SSA eMpirical No. 26 - It's a New Year
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Secular Student eMpirical 01/30/2008 | In this issue: Save yourself some clicking and read the all-on-one-page version of this month's eMpirical.
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Editor-in-Chief: Elizabeth R.A. Liddell
Editors: Alison Bates, August E. Brunsman IV, Nic Hall, Hemant Mehta, Jessica Sharon | Introduction It's a new year! Have you made your resolutions? (Have you broken any yet? It's okay, we won't tell!) There's a lot going on in the Secular Student Alliance and other humanist groups across the country. So, before the semester really gets going, we're bringing the best of the news and events right to you. Check it out, and keep your eyes on our website for more exciting news to come!  Darwin Day 2008 is right around the corner. It's not too late to plan a celebration, and www.DarwinDay.org can help! Read more...
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: The Secular Student Alliance wants to help you promote your Darwin Day event to the media in your area. Please let us know what you're planning on doing and we'll send out a press release about your event. Email us the nature of the event (speaker, tabling, debate, etc.), the title if it has one, the time, the location, the best way for the media to contact you, and a sentence or two about why your group is holding a Darwin Day event. We can use these until Feb. 11th, but the earlier you can send them to us the better. Send them to enews@secularstudents.org.  Ever wanted to see Richard Dawkins live and in person – or maybe even meet him? Are you thinking about taking your campus group to the SSA conference? Put these dates in your calendar, and stay tuned for more details! Read more... The SSA would like to congratulate the University of Kentucky's affiliate SHIFT for winning the SSA Best Service Project Award. Find out about this group and their prize-winning project! By Leslie Zukor. Read more...  Recently the Harvard Secular Society was featured on NPR's Weekend Edition. Harvard Humanist Chaplain Greg Epstein talked with students about the holidays, and what humanists are to do during the plethora of religious celebrations. Read more... Atheist, humanist and other freethinking students can now call on professionals for advice on how to organize campus groups. More freethinking students are getting organized than ever before. Read more...  Are you a secular student with an interest in writing? Our Struggles with Disbelief will be a compilation of short stories from current and upcoming leaders in the atheist/agnostic/freethinker/humanist movement. If you have a story to tell, this is the place! Read more...  Attention all current and prospective college students! The American Atheists Scholarship Competition is still open for applications. Multiple awards are available, but the deadline is coming up soon. Read more...  Lori Lipman Brown is Director of the Secular Coalition for America, where she serves as the first Congressional lobbyist representing atheists. She is also a speaker on the SSA's Speaker's Bureau. She writes a weekly blog for The Humanist; we reprint select articles with permission. Read more...  Kelly of the Rational Response Squad is writing a year-long series to address theist talking heads in the media. Kelly is a Psychology major, co-host of the RRS Radio show, and has been featured on ABC debating Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort. Here, we reprint select articles with permission. Read more... The Secular Student Alliance is seeking applicants for a part-time Regional Campus Organizer (RCO). This is an hourly position with a high degree of independence and responsibility. If you're a motivated activist in the Central or Northern California area, this may be the job for you! Read more... |  For more information, visit secularstudents.org. If you are having trouble viewing this E-Mail, it can be viewed on our website. |
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