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DU sponsors war casualties exhibition

Dominican University’s Graduate School of Social Work, in collaboration with the American Friends Service Committee, will honor fallen US military personnel and Iraqi citizens by hosting Eyes Wide Open: The Cost of War to Illinois, a traveling exhibition, on Saturday, November 11. The exhibit, which includes 106 pairs of boots representing fallen servicemen and women from Illinois, will be on display from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the quadrangle of the university’s main campus, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest.

This exhibit is part of the American Friends Service Committee’s nationally touring Eyes Wide Open: The Human Cost of War. The national exhibit, which opened in January 2004 in Chicago’s Federal Plaza with 500 pairs of boots, now includes more than 2,600 pairs of combat boots representing US military casualties, along with photographs, names and personal stories memorializing a small fraction of the Iraqi citizens who have been killed since the US-led invasion. Each week, more pairs of boots are added to represent the newly fallen.

For more information on this exhibit, please contact Diane Alejandro at (773) 802-6779 or Paula Spears at (312) 560-3347.

The American Friends Service Committee is a Quaker organization that includes people of many faiths who are committed to social justice, peace and humanitarian service.

Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Dominican offers 50 undergraduate academic programs through the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and 17 graduate programs through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Brennan School of Business, the School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Work, and the Institute for Adult Learning. In the 2007 issue of America’s Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report again ranked Dominican University in the top tier of Midwest master’s level universities and as a “best value” for the ninth consecutive year.