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- COKE DAY PRANK FIZZLES FOR
- PEPSI-LOVING STUDENT
-
- From Various News Sources
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- [NOTE]: The RUN IT for this article is
- a photo of prankster Mike Cameron,
- taken from the Web.
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- Mike Cameron was suspended in
- 1998for 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, "In my eyes, I didn't
- do anything wrong."
-
- "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."
-
- Cameron wore a blue-and-white-
- striped shirt with a small Pepsi logo
- embroidered over the pocket. "That's
- just the kind of person I am," he
- said. "I don't like to follow the
- trends."
-
- "It's not a Coke-Pepsi war issue,"
- Hamilton said. "It has nothing to do
- with that. It was a student
- deliberately being disruptive and
- rude."
-
- Coca-Cola Bottling Co., a school
- business partner with the Columbia
- County school system, sponsored a
- contest among the four county high
- schools for the most creativity in
- distributing Coke cards -- a
- promotional item offering discounts at
- several area businesses. The most
- creative school would receive $500
- from the local Coca-Cola branch.
-
- "We have set expectations as far
- as behavior," Mrs. Hamilton said
- Wednesday, "And 99 percent of the time
- that behavior reaches those
- expectations. I do think he thought it
- was funny, but I think it was
- premeditated, deliberate and
- deceptive, and it was one day and it's
- over with."
-
- "The principal notified me that
- she had disciplined a kid for
- disrupting the educational environment
- on Friday ... It had nothing to do
- with First Amendment, nothing to do
- with Pepsi Cola," Superintendent Dr.
- Dohrmann said.
-
- "In fact, if Pepsi Cola came out
- with something like this, where the
- entire student body would benefit, we
- would welcome it," he said. "Coca-Cola
- is only one of over 100 business
- partners we have in Columbia County.
- I'd love it if Pepsi would be a
- business partner."
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