AAR will resume its meetings on Wednesday, September 30th at 5pm in Social Science Trailer 103.
If you can’t make the meeting, but are free later in the evening, join us in the University Center by the fountain.
Until then, be sure to stop by our table this Friday on Ring Road!
Hey everyone!
This is going to be my last post as Secretary (after this I officially hand over the power to Eric). I just wanted to post some pictures from our last meeting of the year which was a blast. I hope everyone is having a great Summer and I hope to see you all next year!
Food:
Socializing:
Chris our new Publicity Chair tries to make a quiet entrance:
“Mmmm… These chips are sooooo good”:
Hey everyone! Just a quick update. We finally got our letter sent out to Pope. We ended up sending him a letter encouraging condom use as a way to prevent AIDS. We also put a few condoms in the package to let him try them out and see how they work for him. Here are the pictures:
Secondly, we went down and donated the $73.66 we made from the bake sale to fight AIDS worldwide. Thanks for everyone who made the bake sale a great success!
Last week we had a series of events involving the pope, HIV/AIDS, and baked goods. You all know what that means! During week 3 at our Atheist bake sale we raised over $70 for the UNAIDS programme. We will be heading down to CHASE (formerly WAMU).
Here are some pictures of all the fun:
Good Times:
Discussing religion with other students:
Jar of souls and baked goods:
God’s shows his wrath:
Secondly, during week 4 we had William Lobdell come and give a wonderful presentation on how he gradually lost his religion covering the LA Catholic sex scandal. Here are some clips from his book tour:
Lastly, we will NOT be a general meeting next week. This is because UCI is hosting the mythbusters and we are planning to be in attendance.
Hey everyone!
I just wanted to thank all the AAR members for making this a memorable quarter. So now that it is week 10 and spring break is just right around the corner I wanted to do a quick recap of the quarter.
Week 2: Angry guy with a big sign
Lori Lipman Brown:
Dan Barker:
Week 8: Angry guys with small signs
Last but not least. February had both Charles Darwin’s birthday and Valentines day… so this one is for you.
At this week’s meeting we will be discussing a U.N. resolution that aims to limit Freedom of Speech when it comes to criticizing religion.
Read more about it here.
As usual, the meeting will be in Social Science Tower 220A from 5-6pm.
Constitutional Law professor Donna Schuele will be joining us for a special meeting of AAR. We will be discussing the Michael Newdow “under god” case. In this case he argued that having “under god” in the pledge of allegiance was unconstitutional and asked for it to be removed. Professor Schuele was actually at the particular case and will be giving us a presentation on the case. We hope to see you all in attendance.
The lecture will be held on Thursday, Frebruary 26th from 7:00pm – 9:00pm at Humanities Hall room 262 at UC Irvine.
We had a great first meeting and had a packed room! Hope to see everyone out next week for a more formal discussion and then a BBQ this coming weekend.
Pictures:
We will be having our first meeting this Wednesday (1/14) at 5pm in Social Science Tower 220A. We will be having food: potluck style. So bring something for everyone to share.
This quarter we have some exciting tentative events planned as well.
BBQ at the end of week 3.
Blood Drive at the end of week 5.
Dan Barker coming to speak on February 19th.
Also everyone remember:
At this weeks meeting (11/19) we will be taking part of the vital signs project.
The project is described on their website as follows:
We are on an expedition, a journey, a search for life. Socrates said: The unexamined life is not worth living. Dr. John and Dr. Drew want to examine life. As medical doctors, we examine our patient’s vital signs for a living. We want to explore together our own vital signs. Do we have a pulse? Do we have a blood pressure? Are we breathing? Do we have a temperature? Are we truly alive? I hope so…
We have discovered that to be truly alive; we also have to have another set of Vital Signs: Where did we come from (Origin)? Why are we here (Meaning)? Can we know right from wrong (Morality)? Where are we going (Destiny)?
vitalsigns.md is a place to talk, to listen, and to see who we are. This is a place to always feel welcomed no matter what your background, no matter what you believe because we are ALL in this life boat together. So come and join us or just listen in to our discussions along the journey. We want to know what people from all walks of life know about life.
So in short Dr. Drew and Dr. John will be attending our meeting and we will be answering a series of questions about our world view that they have prepared.
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Also as a final note we have had a few “preachers” on campus spreading the message of “Repent or go to Hell!” We decided to spread our own message so here are a few pictures of some of our members getting the word out.
