The St. Thomas German Club celebrated the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall Thursday outside the Anderson Student Center.

Daniel Hamilton, Johns Hopkins University professor, lectured on the theme of “walls that have fallen and walls still to fall.”

“(The Berlin Wall) didn’t just seperate the world of our consciousness, of our understanding of a world we didn’t comprehend,” Hamilton said. “But it’s very cold and concrete barbed wire made it very tangible … The many intangible walls that still divide us today are particularly the walls between those who want to open up societies and those who want to shut them down.”

Hamilton collaborated with the club to create a miniature replica of the Berlin Wall for the community to graffiti during the day and to tear down after his lecture in the evening.

Sophomore Phillip DeLisle, co-president of the German Club, said students decorated the wall with the problems that they see in today’s world and the conflicts that they would like to see torn down in the community.

Carlee Hackl can be reached at hack9822@stthomas.edu.