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Student Wins Anti-Bush Shirt Clash
LANSDALE, Pa., Dec. 13, 2005 (AP) A Pennsylvania student is off the
hook after the American Civil Liberties Union defended his right to
wear a political T-shirt to school.

Chris Schiano's T-shirt said "International Terrorist" and had a
picture of President Bush.

A security guard at his high school north of Philadelphia told him to
take it off. He refused.

Schiano says he's well versed in the First Amendment. He says he "knew
right off they had no legal footing to stand on."

The principal says after hearing from the ACLU, school officials
realized that the shirt, while potentially offensive, didn't violate
the school's dress code. It had no references to sex, drugs, ethnic
intimidation or explicit language.

Schiano says he's now wearing the shirt to school and no one's given
him a hard time.

In February 2003, school officials ordered a 16-year-old in Michigan
[1] to either take off a T-shirt emblazoned with the words
"International Terrorist" and a picture of President Bush or go home,
saying they worried it would inflame passions at the school where a
majority of students are Arab-American.

The student, Bretton Barber, chose to go home. He said he wore the
shirt to express his anti-war position and for a class assignment in
which he wrote a compare-contrast essay on Mr. Bush and Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein.


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School Bans Anti-Bush Shirt

DEARBORN, Mich. - School officials ordered a 16-year-old to either
take off a T-shirt emblazoned with the words "International Terrorist"
and a picture of President George W. Bush or go home, saying they
worried it would inflame passions at the school where a majority of
students are Arab-American.

The student, Bretton Barber, chose to go home. He said he wore the
shirt Monday to express his anti-war position and for a class
assignment in which he wrote a compare-contrast essay on Mr. Bush and
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Schools spokesman Dave Mustonen said students have the right to
freedom of expression, but educators are sensitive to tensions caused
by the conflict with Iraq.

"It was felt that emotions are running very high," Mustonen said.

Dearborn is the center of an Arab-American community of about 300,000
in southeastern Michigan. About 55 percent of the district's 17,600
students are Arab-American.

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