This Thursday, Feb. 26, the Olin Library will be hosting “The First Amendment Fair” in collaboration with Student Media. Taking place on the first floor of Olin from 12:30 p.m. until 1:45 p.m., the event will feature multiple stations allowing attendees to take part in various activities centered around the importance of free speech and critical media skills such as fact-verification and source identification.
The event stations will be presented by WPRK, The Sandspur, brushing, and The Independent, alongside departments in Olin such as The Writing and Tutoring Center. There will be opportunities for prizes with the completion of an “event passport,” showing that you have visited each station.
The fair will also be hosting two “escape room” activities, with the first one starting right at 12:30 p.m. and the second one starting at 1:45 p.m. Participants are urged to arrive a few minutes before 12:30 p.m. to ensure a spot in the escape game will be available. Each escape game activity has a limit of 16 participants. The Sandspur will be hosting one of the escape rooms in which The Sandspur has hypothetically bought an AI client that was supposed to perform verification and editing tasks but ended up censoring the entire newspaper. The escape group will need to complete various tasks to help shut down the AI tool and save the newspaper. Prizes upon solving the escape room will also be awarded.
Sponsored by the College Media Association in honor of Student Press Freedom Day, the event honors the importance of media freedom and highlights the responsibilities that come alongside ethical media production. According to the StudentPressFreedom.org, “The nation’s student journalists and their supporters join together for the ninth annual Student Press Freedom Day, a national moment to stand up for press freedom and recognize the essential role student journalists play in their communities.”
Join Student Media and Olin in celebrating Student Press Freedom Day!
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