From: Phil deHaan (dehp@calvin.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 28 2002 - 14:11:42 EST
October 28, 2002 == MEDIA ADVISORY
There will be a peace rally/vigil this Thursday, October 31 at 7:30 p.m. at
Calvin College. It will include a 15-20 minute speech from a representative
from the Institute for Global Education, followed by a short march around the
Calvin campus. The event will begin on the Commons Green in the center of
campus.
The event is being planned by a new student group at Calvin called PAX, a Latin
word meaning peace. Student organizers say they plan to hold weekly vigils for
peace at Calvin. Although PAX has been around less than a month it already has
over 40 members, students interested in "actively working for peace through
demonstrations, discussions and speakers."
Says PAX student organizer Case Lettinga, a freshman from Minnesota:
"Certainly not everyone in the group is a pacifist, nor should they be. We hope
to foster discussion on campus, and even within PAX itself, about the Biblical
call to non-violence. We respect differing opinions among our members and
within the Calvin community."
Members of PAX participated in a rally held this past weekend in downtown Grand
Rapids. In Washington, D.C., this past weekend tens of thousands of protesters
-- more than half of them college students, according to organizers -- took part
in an international day of demonstrations against the United States' threatened
war with Iraq.
Contact Lettinga at paxcalvin@yahoo.com
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