Journalist and peace activist Arun Gandhi lectured on the Oregon State University campus on October 19, 1994 as the thirteenth Ava Helen Pauling Memorial Lecturer for World Peace. The fifth grandson of Mohandas K. Gandhi and a worldwide promoter of peace, Gandhi spoke about the importance of nonviolence in the peace movement, both locally and globally. His lecture also stressed the crucial need for dealing not just with physical violence, but with passive violence as well.