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Boar Articles

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 | Warwick Atheists | No Comments

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)

Rationalist Week 2008

Thursday, April 24th, 2008 | Chris Worfolk | No Comments

Well guys, we did it again :D.

Rationalist Week 2008 was not only another fantastic success for the society but also by far the biggest event we have ever pulled off. With a total of 22 events, 13 talks, 12 speakers, 7 days, 6 screenings, 5 guest speakers, 4 socials, 3 debates and 2 round table discussions as the back of my hoodie conveniently tells me it was another week that I will never, ever forget.

Thank you so much to everyone who helped out with the week. I was really worried in the planning stages that my presidency was going to end on a low note but with the traditional A-Soc nothing is going to beat us, nothing is going to get us down attitude we pulled off a week which I don’t think disappointed anybody.

AGM results

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 | Leeds Atheist Society | No Comments

Yesterday was our 2008 AGM and as a result we have a new committee. Congratulations to everyone who got elected, details will be posted on the website soon.

Our new executive committee is composed of Norman as president, Nicola as secretary and Charlie as treasurer.

Riley Awards 2008 nominations

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 | Leeds Atheist Society | No Comments

The nominations of the 2008 Riley Awards have been announced and A-Soc has been shortlisted for the best publicity award.

Unfortunately the union has decided not to shortlist us for best new society or indeed any other category despite the fact we are clearly the best society around but that is how it goes :P.