Everyone needs to take a deep breath about homecoming week. Threatening and mobbing Student Activities Board members won’t change your ranking, cyberbullying teams won’t make you enjoy their content more, and losing your mind about meme accounts won’t make them stop posting. 

As far as homecoming’s elephant — or banner — in the room: It happened. It wasn’t great, but the fallout has been worse. Whether or not the initial joke was made in poor taste is debatable, but New Dorm’s defenders and critics have been taking it too far. 

For those of you making misogynist memes online, you’ve gotten a lot of attention. Congratulations, but it seems time to quit taking the bat to this particular dead horse. If you were against the banner, it was moved out of the union, so let’s move on, too. 

Speaking of dead horses, I’m not going to bother explaining how SAB doesn’t pick the winners. Everyone knows it’s a faculty panel, and it’s not a good argument in defense of SAB. The better point is that even if SAB did gather around every night to choose the victor of these subjective little contests, they still wouldn’t deserve to be treated like dirt. 

Can we take a step back and realize how crazy it is for legal adults to be this upset over school events? Saying Helen Keller judged the video contest and making New Dorm girls cry just seems strange during an event that’s supposed to be fun. In theory, we should be lifting our school up and having a good time. Let’s give that a try.

If you want to keep whining, go ahead. But, this is the most embarrassed I’ve ever felt about being a Hillsdale student — and I participate in Greek Week, so that’s saying something. 

Claire Gaudet is a senior studying rhetoric and journalism.