Group offers lunch in exchange for freedoms
You can't have your cake and talk about it, too.
On Thursday, UF's Society of Professional Journalists will be hosting an event inviting students to enjoy a free lunch in exchange for their First Amendment rights.
The event will be held in the Plaza of the Americas from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Gelato Company, Peach Valley Café and Publix will provide food.
"If you sign your rights away, you can't talk in line, no praying and three people cannot talk in a group," said Lydia Fiser, the vice president of SPJ
The goal of the event is to make students more appreciative of rights they may take for granted, such as speaking freely and peacefully assembling. Members of Theater Strike Force, a local acting group, are volunteering as "First Amendment Police" and will be donning camouflage, shields and batons to make sure everyone who has surrendered his or rights stays within the law.
Offenders who are caught talking will have their food taken away and will be thrown in First Amendment jail, Fiser said.
