While many aspects of this year’s Homecoming are the same, there have been many changes to the usual activities, and there will be more to come. This year, for example, due to a scheduling conflict with the Tour de Carmel, the Homecoming 5K was canceled and replaced with a t-shirt sale.

The dance itself, scheduled for Saturday in the fieldhouse, will have several more changes.

According to Assistant Principal Amy Skeens-Benton, there will be faculty chaperones on the dance floor making sure people dance appropriately, instead of having parent chaperones.

There will also be alternative activities available to students in Greyhound Station, including ping-pong tables.

Junior Taylor Ellison attended the Homecoming dance during her freshman and sophomore years; however, this year she is not sure if she will attend this year.

“At first I was pretty confident that I would not be attending the dance. It’s really just because I’m not into school dances. I’d rather do something different with a group of friends, but the alternate activities sound pretty cool. They would actually make me more likely to go to the dance,” Ellison said.

According to Skeens-Benton, there will be another major change to this year’s dance: while the majority of the fieldhouse’s court lights will stay off, one of the court’s lights will be kept on.

“This dance will be just like the winter dance that was after a basketball game last year,” she said. “We will have one court of the gym with its lights on, and that’s just so we can see peoples’ faces. Although there are changes to this year’s dance, a high attendance is still expected. It’s the most popular dance at CHS.”