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Cult on Campus Part Two

Cult Recruits on Campus Part Two: Breaking Away By Kim Van Bruggen The Projector: Student’s Journal Date: October 10, 1989 In the first part of this two part series, Cult on Campus, the University Bible Fellowship was attempting to recruit new members from RRCC. Once approached by a “missionary” of the University Bible Fellowship (UBF) the chances of ending up at their “church” in Fort Garry are very good. That is where Theresa wound up spending almost three years of her life. “There was a- groupof us that all started around the same time, so they trained us as a group. It became like a military boot camp for us,” Theresa said. The punishment for wrongdoing was different for males than for females. “If they (the men) disobeyed them, or had an attitude problem, or just did something that wasn’t right—in full suit they would make them run a one and a half mile route around the U of W ten times.” For the women, the punishment was more emotional