- Responding to High Pressure Groups at UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles
- May 28, 2002 Scientology should not be prejudged, Austin Mattison, President, Student Scientologists in Action, Letters, Daily Bruin, University of California Los Angeles
- May 23, 2002 Scientology misleading and manipulative, Solomon Matsas, Student Affairs Staff Coordinator, Office of the Vice Chancellor, Letters, Daily Bruin, University of California Los Angeles
- April 18, 2000 Mass deaths in Uganda ignored, Daily Bruin, University of California Los Angeles (Viewpoint)
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STRIFE: Media coverage of incident lacking; truth deserves to be uncovered
On March 17, at least 924 people belonging to the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God were slain in Uganda...
...The answers to this and other similar atrocities may be hidden in the ashes and decomposing bodies across the Atlantic but if we don't ever demand coverage, we will never know.
- April 8, 1999 No way out?, Daily Bruin,
University of California Los Angeles (About the Los Angeles Church of Christ/International Church of Christ.)
- January 25, 1999 FAREWELL TO A HUMAN-RIGHTS CHAMPION, by Wendy Soderburg/UCLA Today Staff, UCLA Today
Louis Jolyon "Jolly" West, chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and director of the Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI) for 20 years, died at his home in West Los Angeles on Jan. 2 from cancer. He was 74.
An activist for human rights, West achieved international recognition for his research on cults and...
- October 6, 1998 Distorted devotion, by Michelle Navarro, Daily Bruin, University of California Los Angeles
RELIGION: High pressure religious groups often target students for recruitment
For Calvin Kwan, joining a religious organization seemed innocent enough...
...But then Kwan started to doubt the integrity of the organization that manipulated his mind.
"I still felt like my questions were not answered; instead, my loyalty was questioned," he said...
...It is the kind of group found on almost every campus in the nation that manipulates, controls and asks for the utmost devotion from students.
And despite the amount of literature warning people about cults, the number of students joining them continues to grow.
Kwan's testimony refers to his four-year experience as a member of a cult while attending Long Beach Community College and Cal State Long Beach.
For years, campuses across the nation have held workshops, seminars and handed out brochures by the droves in attempts to prevent students from joining cults.
Sadly, many students like Kwan still get taken in and end up trapped in the grip of these high-pressure religious groups.
One reason students still continue to naively submit to these groups is because they are unable to initially identify a group as a cult.
"Most cults are not suicidal or violent in any way. Most cults are very normal looking on the surface," said Kwan, who is now an official representative for REVEAL (Research, Examine, Verify, Educate, Assist, Liberate), a global support group for former and current cult members and their families...
- April 11, 1997 CULTS CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH, by Louis Jolyon West, UCLA Today, California
- January 29, 1996 Spreading word of true Christianity by Andy Lucas, Letter to the editor, Daily Bruin, University of California at Los Angeles (Information on the Los Angeles Church of Christ included.)
- February 5, 1991 "Former cult member to speak at Ackerman lounge" by Cathy Gilliard, Daily Bruin, University of California at Los Angeles
06/07/08 Broken link fixed on this page.
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