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Article: COLLEGES CONSIDER STRESSING DANGER OF PRESSURE GROUPS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 14, 2006
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Dressed in sneakers and jeans, they hang out along the edges of
campuses, handing out fliers and calling out to passing college
students.
Each group, students say, has a different, seemingly harmless
opening line: "Are you saved? Are you antiwar? Are you stressed out?"
But some college officials say they view most of these groups as
high-pressure organizations akin to cults. The groups have a history
of recruiting vulnerable students and then alienating them from their
parents and classmates. They say that the groups, many of which were
banned from schools more than a decade ago, resurfaced on campuses
this year.
After years of doing little to educate students on the groups,
some colleges ...