If anyone would really like to see the jobs that Dick DeVos' company is creating, the only thing they would need to do is go to the Team of Destiny seminars at Breslin Center Oct. 27-29. I work at Breslin Center and every year, this event is met with a sense of amazement and sorrow for those who are duped into attending. When people who have not heard of the group ask what it is, most of us respond "It's kind of like Amway." Well, a little bit of research revealed that it is Amway Corp./Quixstar/Alticor/Team of Destiny.

The reason for so many names? My guess is when a company's name becomes synonymous with scam, the name changes. The seminars are one long promise of easy street by selling products to others, and then those people sell products to others, and those people sell products to others.

You get where I'm going with this. If you diagrammed it, it would look like a pyramid. That's DeVos' business.

The thing I am most surprised with every year is the church service at the end of the weekend. After a couple days preaching greed, they hold a session on religious intolerance. The Sunday morning preacher said last year, "I've been around the world and seen other religions. Believe me, they're bankrupt."

I was amused by the clever word choice, but was extremely offended. Not offended by the person, but offended that MSU would allow these people on our campus to rip people off and preach religious intolerance.

There isn't one thing in this whole situation that should make anyone involved feel comfortable including the university, Team of Destiny and most of all, the king of this sleazy empire, Dick DeVos. If we elect him, he will have completed his pyramid and we'll all be suckers.

God help us, please vote.

Scott Lanphear
journalism senior