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Byline: Carmen Greco Jr. Daily Herald Staff Writer
Amy Young was a freshman at the University of Illinois-Chicago in 1992 when a smiling woman approached her on campus one day.
The woman seemed nice, and Young needed a friend.
"I was lonely, and all my friends went to other schools, so I was there by myself," said Young, now 30 and living in Naperville.
The woman who approached Young was a recruiter for University Bible Fellowship, an international evangelical Christian group that has become a fixture - in some cases, a controversial one - on college campuses.
The group is scheduled to a hold a regional conference today through Sunday at Wheaton College.
Young and other former members, who say the group's practices are heavy-handed and border on cult-like, have petitioned to ban University Bible Fellowship from holding the conference, which is expected to draw 1,000 members from around the Midwest.
But Wheaton College, a conservative Christian school, says it will not cancel the conference. A college spokeswoman said officials checked out the group, which has been criticized by...
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