As the school week winds to a close, Annandale’s students trudge to their first period classes to the tune of Friday morning chatter, complaints of homework, and the ritual discussion of weekend plans… but no actual tunes. We’ve completed over half of the school year and as pleasant as it has been, there is one thing we miss: the Friday Morning DJ.

For those that don’t know what were talking about, the Friday Morning DJ would play 7 minutes worth of music as we walked to our first class on Friday mornings. The music ranged from Michael Jackson to Christmas Carols and never ceased to caress our ears with beautiful melodies.

We don’t know about you all, but we thought it was always fun to see what would be playing when Friday morning rolled around. Not only would the music fill the halls with the warm sound of melodious harmonies and catchy music, it would improve overall student morale, setting us up for a productive school day filled with learning and scholarly discourse.“I don’t get very excited about a lot of things in school, but I’ve always enjoyed Friday Morning DJ,” said senior Nathan Miller.

The man behind the music, Max Talley had a few words on the dilemma, “I’ve been behind on my duty but it’s not entirely my fault,” said Talley, “When I tried to start it up again, the administration wouldn’t let me.” Talley says that the administrators were against starting the tradition so late in the school year.

In response Assistant principal Vincent Randazzo says that the problem lies not with the administration but in the lack of communication.

“We want to have a Friday Morning DJ, but no one showed up until last week.”

Mr. Randazzo hopes to coordinate with Max Talley to celebrate the genre of jazz in the month of April.

With great power comes great responsibility. We shall not point fingers at who is the culprit all we ask for is a little music to get us to the weekend.