The sophomore walk is a nickname for Scripps Drive and the Anderson plaza The term stems from the fact that the Davis High School sophomores lack a drivers license and have to walk or bike somewhere to obtain grubs if they don't want to have the on site food. DHS is an open campus at lunch time, although there is talk of bringing fast food vendors to the MPR area (the "Multi Purpose Room" with triangle windows visible from Oak Avenue) after it is renovated and making the campus closed.
Residents of Scripps have had problems with littering and fights and have motorcycle cops and more commonly the yard narcs ("noon duty supervisors" and "campus safety officers") in the DHS golf cart to make sure the students don't "act a fool" on Scripps or in the Save Mart complex. Recently, however, there has been no supervision.
Don't try and visit the Save Mart complex during the lunch hour for DHS (11:30 to 1-ish), unless you like lines out the door and a grip of unruly high school students
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2007-04-12 19:47:09 hahahahaha..."a grip"...didn't think they used that one up here —TylerFelix
2007-09-10 11:34:07 As a high school student, I found the cops to extremely excessive and obnoxious, zooming up to people on motorbikes at high speeds and threatening to ticket and even arrest them for walking in the gutter. I feel they caused more problems than they solved. —TobinJones
2008-05-05 19:49:28 I'll miss living on the sophomore walk. I actually liked scaring kids with my car as I drove to and from home. But more so, I liked swerving around them like they are an obstacle course. One time, some group of kids started dancing to the music I was playing when I had my windows down... —SunjeetBaadkar
