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Robert Cole, of Rainbow Amusements, of Lincoln, sets up the rocket ride at 12th and 0 streets Thursday for
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Two describe group’s mind control
Fundamentalist faith
attempting to become
student organization
Editor’s Note: Campus Advance, a funda
mentalist religious group that has been linked
to a group the Cult Awareness Network of
Chicago describes as a cult, applied for rec
ognition as a student group at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln March 9.
Since then, the mother of a current Campus
Advance member and a former member
both have come forward to tell of their expe
riences with the group. Both have requested
to remain anonymous, and all names are
fictitious.
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
John first became involved with Campus
Advance when a member of the group
asked him to go to a party, his mother
said. She said he thought the people at the party
were friendly.
Her son had been lonely, she said. He had a
small group of friends in high school, but they
had gone their separate ways after graduation.
“He always felt he had trouble making
friends,” she said. “He was a little bit on his
own on campus.”
Within two weeks of attending the party,
John was baptized by the group. He previously
had been a member of an organized church.
He now refers to the group as his family.
“He had no control,” she said. “They just
took him over.”
She believes the group has a tight grip over
her son.
They know where John is at all times, she
said, and he has a “disciplcr” — another member
of the church — to whom he must confess his
sins. He cannot date or attend social functions
outside of the church without permission. John’s
week is full of required church activities.
Before he got involved in the group, John
was independent, stubborn and “knew what he
wanted,” she said.
“That’s what’s so hard to understand.”
John was interested in pursuing a specific
career, she said, but he gave up those aspira
tions within 10 days of joining Campus Ad
vance. He now wants to become a minister for
the church and “plant” a new ministry.
When she talks to John now, she said, he
complains of being tired and worn out. She
thinks he is being tom between his old life and
his new one.
“He’s just whipped,” she said. “I know it’s
because of the stress of what they are requiring
of him and the conflict between his old life and
friends and the pushing he is getting from the
church.”
She has gone from being calm about what
has happened to her son to being very angry,
she said. But her anger has no effect on him.
“If I would get really upset, he would stand
there and just stare right through me,” she said.
“It’s like he’s been so programmed to say the
things they say and think the things they think
that we can’t even have a conversation — it’s
like it’s one way.”
She said she was frustrated about not being
able to help John.
“I don’t know what to do,” she said. “I've
had people say to me it’s good he’s noton drugs
or alcohol or worse.”
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Legislature
debates long
on priority
abortion bill
By Andy Raun
Staff Reporter
After nearly eight hours of debate, state
senators adjourned Thursday without
taking any action on the priority anti
abortion bill of the 1992 session.
Sen. Dennis Baack of Kimball, speaker of
the Nebraska Legislature, had announced that
debate on the bill would be limited to eight
hours.
LB78, sponsored by Sens. John Lindsay of
-.. - Omaha, Bernice Labedz of
^^gg^ Omaha, Merton Dierks of
Ewing and LaVon Crosby
Jof Lincoln, would require
I IIII IL womcn seeing abortions
to receive detailed infor
IWJfJifqpTnTTi mation about the fetus’
development and then wait
one day before having the procedure performed.
In introducing the bill, Lindsay said it “will
not prohibit one single abortion” or attempt to
say whether life begins at conception.
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Spanier calls
for open forum
on $20 parking
fee increase
By Sean Green
Senior Reporter
UNL officials arc hoping to shed a posi
tive light on the surprise announcement
of a $20 raise in campus parking fees,
said Mike Mulnix, executive assistant to the
chancellor.
University of Ncbraska-Lincoln Chancellor
Graham Spanier is in favor of the increase,
Mulnix said, but did not like the way the
proposal was made public.
Some students and faculty have voiced
concern about the Parking
Advisory Committee’s
announcement made at an
emergency meeting Tues
day. If approved, the pro
posal would add $20 to all
campus parking permit
prices.
The proposal would raise from $50 to $70
all student resident and commuter fees, as well
as annual faculty fees and vendor fees.
Reserved parking permits would be raised
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Journalist stresses news coverage
By Therrese Goodlett
Staff Reporter
lthough Charlayne Hunter
Gault said she was not an expert
— on the Middle East, the dis
claimer did not hinder her insight
concerning the region and its rela
tionship to the United States and the
media.
“There are no Middle East ex
perts, just people who claim they are,”
she said.
Huntcr-Gaull addressed“Ongoing
Challenges in the Middle East” Thurs
day afternoon at the Lied Center for
Performing Arts as part of the E.N.
Thompson Forum on World Issues.
She is a distinguished correspon
dent for the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
and has been awarded for her accu
Gulf war focus of Lied forum
rate, informative news coverage.
As a journalist, many of Hunter
Gault’s points focused on news cov
erage of the Middle East, especially
during the Gulf war, and the expecta
tions of American viewers at home.
Huntcr-Gaull said she was disap
pointed with the amount of military
restrictions on the news and with
Americans’ general acceptance of the
censorship.
“I was overwhelmed by the con
gratulations I got for my war cover
age,” she said.
But Hunter-Gaull said she was
disappointed with what she was able
to bring to the viewers.
“I wanted to sit down with people
and say, ‘Let me tell you what I tried
to do.’”
During daily briefings with the
military, a lot of Hunter-Gault’s ques
tions went unanswered, she said, and
her requests for interviews were ig
nored.
Thus, she said, she was surprised
with Americans’ satisfaction with the
war coverage.
“1 fear the American public has
downsized its expectations,” she said.
For example, she said, untold thou
sands of Kurds in Turkey were killed
by Iraqis, and the prospect of a civil
war in that country was stirring.
The United States has a moral
obligation to assure the Kurds are
protected, she said, but coverage of
the issue has been “off of the media
screens” since the war ended.
However, Huntcr-Gault said, the
most challenging issue in the Middle
East is weapons.
“Weapons of mass destruction are
spreading like wild fire ... thanks to
their suppliers: the United Slates,
Russia, France, China and Great Brit
ain,” she said.
Five to 20 of the commonwealth
states in the Middle East soon will
have these weapons, she said.
Hunter-Gault offered no solutions
to the crisis in the Middle East except
to say that people needed the best
possible information about the situ
ation. *
“That’s where I come in,” she said.
Diplomats
say attacks on
embassies in
Libya tied to
Ghadafi. Page
2
Visiting professor asks if Ein
stein was a crank Page 6
NU baseball team seeks re
bound in series with Evansville.
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INDEX
Wire 2
Opinion -4
Sports 7
A&E 9
Classifieds 9