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What do you fear? Midterms. Darkness. Death. Seventeen students and community members faced these fears at the MIT Pagan Students’ Group (PSG) annual Samhain ritual at MIT Chapel on Sunday night. The Samhain ritual celebrates the Celtic New Year by commemorating the dead while celebrating new life. Though Samhain is a pagan ritual, attendees were not all strict pagans. “I really like paganism and I enjoy hanging out with pagans. My own religion is something I make up myself out of many things,” says participant Jonas Roy, a 23-year-old Boston...
...Wilson was seventeen, a football star and honor student when he was arrested in 2003. At the time of his trial, sexual intercourse between minors less than four years apart was a misdemeanor, even if one of them was younger than 16, Georgia's age of consent. But oral sex - legally considered sodomy in Georgia - carried no so-called Romeo and Juliet provision, and remained a felony in all cases if either party was under...
...studious,” and “unaccustomed to sunlight.” Thanks to “Freeze,” Harvard’s take on women’s glossies like “Marie Claire” and “Seventeen,” and its president and founder, Thea L. Sebastian ’08, that list of attributes now includes “fabulous.” The magazine first broke ground in 2005, and The Crimson recently sat down with Sebastian, a government concentrator in Leverett House, to discuss the humble...
Disney Channel's 2006 surprise-hit movie operated on the aspirational principle of kid culture: just as naming a magazine Seventeen will attract 13-year-olds, so will a franchise called High School Musical reach tweens for whom high school is only an enticing and terrifying eventuality. Like the original, High School Musical 2 (Aug. 17, 8 p.m. E.T.) gives them high school with training wheels: romance without sexual pressure, G-rated teen pop (Justin Timberlake before he brought sexy back). It's a raging bacchanal of hand holding, milk drinking and explicit thespianism! Obviously, this is escapism for parents...
...Believe it or not, he's got a pretty rich baritone. It's kind of great. I must be one of the few people he sang to, and it's an honor," he says. Efron's also in talks to remake Footloose as well as make a movie called Seventeen, in which a grown-up gets stuck inside a teenager's body due to, I'm guessing, an accident involving electricity...