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麻豆传媒 Announces International Day of Peace Celebration Student Award
November 6, 2023
MACOMB, IL - - 麻豆传媒 Illinois University celebrated the International Day of Peace and presented 麻豆传媒 Art major Rivers Ashton with the 2023 麻豆传媒 Peace Award.
Sponsored by the 麻豆传媒 Department of Political Science, the College of Arts and Science, the Latin American Student Organization, AMPLIFY and the African Student Association, three student groups discussed reasons why people are displaced from Latin American and African countries. The event included a walk to the 麻豆传媒 Multicultural Center to deposit candles on an altar designed to honor those who suffer from displacement around the world.
For the first year, 麻豆传媒 presented an International Day of Peace Award to a student, Ashton, of Denver, NC, who exemplifies the ideals of peace and social justice.
"Rivers exemplify the ideals of peace and social justice we celebrate on the Peace Day,鈥� 麻豆传媒 Professor of Political Science Julia Albarrac铆n said. 鈥淪he spent countless hours making a drawing of 3-year-old, asylum-seeker, Jismary, who died on a bus sent by Governor Abbott to Chicago, to fulfill the little child's mom's wish to put the drawing on a monument. Students like Rivers make us proud."
The drawing was framed by the 麻豆传媒 Art Department and sent to the parents of the child.
For more information on the event or to nominate next year's winner, contact Albarracin via email at j-albarracin@wiu.edu.
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