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Volume 16, N 0.3
A Decade Of Delegates
Model U.N. To Begin Tonight;
20a Delegates Set To Arrive
By William J. Neil
Approximately 215 high school stu
dents will be converging upon Capitol
Campus today to participate in the
Tenth Annual Capitol Campus Model
United Nations, which will - commence at
5:45 p.m. in the auditorium with its
official opening ceremonies. •
The ceremonies will begin with in
troductory greeting speeches in each of
the five official languages of the United
Nations. The speeches will be delivered
by Joyce Lai (Chinese), Salvatore
Sebastiani (Spanish), Karla Kase
(French), Trudy Diaz (Russian), and Mr.
Clem Gilpin (English). Dr. Theodore L.
Cults Discuss ed On Campus
By Annette Bux
Cults: an intellectual obsession--Stu
ents, faculty, staff, and the public had
the opportunity to listen to a thought--
provoking presentation entitled "Cults:
What Are They?" sponsored by Chi Rho
at Capitol Campus on Feb. 17.
Speakers for the evening included : Fr.
McGuire, Director of Teachers Services
in Religion in the Arch Diocese of
Philadelphia ; Ms. Marjorie Dole ,
mother of an ex-cult (Moonie) member;
Arthur A. Dole, PhD., Professor of
Education and Director of Psychology at
the University of Pennsylvania and
father of an ex-cult member; and Mr.
Joseph Flannagan, student at Ursinus
College and ex-scientologist. Father
McGuire presented a film depicting the
Unification Church-Moonies and the
many dimensions of a cult society.
"As parents, we felt very frustrated.
We were lucky if we got one call a month
from Barbara. She was so changed. At
one time she was interested in every
thing--no more. But, what could we do?
Kidnap? We tried everything we could
think of to get out," stated Mrs. Dole.
Letters Mr. and Mrs. Dole sent their
daughter were all censored and some
never even reached Barbara.
Barbara's initial meeting with
members of the Unification Church was
on the Berkeley Campus where they had
a table set up displaying pictures of a
beautiful farm stating it was a very
helpful community-living situation.
Barbara decided to visit this place for
one weekend. The weekend turned out
to be five years. Wherever she went, she
was followed by someone "interested
just in her."
Barbara was thed sent to a mobile
fund-raising team in California where
she shared a small three bedroom house
with one bathroom for 50 other kids.
During the day vans would take them to
various locations where they were
"All the news that fits we print"
Gross, Provost and Dean of Capitol
Campus, will also deliver some welcom
ing remarks before the keynote speaker,
Mr. George Gordon-Lennox, addresses
the crowd.
Mr. Gordon-Lennox is a regional
representative of the New York Liaison
Office, Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
He worked as a relief delegate during
the refugee emergency in India in 1971,
when some ten million refugees entered
that country from what is now Bangla
desh. Mr. Gordon-Lennox became a
UNHCR staff member at the beginning
of 1972 and has since served alternately
as a Public Information Officer and on
field missions to South Sudan, Chile,
dropped off to do their fund raising. At
one time she sold crucifixes and believed
that bringing in as much as one cent
would save her soul. While she was
there, Barbara was fed a low-protein
diet, given five dollars per day food
allowance, and was permitted five hours
of sleep a night for the length of her stay.
One day, through arrangements
made by the Unification Church, Dr. and
Mrs. Dole were permitted to stay with
their daughter in a local motel room.
"Her face was completely impassive.
There was no flicker of emotion in her
face when we spoke to her. It was the
most heartbreaking night in my life. It
was the absolute pits -- I'd rather she
were dead because at least that's some
thing I could accept. There was such
frustration; if we said anything, she said
it was Satan talking," emphasized Mrs.
Dole.
Over a year ago, the Doles found
Barbara on the street selling her paint
ings and turning all her proceeds over to
the organization. The rescue came when
they took her off the street. Within 36
hours, Barbara turned around and
understood what had happened.
Throughout Flannigan's years in the
cult, his family made numerous attempts
to get him out. The Scientologists made
Joe believe that his father was trying to
hurt him so he took drastic measures to
destroy his father's image. "I even tried
to set my father up with prostitutes to
destroy his credibilty," cited Joe as an
example of what he would do on an
average day. "They make you very
afraid of your outside environment."
Joe came home after a serious auto
accident because the cult would not take
care of him. During his stay he closed
himself off from his family and friends.
He wanted desparately to return to San
Francisco and the cult.
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Guam, Angola, Bangladesh, Burma, and,
most recently, Regional Representative
of UNHCR for Southern Latin America
in Buenos Aires.
After Mr. Gordon-Lennox' address,
all the high schools and teachers parti
cipating in the program will be recog
nized, and the three high schools that
have attended the conference for all ten
years at Capitol Campus (Elizabethtown
Area High School, Harrisburg High
School, and Manheim Township High
School) will be awarded commemorative
plaques. The four chairpeople will also
be introduced during the opening cere
monies, and they will convene after
wards at 7:00 for the beginning of the
Phonathon Pledges
By William J. Neil
Pledges made by Capitol Campus
alumni during the second annual two
week phonathon have begun pouring in
to the Campus Relations Office. As of
noon on Tuesday, $4,564 had been
received.
The largest donation received so far
is $lOO, with two of those having been
matched by, the company that employs
the donor. According to Mike Breslin,
the Director of the Campus Relations
Office, many companies match the
pledges of their employees, some of
them (such as IBM) even bettering the
pledges by 3-1.
The phonathon raised a total of
$16,737 in pledges, and had to be
extended two nights so that all Capitol
Campus alumni could be contacted. Of
the more than 8,000 Campus alumni,
phone numbers were available for some
5,200.
The breakdown of the donations
received thus far is as follows: $4,019 for
Pouring In
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sessions
The event is being co-sponsored by
the International Affairs Association
(lAA) of Capitol Campus and the United
Nations Association of Harrisburg. It is
being coordinated by Mr. Clemmie E.
Gilpin, an instructor in Afro-American
studies at Capitol Campus.
Clem sees the model assembly of the
United Nations as one which is designed
to promote a greater understanding of
the workings of the United Nations
among students as well as to provide
them with a forum for discussion of
major international issues and concerns.
The program is not, as some people
believe, a promotional device of the
United Nations. "We use their format
only as a forum for discussing the issues.
This is viewed as a creative experience,
and we stress the educational aspects of
the program the most," Clem explained.
After the opening ceremonies are
concluded tonight, the sessions will
begin at 7:00, with the Security Council
and the First Committees Sessions
meeting in Room W-138. The Committee
Sessions will meet throughout the day
on Friday and Saturday, with the
Closing Ceremonies being held at 5:00 on
Saturday evening. Schedules of the
times and places of the meetings are
posted around the campus, and students
are welcome to attend.
the engineering building, $245 for the
Richard Heindel Library, $2O for the
student activities pavilion, $165 for the
student loan and scholarship fund, $5O
for Business Administration, $55 for the
campus walkway system, and $lO for the
EDET Department.
The students who participated in the
phonathon competed for cash prizes,
which were awarded to the individuals
and to the three student groups who
raised the highest pledge totals. Justine
Pitts, representing both the Black Stu
dent Union and DTK, raised the highest
total, $1,276. The second highest total,
$743, was raised by Henry Rebinski,
representing the Wrisberg Social
Drinking Club (WSDC), a non-chartered
organization. Robbie Adler, represent
ing both WSDC and DTK, was third
with $740.
In the organizational competition,
WSDC had the highest total, ringing up
(no pun intended) $2,961. The Resident
Student Council accrued $2,825, and was
followed by DTK with $2,641.
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