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Ex-Moonie Warns Students
On Religious Cults
by Charlie Butt
and Denise Murphy
Steve Hassan, ex-Moonie cult member hypno-tized
a capacity crowd in the Oak Room on Wed-nesday
evening, November 28. Hassan began
by defining what constitutes a destructive cult.
He explained that a destructive cult has two bas-ic
elements. Firstly, it is maintained by an all-powerful
leader who claims divine inspiration. Se-condly,
totalistic ideology is employed whereby
the cult decides what is best for the individual.
A destructive will try to put a wall between the
victim and the family and friends of the victim.
"Real religions do the opposite of a destructive
cult," emphasized Hassan. Indoctrinators will
state consequences for leaving the sect and try
to instill a phobic response through psychologi-cal,
torture.
Steve pointed out, "The smarter a person is,
the easier it is for a cult to recruit them." He con-tinued,
"No one personality is susceptible. Peo-ple
who are going through a transitional phase
in their life are most susceptible."
A destructive cult will use a mind control. It will
present the illusion of choice, making it seem that
the victim is in control when they are actually be-ing
controlled. Suggestion is removed and vic-tims
are indoctrinated into certain patterns of
thought. Behavior and thought control were cit-ed
as commonly employed tactics. When utiliz-ing
these techniques, Hassan commented, "The
members are always vague, but genuine in their
appeal to a person's personality. They reveal as
little as possible at a given time, deleting and dis-toring
information."
Hassan then talked of his personal ex-periences.
He remarked that he was only nineteen
years old and not looking to get involved in a cult
when he was brainwashed into joining the
Moonies. He was recruited in successive incre-ments,
by being fooled into believing the cult was.
an "international group." The Moonies used "love
bombing", making him feel that he was the center
of attention. After being fully brainwashed, he him-self
recruited new members and indoctrinated
them. Hassan also admitted to raising funds for
the cult by using deception, and at one point aver-aged
a collection of $235 per day by selling flow-ers.
The Moonies attempted to make all members
earn an average of $100 per day. As a whole the
cult grossed a total of $100,000 per day by their
sale of flowers alone.
Hassan made clear that all of this was learned
unconsciously by him. He was deprogrammed
by ex-members after a car accident forced him
to stay at home.
Hassan than advised his audience as to how
to avoid being recruited by a cult. He mentioned
that one ought to be wary of instant friendships
because friendships should be reciprocal. The
cult will always fish for information. In addition,
the more evasive a person is to answer questions,
the more they should be avoided, he advised.
Hassan then proceeded to begin speaking very
slowly, demonstrating a hypnotic tactic used in
brainwashing. He was attempting to show the au-dience
that when listening to someone talk in this
manner, no matter how much one resists, one is
forced to concentrate simply because of the
drawnout way in which they are speaking.
In discussing the far reaching impacts of cults
in America, Hassan told of the Unification
Church's multimillion dollar empire that includes
hotels and newspapers. He pointed out that a
major Washington DC paper, the Washington
Times, is owned by Moon's group and that the
church makes millions each year on real estate
and other holdings.
Hassan also talked about some of the minor
thought control drugs like Scientology, The Way,
EST, and Hare Krishna and warned the audience
to be cautious of groups that seem to offer a great
deal but don't really give firm answers when con-fronted.
Steve Hassan, ex-moonie, speaks before a full house in the Oak Room on the hypnotic tech-niques
of cults. Hassan himself was an inducted member of the Moonie cult and raised an
average of $2,000 per day for the group.
United Way Raises $4 Million
by Eileen Quirk
The Fairfield County area reached its desired
goal of four million dollars in this year's United
Way Drive. Fairfield University contributed to this
amount by raising over $15,000.
Dr. Barone Elaborates On Master Plan
Dr. John Barone stated, "It really comes down
to how much money we have to work with." This
comment was made in reference to the objectives
set forth in the university Master Plan.
Four new tennis courts are being considered
for construction as well as some major traffic
changes on campus. Two other tennis courts have
already been considered for construction down
at Barlow field near the Center for Financial
Studies. But according to the university Provost
the money for those courts is the result of dona-tions
from outside sources.
A study of traffic flow patterns was crucial to
the development of the Master Plan's considera-tions
towards road construction. Frederick P. Clark
and Associates, an outside consultant operating
out of Connecticut and New Yorkjnade sugges-tion
for improving the traffic problems that exist
on campus. "Basically what we want to do is take
some of the strain off the more over-used gates,
such as the main gate," said Dr. Barone.
Plans for relieving the traffic burden included
the opening of the Northeast gate, located near
the Townhouses. The access road that connects
the Townhouses and the gate located near Jogues
Hall will not open for through traffic as earlier
reported. Said Dr. Barone, "The last thing we want
is for that (the access road) to become a thorough-fare.
Then I think you'd find town residents using
it to cut across to Round Hill Rd. We don't want
that at all."
The circle near the Recreational Complex
Alice Hanes (right) counsels a student in her office. The Counseling Center is located on
the first floor of Loyola Hall (see story page 12).
would be removed and the road swung wider
around the existing tennis courts in front of Alumni
Hall in order to make room for the other proposed
courts. In addition the access road to McAuliffe
Hall would be extended to the Townhouse Com-plex
when the four new units are constructed.
Also being considered is a plan to pave the ten-nis
courts behind Berchmans and Xavier Halls
and make them into an additional parking lot.
"Those courts are in bad shape now, and if you
have to re-build them, it doesn't make any sense
not to put them in a better location," commented
Dr. Barone.
"It's what we would like to do," stated the
Provost in an earlier interview. "The Master Plan
is kind of like the Master Dream." Fairfield plans
to make this dream a reality, but according to Dr.
Barone it depends on the available financial
resources.
FUSA's Special Events Committee collected
over two thousand dollars through the Dorm Drive
and the Halloween Extravaganza in the Oakroom.
The three floors that raised the most money per
person were Julie Hall with $2.10 per person
($130.00), Kostka One with $1.70 per person
($95.00), and Jogues Two with $1.06 per person
($76.50).
As promised for first prize, Julie Hall (counted
as one floor due to size) won a black and white
t.v. donated by Mudrick's of Stratford, while Kostka
One was awarded half-price tickets for "Beach
Night." A Special Events activity held in Febru-ary.
Jogues Two will be given a Special Dinner
from Seller's of New England.
Said Sue Scandale, Co-Director of this year's
j Special Events Committee, "I was really happy
about the money raised because it was all through
fund-raising events like selling carnations and
. playing assassin." Brenda Kenny, fellow director
of the committee, was equally pleased with this
year's drive. " I think the involvement with this
event was outstanding this year." Added Brenda,
"Who says that Fairfield U. students are
apathetic?"
Next semester Special Events, the fundraising
arm of FUSA, will be busy running three Oakroom
events to raise money for the FUSA Scholarship
Fund. Over $5,000 is needed to support this fund,
which was organized under last year's FUSA
president, Robert Sullivan.
Business School Receives Grant
by Connie McKenna
Computer technology will soon be an even
more integral part of an accounting education
here at the Fairfield University School of Business
due to a $20,000 grant from the Coopers &
Lybrand Foundation. The grant will be used to
integrate computer use directly into accounting
courses. Coopers & Lybrand, one of the "Big
Eight" accounting firms, will also donate software
which they have developed for their own internal
and cliental use.
According to Dr. Keith Martin, Dean of the bus-iness
school, "Fairfield graduates have tradition-ally
been recruited well by Coopers & Lybrand,
and the grant is insurance that the recruits will
be even better prepared for the actual business
world."
The program will begin with the education of
faculty members sb that they will be updated in
the use of computer applications in accounting.
The two faculty members chosen to pioneer the
program who will begin schooling this summer
are Dr. Henry Allinger and Professor Susanne
Leingus. Hopefully by the 1986-7 school year the
program will be fully implemented and the ac-counting
classes will be entirely revamped to in-clude
computer use and technology in the
classroom.
The Coopers & Lybrand Foundation started this
particular grant program a year ago in ten selected
pilot schools. Fairfield was among the second
group of twenty-five schools chosen to receive
the grant. Eventually the program will be im-plemented
in 100 business schools across the
country. Martin stated, "We're very pleased that
Fairfield was selected as one out of 1500 busi-ness
schools to receive the grant. It's certainly
an honor."