NavigationUser loginFacebook Fan BlockEvolvefish Rocks SSA Travel Gateway Support the SSA Every MonthThe Latest |
SSA eMpirical No. 32 - Back into that Secular GrooveSubmitted by Lyz on Sat, 2008-09-20 23:38.
In this issue:
( categories: eMpirical (eNews) )
|
Membership StatusYou are not logged in, so you might be a member or you might not.
Login to find out if you are a member. You need to be a member to vote in Board of Directors elections. Follow us on Twitter! eMpirical (eNews)Secular Student Alliance isa proud member of the
 Subscribe to the SSA BlogLet the good stuff come to you:
Support SSA with every Amazon purchase when you start hereOUT Campaign
Buy StuffShow your secular pride: buy shirts, bags, buttons, hats and more at the SSA store. Who's onlineThere are currently 0 users and 117 guests online.
|
||||||
, wins the 
This was Sarah Kaiser's statement for the Secular Alliance of IU (at Indiana University Bloomington) callout meeting on September 11, 2008. The group, of which she is president, decided that it should have a semi-formal callout meeting at which the president stood up and spoke about what the group is and what they want to do, as well as talk about upcoming events and activities. 
When Dartmouth student Alex DiBranco decided to write an article looking into perspectives on atheism, she wasn’t prepared for the widespread default assumption that atheists can’t be moral. She expanded her investigation and composed this series of articles describing her findings. This is the first of a three-part series. By Alex DiBranco.
”I know how to talk to a fundamentalist. Well, I know how to talk to the kind of fundamentalist I used to be, so I guess I know how to talk to myself. But that is something.” Dan Barker, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, gives some advice on how to successfully confront a Fundamentalist. This is the first of a two-part series written exclusively for the eMpirical. By Dan Barker. 
Andrew Maher, an undergraduate at Harvard University, was able to attend the E. Pluribus Unum conference this past summer in Washington, D.C. Here, he describes his experience and his reactions to the conference. By Andrew Maher.
When we last interviewed this group, President Patrick Julius was struggling with getting his group recognized by the university and finding more members. Leslie Zukor provides us with this follow-up interview so we can see how far this group has come! By Leslie A. Zukor.
HumanLight is a holiday celebrated around December 23rd specifically to acknowledge reason, family, friendship, and other shared, secular values of humankind. The HumanLight Committee is hosting a HumanLight Holiday card and ornament design contest for secularists of all ages. 
September 9 – As Seen on the Colbert Report
It gives me great pleasure to announce that Lyz Liddell will be joining our staff as senior campus organizer. Lyz has been volunteering as the Editor-in-Chief for the Secular Student Alliance's eMpirical for over two years--so she should already be very familiar to most of you. By August E. Brunsman IV, Executive Director
