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Celebrate First Amendment week with GHCBy Amanda Stegall
At Georgia Highlands, the First Amendment is celebrated during the week of Jan. 29 through Feb. 3. According to Dr. Kristie Kemper, adviser of the �Six Mile Post,� the annual First Amendment week is sponsored by the �Six Mile Post� and is co-sponsored this year by Phi Theta Kappa, Baptist Student Union, the College Democrats, the GHC chapter of the AAUP (American Association of University Professors) and the �Old Red Kimono.� Students and faculty are strongly encouraged to reflect on the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment during this week. During the establishment of the United States, the Founding Fathers wrote what we now know as the Bill of Rights, which begins with the First Amendment. �The First Amendment contains many rights that the Founders believed to be the most significant in an individual's independent life,� said Dr. Robert Page, social sciences division chair. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abriding the freedom of speech, or a of the press; or the right of the people peacefuly to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances" |
