Hello! This is the first of what will be a wonderful year full of weekly updates from me. This is where you find out when and where the next meeting is, what the upcoming events are, and also get a ton of cool links I hope you'll like. Feel free to read just the first part, or click through it all. Without further ado:
Meeting Reminder
Our next meeting will be Wednesday, October 17, at 6:00 pm in the Spirit Cafe in the basement of Rockefeller chapel. We'll be talking about transhumanism, where humanity is going, whether we should modify ourselves and whether death is bad. Feel free to start reading about it on Wikipedia.
Monday, October 15, 2012
OFF CAMPUS: Hemant Mehta Talk
Date: Tuesday, October 16th
Time: 7 pm
Location: Room 325, Lincoln Park Student Center, DePaul
RSVP: Facebook
Details: Join DAFT as they host Hemant Mehta for a talk on how to improve our public schools! This talk will be held from 7 PM in room 325 of the Lincoln Park Student Center. This event is free and open to the public. The Student Center is completely handicapable accessible, and accommodation can be provided upon request.
About Hemant:
Hemant Mehta graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with degrees in Mathematics and Biology. While there, he also helped establish their first secular student group, Students WithOut Religious Dogma (SWORD). He earned his Masters in Math Education at DePaul University and currently teaches high school math in the suburbs of Chicago. He has worked with the Center for Inquiry and the Secular Coalition for America, received scholarships from American Atheists and the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and now serves on the board of directors for Foundation Beyond Belief (a charity organization targeting non-theistic donors) and is the former chair of the board of the Secular Student Alliance (which creates and supports college atheist groups nationwide). Hemant appeared on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and his book, I Sold My Soul on eBay (WaterBrook Press), was released in 2007. His blog, the winner of the 2011 Bloggie award for Best Weblog About Religion, can be read at FriendlyAtheist.com. Hemant's book, I Sold My Soul on eBay (WaterBrook Press), was released in 2007. He has appeared on CNN and FOX News Channel.
Time: 7 pm
Location: Room 325, Lincoln Park Student Center, DePaul
RSVP: Facebook
Details: Join DAFT as they host Hemant Mehta for a talk on how to improve our public schools! This talk will be held from 7 PM in room 325 of the Lincoln Park Student Center. This event is free and open to the public. The Student Center is completely handicapable accessible, and accommodation can be provided upon request.
About Hemant:
Hemant Mehta graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with degrees in Mathematics and Biology. While there, he also helped establish their first secular student group, Students WithOut Religious Dogma (SWORD). He earned his Masters in Math Education at DePaul University and currently teaches high school math in the suburbs of Chicago. He has worked with the Center for Inquiry and the Secular Coalition for America, received scholarships from American Atheists and the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and now serves on the board of directors for Foundation Beyond Belief (a charity organization targeting non-theistic donors) and is the former chair of the board of the Secular Student Alliance (which creates and supports college atheist groups nationwide). Hemant appeared on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and his book, I Sold My Soul on eBay (WaterBrook Press), was released in 2007. His blog, the winner of the 2011 Bloggie award for Best Weblog About Religion, can be read at FriendlyAtheist.com. Hemant's book, I Sold My Soul on eBay (WaterBrook Press), was released in 2007. He has appeared on CNN and FOX News Channel.
Transhumanism - Second Weekly Meeting
Date: Wednesday, October 17th
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Spirit Cafe, basement of Rockefeller Chapel
RSVP: none
Details: We'll be talking about transhumanism, where humanity is going, whether we should modify ourselves and whether death is bad. Feel free to start reading about it on Wikipedia.
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: Spirit Cafe, basement of Rockefeller Chapel
RSVP: none
Details: We'll be talking about transhumanism, where humanity is going, whether we should modify ourselves and whether death is bad. Feel free to start reading about it on Wikipedia.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Spaghetti Dinner/Movie Night Fundraiser
Date: Thursday, October 18th
Time: 6:30 pm dinner, 7 pm movie
Location: Burton-Judson Theatre, Burton-Judson Residence Hall
RSVP: Facebook
Details: The University of Chicago Secular Alliance will be screening Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life". Accompanying this FREE screening will be a FREE spaghetti dinner, complements of our master-chef members. Donations are encouraged (yet optional) to help us raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society as part of a national mobilization of the secular community to fight cancer. For more information regarding this charity and how to get involved visit:
http://www.lightthenight.org/
http://www.secularstudents.org/lightthenight
Time: 6:30 pm dinner, 7 pm movie
Location: Burton-Judson Theatre, Burton-Judson Residence Hall
RSVP: Facebook
Details: The University of Chicago Secular Alliance will be screening Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life". Accompanying this FREE screening will be a FREE spaghetti dinner, complements of our master-chef members. Donations are encouraged (yet optional) to help us raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society as part of a national mobilization of the secular community to fight cancer. For more information regarding this charity and how to get involved visit:
http://www.lightthenight.org/
http://www.secularstudents.org/lightthenight
First Weekly Meeting
Date: Wednesday, October 10th
Time: 6-7 pm
Location: Spirit Cafe, in the basement of Rockefeller Chapel
RSVP: Facebook
Details: Come one, come all! Meet secularists, atheists, deists, agnostics and intrigued religious people! We'll get introduced and eat candy as we figure out where we stand on the all important issues of god, religion, harry potter and soft drink preferences.
Time: 6-7 pm
Location: Spirit Cafe, in the basement of Rockefeller Chapel
RSVP: Facebook
Details: Come one, come all! Meet secularists, atheists, deists, agnostics and intrigued religious people! We'll get introduced and eat candy as we figure out where we stand on the all important issues of god, religion, harry potter and soft drink preferences.
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