initiation rite

When she was a student at Bogan High School, Mariyah Green said she was warned her refusal to participate in a “Puja initiation rite” — part of the school’s “Quiet Time” meditation program sponsored by the David Lynch Foundation — would cost her a spot in Bogan’s basketball program.

Mariyah Green, a student at Bogan High School, said she was cautioned to “pray or don’t play” when she refused to participate in a “Puja initiation rite” that was part of the “Quiet Time” meditation program sponsored by the David Lynch Foundation.

In 1985 he was a passenger in a car in Newark on his way to a reading in Bethlehem, Pa., when he was shot — whether a casualty of someone’s gang initiation rite or a victim of an attempted carjacking, he was never sure.

His parents told The Times that players who did not participate in the initiation rite were ostracized and sometimes had their lockers soaked in urine.

The ceremony Thursday evening represented a new assignment for Arango, pastor of St. Gregory Parish for nearly five years until news broke that he had repeatedly flubbed the phrasing on the initiation rite.