The State : Drink Photos Enrage School

High school officials in Huntington Beach who protested greeting cards linking drinking and graduation are irate and embarrassed over a similar display in their school’s yearbook. A full-page photo spread in Edison High School’s yearbook, the Oracle, shows students with beer bottles and wine coolers, and was paid for by students. It appeared less than a week after Edison administrators joined in a protest of two Hallmark cards, which the company later said it would discontinue. Edison officials became involved in the protest after a parent discovered two cards linking drinking to graduation fun. The parent, who is on a committee planning a graduation party next week at Edison, took the cards to Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, which led a June 3 protest outside Hallmark’s regional sales office in Newport Beach. Jim Wheeler, a yearbook adviser, said the staff had voted to refrain from such features next year.