Student senate saw a familiar face in anticipation of prom, Ms. Melanie Gibbens. The former student senate advisor comes back every year to help plan school dances. This year, prom will be held at the IMU, and the theme will be Hollywood Glamour. Tickets will cost $25 and be available for purchase in the lunchroom from April 23rd to May 2nd and will not be available for purchase at the door.

“The ticket price seems like a lot, but it pays for the venue, which is almost $3,000; it pays for the food, which we’ll order for about $2,500 to $3,000 worth of food; it pays for the DJ; and it pays for the decorations,” Gibbens said. “And then it also gives us enough, perhaps leftover for senior picnic and any other expenses we have for homecoming.”

Bringing underclassmen or a person from a different school requires a separate process than bringing an upperclassman from City High.

“If a student who’s a sophomore at City High is invited to go to the dance, they must arrive with that junior or that senior that invited them. If they are a non-City High student like West, Liberty, or Tate, the permission slip has a QR code that goes along with that whole student,” Gibbens said. “That permission slip also covers somebody from Clear Creek, Havana, Solon, West Branch, or a non-Iowa City student, and they have to be a high school student.”

City High and Liberty are both having their prom at the IMU on May third; however, they will use separate entrances.

“These are three doors that face east, and they face the parking ramp. Liberty will enter in another area, and they will just go up the stairs,” Gibbens said. “So it’s not a big deal. IMU takes care of everything.”

Prom is now only about a month away, and so decisions about decorations will be made soon to make sure they all arrive on time.

“We really have to kind of start coalescing around some stuff, because we have to order it,” Steve Tygrett said. “We need to be figuring that out here in the next week or two.”