Pubdate: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 Source: Tribune Review (Pittsburgh, PA) Copyright: 2005 Tribune-Review Publishing Co. Contact: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/460 Author: The Associated Press Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/coke.htm (Cocaine) SAY IT ISN'T SNOW School Clarifies Ban On T-Shirt JOHNSTOWN -- Frosty's still cool. It's another snowman that officials in one Western Pennsylvania school district say isn't so hot. Greater Johnstown Schools superintendent Barbara Parkins said she was forced to clarify a ban on one particular type of snowman garb -- a menacing snowman design first made popular by rapper Young Jeezy -- after some students and parents thought the ban extended to other holiday-themed clothing. The best selling T-shirt design inspired by Young Jeezy depicts a snowman with an angry look on his face that is meant to represent a drug dealer. Snow is a slang term for cocaine, a white powdery drug. Some parents thought all snowman garb was off limits, and even believed the ban extended to snowflakes and other holiday designs, Parkins said. "We aren't letting our students wear the Young Jeezy T-shirt," Parkins said. "Snowmen aren't banned from our schools." Parkins said snowmen even decorated the holiday cards she handed out to her staff. "Because we don't permit any kind of promoting drugs in the school, that is the reason" for the ban, Parkins said. "We found it to be educationally disruptive." - --- MAP posted-by: Beth Wehrman