If you prefer Pepsi over Coke, you're frequently out of luck on the Iowa State campus. But at least you won't be suspended. Right before the cameras clicked, Cameron took off the overshirt and landed himself a suspension.
Schools have the authority to prohibit some clothing, including vulgar and obscene T-shirts.
The high school also had chemistry students test the sugar content in a can of Coke, and home economics students baked a Coke cake. But Cameron's refusal to go along with corporate sponsorship was merely an exercise in free speech, something a school should never condemn. Interestingly, Coke officials didn't even notice Cameron's exercise in free speech, and it didn't bother them when they found out. But Greenbrier did attract the notice of the Pepsi Corporation. Copyright 1998 by the Iowa State Daily Publications Board.