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Perwin is amply equipped to handle both roles, with vocal capabilities driving forth the stories of the Balladeer and the acting ability to project the manipulatable persona of Oswald in one of the more bizarre peer pressure scenes ever conceived...
Levit-Shore also feels that the resources for sexual assault victims should be more centralized. Currently, students who are sexually assaulted have multiple options in seeking help, including the Sexual Assault Sexual Harassment tutor in their House, their senior tutor, Avery or peer counseling groups such as Response...
...which tied with UCLA for second place, fell in the rankings in part because first-ranked Stanford had a lower student-to-faculty ratio as well as a lower acceptance rate and higher peer assessment scores—all of which figure into the magazine’s formula...
Simultaneously, the priesthood has become the most countercultural profession in America. "We live the last of the medieval lifestyles," author and priest Donald Cozzens said. Isolation is a constant threat. Fewer nuns and fellow priests means less peer support in an increasingly secular and sexualized society. "When I got ordained," says the Rev. Tom Pelton, 61, who became a priest in 1966 and is a mentor for Shanahan, "it was much easier to hide in the priesthood. You live in a fishbowl...
...drink wine coolers. Indeed, research has shown that girls often begin drinking not to impress boys but to endear themselves to other girls. In a study published last year of more than 1,000 Maryland sixth-graders, girls were twice as likely as boys to succumb to peer pressure to drink. The reason? While boys at that age bob among social groups, girls have already cleaved into powerful cliques. "Girls see a group of girls and are looking to try on their behaviors," says the study's author, Bruce Simons-Morton, a researcher with the National Institute of Child Health...