[BenHildy]

While I will admit that I participated in the throwing of paper airplanes last year at world's, I frankly was an overexcited freshman who was eager to be a part of something big. Little did I know that my actions cause problems in the grand scheme of things. While I do agree that it has its fun, we should certainly refrain from the whole throwing of planes, at least during guest speakers, matches, etc because it is extremely and utterly disrespectful. I'm not going to wail on those who do this responsibly, but honestly we as a generation of intellectuals all congregated in one place could easily think of a less disruptive time-waster. Overall, I can understand how this "tradition" developed, but it certainly takes away from the mature and sophisticated image that FRC strives to build for us.

tl;dr: Throwing paper planes, while fun, has grown a bit out of control and should be either done responsibly or not at all.