New Haven Independent

A Peace Pole for Yale

by Melinda Tuhus | April 25, 2006 8:04 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Students and faculty of the Yale Divinity School symbolically planted a peace pole in the rain Monday in the school commons. Thousands of six-sided peace poles with “peace” written in six languages have been erected around the world, since the first ones were put up in Japan after the atomic bombings that ended World War II. The actual inslallation in the school quad will wait for a drier day. Student Brandon Johnson said several students are writing letters to members of Congress asking them to stop the torture of prisoners going on at Guantanamo and other U.S. facilities. One of the participants danced ecstatically around the peace pole.

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