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CooperationSecular Student Alliance Board Member Matthew LaClair Published in L.A. TimesSubmitted by august on Sun, 2008-04-27 06:14.
Secular Student Alliance board member Matthew LaClair is the author of an Op-Ed piece in today's edition of the LA Times. In it, he talks about the recent controversy where a nationally used American Government textbook was found to contain several mistakes and conservative bias. Matthew, with the help of the Center for Inquiry, alerted the publishers of the book (along with the media) about these problems. The full report can be found on the Center's website.Matthew urges students to not remain silent when these misstatements occur. He writes: What is most distressing is not that some public school teachers preach their religion, or that some authors put politics ahead of education. It is that it is so rare for anyone to call them on it. This text is widely used. Yet to my knowledge, no one has challenged these incorrect and misleading statements. Secular Coalition for America Points to $30 Million in Federal Tax Money Earmarked for Religious ActivitiesSubmitted by MaryEllenSikes on Wed, 2008-04-02 10:35.
The Secular Student Alliance is a founding member of the Secular Coalition for America, the national lobby for atheists, humanists, freethinkers, and other nontheistic Americans. During the appropriations process for fiscal year 2008, Congress passed over 140 earmarks totaling almost $30 million in public funding for overtly religious activities. Americans' tax dollars are already supporting
Secular Student Alliance Conference - June 2008Submitted by august on Tue, 2008-04-01 10:21.
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| From front to back: Ryan Iacovacci, Peter Baker, Benjamin Brown and Kenan Arodak debated funding for the Atheist Student Alliance at Tuesday's SG Senate Meeting. ORACLE PHOTO/MIKE WILSON |
This story originally appeared in the Oracle (the campus newspaper of the University of South Florida) on 3/19/08, and is used by permission.
Article by Candace Kaw, Staff Writer for the Oracle.
The Secular Student Alliance is seeking applicants for its Southern California Campus Organizing Internship (COI). This internship pays $10/hr. and all expenses are covered. This internship will require approximately 10 hours a week. The internship will start in late March or early April and last through early June of 2008 with an option to extend the internship or restart it in the fall. We are willing to be somewhat flexible in terms of time and stipend to meet academic requirements.
While approximately half of the work for this position can be done from any location of the Campus Organizing Intern's choosing, the other half will involve working directly on campuses in Southern California. Again, all travel costs will be covered. The position offers a highly flexible schedule.
The Campus Organizing Intern will help organize and support students who do not see theism as the source of morality--this includes atheists, agnostics, humanists, brights, rationalists and other non-theists. Duties will include working in person and remotely with student groups on campuses in Southern California to improve their operations, provide them with resources and network them with each other and the broader secular movement. SSA senior staff will provide training, direction, and assistance with all of these tasks. The COI will also work to start groups on campuses without groups via flyering, tabling and networking. The position will involve some traveling, public speaking, record keeping, lots of phone and email communication, and some possible resource development.
On June 6-8, 2008 the SSA will be holding its 8th annual conference as part of the E Pluribus Unum: Reclaiming Humanist Values conference being put on by the American Humanist Association and the International Humanist and Ethical Union. The conference will be held in Washington, DC at the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel.
Student participation is key to the success of this conference.
Thanks to generous donations from the Roxbury Foundation, the American Humaniast Association, and other donors, we have established a grant fund to help offset the travel costs incurred by students who attend the conference. We are making $10,000 available in $100 and $200 travel grants. Grants awarded on a rolling basis and will go fast. Apply for your 2008 travel grant today!
UCLA's Greg Graffin to Be Honored for Lifetime Achievement in Atheism, Punk Rock, and ScienceWe're sorry, but the travel grant deadline has passed and there are no more travel grants available at this time.
Even though you will have to pay your own way, we still think you will have a spectacular time at our 2008 conference and we invite you to join us there.
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