{"id":58176,"date":"2025-09-09T09:43:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=58176"},"modified":"2025-09-09T12:31:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:31:21","slug":"constitution-day","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/calendar\/constitution-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitution Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CONSTITUTION DAY:\u00a0<\/strong>The Macricostas School of Arts &amp; Sciences and the Voices for Liberty Institute are pleased to welcome Nadine Strossen, former president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), to WCSU to celebrate Constitution Day. A nationally recognized expert on free speech and civil rights, Strossen is the author of many books, including most recently &#8220;<em>The War On Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech\u2014And Why They Fail<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She will discuss current debates about free speech and the history of the American Constitution in conversation with Dr. Howell Williams, Associate Professor of Political Science, followed by a Q&amp;A.<\/p>\n<p>At <span style=\"color: #c70000\">2:30 p.m.<\/span> in the Student Center Theater on the Midtown campus. Refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-58177\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2025\/09\/Constitution-Day-at-WCSU-2025-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Constitution Day flyer\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2025\/09\/Constitution-Day-at-WCSU-2025-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2025\/09\/Constitution-Day-at-WCSU-2025-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2025\/09\/Constitution-Day-at-WCSU-2025-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2025\/09\/Constitution-Day-at-WCSU-2025-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/181\/2025\/09\/Constitution-Day-at-WCSU-2025-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONSTITUTION DAY:\u00a0The Macricostas School of Arts &amp; Sciences and the Voices for Liberty Institute are pleased to welcome Nadine Strossen, former president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), to WCSU to celebrate Constitution Day. A nationally recognized expert on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":40239,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","wds_primary_tribe_events_cat":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[563],"tribe_events_cat":[57],"class_list":["post-58176","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-constitution-day","tribe_events_cat-discussion","cat_discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/58176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/58176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58176"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=58176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}