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ARCHIVES 1998 THE MEDIA BUSINESS; A Pepsi Fan Is Punished in Coke's Backyard By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MARCH 26, 1998 If high school guidance counselors are right and there is a "permanent record," this is going on Michael Cameron's: In 1998,] wearing a Pepsi shirt on Coke Dav he was suspended for School officials say the shirt was an insult to visiting Coca-Cola executives and ruined a school picture in which students lined up to spell out "Coke." Mr. Cameron, a 19-year-old senior, said it was just a joke "In my eyes, I didn't do anything wrong," he said today while serving his one-day suspension. "I know it sounds bad - 'Child suspended for wearing Pepsi shirt on Coke Day,' " said Gloria Hamilton, the principal of Greenbrier High School in Evans, about 130 miles east of Atlanta, where Coke is based. "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 Coke in Education Day on Friday was part of Greenbrier's effort to win a $500 local contest run by the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Augusta, Ga., and a national contest with a $10,000 prize Mr. Cameron wore a blue-and-white shirt with a small Pepsi logo underneath another shirt. He waited until just before the picture was taken to remove 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 see Mr. Cameron's shirt and were not offended by the prank, said Diana Garza, a company spokeswoman. The kid did what a kid does," Ms. Garza said. "We have people coming into the World of Coca-Cola here in Atlanta wearing Pepsi shirts." A Pepsico spokesman, Brad Shaw, said, "Without knowing all the details, it sounds like Mike's obviously a trendsetter with impeccable taste in clothes We're going to make sure he's got plenty of Pepsi shirts to wear in the future once we track him down. After getting caught, Mr. Cameron was sent to the principal's office, where he said Mrs. 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

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