While Students ACT maintains that they are a reputable student organization, there are some in the AU community that would disagree. There are also those on AU's campus who question the motives of Students ACT and the International Church of Christ. Once you get in it is very difficult to extricate yourself from the group. Thorpe bridled at the notion that Students ACT has been referred to as a cult. I think that with any group, especially a religious group, if it's called a cult there needs to be good reason.
Cults are very small, they are lifeless and they tend to follow a person.
After Malm attended one of their church services she summarized her feelings as upset and confused. They questioned whether I was ever a Christian. It was implied that the only way I could be a Christian was their way. Malm said that she has not been harassed in any way by the group ever since. Annette Langdon, a senior in the School of International Service, was also approached by two female members of the D.C. Church of Christ last spring in regards to attending a church service.