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Article: Task Force Finds Few Instances of Campus Cults
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- The Washington Post
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- October 14, 1999
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A state task force investigating cult activity on Maryland
campuses has recommended that universities warn students to watch out
for potentially harmful organizations and require outside groups to
register before coming on campus to recruit.
Yet the task force determined that cults are not a big problem at
state colleges and recommended no other major policy changes.
In a report released last month, the task force said that although
there have been a few "heartbreaking" cases in which Maryland
students have been lured into harmful cult-like activities, such
cases are relatively few and far between.
"Most students are able to sort through their decisions without
much difficulty," said William ...