UF junior Josephine Strating stood in line on the Plaza of the Americas for a chance to test her U.S. Constitutional knowledge and possibly get a free slice of pizza.
UF students celebrated Constitution Day on Thursday when they commemorated the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787.
UF celebrated the day with a trivia quiz, which awarded winners with a slice of pizza.
Smathers Libraries invited students to answer questions from the Naturalization Test given by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
"The questions were hard," said Strating, a 21-year-old international student from Holland. "And especially for me, since I am not American. But I loved the idea that the U.S. has an entire day devoted to celebrating the U.S. Constitution and that they are celebrating it with free pizza."
UF Levin College of Law’s Constitution Day events kicked off at 8 a.m. with a First Amendment breakfast, where people could drink coffee and exercise their right to free speech.
At lunchtime, a conversation about voting rights was held at HOL 285B.
A free screening of the film Selma was also part of the day’s events.
"UF has been doing Constitution Day events for years, but each time we like to vary things," said David Schwieder, Smathers Libraries’ political science liaison. "This year, hundreds of students learned a little about the Constitution for a free pizza slice."
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