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                          Rocky Mountain News (CO)
  July 20, 1994 Section: LOCAL Edition: FINAL Page Number: 4A
  MAIL-ORDER SCHOOL GETS CLOSED DOWN AURORA COLLEGE STRAYED FROM RELIGIOUS
                             MISSION, STATE SAYS

  ROMEL HERNANDEZ
  ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS STAFF WRITER
  The Colorado Commission on Higher Education shut down an Aurora
  university that granted mail-order degrees in such subjects as
  "homeotherapeutics' ' and ''psycho-visual therapy."

  Notre Dame de Lafayette University, authorized as a religious college,
  improperly offered degrees that had nothing to do with religion,
  investigators with the attorney general's office learned during a 1
  1/2-year probe.
  Notre Dame made the news last year when KUSA-Channel 9 reporter Paula
  Woodward enrolled a golden retriever named Samantha in the school. The
  pooch was awarded a degree in "Christian counseling."

  More than 40 Notre Dame students and graduates lodged complaints against
  the institution.

  "They made representations that their degrees are accepted by Harvard
  and Yale," said assistant attorney general Tony Dyl. "We have letters
  from those schools saying that's not the case."

  Notre Dame officials have requested a hearing with the state commission,
  which overseas public and private colleges.

  The Rev. Robert Gigante, the school's chancellor, refused comment.

  Notre Dame was sanctioned by the state in 1989 as a religious
  instituion. The school offered degrees - mostly through the mail to
  people - for tuition
  from $1,500 to $6,000.

  The university is not related to Notre Dame University in South Bend,
  Ind. The school is affiliated with the Mercian Orthodox Catholic Church.

  The director of Notre Dame - Stephen Thomas - was associated with
  similar schools in the Midwest during the mid-1980s, which also were
  shut down.

  People seeking more information can call the attorney general's consumer
  protection office at 866-5189.

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