UPIKE hosts Peace Week
0Written By Jarek Burke
On Sept. 18-23, the University of Pikeville will be hosting several events in honor of Peace and Nonviolence Week. “Peace and Nonviolence week has been emerging since 2013 through various peace speakers that spiritual life would bring to campus in the fall,” said University Chaplain Rob Musick. There will be activities each day throughout the week. Tuesday’s activity will be a Peace Chapel with senior James Alexander at Peace Pole starting at 11 a.m. Following this event, on Wednesday at 7 p.m., a peace activist, David Hartsough, will be speaking in Administration 211 on world peace. Thursday’s event will be held from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. next to the Administartion building where students will pledge nonviolence by making handprints for peace. Peace and Nonviolence Week concludes Friday in the chapel with students making crafts as gifts for cancer patients. “The aim for the week is to help students engage in peace activities to challenge their assumptions regarding the myth of redemptive violence and the natural assumption that violence is a natural occurrence in life. Violence does not have to happen. Peace is God’s plan for all creation,” Musick said. All University of Pikeville students and faculty are encouraged to attend.