(Minghui.org) The Falun Dafa Club at Ohio State University held a photo exhibit, “Fourteen Years of Courage – The Story of Falun Gong,” on campus April 10 and 11, 2013. Practitioners clarified the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong happening in China to students, staff, and teachers, and handed out informational newspapers. The brutal persecution, including organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners, shocked the viewers of the exhibit. Students, staff, and faculty supported the activity.

“Fourteen Years of Courage – The Story of Falun Gong,” a photo exhibit displayed by the Falun Dafa Club at Ohio State University April 10 and 11, 2013.

Between the classrooms and the library, the "Oval" at Ohio State is the center of activity on campus. Falun Dafa practitioners set up the photo exhibit on the Oval with a tent and a table to display printed materials and collect signatures for a petition to end the persecution.

Students hurrying to and from classes slowed down to look at the photos and display boards and accepted flyers, expressing their dismay and anger at the Chinese Communist Party's atrocities. Some read the display boards and then signed the petition form, while others talked to the practitioners and offered to help.

Some of the students were from mainland China. Many of them talked to the practitioners, wanting to know more about the persecution. Several even stayed for over half an hour. Some of the Chinese students said that this was the first time they had ever heard about the persecution, and they were shocked to learn the facts. Many of them accepted the flyers and said they would read them later.

A visiting scholar from China said she heard a lot about the bad things related to the persecution when she was in China. A student from Guangdong Province said he often watched NTDTV and knew a lot about the persecution. Some students said they had already withdrawn from the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliated organizations.

Caroline Wade is an administrator of a local church. She told the reporter that she had heard about the persecution of Falun Gong about a year ago at an event in Indiana, where she met a Chinese lady handing out flyers. She was curious, so she took one.

“After I read it, I was shocked and sad,” she said. “Because I have faith, too. I knew the Christians had been persecuted for many years in history. Now these Falun Gong practitioners are being persecuted because of their faith. I felt it related to me. “They are persecuted because of their faith. This really made me sad.

“Sometimes we think those things are far away from us and that they could never happen to us. Actually, we are all interrelated,” Ms. Wade said. “My faith taught me to care about other people and to care about other places in the world. I know how important faith is to a human being. The ongoing tragedies will awaken us.”

Sophomore Jeremy Druhot was aware of the human rights violations in China

Sophomore Jeremy Druhot is majoring in Politics and Spanish. He said that he had heard a lot about the human rights violations in China: “I've heard of the torture in Chinese prisons. The persecution is intolerable. It is an abuse of human rights. It should not be allowed to happen in modern society. I support all actions to end such crimes.

“The torture (in Chinese prisons) is sick and disgusting. It makes you sad because you know people are being murdered, their organs harvested when they are still alive.”

Druhot said he saw Shen Yun this past year. One of the dances depicted the persecution of Falun Gong in China.

“I remember that it was a story about some Falun Gong practitioners who sat peacefully but were arrested and put in jail by the police. I think it was the most powerful piece in the whole show. The deep meaning of the story really touched the hearts of the audience,” he commented.