Secular Portal Blogs

Abstinence only education works

Sunday, August 31st, 2008 | Chris Worfolk | No Comments

The figures don’t lie.

Abstinence only education really does work for the Bible belt of America. Almost one million teenagers get pregnant in the United States each year. Teenage pregnancy rates in the states were abstinence only sex education are far higher than those in states that offer proper education.

What does this result in? Lots and lots of young Christians having babies which are then raised to be a whole new generation of Christians. As I said, works fantasticly. Maybe we should be giving out condoms with holes in for freshers’ week?

Conference picture

Sunday, August 31st, 2008 | AHS | No Comments

Group picture from the first AHS conference. Good work all!

Tags: conference, edinburgh, photos

AHS now has a homepage

Thursday, August 28th, 2008 | AHS | No Comments

It may not be much, it may contain hardly any information and it may need a huge amount of work to be useful to anyone - but there is a homepage for the AHS! Step one people, step one.

Tags: website

Secular Portal’s new blog aggregator!

Thursday, August 28th, 2008 | Norman Ralph | No Comments

Secular Portal has just opened its new blog aggregator to collect all the blogs from its users and constituent societies. If you are a follower of the student free thinking movement or are just interested in things like Humanism, atheism, agnosticism, free thinking or consder yourself a secularist then it is well worht heading over an checkeing out the new site.

Also, check out the latest BHA bulletin as it includes a short piece on the inaugural meeting of the parent group of Secular Portal, the AHS. Hopefully we will have this organisation constituted in November and have us up and running in no time at all.

Believers beware!

Welcome to Secular Portal Blogs

Thursday, August 28th, 2008 | Secular Portal | No Comments

We’re finally nearing a point where we can launch the next part of Secular Portal - the blogs. There will be several blogs all contained within one blog here as well as syndication from various society and individual blogs - so if you keep your eye on the blogs homepage you should see plenty of posts! You can then use the menu to access the various individual blogs from people and societies.

Tags: blogging, blogs, updates, website

Welcome to the AHS blog

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 | AHS | 1 Comment

This is the first post in what should hopefully be many on the AHS blog. We have finally got some sort of web presense and hopefully will be building on this shortly. Until then, stay tuned to the forums.

Tags: blog, first post

Freshers’ week preparations

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 | Chris Worfolk | No Comments

Yeah :D.

Society of the summer

Thursday, August 21st, 2008 | Chris Worfolk | No Comments

A-Soc is continuing to do well over summer, we managed 16 people to this week’s Tuesday social.

We are getting a great attendance every week and a good mix of new people and recurring people which tend to mix from week to week as people go on holiday and we still maintain our numbers, not bad, not bad at all.

Meanwhile I got the proofs from the printers back for the business cards. I sent them the high quality 300dpi source files to printing and to make sure the vectors looked right when they opened them I sent along some sample JPEGs in low quality with the word “sample” written in big letters on them just so there would be no confusion.

It having been a few days I had already phoned them to ask where the proofs were, apparentely they had been sent and had just “gone missing” before they arrived in my inbox. So once it was re-sent I opened them up to find them with a note saying the image quality was poor and with the word “sample” written in big letters across them.

I’m assured by the graphic designers in my office that this is quite normal behaviour for printers. So the fun may be just beginning there. Hoodies might turn up soon if we’re lucky too.

Summer Socials

Monday, August 18th, 2008 | Leeds Atheist Society | No Comments

Well, it is official!

A-Soc is the best attended society on campus. The Tuesday socials are turning out to be the highlight of many people's summer calendars. Our attendence for our weekly meet in the Terrace/Old Bar has been rising steadily all summer with numbers reaching into the twenties on some weeks.

Thanks to all our members who make the effort to come along and get involved with the society and to any one else in Leeds over the summer you should get yourselves down to Leeds University Union, 7pm every Tuesday!