Carmel, N.Y. Student Celebrates Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany

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Jennifer Swift

HAMDEN, CT (11/16/2009)(readMedia)-- Jennifer Swift of Carmel, N.Y., a student at Quinnipiac University, recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall with world leaders and hundreds of thousands of other revelers.

The students saw the leaders of all 27 European Union and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during the celebration last week. In addition, they were observers at the acclaimed summit on Tuesday and Wednesday, where they were able to ask questions.

"It's a historic event of monumental proportions," said David Ives, executive director of the Albert Schweitzer Institute at Quinnipiac. "It's a once in a lifetime opportunity."

Ives, led a delegation of 11 members of Quinnipiac University, including eight students, to Germany to take part in the celebration. Quinnipiac was the only American university to have such access.

Ives, who was invited to represent the late Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Albert Schweitzer, spoke on the poverty in the world and walls between cultures at an annual summit of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates sponsored by the Gorbachev Foundation.

Quinnipiac is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution located 90 minutes north of New York City and two hours from Boston. The university enrolls 5,700 full-time undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students in 52 undergraduate and 19 graduate programs of study in its School of Business, School of Communications, School of Education, School of Health Sciences, School of Law, and College of Arts and Sciences. Quinnipiac ranks among the top 10 universities with master's programs in the Northern region in U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges. The 2009 issue of U.S. News and World Report's America's Best Colleges named Quinnipiac as the top up-and-coming school with master's programs in the North. Quinnipiac also is recognized in Princeton Review's The Best 371 Colleges. For more information, please visit http://www.quinnipiac.edu.