The aroma of mozzarella cheese and marinara sauce fills the halls of the Journalism Building every Friday as Ohio State’s Students for Free Pizza club holds their weekly meeting.

The club’s purpose is simply to provide students with free pizza. Students for Free Pizza meets in the Journalism Building at 7:30 p.m. in room 387. Pizza, refreshments and music are all free of charge to all who attend.

Adam Wolfe, the president of the Student’s for Free Pizza, and other students meet to socialize, listen to music and most importantly, eat free pizza.

“I love pizza – pizza is the world’s most perfect food,” Wolfe said.

Wolfe, a graduate student in math, came up with the idea and formally made it into an OSU club.

Wolfe insists that the purpose of the club is just what is says – students who want to eat free pizza.

“If you want free pizza, you come to this club,” he said. “There is no underlying cause – this isn’t a cult.”

At first, Wolfe paid for the pizzas out of his own pocket and kept receipts to record the money he spent. But the club just received funding from the university, Wolfe said. The club receives $500 a year, and up to $3,500 in addition for events and planning.

The funding the club is receiving comes from the $500 allocated to student organizations from the student activity fee.

Any student at OSU can attend a meeting. The club orders pizzas from places like Domino’s and Papa John’s and many other places, Wolfe said.

The club also has a secondary leader, a treasurer and a faculty adviser, Ulrich Gerlach.

Wolfe said they mostly get around 25 students, primarily undergraduates and a few graduate students every meeting. He also said the typical meeting lasts about an hour and a half.

Dwayne Johnson, a junior in finance, has attended three of the meetings so far.

“I go to the club for the free pizza and to converse with the other people who come to eat pizza,” he said.

Johnson said he typically stays at the meeting for about 15 to 45 minutes.

Sivaramakr Muthuswamy, a graduate student in plant cellular and molecular biology, discovered the pizza club after he attended another meeting in the Journalism Building and smelled the pizza from down the hall.

He said he met new friends at the meetings, and was especially excited about the free pineapple pizza.

“We have so many diversities among us,” he said. “But hunger is one of the few common ones which unite us. It is a very novel and yet efficient way of bringing people together.”

Muthuswamy said he would like to keep attending the meetings as long as there is vegetarian pizza.