The Secular Student Alliance is pleased to announce that we have added popular blogger PZ Myers (Pharyngula) and Rev. Jonathan Weyer to our Speakers Bureau.

Being involved in an affiliate group doesn't mean you are automatically a member of the Secular Student Alliance. We don't require our students to become members of the SSA for their groups to get all the resources we provide, but we definitely encourage it. That's why we're launching our first-ever Student Membership Drive!

To "celebrate" the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's "Origin of Species," Living Waters Ministry is giving away hundreds of thousands of free copies of the book with a creationist introduction by Ray Comfort. The SSA has been working with the National Center for Science Education, The Brights' Net, the producers of "Flock of Dodos" and more to help you put on your own celebration.

Along with Jonathan Sussman, I was one of the summer interns for the Secular Student Alliance during the summer of 2009. I chose to apply for this internship for many reasons, and was delighted to be awarded one of the available spots. By engaging with the SSA office staff as an intern I learned many things and gained a deeper appreciation of the scope and significance of the operations of the Secular Student Alliance.

Congratulations to Jon Adams of Utah State for winning the American Atheists' Chinn Scholarship. Each year, American Atheists gives three awards to atheist activists, among which are the $1,000 Chinn Scholarship for an LGBT non-theist.

Secular Student Alliance member Todd Stiefel knows that 2009 has been a fantastic growth year for the Secular Student Alliance. He is offering a $50,000 matching challenge to the rest of the secular community to support the Secular Student Alliance.

Someone at the Creation Museum with us managed to snag this hilarious picture of our Senior Campus Organizer Lyz Liddell. Help us find the caption, thought bubble, or photoshopping genius to make it really worth posting on our office wall!

Greg Epstein, the Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University, offers a look into the nonreligious community with his new release Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe. The book is the latest in a long line of secular pieces that have fueled a rise in community service within the nontheist youth movement.

The Society of Non-Theists at Purdue University is gearing up for an exciting year! Though the semester has barely begun, the group has already held discussion meetings, had a presentation on the Creation Museum, and spent the day before Talk Like A Pirate Day out on their campus preaching the word of His Noodliness.

Occam's Razors is the Secular Student Alliance affiliate group at the University of Arkansas. On December 18th, they'll be launching a unique, live-video-blogging fundraiser to raise funds for St. Jude's cancer research. They'd love to have your help in a variety of ways: donations, items donated for auction, or volunteers to help support their blogging marathon.

We've been hard at work since the 2009 Secular Student Alliance conference working to upload our video of the talks to our brand-new YouTube channel. We're excited to announce two new videos that you won't want to miss: Sean Faircloth and Dan Barker!

The Secular Student Alliance is excited to announce our new Branded Affiliates program for our affiliate campus groups. Now, simply by changing or adding to your group's name, you can help support the entire secular student movement!

The Campaign for Free Expression is holding an essay contest for college students on the topic of "The Importance of Free Expression and Its Limits (If Any)." First prize is $2,000!

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