Secular Student Alliance eMpirical No. 39 - Conference, Creation, and Back-to-School
Submitted by Lyz on Sat, 2009-08-15 23:23.
 August 31, 2009 |
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Secular shorts: The Secular Student Alliance is now on YouTube! Tune in for conference videos and more! The Metro State Atheists are holding a Food for Freethought drive and need your help! Donate or help them get books through their website. The Illinois Family Institute is going after the Friendly Atheist for being an atheist while teaching math class. Read more. Read ABC News on our Creation Museum trip. New Secular Student Alliance Group Services! Back to School? Check out our resources for your student group! Need ideas or some how-to help? Let our Activity Packets help your group. What could your group do this year? See a Sample Year full of freethought fun! Reach out to help a student starting a secular group on a campus near you. Become a mentor. Coming soon: Learn how changing your group's name can help the entire movement! Contact us! Call us toll free at 1-877-842-9474. You can also email us at ssa@secularstudents.org. We are always happy to hear from you and answer any questions or concerns! What do you think? This is your eNewsletter and we are always updating and changing to fit your needs, so please let us know what you think of our new format! Email enews@secularstudents.org with any suggestions, ideas, or comments. eMpirical Team
Content Manager:
Frank Bellamy
Editors: August E. Brunsman IV, Elizabeth R.A. Liddell, Hemant Mehta
| Introduction The Secular Student Alliance 2009 Conference was a blast! We took almost 300 freethinkers to the Creation Museum, met with leaders from the entire freethought movement, and got to meet students from all over the country. Now it's back to school with us. We're gearing up for the new year with a whole pile of new resources and programs. Check out our new Activity Packets and Sample Year, and stay tuned for our upcoming programs! We're always excited to hear what your group is up to. Email us at enews@secularstudents.org and let us put your group in the news! Perhaps you missed the 2009 Conference, or maybe you just want a reminder of how much fun we had. Either way, get the scoop about our latest and greatest conference! 
PZ Myers, eloquent as always, explains our role in countering bad ideas in his keynote presentation at the 2009 Conference. Watch it on our brand-new YouTube channel! Read more... Welcome Secular Coalition for America Members!
A warm welcome to our new members from the Secular Coalition for America, from the board, volunteers and staff of the Secular Student Alliance! We are proud to add you as subscribers to the Secular Student Alliance newsletter, the eMpirical. We hope you enjoy this new resource offering updates of secular campus activities, thoughtful discussion by and about secular students, and more. Read more... The Secular Student Alliance has been hard at work over the summer, creating new resources to help you run your group! Check out our new Activity Packets and Sample Year, and get a hint of what's to come this year. Independent video producer Paige E. Malott came with us to the Creation Museum, and she made her own 30-minute video about our trip, titled Skeptics Among Us: Atheists Visit The Creation Museum. Enjoy! 
Senior Campus Organizer Lyz Liddell shares some of the stories she has from organizing the Creation Museum trip. You might have read the news, but you haven't heard these tales! Read more... In anticipation of the Creation Museum trip, the Young Australian Skeptics invited PZ Myers (or P-Zed, as they say) to do an interview on their podcast, The Pseudo Scientists. Listen here! 
Congratulations to Andrew Cederdahl, the recipient of the 2009 American Atheists Founders Scholarship. Leslie A. Zukor interviews Andrew to learn how he earned the grand prize. Read more... Since 1901, Parliamentary Standing Orders have compelled the Australian House & Senate to open daily with a recital of an exclusively Christian prayer, Now, the University of Melbourne Secular Society is challenging that tradition. Read more... The military has always been a source of leaders in the United States. The Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers would like to encourage and support nontheistic military student leaders by awarding $500 to a student leader who has demonstrated excellence in both military and nontheistic activities. | 
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