Westside : LIGHT READING

There were sighs of relief at Santa Monica High School as the 1995 yearbook proved to be free of sex, drugs and racism.

Actually, there was a little sex, but it was pretty much limited to a public-opinion feature on the topic of freshmen kissing in the halls. The consensus? Gross. “I throw condoms at them until they stop,” a worldly senior wrote.

Last year, the campus was abuzz about pranksters who hid the word Satan in the artwork on the cover. There were drawings of magic mushrooms and a saucy nude rendering of a school mascot, Vicky Viking, not to mention what was said to be a printer’s error that transposed the last three letters of the word homecoming into a racial slur.

And what happened to the trio of yearbook staffers who sneaked their sly jokes into last year’s volume? Two are in college and another went pro, taking a $40,000-a-year job as a cartoon animator.