long.  Who does that?  We might as well bring back all the high school hazing stunts if we’re going to start pulling seniority on freshmen and sophomores just because we are too lazy to do something ourselves.  Whatever, it just bugs the hell out of me that people actually behave this way still.  Grow up!