October 22, 1999Cults: for and against Varsity, University of Cambridge (Includes information on Scientology.)
October 21, 1999Psychiatrist Clark, Former Medical Faculty Member, Dies - The Harvard University Gazette (...and discredited the widespread belief that ordinary people with no history of psychiatric problems were not vulnerable to cult group influences.)
October 21, 1999 FBI Warns of Millennium Attacks, Associated Press
October 14, 1999 Task Force Finds Few Instances of Campus Cults, Washington Post
October 7, 1999Cult task force commends campus RA training, Ross Wallenstein, The Diamondback, University of Maryland (A state task force assigned to study the effects of cults and cult-like activity in public universities recently commended campus for its efforts in training resident assistants to deal with the issue.
...However, the task force, which held meetings from May until its final meeting on Sept. 15, operated under controversy for most of its existence.
In opposition to the task force, a lawsuit was filed in Baltimore’s U.S. District Court on Aug. 16 by Seventh Day Adventists and Unification Church members who claim the task force infringed on the free exercise of religion clause guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution...
...Jeffrey Hadden, a University of Virginia professor who advised the task force, said in a press release that the task force also found "risks from cults is statistically very small to students."...)
September 30, 1999Cults target stressed, lonely students, By Sarah LaVoie, Daily Forty-Niner, California State University, Long Beach (Every student is susceptible to the influence of a high-pressure religious group during particularly stressful or traumatic times, said the keynote speaker of a cult awareness workshop...
...Members of high-pressure groups usually spend all of their time in group-related activities or actively recruiting new members, said another speaker, also a former member of a cult that currently recruits students at Cal State Long Beach....)
September 3, 1999 K-State dean encourages students to be aware of destructive groups, NewsPage.com (Kansas State University) (This news item mentioned the Cult Awareness Network. Read the
following article for more information on the Cult Awareness Network.) December 19, 1996Group that once criticized Scientologists now owned by one, CNN.com
September 1, 1999Cults on campus, Jewish World Review (Includes information on the International Churches of Christ/Upside Down Club.)
September 1, 1999 House Panel Issues Subpoenas In Waco Probe, Reuters
August 26, 1999 Jury Foreman: New Trial Justified, ABC NewsWire (About the Branch Davidians.)
August 25, 1999 Kin of Man in Cult Suit Abducted, Associated Press (About Aum Shinri Kyo.)
August 24, 1999 FBI Admits Tear Gas Use in Waco, Associated Press
May 25, 1999 Tokyo police search shops, facilities connected to doomsday cult, CNN (About Aum Shinri Kyo)
May 21, 1999 Amazon.com Backs Off Book Ban, Associated Press
May 18, 1999Cult awareness conference courts protest, debate, Minnesota Daily (Information on the Minneapolis-St. Paul Church of Christ/International Church of Christ and Scientology is included.)
May 18, 1999 Japan Says It May Try To Outlaw Doomsday Cult, Reuters
May 11, 1999 Cult Task Force, WTTG-TV Fox Morning News (Available on LEXIS/NEXIS)
May 2, 1999 Cult figures, CANOE
May 1999Cults in Colleges, by Faye Benjamin, The Spectrum, Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School, New York (How Not to Get Manipulated
What they don't tell her is that she is being drawn into a cult.
If this sounds too far-fetched, too much like a movie, the sort of thing that doesn't happen to people like you, you're wrong. Cults are everywhere, and often they try to recruit new members on college campuses. They can approach anyone, but usually prey on the most vulnerable people, people who are lonely, confused, or overwhelmed by college life...)
March 3-March 10, 1999Lost Little Girl, Philadelphia Weekly (About The Brotherhood/Garbage Eaters/The Roberts Group)
April 24, 1999 Colorado shootings by Steven Hassan
April 22, 1999 AOL Helps FBI On Colorado School
Killings Probe, Reuters (Concerning Colorado School Shooting.)
April 21, 1999Warning Signs Ignored, 20/20, ABCNEWS (Concerning recent school shootings in the U. S.)
March 3-March 10, 1999Lost Little Girl, Philadelphia Weekly (About The Brotherhood/Garbage Eaters/The Roberts Group)
March 3, 1999Seeking sex and salvation, Gazette, University of Western Ontario (About the Children Of God/The Family/COG/David Berg)
February 26, 1999Cults Topic of March 3 Panel Discussion, The Campus Connection, Western Illinois University (Cults can be dangerous, but they also can be beneficial, says noted expert John Simmons, philosophy and religious studies professor...
..."We will examine how to identify cults, their characteristics, and, most importantly, how to avoid and resist these groups when approached."
The panel discussion about cults is sponsored by the WIU Counseling Center...)
February 7, 1999 Mass Marriage Held in South Korea, Associated Press (About the Unification Church.)
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