CEDU stands for...

[Anonymous]

Does CEDU stand for Charles Edwin Dederich University? The founder of synanon or is it for something else.

[Anonymous]

Well....anyone know or want to speculate???

Or does nobody like me.  :scared:  :scared:  :scared:  :scared:  :scared:  :scared:

[Invertix]

On 2005-04-29 12:22:00, Anonymous wrote:

"Does CEDU stand for Charles Edwin Dederich University? The founder of synanon or is it for something else."

The two explanations I've heard is the former, and it not being an acronym but shorthand for "see do". Chances are the latter's just a bunch of crap though.

[Anonymous]

I was just reading an article written by a former member who explained that people sort of commonly referred to him as CED. I guess they said it out like "sed" or something.

[Son Of Serbia]

I never believed the "see yourself for who you are and do something with it" line either.
Charles Edwin Dederich University makes a lot more sense to me, especially since it's a known fact that Cedu's founder Mel Wasserman  associated with those Synanon Freaks.

Regardless of what the acronym "CEDU" was meant to stand for, here's a far more appropriate meaning:
 
Crap Education Don't Use

[If u want to know..then a]

CE what we DU, is what it is supposed to stand for

[Anonymous]

Since I just read an article written by a lady who was in synanon for 25 years who was friends with Mr. CED, and she wrote that people referred to him often as "CED" (I assume they pronounced it "SED,") then it seems to be very logical that's what it stands for.

[Anonymous]

Here's what she said in her article:

"The initials 'CED' stand for Charles Edwin Dederich. They were often used as an abbreviated nickname, both verbally and in Synanon's written records."

From "Just to Breathe: Personal Recollections of Synanon founder, Charles E. Dederich"
By Ellen Broslovsky