Weekly Update! Elections, Game Night, Ask an Atheist Day! So many wonderful things!

It's third week! That is exciting because we have SO MANY wonderful events coming up!! Read on to find out about all of them!

Meeting Reminder

You know it's been coming, I've been reminding you about it incessantly, you must be as excited for it as I am...this week's meeting is...Elections!! That's right, our meeting this week, April 18, at 5:45, in the Uncommon Room is going to be an extravaganza of democracy. We are going to vote harder than anyone has voted before. We are going to channel Benjamin Franklin and Aaron Burr. We are going to ensure the continued existence of SA. We are going to eat pizza and ice cream. (Email lheins74@gmail.com with dietary restrictions). Doesn't that sound awesome? So come!

And of course, nominations are still open until elections begin, so feel free to keep nominating. You can check out the current nominees here. Also, recognize that perhaps we need more positions! Poster fairy? Food czar? Webmaster? 

All non-standard positions will have their existence voted on by the exec, but other than that, you're good to go!

Upcoming events:

• Game Night is this Wednesday, April 17, 7pm-10pm, at Jay Feldman's apartment. It's going to be really fun, so come, play games, eat food and have a good time. You can feel free to come late or bring games if you want. Facebook event here.
• Ask an Atheist Day is this Thursday, April 18. Stop by our table outside of Cobb Hall to pick up candy and stickers, tell other people to come by and ask us any questions about atheism they like, and if you have a half hour at some point, join us at the table! You can sign up for slots here, but also feel free to just show up. Also, support us by saying you're coming on facebook!
• Kate Donovan of Northwestern University is giving a talk on the myths and misconceptions surrounding schizophrenia this Saturday, April 20. Find more information here and contact me at cmessinger@uchicago.edu if you want to go.

Future Events

• Tim Short will be giving a talk on growing up in the South, being homeschooled by fundamentalist parents, and going to and then leaving Liberty University on Monday, April 29 (fifth week).
• Jesse Galef will be giving a talk called Defense Against the Dark Arts: The Ethics and Psychology of Persuasion Monday, May 6 (6th week). That's going to be extra super awesome. 
• Tuesday of 7th week, we'll be screening Dogma! More information to come on that soon.
• The Secular Student Alliance National Conference is in June! There are actually two of them, and they're accepting registration now! It would be really fun to go with a lot of you, so consider registering!

Links: 

• Guys, I updated our calendar! It has all of our upcoming events! Check it out! 
• In the midst of recent discussions of Islamophobia and language, I think that this post by Alonso Fyfe about the phrase "barbarian Muslims" is really thoughtful and appropriate. 
• From last week: The longer fictional thought-experiment on lookism.
• Sort of re: our meeting two weeks ago: Is the Christian church a place for LGBT people?
• And the election nomination form, in case you forgot, is here.

See you all on Thursday!