SSA eMpirical No. 27.5 - Time to Make the Conference
Submitted by august on Thu, 2008-03-20 06:49.
Secular Student eMpirical 3/18/2007 |
In this issue:
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Elizabeth R.A. Liddell
Editors: Alison Bates, August E. Brunsman IV, Becky Robinson, Hemant Mehta
| Introduction Sometimes there's just too much going on to fit into one eMpirical. One of those times is now.
With only one exception, all of the pieces in this edition are about people who want to pay you for your atheist/humanist activism. Read on!
Secular Student Alliance Conference - June 2008  It's hard for us at Secular Student Alliance Headquarters to believe that it's been almost eleven months since we were at the New Humanism conference at Harvard. In less than two months we're going be at E Pluribus Unum: Reclaiming Humanist Values. This event will simultaneously be the 67th annual conference of the American Humanist Association, the 17th World Congress of the International Humanist and Ethical Union, and the 8th annual conference of the Secular Student Alliance. The event will be June 5th through the 8th at the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, DC. Speakers for the event include Lori Lipman Brown of the Secular Coalition for America, Maryland State Senator Jamie Raskin, Rob Boston of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and Feminist Majority Foundation President Eleanor Smeal.
AWARDEES Accepting the Humanist of the Year award is U.S. Representative Pete Stark, the first openly nontheistic member in Congress. Accepting the International Humanist Award is author Philip Pullman, author of the best-selling book The Golden Compass, now a major motion picture.
TRAVEL GRANTS Student registration is only $40 and includes some meals ( register today). We are offering $100 and $200 travel grants. The grants are awarded on a rolling basis and will go fast. Apply today for your 2008 conference travel grant! Information on affordable student housing can be found on the conference website.  CAMPUS GROUP BEST AWARDS At all of our conference, the Secular Student Alliance awards a handful of its affiliate groups for outstanding performance in various areas and we give one group the Best Affiliate award. There are four awards for $300 each and the Best Affiliate award is $500. All the awards come with a nice, shiny plaque. May 1st 2008 is the deadline to apply. Learn more about the awards and apply today. Paid Campus Organizing Internships in Northern & Southern California
The Secular Student Alliance is seeking applicants for paid Campus Organizing Interns in both Southern and Northern California. Both positions last approximately ten weeks, take around ten hours a week, and pay $10/hr.
Apply for the Northern California Position Apply for the Southern California Position  Fellowships for Atheists and Humanists
Interfaith Youth Core is currently accepting applications from undergraduate students from diverse faith and moral traditions for its 2008-2009 Fellows Alliance. Fellows receive a year-long stipend to support interfaith organizing work on campus, a network of colleagues across the country, training on the skills necessary to be a successful organizer, and access to the national Interfaith youth movement. We at IFYC believe it is critical for the Interfaith youth movement to include the voices of those who do not identify with a particular religious tradition.
IFYC is actively seeking fellows who are humanist/atheist/agnostic. The deadline has been extended to March 21st. A Study of Religious and Nonreligious Campus Organizations Hemant Mehta conducted an informal study of the various kinds of theistic and non-theistic campus groups at the ten largest campuses in the U.S. You won't be surprised that there are more Christian groups than atheist groups–but the magnitude of the difference is likely to surprise you.
Read the study. Board of Director Election ResultsThe ballots are all in and the winners of the 2008 Secular Student Alliance Board of Directors election are: Chris Calvey
Phil Ferguson
Joe Foley
Matthew LaClair
Ashley Paramore
Don Sutterfield They have all been elected to two year terms which have already begun. This is the first time that the Secular Student Alliance board has had all twelve positions filled. | 
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