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Campus Update March 14, 1984 Page 2 “Cults are as much of a worry as they were ten years ago,” says Hassan. “Knowing about cults is Essential to survival in the real orld today.” Ironically, just at the time when more college students are going for icareers in business, the larger cults lhave moved into business in a big lway. Hiring is-one of the Unifi- ication Church’s most effective new recruitment techniques, says ‘Hassan. Soon after it gets today’s career-oriented M.B.A.’s and the _|Ph.D.'s_ on the payroll, it invites ‘[them to a company retreat where _| the indoctrination begins, he says. Though he disagrees on how much © recruiting is going on, ‘| the hiring theory’s plausibility. “Everybody wants to belong,’’ he says, “whether it’s to IBM or the Hare Krishna’s, it’s just a matter of which one you choose.” than the Moonies or the Hare Krish- na, says Hassan, who is writing a book ‘gn “Non-Coercive Exit Coun- ing’. He believes the current dan- smaller cults, such as ‘The Chil- dren of God’S “The Family of Love”, “The Divine Light Mission’’, land “The Way”, which Hassan . |sees as especially dangerous. ; Perhaps the greatest danger, acc- ording to Hassan, is that the cult phenomenon has not been tho- roughly understood, Cults succeed through their mastery of sophis- hich have set modern psychology ion its ear, he says. “Psychology has been unable to account for the kind ‘of rapid per- sonality change cult members un- idergo,” he says. “Up until now, they called’ it a schitzophrenic reac- tion.” But mind control exists and it lworks, says Hassan,. and like’ all’ kinds of power, it seduces. That, he says, is why the number of cults has grown so rapidly. Ten years ago, cults dominated ithe headlines. Heart wrenching stor- ies of parents searching for sons or daughters who'd joined the Moon- ies or The Children of God, filled Galanter’s view of cults supports” But the problem goes deeper Cult Phenomenon Exists but Not Understood the newspaper feature sections. Today, cults have almost vanish- ed from the news, but experts dis- agree on how active they currently are on college campuses. New York Psychiatrist Mare. Galanter, who has worked with ‘dozens of ex-cult members and written numerous articles 6h the cult phenomenon, believes cults are recruiting less and accepting fewer members. He sees todays college students are more concerned with material values than the kind of spiritual turmoil that made past students vulnerable. “There's little time for getting caught up in a cult when you're in business school,”” he says. Steve Hassan, formerly a high- level Moonie who now leads an anti cult group called Ex-Moon,. dis- agrees. Media exposure forced larg- er cults like Rev. Moon’s Unifi- cation Church to change their tac- tics, he says, but the drop in car- nation sales doesn’t mean the group: isn’t seeking new members. . ftocated mind control techniques, To Smoke or Not To Smoke On the edge of a’nervous break- down because you're failing all of your classes? Have you just broken up with your girlfriend? Trying to lose weight? Have dandruff? Does everyone shun you when you‘re near? Or are you just lonely and de- pressed? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you indeed have a reason to start smoking, Yes! Cigarettes can cure your de ession. Yes, cigarettes can get en girl- friend back. Yes, cigarettes can even make you socially acceptable. With cigarettes it is possible to join the elite group lurking about the ashtrays and blowing smokerings at each other. : Paella alalealaalalalalaelalele 2) fred feed fred fred fe -plain; Kings, That's right, statistics show peo- ple today start to smoke to cope with “depression or pressures, and this has been found to be habit causing. People will smoke anything from cigars to pipes to oriental bongs, and they will do it running, walking, sitting or standing. As long as they get their daily nicotine, they're happy. Believe it or not,. cigarette smok- ing has ‘declined in the last. ten years, mostly due to the 1971 law that prohibited tobacco industries from. advertising on television. Commercials with people riding their horses down a busy New York street advertising for Lark cigarettes or the macho Marlboro man riding into the sunset are no more, ex- cept for the billboards and the back covers of magazines. lf you are thinking about starting to smoke, you have a lot to think about. What should you smoke? How about a pipe for that intel- lectual look, or cigars for the Groucho Marx look? Or would you like to be a Marlboro man or a Virginia slim? Once you've decided what cate- gory you're in, and have established that you Tey ii truly want to be- ker you have to decide nee or sual tasting ne Do you want the 100’s, which have at least 10 more puffs than the which aren't that much different than plain; or just the plain. What brand? Well, you have about a hundred different kinds to choose from. Cigarettes can get annoying at times. The smoke alone causes people to cough and gag, and es- pecially if they’re in a non-smoking area. Since the majority of people who inhabit the earth are not smo- kers; they feel they shouldn't have to put up with it. Some will polite- ly ask you to douse your cigarette, move, or will move themselves to get away from the smoke and smell. Cigarette smokers also have a bad habit of disposing of their cigarette butts in an improper manner. Have you ever stepped in a pile of moldy cigarette butts? Pretty disgusting, 2 © =r You usually find these in the spring after a good thaw of rain in parking lots, next to. curbs, dis- posed of by people who haven't emptied their ashtrays all winter. But cigarette butts must go some- where. Now that you have smoked your > first pack of cigarettes, how do you feel? Like starting another pack— WAIT! Now. is the time people start telling you you're hooked. Don’t let those people with lung cancer, emphasema or congeni- tal heart disease tell you what to do! You're not hooked, of course not, you can never ne ae id a v jane to anioks fos 30 ss like some people. But after all, someone has to keep those tobacco com- panies in business. But keep one thing in mind. The next time you want to spend $1.10 on a pack of cigarettes, Brooke Shields will never go out with you. Tell Us About It Don’t just gripe about it, put it in the Campus Update. The Up- date welcomes letters from our readers. 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