Indiana University of Pennsylvania will celebrate Constitution Day on September 12 with two events free and open to the community.

Constitution Day commemorates the September 17, 1787 signing of the US Constitution, which is 233 years old this year.

Sponsored by the College of Arts and Humanities and the Department of Political Science, events at IUP will begin with the traditional public reading of the Constitution by members of the IUP community from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. in front of Stapleton Library, facing the Oak Grove. IUP President Michael Driscoll will begin the event with a reading of the Constitution’s Preamble.

This is the fourteenth year that IUP has hosted a public reading of the Constitution. As at past public readings, the first 100 participants will receive a special “We the People at IUP” T-shirt, as well as a pocket-sized copy of the Constitution and a star-shaped cookie.

In the case of inclement weather, the public reading will take place in the lobby of Jane E. Leonard Hall.

Later in the day, the intentions of the authors of the US Constitution will be explored in the Six O’Clock Series presentation, “What Would Our Founding Fathers Say?” from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. in the Hadley Union Building Ohio Room.