Activities
Alternative Breaks.
The Alternative Breaks program provides service opportunities in various
communities in the United States and abroad during spring break and during the
summer.
ConneXions. This service program for first-year students offers a wide variety of weekly
volunteer opportunities along with a chance to build friendships while learning
to make positive changes in society.
JUSTICE.
This community of concerned students meets weekly for interactive education
and action on a variety of topics relating to peace and justice.
Service
Learning Experiences. These experiences help both professors and
students connect to what is being taught and learned in the classroom with the
realities of the world and the local community. Regular immersion experiences
are provided in order to expand awareness and involvement in specific social
justice issues that strongly reflect the signs of the times.
Speaker Series.
Each year Peace & Justice Programs sponsors a number of distinguished speakers
who address the campus community on subjects relating to the building of a
better world for all.
Shantytown.
This weeklong program sponsored cooperatively by many organizations on
campus raises awareness surrounding the issues of homelessness.
Full of speakers, action, reflection and community-building, it makes for
a special, thought-provoking event.
Veg-outs.
All are welcome to join our free weekly community meals each Monday at
5:00 p.m.
This is a great chance to relax,
meet or spend time with friends and learn more about what's going on at
Dorothy Day House.
Peace and Justice Programs Mission
Statement
The mission of Peace and Justice Programs
is to serve as a meeting point and resource center for conversation and
action regarding peace and justice issues. Dorothy Day House is a Peace
Zone where we listen respectfully to as many voices as possible in a
spirit of academic and spiritual freedom.
Peace and Justice Programs pledges itself to:
- Advocate for, and work for the liberation of, the poor, oppressed, and
voiceless in our world, recognizing that their liberation is intimately
connected to our own.
- Work towards nonviolence in all aspects of life.
- Bear witness to the injustices in our world.
- Celebrate the diversity of our world.
- Promote the consistent ethic of life advocated by Joseph Cardinal
Bernardin.
- Build community around issues of peace-personal, communal, and
global.
- Create a safe place for reflection and dialogue on issues of peace and
justice for the Xavier University campus and the surrounding
community.
- Support both student and staff academic, co-curricular, and
interdisciplinary efforts to move toward an integral vision of peace with
justice.
- Encourage peace and justice in action through offering and promoting
mini-service experiences, volunteer and career opportunities.
- Recognize as a foundational document the address of Jesuit Superior
General, Very Reverend Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J., "The Service of
Faith and the Promotion of Justice in American Jesuit Higher
Education," delivered at Santa Clara University in October 2000. |
December 12, 2006
Susan Scarpaci |
