Do not believe the lies, myths, and fantasies about campus cults. The correct information at the right time about campus cults improves your chances of going through campus safely and successfully. Read Campus Sense and empower yourself with the truth and the facts.

You have worked hard. You have scaled your qualifying and matriculation examinations, or you may be a student in a secondary school. You are young and eager to explore life in campus, to experiment. You are at the age of experimentation. But you must never experiment with Campus Cults. In many instances, it turned out to be death sentence.

CAMPUS CULT DEFINED
Cults are generally regarded as groups of people who share and propagate peculiar but secret beliefs only to members. Their procedures often involve secret rituals like swearing by some deity, human blood, and other occult procedures. Initiation rituals frequently involve procedures which could be considered grotesque, deviant, out rightly criminal and unorthodox. Cults in campuses operate as criminal gangs. They are involved in planning and executing crimes in and around the campuses including armed robbery, murder, rape, and arson. Under various laws of the land and the various institutions, cults are illegal.

PROFILE OF CULTISTS
Society regards campus cultists as morally depraved persons. They talk tough and make threats easily. Their strength lies in group action. Individually they are known to be cowards. Cultists usually have no personal identity. They have distorted sense of value and general negative attitude to life. Students who lack the confidence to face the rigors and challenges of academic work seek refuge in campus cults in order to obtain favorable grades through intimidation and blackmail. Cult groups impose reigns of extortion and terror as they engage in senseless struggle for territorial influence and control. Invariably this results in destruction of lives and property and instability of the academic environment.

FACTS AND FANTASY
The myths and fantasies about campus cultism used to deceive young people in basic and secondary schools and fresh students in tertiary institutions are repeated for emphasis: student cultists are respected and feared; students who aspire to student union leadership must align themselves with campus cults; cultists are protected by the Heads of Institutions, etc.

THE TRUTH ABOUT CAMPUS CULTISM
The truth, which is also repeated here for emphasis, includes the facts that

• Society regards campus cultists as morally depraved persons.
• Cultists talk tough and make threats easily. Their strength lies in group action as individually they are known to be cowards.
• Cultists usually have no personal identity as they have distorted sense of value and general negative attitude to life.
• Students who lack the confidence to face the rigours and challenges of academic work seek refuge in campus cults to obtain favourable grades through intimidation and blackmail.
• Cultists are generally despised and hated for creating atmosphere of lawlessness and insecurity as they impose reigns of extortion and terror by engaging in senseless struggle for territorial influence and control resulting in destruction of lives and property and disruption of the academic environment.
• Organized ethics-friendly anti-cult students rise against and blow the whistle against known cult groups.
• Students identified as cultists or associates of cultists are invariably screened out from participation in Student Union Governments.
• Heads of educational institutions flush out known cultists to stop the reign of disruptions and terror they unleashed in institutions. Student cultists who get killed, injured, arrested, detained, expelled, or suspended on account of involvement in cult activities receive no pity; rather they bring shame to their family.