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Looking back
In an interview, the daughter of
slain Marine Col William Higgins
remembers her father
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OPINIONS
Biased professors
A student tells how a professor
made one course hell by preaching
about how one gets there — and it
wasn’t during a religion class.
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LIFE AND ART
Isolation
Japanese student Tamie Nishihara
used to study six hours a day, but since
she met her American friends it's down
to foui'.
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Condom sales
A Western Kentucky U student
believes buying condoms from anoth
er student is less embarrassing and
more convenient
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STUDENT BODY
Heavy load
Carrying backpacks over one
shoulder may contribute to students’
back problems, according to a
Michigan State U. doctor
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Student on China’s ‘most wanted’ list
Dissident blasts Beijing regime for Tiananmen massacre
By David T Gordon
■ The Spectator
Columbia U.
Just over five months ago, in the early
morning of June 4, hi Lu and 2,000
weary university students began leaving
the south end of Beijing’s Tiananmen
Square The massacre which followed
killed hundreds, perhaps thousands, of
Chinese.
Li, a fourth-year student at Nanjing
University and deputy director of the
students’ Tiananmen Square Command
Post, survived the bloody attack
Afterward, there was only one thing he
could do: try to escape China
Today. 1.1 is a student in Columbia U.'s
American Language Program. He is also
an exiled Chinese dissident on the gov
ernment's “21 Most Wanted List."
He looks like any other college student
ANDREW VLADfCK. >■(-'IPt »'_« CIV, M8IA )
Chinese dissident Li Lu
His hair is thick and unkempt. He wears
a blue striped button-down oxford shirt,
cotton twill pants and Reeboks
Lake many Columbia students, he
complains of not having enough time for
his schoolwork. But if La’s homework
isn't turned in on time, it's probably
because he's been testifying before a
U N subcommittee, a congressional
panel or a human rights organization
As one of two "Most Wanted” students
to escape China Wuer Kaixi is the
other he is trying to keep the world
from forgetting the efforts and goals of
the Chinese democracy movement
“I feel it is my responsibility to tell the
world not only about the events of this
past year," Li says, “but also that they
are only the latest in the long pattern of
repression and suffering inflicted on the
Chinese people by the People’s
Republic,"
Since his birth during the Cultural
Revolution in the late 1960s, he has lived
with the consequences of that repres
sion.
Both his parents and two of his grand
See DISSIDENT, Page 4
Misleading statistics hide violent crime on campus
By Charles A Hahn
U. Editor on fellowship
On a Thursday night in November
1986, LaSalle U. student Christine
Desiderati left her apartment to visit
friends across the street While walk
ing through a parking lot rented by
the university, she was raped at knife
point
It was the second time in three years
she had been raped on a university
SPECIAL REPORT
campus.
“He kept the knife on me the whole
time, forced me to commit sodomy and
raped me.” she recounts "The whole
incident took about 20 minutes, during
which time no security guards
approached the area."
The first rape occurred in 1983. While
a freshman at Pennsylvania’s St.
Francis College, Desiderati was
assaulted by a student she had known
seven months.
After the incident at La Salle, which
is also in Pennsylvania, Desiderati
began fighting hack
('ontending that security was made
quate in the parking lot where she had
been raped, she initiated a premises
liability suit against LaSalle The uni
versity settled out of court for an undis
closed sum.
See SPECIAL REPORT, Page 6
Former members accuse church
of mind control, manipulation
By Michelle Latimer
■ The Daily lllini
U. ot Illinois
The last thing Todd Hohman’s mother told him before
he left for the U. of Illinois last fall was to find a church.
Although he had not been very active in the Baptist
church his family attended back home, Hohman decided
he would at least visit a few churches in the area to see
what they were like. During the second or third week
of school, he heard one of his residence-hall neighbors
talking about going to church He asked about the
church, and the neighbor invited him to come to the next
meeting.
That evening, the church leaders spoke with Hohman,
and in the days that followed, members of the church
whirled about him. Parishioners met with him at least
once a day, preaching their philosophy, asking him ques
tions and challenging him to make a commitment to the
church. Nine days later, Hohman was baptized into the
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Chainpaign-Urbana Church of Christ.
What his new family didn’t tell him was that he also
had pledged his faith to a larger organization, the
Boston Church of Christ, of which the C-U church is
part He was now part of the worldwide Boston church’s
community — a radical, strictly regimented and
unsanctioned offshoot of the traditional, age-old
Churches of Christ organization. Headquartered in
Boston, the group recruits extensively on college cam
puses nationwide.
The Boston church has come under fire from main
stream Churches of Christ for its teachings.
“When I was in high school, I was a very social person,”
Hohman said. “And even the first week or two here, my
roommate and 1 used to go to fraternity parties and the^C
bars all the time.
“But after I joined the C-U Church of Christ, all that
stopped overnight 1 was devoting all my time to the
church — period," he said of his next 10 months at the
See CHURCH, Page 2^