Teen keeps blue hair, nomination

Associated Press

SPRINGFIELD -- Crystal Lindsey's hair remains blue, but she will be able to keep her museum internship and a place on Rutherford High School's homecoming court after all, her principal said Thursday.

The 17-year-old senior showed up last week with dyed hair matching the blue tresses of Marge Simpson, a character on the television cartoon show ''The Simpsons,'' which is set in a fictional Springfield.

Her teacher at the school's Communications Technology Academy in this Panama City suburb found her tint positively hair-raising.

She said it would cost Crystal the internship she had at the Junior Museum of Bay County. The teen-ager also faced possible disqualification from the homecoming queen election because she had been nominated by the Academy.

But Crystal was allowed to keep her internship and remain a homecoming candidate after the museum staff said it had no objection to her blue locks.

Principal Joe Bullock said Academy guidelines are unclear and will be reviewed as a result of the blue-hair incident.