Constitution Day 2015 was marked on the Tusculum College campus with the kick off of a voter’s registration drive.
Members of the Tusculum College Student Government Association manned a booth in the Niswonger commons student center on Thursday, Sept. 17, to assist students and others who were interested in registering to vote.
“Today’s activities kick off a week-long drive to get as many people registered as possible,” said Michael Fernando, Student Government Association president and a senior accounting, general management and international business and economics major.
Following Thursday’s kick-off, students in Professor Jeff Lokey’s “Political Traditions of the West” course will pick up the efforts, going class to class to assist students who wish to register to vote.
Fernando said that on Friday, Sept. 25, there will be a wrap up celebration event in which they will hopefully be able to report significant numbers of new voters registered.
Additionally, resources and activities related to Constitution Day are currently available on the Tusculum College website at http://www.tusculum.edu/academics/constitution.html.
Resources include a direct link to the Constitution of the United States of America document, as well as resources for learning more about the Constitution and about Constitution Day.
In 1956, in order to encourage all Americans to learn more about the Constitution, Congress established Constitution Week, to begin each year on September 17, the date in 1787 when delegates to the Convention signed the Constitution. In 2004, September 17, officially became Constitution Day.
