The Senior Boy’s Dance, end-of-the-year water-balloon fight, formal homecoming dance, and now senior quotes in the Echowan.

Senior Sam Verner said he feels like a lot of privileges are being taken away from the class of 2014, with little or no explanation.

“I’m really disappointed that the best parts of senior year are being taken away,” Verner said. “The niceties that we had as the top grade in the school are gone.”

One of Verner’s main complaints was the recent decision by the Echowan staff to eliminate senior quotes from the yearbook. The idea, new this year, was put in motion in Sept., and the deadline for submitting quotes had passed when Echowan editor-in-chief, senior Mary Pavia, announce that the quotes would not be used in the yearbook.

Pavia said the decision to pull the quotes was due partially to potential lawsuits that might occur after the book was published.

“Due to legal issues in the past that other schools have faced we have decided to take precautions in order to protect our school, our staffers, our adviser and the publication,” she said.

Senior Claire Olson said understands the Echowan’s predicament, but said she believes taking away the senior quotes after they had been promised was disappointing to many students.

“I wouldn’t have been mad if (the staff) had just told us no in the first place,” she said. “But I don’t know the whole story.”

Pavia said she regrets announcing the quotes before they were set in stone, but said further conversations after the quotes had been announced prompted the staff to rethink their decision.

“Discussions with our publisher and our adviser after we chose to put in the quotes made us come to the conclusion that we couldn’t do them,” Pavia said.

Although she recognizes that the decision to pull the quotes was unpopular, Pavia said she hopes to make it up to the class of 2014.

“We feel really bad about it, but we’ll definitely make up for it in this year’s book.”