Los Lunas High School Principal Claudia Krause-Johnson has banned bringing food and drink into high school classrooms following a February incident in which as many as eight seniors smuggled in a bottle of vodka and drank from it during class, the Valencia County News-Bulletin reported over the weekend.

One female student became so intoxicated that she required medical attention, Krause-Johnson told the News-Bulletin.

"There was one student who had probably consumed a fairly large amoung of alcohol for that student's body weight," District Superintendent Walt Gibson told the paper. "And we did have paramedics there. We were concerned. She did go to the hospital."

Krause-Johnson said the student was  well enough to return to school the next day, the News-Bulletin reported.

Gibson and Krause-Johnson said the students involved were disciplined with suspensions ranging from three days to long-term, the paper said.

The substitute teacher who was in the classroom on Feb. 21, when the incident took place, is no longer being employed by the district, Gibson told the paper.

The principal told the News-Bulletin that she and the teaching staff would evaluate the current food and drink policy over the summer and decide whether changes should be made.

While the food-and-drink ban was imposed until after the spring break, some, the ban was selectively enforced following spring break, with some teachers allowing food in the classroom, the paper reported.

"While the whole staff supported the decision to allow water, I do have some staff that would like to see the kids be allowed to eat and drink in the classroom," Krause-Johnson told the News-Bulletin. "However, due to the circumstances in February, we decided to allow only water in the classroom for the rest of the year."

Meanwhile, an investigation into whether a Los Lunas High School teacher's coffee had been tampered with last November has turned up inconclusive, Superintendent Walt Gibson told the News-Bulletin in another story this weekend.

"The tests came back inconclusive," Gibson said of testing done at the State Crime Lab after a first-year teacher reported feeling light-headed and incoherent after drinking coffee at the school last Nov. 2. "Nothing showed up -- absolutely nothing."

A second teacher reported feeling similar symptoms on the following Monday, Nov. 5, and samples of the coffee and coffee grounds from teachers' cups and the coffee pot itself were sent to the crime lab, the News-Bulletin said. 

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