HAS SENIOR ASSASSIN GONE TOO FAR?

Garfield Senior reveals the lengths they will go to win.

By Finian Guinney

On March 27, Garfield’s Senior Assassin began. In this annual competition between seniors, each student is assigned a target to shoot with a Nerf Gun each week. If a participant is shot by their assassin, or fails to get their target by the end of the week, they are eliminated. To many, it’s a friendly contest to celebrate the end of high school, but some believe that people take things a little too far in order to be the last one standing. So to clear things up, I sat down with a Garfield senior (who asked to remain anonymous), and got an inside look at the competition.

Q: What have you done in preparation for Senior Assassin?

A: “I’ve actually been preparing for Senior Assassin for years. From the start of 9th grade, I’ve been gathering information about my classmates–their addresses, schedule, family, passwords, social security numbers, income–all to ensure that I