Walk down almost any high school in the world and you can hear all about who is dating who or other juicy gossip that is going around. These last few months there has been intense speculation over this year’s Homecoming.

In the weeks preceding the dance, there had been rumors about changing some of the features of this year’s Homecoming. Some of these new rules included: no strapless dresses, no shoes, brighter lights, students had to be nine inches away from each other when dancing, and of course, no “sandwich dancing”.

“I was kind of upset when I first heard about the rules because I had fun breaking it down last year and wanted to be able to shake my groove thing again this year,” said sophomore Ryan Michaels.

Most students were upset about these rules, and were turned off to wanting to go. Ticket sales were down, and when Saturday night came the gym seemed almost empty compared to past dances.

But students missed out, because besides a few understandable rules, most of them where not fully enforced.

“There was so much hype about the dance and how everyone was going to hate it, but it wasn’t bad,” said senior Nicole Shutz. “I saw girls with strapless dresses, short skirts and people dancing how they wanted almost everywhere.”

The DJ was reportedly told by the principals to avoid playing hip-hop and rap, in order to keep students from “vulgar” dancing. Instead, the DJ replayed certain songs over and over and played songs that students found difficult to dance to.

In spite of the new requirements and music choices, the dance was what each student made it.

“I had so much fun, and will never forget seeing my friend Andrea Cohen getting funky to Michael Jackson’s Thriller. It was my favorite part of the dance,” said Shutz.