2008 Woodie Awards
Campus Quest: Celebrating Diversity Campus
Jackie Starner
Issue date: 2/17/05 Section: Life!
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The Campus Quest program, which Star-crossed Students has introduced to the College, is currently taking place at colleges and universities across the country. The goal of the Campus Quest program is to promote interfaith and intercultural dialogue. To participate in Campus Quest, groups must create a project that will culminate in April 2005.
In April an expert panel will judge the projects, and upon the recommendations of the panel, Faith and Values Media will award cash grants to the projects that seem most promising. The projects are judged on whether they seem sustainable and to what extent they will impact their respective campuses.
The first event of the College's Campus Quest was held on Feb. 2 in Moyer Hall. Star-crossed Students invited members of the campus' other cultural and religious clubs to view the video "The Quest for Peace." The hour long video followed three teams, consisting of people from different religious backgrounds, as they explored relations between Jews, Christians and Muslims around the world.
Team Middle East, which held a prominent role in the video, visited Israel and its surrounding areas. The team consisted of college students from all three faiths, and they experienced each other's religions by visiting sites sacred to each religion in Jerusalem.
The video focused on Team Middle East because tensions between different faiths are most apparent in Israel. An American Muslim in the group experienced the harsh reality of Palestinian life in Israel when she was detained twice by Israeli police. She felt that she was being treated inhumanely by Israeli police simply because of her religion. Although the video highlighted the fighting between Muslims and Jews, it provided hope for future relations by featuring people of opposing religions working together for peace.
Team U.S.A. visited the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma, where a mosk was being erected. This mosk, the first to be built on a U.S. campus, symbolized the integration of Muslims into American society.
In April an expert panel will judge the projects, and upon the recommendations of the panel, Faith and Values Media will award cash grants to the projects that seem most promising. The projects are judged on whether they seem sustainable and to what extent they will impact their respective campuses.
The first event of the College's Campus Quest was held on Feb. 2 in Moyer Hall. Star-crossed Students invited members of the campus' other cultural and religious clubs to view the video "The Quest for Peace." The hour long video followed three teams, consisting of people from different religious backgrounds, as they explored relations between Jews, Christians and Muslims around the world.
Team Middle East, which held a prominent role in the video, visited Israel and its surrounding areas. The team consisted of college students from all three faiths, and they experienced each other's religions by visiting sites sacred to each religion in Jerusalem.
The video focused on Team Middle East because tensions between different faiths are most apparent in Israel. An American Muslim in the group experienced the harsh reality of Palestinian life in Israel when she was detained twice by Israeli police. She felt that she was being treated inhumanely by Israeli police simply because of her religion. Although the video highlighted the fighting between Muslims and Jews, it provided hope for future relations by featuring people of opposing religions working together for peace.
Team U.S.A. visited the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma, where a mosk was being erected. This mosk, the first to be built on a U.S. campus, symbolized the integration of Muslims into American society.