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April 5, 2004

Be evangelised at, or fail your course

by Feòrag

Eire: University College Dublin is investigating students' complaints that they would fail their exams if they did not attend an event held by Catholic extremist group Opus Dei.

Mr Paul Dillon, president of UCD Students' Union, said yesterday his office had received a number of complaints from students at the college's School of Diagnostic Imaging about pressure to attend an Opus Dei event.
This took place last January in Dublin and was called The Richness of the Human Person, according to Mr Dillon.
As far as we're concerned, attendance at the meeting was compulsory, he said. The lecturer noted the names of all those who didn't attend the meeting last January . . . students felt intimidated into going.

A University representative said that the allegations were being taken very seriously as the University is strictly non-denominational. The lecturer concerned has voluntarily stopped teaching while the complaints are investgated. UCD launches inquiry into Opus Dei claims by students - Irish Times, 3rd April 2004 (via Crazysoph).

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