Senior assassin is a relatively newer activity for graduating seniors only meant to serve as a fun activity before high school ends, but some problems have recently caused the potential for worry.

Normally senior assassin is intended to be a fairly safe activity where each senior is given another senior as a target and is required to shoot them with a water gun before the end of the week, but with an injury at PV so soon after it started some begin to wonder how safe it really is.

The problem often cited by students who participate in senior assassin is that it can be a very time-consuming activity which has led to very problematic behaviors by some participants who become too invested in the challenge.

Nikhil Behere, a participant in senior assassin talks about how he personally was affected by such people, “I remember being followed by a car when I was going home from tennis and just having to drive around until they stopped and I don’t think people have to take things that seriously.”

While Behere was largely unaffected, another senior knows a lot better how senior assassin can quickly get out of hand. 

Tate Brecht is a senior who was injured during senior assassin and has his thoughts on senior assassin at PV, “I think senior assassin is a really fun idea but was poorly executed this year as I found several friends genuinely upset with either who their target was or how it was run. My accident was merely an accident and nothing more, all fun things have their risks I suppose.”

These incidents are not indicative of a need to stop senior assassin at Pleasant Valley but are a sign that maybe there needs to be better safety precautions, such as limitations on what is allowed for the seniors who are involved, to protect them from themselves and each other.