Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Gesture in yearbook photo lands players in trouble


Pages 188 and 189 of Lincoln Park Academy's 2006 yearbook have caused big controversy at the school.

On those pages, six baseball players displayed what some view as an obscene hand gesture known as the "shocker" in their team picture. School administrators discovered the problem after the yearbook's publication and distribution. As discipline, they banned the offending players from Lincoln Park's awards ceremony last Friday and stripped them of their varsity letters and post-season awards.

Some feel the punishment went too far while others think it failed to go far enough.
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