upskirt photo in the yearbook

The 2006 edition of the yearbook at Phillipsburg High School showed a little bit more than school spirit, and now is a tad thinner for it.

School officials ripped a page out of hundreds of students' yearbooks because it contained a photograph that showed a student's underwear.

The picture on page 224 showed a female student wearing a skirt and sitting on a desk during a play; a bit of her underwear could be seen.

``The picture was questionable,'' said school superintendent H. Gordon Pethick. ``It's the best way I can describe it.''

Pethick said a relative of the student asked for the picture to be removed, so officials took it out of hundreds of copies of the yearbook.

Pethick said the page was being reprinted without the questionable picture and students will receive the replacement within a month or so.

Some students at the Warren County school were upset by the removal of the pages, The Express-Times of Easton, Pa., reported in Tuesday's newspapers. Besides the offending photo, seven other drama pictures and nine pictures from a pep rally that were on the same page and its other side were removed.

``First of all, people paid for these. They belong to the students,'' Phillipsburg High School senior Katie Rockware told the newspaper. ``They are expensive. It's like them saying, 'Excuse me, can I just destroy your personal property?' I thought it was so ridiculous.''