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All I wanted was a Pepsi!
“ 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. So it's not a new situation.”
-- Gloria Hamilton, principal of Greenbrier High School, who suspended student Mike Cameron for one day when he wore a Pepsi T-shirt on the high school's official Coca-Cola Day. Quoted by the Associated Press.
SALON | March 26, 1998

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		`Q U O T E--O F--T H E--D A Y` All I wanted was a Pepsi! “ 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. So it's not a new situation.” -- Gloria Hamilton, principal of Greenbrier High School, who suspended student Mike Cameron for one day when he wore a Pepsi T-shirt on the high school's official Coca-Cola Day. Quoted by the Associated Press. SALON \| March 26, 1998