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- Adbusters: Teen Turns Coke Day Flat - Mike Cameron, a senior at Greenbrier High School in Evans, Georgia was suspended recently for wearing a Pepsi shirt on Coke Day.
www.adbusters.org/campaigns/commercialfree/toolbox/coke.html
- Arizona Daily Wildcat: Have a Coke and a suspension - At Greenbrier High School in Evans, Georgia, if you wear a Pepsi t-shirt you could get suspended.
wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/91/131/04_3_m.html
- Augusta Chronicle: Calls Coke Day penalty breach of rights - Editorial by Robert Stolworthy of Evans criticizing Mike Cameron's suspension as a breach of his First Amendment rights.
www.augustachronicle.com/stories/040398/opi_046-7689.shtml
- Augusta Chronicle: Pepsi shirt incident gains world notice - The Pepsi-shirt-on-Coke-Day incident at Greenbrier High School has gone international.
www.augustachronicle.com/stories/032698/met_124-2581.shtml
- Coke Lovin' Administrators - "In a coutry founded and thriving on both the similarities AND differences between people, it is a tragedy to see how many educators go out of their way to produce (their concept of) the perfect cookie-cutter citizen." Editorial by Tyler. [Oblivion]
www.oblivion.net/oblivion/7/98spr11.html
- Conspiracy Newsline: Branding 101: Student Suspended For Wearing Pepsi Shirt On "Coke Day" - In a surreal tale of "branding" run amok, a Georgia high school illustrated the frightening degree to which American education is becoming corporatized this week when it suspended a student for wearing a Pepsi shirt on "Coke Day."
www.parascope.com/articles/cnews/980325.htm
- F2B: Reading, Writing & $elling Out - Fade to Black offers Greenbrier High School another sponsorship payoff: $250 to spell out "www.fadetoblack.com" with at least 100 students.
www.fadetoblack.com/sellingout
- Fade to Black: Q&A with Mike Cameron - Interview with Mike Cameron, who was suspended from Greenbrier High School in Evans, Georgia for wearing a Pepsi T-shirt at a photo shoot lining students up to spell out the word "Coke" during the school's "Coke in Education Day".
www.fadetoblack.com/interviews/mikecameron
- Fayetteville Observer: The Pepsi Kid - High school senior Mike Cameron got the boot after he basically smuggled a Pepsi T-shirt to the scene of an on-campus Coca-Cola promotion and then doffed his outer shirt just before the shutter was snapped.
www.fayettevilleobserver.com/news/archives/1998/tx98mar/e29l2sxx.htm
- Principal Magazine: Looking for Funds in All the Wrong Places - "One of the most disturbing trends is schools attempting to raise money by engaging in activities that undermine their curricular message and, in some instances, promote unhealthy student lifestyles." By Alex Molnar.
www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/CERU/Documents/cace-00-04.htm
- PTAs and Commercialism in Schools - Speech given by Charlotte Baecher of Consumers Union in February 1999 to approximately 150 PTA representatives in New York State.
www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/CERU/Community%20Corner/baecherspeech.html
- Rock Out Censorship: Student Suspended for Wearing a Pepsi T-Shirt - Todd Weise speaks out against the suspension.
www.theroc.org/updates/pepsi.htm
- San Francisco Examiner: Student suspended for defying Coke Day - A high school senior is serving a one-day suspension Wednesday for wearing a Pepsi shirt on Coke Day, an event school officials crafted in an attempt to win a $500 contest run by the Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
www.well.com/~bernie/coke.html
- Sponsored Schools and Commercialized Classrooms - Report on schoolhouse commercializing trends in the 1990s. Introduction analyzes Greenbrier High School's "Coke in Education Day" and includes a lengthy press review.
www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/CERU/Annual%20reports/cace-98-01.htm
- Suck: Clothes Minded - Editorial about student dress and school uniforms, beginning with Mike Cameron's suspension.
www.suck.com/daily/98/03/31/daily.html
- The Terrible, Horrible Student Who Wore a Pepsi Shirt on Coke Day - Two AP newswire articles and photographs of Cameron and the students lined up to spell Coke.
www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Track/5572/cokepepsi.html
- Transparency: Mike Cameron and Coke: The Human Pixel Who Wouldn't - Mike Cameron's pseudo-event. Was it the real thing?
www.transparencynow.com/cameron.htm
- violentnation.com: I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing - Essay about Pepsi, Coke, and Mike Cameron.
www.violentnation.com/kingdom/mind/essays/pepsiessay.html
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