> AREA STUDENTS KOWTOW TO CORPORATE AMERICA
>
> Evans, Georgia(AP) -- If your high school guidance counselor was right and
> there is such a thing as "your permanent record", this is going on Mike
> Cameron's: In 1998, he was suspended for wearing a Pepsi shirt on Coke Day.
>
> School officials say the shirt was an insult to visiting Coca-Cola executives
> and ruined a school picture in which students spelled out "Coke."
>
> Cameron says it was just a joke.
>
> "In my eyes, I didn't do anything wrong, " the 19-year-old senior said
> Wednesday while serving his one-day suspension.
>
> "I know it sounds bad -- 'Child suspended for wearing Pepsi shirt on Coke
> Day,'" said Gloria Hamilton, principal of Greenbrier High School in Evans,
> about 130 miles east of Atlanta, the world headquarters of Coca-Cola.
>
> "It really would have been acceptable if it had just been in-house, but we had
> the regional president here and people flew in from Atlanta to do us the honor
> of being resource speakers. These students knew we had guests."
>
> The Coke in Education Day was part of Greenbrier's effort to win a $500 local
> contest run by the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Augusta and a national contest
> with a $10,000 prize.
>
> Cameron wore a blue-and-white-striped shirt with a small Pepsi logo underneath
> another shirt. He waited until just before the picture was taken to remove his
> outer shirt, Hamilton said.
>
> After getting caught, Cameron was sent to the principal's office where he said
> Hamilton "talked about how important that day was to the school and that I
> might have cost the school 10 grand."
>
> The Coke contest offers $500 to the Columbia County school that comes up with
> the most creative method of distributing promotional discount cards to
> students.
>
> In addition to the school picture, Greenbrier officials invited a Coke
> marketing executive to address economics students, had chemistry students
> analyze the sugar content of Coke and used a Coca-Cola cake recipe in home
> economics.
>
> "In the past, when kids have decided to ruin a school picture -- occasionally
> we have some who decide that's the time to do an obscene gesture -- they've
> been given six days of suspension, " the principal said. "So it's not a new
> situation."
>
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> http://cnn.com/US/9803/25/pepsi.suspension.ap/index.ht ml
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Money for Schools, not Prisons! Hasta la victoria siempre!
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