 In April 2002 about a hundred Wesleyan students gathered on The Mall in Washington, D.C. during a weekend of protests for an array of causes, including the Middle East crisis, and also to denounce lending policies of the World Bank.In February 2003 approximately 100 OWU students travelled to New York City to protest US actions in Iraq, with partial funding from the Wesleyan Chaplain's office.During "Ohio Wesleyan University Against the War" on October 5 and November 17, 2004, more than one hundred students held peace rallies in front of Delaware's City Hall.