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Though he kept his eye on Athens while training for the 2004 Olympics last year, Lawler emerged from the pool not only with impressive times, but with snappy new exchanges between characters like Mooney O’Tooley and Sweetie Connors...
Genie is the story of Mooney O’Tooley (Rowan Sheldon ’08)—a nerdy freshman with intentions of starting anew who falls in love with Sweetie Connors (Sara Jayne Blackmore, a student at the New England Conservatory). Frustratingly, she is an heiress afflicted with multiple personalities, each of them out of his league. Dejected, he heads to a bar to drown his sorrows; while there, however, he discovers a soulful and mischievous genie in a bottle (La’Tarsha Long on Dec.15 and 19 and Anita Murrell on Dec. 16-18, both...
...assembly time at La Vega High School in McLennan County, Texas, and a roomful of juniors and seniors is talking about the facts of life. "From this day forward, what's going to be too far for you?" asks traveling lecturer Eric Tooley, as he distributes a work sheet on "physical affection" that begins with talking and holding hands and progresses right through to sexual intercourse. "Circle the things you're not going to do until marriage." As the students finish up their assignment, Tooley makes clear his own preference: "Virginity is a gift you get to give away only...
...McLennan County, that message shows up everywhere from hard candies emblazoned SEX IS MINT FOR MARRIAGE to pledge cards asking kids to forswear sex. At La Vega, Tooley delivers a stern lecture on the ineffectiveness of condoms, telling students the devices fail to protect against hiv anywhere from 10% to 43% of the time (as opposed to the 1% failure rate claimed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when condoms are used properly). Students view graphic slides of a uterus before and after the onset of pelvic inflammatory disease. At a recent abstinence class for seventh- and eighth...
...issue is not likely to subside, especially in an election year. But for many students at La Vega High, the debate might seem academic. According to a survey conducted by Tooley, of the 200 participants in their second year of abstinence-only classes, 60% have already lost their virginity--and 10 of the girls are pregnant...