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Pepsi fan suspended on Coke Day
EVANS, Ga. (AP) — Ifyour 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 T-shirt on Coke Day.
School officials say the shirt was an in
sult 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 sus
pended 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 head
quarters 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.”
Friday’s Coke in Education Day was
part of Greenbrier’s effort to win a $500
local contest run by the Coca-Cola Bot
tling Co. of Augusta and a national con
test with a $10,000 prize.
Cameron wore a blue-and-white-
striped T-shirt with a small Pepsi logo un
derneath another shirt. He waited until
just before the picture was taken to re
move his outer shirt, Mrs. Hamilton said.
“It’s not a Coke-Pepsi war issue,” she
said. “It has nothing to do with that. It was
a student deliberately being disruptive
and rude.”
The Coke executives did not even see
Cameron’s T-shirt and were not offended
by the prank, said company spokesper
son Diana Garza.
“It’s not a Coke-Pepsi war issue....
It was a student deliberately being
disruptive and rude. > ’
Gloria Hamilton
Principal of Greenbrier High School
“The kid did what a kid does,” Garza
said. “We have people coming into the
World of Coca-Cola here in Atlanta wear
ing Pepsi shirts.”
Pepsi spokesperson Brad Shaw said,
“Without knowing all the details, it
sounds like Mike’s obviously a trendset
ter with impeccable taste in clotlies. We’re
going to make sure he’s got plenty of Pep -
si shirts to wear in the future once we
track him down.”
After getting caught, Cameron was
sent to the principal’s office, where he
said Hamilton “talked about how im
portant 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 eco
nomics students, had chemistry stu
dents 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 princi
pal said. “So it’s not a new situation.”
Hazel Lanier, who was picking up
her granddaughter at school Wednes
day, said she thought the punishment
was too severe.
“We do teach independence in this
country, don’t we?” she asked. “The last
thing we need is to teach conformity.”
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