Greetings to Warwick Atheists members, new and returning, and welcome to another year of thought-provoking events, entertaining and interesting film showings, fun socials and delicious meals! We have got an excellent year lined up for our members. We want to reach out to as many people as possible and get them involved in the society’s activities. Last year, our Best New Society award showed everyone exactly how capable we were of creating a successful and enjoyable environment for anyone interested, and we hope to do even better this year.

Take a look at the announcements for our upcoming events, or visit and join our Facebook group for regular updates.

If you need to contact someone from the society, for any reason, you can e-mail me personally at w.wybrow[at]warwick.ac.uk, or another exec member.

Lastly, if you haven’t joined the society officially, please do so. By joining, you’ll have access to regular e-mail updates. The funds will also go towards bringing you bigger events (including a provisionally planned speaker from the BHA) and better merchandise. We’re only asking £2 to join (lower than lots of other societies), it’s less than the cost of a pint to you, but to us it’s one step closer to being able to fully fund our plans for the year.

As you may know, we were in the Boar this week. I’ve scanned in the articles we were featured in, plus one related article on famous atheists and atheism for reference.

• Front page: They Still Don’t Believe It headline article, by Sam Shirley (High-res alternative is available if you can’t read the smaller one - it will take much longer to load, so try the smaller one first)
• Page 5: Atheists’ Anger continued from front page, by Sam Shirley (High-res)
• Page 4: What’s all the fuss about?, uncredited (High-res)
• Page 4: Poll shows 76% against the ban, uncredited. There was a misprint in the original graphic; the two smaller pie charts were incorrectly coloured (it’s got the actual responses in the text body), so I have corrected the diagram (High-res)
• Page 5: Poster withdrawal an “over-reaction”, by Jon Ng (High-res)
• Page 6: Warwick Atheists defend their position, by Charli Fritzner (High-res)
• Page 6: Ed Callow explains decision to ban, by Andrew O’Brien (High-res)
• Page 8: Losing faith in Warwick Atheists, uncredited (High-res)
• Page 7: Brights’ Eyes, Shankar Jayaram (High-res)

We fucking rock.

So yes - the forums are back up and functional.  Use ‘em!I’ve upgraded to phpBB3 which should protect us from spam for a little while.

Hiya. Here’s what the exec should be up to over the holidays:

Sam

Warwick Inter-Faith Forum – mention idea of having joint column in the boar

Make sure hoodies are organised

Organise Refresher’s fair

Look at UK Brights email if not done so already

Ed

Contact campaigning societies – Warwick Pride, Peace in the Middle East, People & Planet (aids). Not WASS?

Christian

Contact Cambridge, Bristol and Leicester

Organise ‘myth destroying’ events

Keep in contact with WIRD if possible

Sign up for ‘event planning’

Will H

Keep in contact with religious societies

Mention to them idea of having a joint column in the boar

Cai

Creating new forum

New designs for hoodies/t-shirts

Email everyone to ensure they can modify website (?)

New flyer for next term

Organise Daniel O’Brien talk

Get finance card from Alex

Ben

Socials for next term

Olivia

Money request forms – Ben (and Sam?)

Sign up for ‘managing your money’

Fran

Enquire about getting article into the boar

Sign up for ‘equal opportunities’

Will W

Research companies to order t-shirts and hoodies from

Tim

Ask members if they want to write in the boar

Tell members that help with flyering would be appreciated

Ask Christian how talking to WIRD went

Put contact details on forum if necessary

Organise meeting for next term

Find out when everyone is coming up for next term

Contact WASS (check with Ed)

Make sure minutes are on website

Contact Jewish society

I’ve put up the posters we used for advertising on the website, as well as the raw Photoshop file for the logo. Use them however you like!

Also, I’ve made a section for the minutes taken from out meetings.  Find it in “Links and Resources” on the left.

So there’s a meeting and a social happening on Thursday of this week. More details on the forums!

A’ight, the website is up! For references, we’re still gonna be hanging around the facebook group, although hopefully the new forum (it’s on the left!) should be a bit more functional.This website is where you can come to get details about the society, as well as the upcoming events and socials and other stuff going on.The website is brand new, so if you find any bugs, let me know using the contact details you can get from the menu on the left.Excelent! See y’all around!