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Meagher was now on the alert and started checking out cautionary websites to which his roommate directed him. He continued to meet with Zilman and Hrnicek, who gave him assorted religious books to read, but he was more skeptical. “Now I was being a proverbial thorn,” he says. When he asked his friends what would be required of him if he joined the church, “They danced around [the answer] quite...
...lacrosse practices began in the winter, though they continued to call him on a regular basis. His roommates would answer the phone and tease him, “It’s the cult people. Do you want to talk to them?” Meagher says Zilman and Hrnicek disliked even the fact that he talked to his roommates about the church, telling him, “Outsiders just won’t understand. If people begin to question you, you have to separate yourself from them...
...without his involvement in sports and solid friendships with Harvard peers, he says it would have been very easy to get caught up in the church. He says that he was made to think he had a lot to learn from the BCC and that Zilman and Hrnicek were persistent to the point where they “never seemed to take no for an answer.” Meagher recollects how excited Zilman felt after converting his parents. “That’s freaky. This is your mom and dad,” Meagher says...
...Harvard students petitioned to get their student Bible study group officially recognized by the College. The BCC-friendly group, called Harvard Christians in Action (HCIA), had the 10 signatures required and needed only the approval of then-Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. But HCIA president Michael J. Hrnicek ’96 and two others were members of the BCC. Epps questioned HCIA’s autonomy from the BCC, as independence from external organizations is required of student groups seekinh official status. Hrnicek complained of a two-year struggle with Epps and argued that First Amendment rights...
...Hrnicek was victorious—if only for a short while. Then-Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett ’57 agreed to recognize the HCIA, with the stipulation that the group refrain from recruiting and that they maintain their autonomy. But Jewett was later forced to retract the College’s recognition when one of the 10 members of the HCIA withdrew her support...