Two students were suspended and two others reprimanded for performing skits at an Ogden High School assembly that showed boys in bikinis and others posing as homosexuals.
School officials say the skits took place by surprise after a committee had approved an assembly script presented to the administration by student body officers the day before the Feb. 21 assembly.The brief incidents ended before administrators could step in.
They featured two students who appeared on stage, flexing their muscles in bikinis; then two other boys, fully dressed, who posed as gays and made homosexual remarks, said Assistant Principal Larry Leatham.
Leatham said the two boys who posed as gays were suspended for the remainder of the day and again on Feb. 24. The two who appeared in bikinis were reprimanded.
"I was offended by it," said Leatham, who had a part in the assembly himself. At the request of student body officers, Leatham sang two lines from the current hit song, "I'm Too Sexy."
"I didn't know this other was going to happen," he said. "We would not have allowed that to go on if we knew, but they were able to sneak that through."
Leatham said he doubts the student body officers were aware of the surprise skits.
The timing was unfortunate, however, he said, because the audience included a school alumnus on hand to donate a plaque for the gymnasium. The alumnus was student body president in 1948 and is a retired physician living in southern Utah, Leatham said.
"He was here for us to honor him, actually. We were embarrassed."
Leatham said the pep assembly preceded a basketball game that night with cross-town rival Ben Lomond. Ogden students had heard that Ben Lomond was to hold a pep rally based on the popular song, and that's why they chose that as a theme, Leatham said.
Ogden won the game, 82-58.