Secular Student Alliance at UCF

Summer meetings: We will likely be continuing to meet at 7:00 PM on Wednesday nights over the summer. We will attempt to reserve a room in Classroom building 1 for said meetings.

Orientation Ice cream socials: We will be participating in them, 2 members will hopefully attend each meeting. The socials take place on the following dates: May: 21st, 24th, 30th. June: 4th, 7th, 11th, 13th, 18th, 21st, 27th. July: 9th, 11th, 16th, 18th, 23rd. August: 15th.

Dues: Dues will likely be set at 5$ per semester, possibly with a discount on a shirt given if one pays $10 at once for the year.

Project Reason: One of our main initiatives for the summer is Project Reason. We will be creating a video for this competition, and encourage anyone interested in helping to let us know. Details in the following link: http://www.project-reason.org/contests/2012_video_contest/

Charity event: We would like to organize a charity event this year. Potential ideas include a streaming event online, and water balloon an atheist day. For this second one, $1 could be paid to pelt one of us with a water balloon.

Woman in secularism conference: A group donated money so that 25 students could each go for $25. These are sold out, but may be reopening. If we can get said tickets, we may go: http://www.centerforinquiry.net/events/women_in_secularism

Teresa Mcbain: We’ve been talking to the regional directors of the Florida atheists, they are looking for venues for speaker tours, so we may try to get involved with that. We may be able to get Teresa Mcbain as a speaker with tentative date of mid July.

External duties of executive board: Were discussed and clarified.

Discussion question: The possibility of having people vote each week on the potential discussion question was discussed. Calendar: a Google calendar will be implemented on the website: www.ssaucf.com

Joint events: We would like to start organizing joint events with other clubs, such as amnesty international and the college democrats. Humanist issues would be a great common ground for this.

T-shirts: This summer we may be putting together a t-shirt committee, separate from the executive board. With the goal of having t-shirts ready by the end of summer.

Secretive involvement: For those who wish their involvement in this club to be a secret, future attendance sheets will have a check off box for this. This way we can be sure to not accidentally tag you in any pictures, etc. that we post.

American Atheist Convention: We could potentially go to this on March 25th.

Deconversion video series: We would like to, beginning this summer, take videos of people stories of how they became Atheist/agnostic/irreligious, as well as their reasoning for it. These videos would be posted to a youtube page we’d be starting, as well as onto our site: www.SSAUCF.com.

If you have any questions on these matters please email me at cmcaliley@knights.ucf.edu, or message me (Collin McAliley) on facebook.