These campus freethought groups are growing fast, and the SSA is a national umbrella organization that advises many students — it's a great cause. They are trying to raise money to contribute towards more student support — help 'em out!
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While it's nearly impossible to get a group of atheists to do anything together (the reaction to the Out campaign demonstrates that!), you've all got to agree* that at least the Secular Student Alliance is a good idea. Maybe you don't know what it's like for new students entering a university, but…
Our trip to the Creation "Museum" was sponsored and organized by the Secular Student Alliance, a wonderful organization that helps build and support freethought on college campuses all across the country. The meeting this past weekend, for instance, was for training student representatives in how…
I'll be departing the Secular Student Alliance conference shortly, to spend most of my day traveling back home. I have to say a few things about it, though:
This was a good meeting! What the student attendees get is some excellent training in how to organize and maintain an active student group,…
The SSA is having a fund raiser. This is an excellent and fast-growing organization that promotes rational thought on college campuses — if you've got a few dollars to spare, give them a little. It's money well spent, since this organization has been marvelously successful in organizing student…
And, students, don't forget to milk the SSA for help in setting up your own group. That is one of the reasons they are there.
They should kidnap some consecrated crackers and hold them hostage. A few youtubes of crazed atheists waving little dishes of salsa and avocado at helpless hosts should make those Catholics cough up the bills.
I don't see why they cannot get their hands on some of that $40k that UCF is giving out to religious groups. Perhaps we should mail-bomb UCF with that suggestion.
Can we please keep this a cracker-free zone?
No, Southern white racists are as free to post here as anyone else.
Yeah, let's see a veritable plague of videos of mistreatment of crackers, all set to the Benny Hill theme music / Yakety Sax.
My favorite person in the world was president of Rice University's chapter of SSA, which went by the name of Secular Students of Rice... a GREAT group.
I already donate $10/month automatically via PayPal. Ever since PZ first blogged about the SSA. It has been about a year now.... so about $120 in total. I will keep that donation "on" for as long as I have a regular source of income and the SSA exists to do the work they do.
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Please donate, its a great cause. They are the ones helping us get CU: Boulder's SSA off the ground.
Yes, be sure to donate -- I hear they're working on a raffle to send Myers to Jerusalem, where he can urinate on the Wailing Wall. ;-)
Hey, it's just frackin' rock!
David, thanks for your continuing donations. They really do help the SSA a lot! I hope others follow in your footsteps :)
YES, please do. My college organization is affiliated with SSA and they helped bring Dan Barker to our campus last fall. Thank you!
Thanks for your help, PZ. I'm a member of the University of Mississippi chapter. My Roommate started it. The Chancellor refuses to acknowledge its existence, so we need all the help we can get.
We did have a bit of a membership drive when Brother Micah visited in April, basically handing out fliers for the organization as he called everyone Masturbators, Whores, and in my case, a Moron. I just wanted to know if he had a non-Pasta alternative to the Theory of Gravity, I don't know what his problem is.
Anyway, if anyone in the North Mississippi area reads this, and is an atheist, we're here for you. We need all the help we can get.
I just donated!
More funding for student bodies is always a good thing.
Though sending someone to a war zone to pee on a wall isn't the smartest thing in the world. As much as I would love to see PZ Myers urinating on the Wailing Wall, it's generally not advisable to send someone to the Middle East, especially for something as trivial and frankly, very juvenile and tasteless as that. Don't want to lose a scientist like that, see...