Mason Celebrates Freedom & Voting

On September 17th, George Mason students, faculty, and staff celebrated Constitution Day and National Voter Registration Day with multiple events on the Fairfax campus. Mason Votes, University Libraries, and the Office of Community Engagement and Civic Learning (CECIL) teamed up to host a National Voter Registration Day event on Wilkins Plaza, passing out t-shirts, buttons, and stickers to encourage students to get engaged in the 2024 election. The League of Women Voters was also on hand registering students to vote.

Learn More About National Voter Registration Day: nationalvoterregistrationday.org

Student Media hosted Mason’s Constitution Day celebration in The Hub Corner Pocket with a variety of activities including a prize wheel, trivia questions, free pocket Constitutions, a chance to sign a copy of the Constitution, and the Preamble Scramble where students race to assemble puzzle pieces with the text of the Constitution’s Preamble in the correct order.

Constitution Day Resource Page: studentmedia.gmu.edu/constitutionday

Our institution’s namesake, George Mason, famously refused to sign the Constitution because it didn’t include explicit protections for individual liberties like speech and religion. Those very freedoms that George Mason fought for so passionately are critical to the work of Student Media today, including the freedom of speech and of the press that are now guaranteed to all Americans in the Constitution’s Bill of Rights.