End-of-Year Food Fight

Every year, sometime in the week just before final exams, the dining hall at St. Augustine's School for the Talented erupts into a massive food fight. Traditionally, it had been "celebrated" at dinner on the Friday right before exam week. Attempts by the teachers and administrators to quash the food fight, however, resulted the students clandestinely moving the fight to other dates. By 2000, it had been celebrated on every day of the week before finals and at every meal, including breakfast.
Teachers and administrators have tried, again and again, to avert the food fight. Part of the problem is that the fight seems to be largely unplanned. When a new or younger student asks when the food fight will occur, older students will reply, "Don't know. Somebody just starts it." For this reason, students begin smuggling contraband food items in the dining hall at least a week in advance, and many have started wearing rain gear to the dining hall as a precaution.
No one knows the exact purpose of the food fight, other than to blow off steam. It has, however, had the unintended effect of canceling classes if held at breakfast or lunch, since students must clean the dining hall and then themselves after the fight takes place. Helen Catherine McCallister II, the current principal of St. Augustine's School for the Talented, has taken the proactive step of scheduling the food fight in its traditional slot, the Friday supper before finals, in order to avoid class cancellations.

History

No one is quite sure when the first End-of-Year Food Fight took place, nor why.

Components and tools

Students will use whatever food is on the table. Some more ambitious students smuggle other foodstuffs onto campus to add to the chaos. Whipped cream and processed cheese in cans is the most popular contraband.