The annual First Amendment Free Food Festival will return to the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire campus mall today (Oct. 24) from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The event offers participants a free lunch – pizza and sodas – in exchange for temporarily surrendering their First Amendment rights. It is intended to spotlight the importance of those rights, and is open to both the campus and general communities.
Tradeoff of freedoms for free pizza didn’t appeal to everyone at UW-EC’s annual ‘First Amendment Free Food Festival’
More than 65 people – most of them UW-Eau Claire students – temporarily relinquished their First Amendment rights this week in exchange for free pizza and soda. But there were many who bypassed this year’s First Amendment Free Food Festival on the UW-EC campus because they didn’t want to give up those rights. Not even […]