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COKE DAY PRANK FIZZLES FOR
PEPSI-LOVING STUDENT
From Various News Sources
[NOTE]: The RUN IT for this article is
a photo of prankster Mike Cameron,
taken from the Web.
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."