January 12th, 2009 meeting
01/12/2009 20:00
01/12/2009 21:00
The fifth meeting of winter quarter. Junk food will be provided.
Find us in 06-3214! (The building across from the library, third floor)
Preliminary agenda:
-- New member welcome
-- SkeptiCamp news
--- Progress with creating interest and administrating
--- http://barcamp.org/SkeptiCamp%20RIT
-- Speaker Search
--- Prepared short list with ultimate decision to be made at meeting
-- Darwin Day/Week
--- T-shirts?
--- Possible evolution-related movies to screen
---- ... riff track... maybe.
-- Humanism?
-- Discussion
--- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/06/religion-atheist-bus-campaig...
---- Strong Agnostic bus ads in London
--- http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/stonehenge-beneath-waters-of-lake.html
---- A North American version of Stonehenge under the waters of Lake Michigan?
--- http://cnyskeptics.org/2009/01/the-evolution-of-intelligent-design/
---- A new article by Paul Desormeaux, of the RSG, who we have previously had a joint meeting with. A very well researched and constructed timeline detailing the origins of Intelligent Design.
Want to make it but unable? E-mail us at ritskeptics@gmail.com and we'll keep you in the loop for irregularly timed events.
Meeting minutes
That's a lie, I didn't take minutes. Here it goes from memory though.
Three new members showed up, which is pretty excellent. Some old members also deigned us with their presence.
SkeptiCamp is still going ahead as of now. This week we should be talking to more people about it, like RIT. They're important.
We narrowed down the list of speakers, and I'll be seeing about contacting all of them and getting that set up. Here's our shortlist.
> Massimo Pigliucci - 1st place
> Austin Dacey - 2nd place
> Benjamin Radford - 3rd place
> Taner Edis - Honorable mention
We made a list of a few movies we could show around Darwin Day or in general. Also we agreed that having t-shirts would be pretty awesome, but need a design and money and such.
> A Sound of Thunder
> A Flock of Dodos
> Religulous
We will be talking to colleges that have Humanist chaplains about the process they went through to have such and see if it would be feasible to do that here.
We were e-mailed out of the blue by NYC improv group God Tastes Like Chicken to see if we were interested in having them come to our campus and do their show. The jury is still out on this one. We would like to see their act first, before making a commitment.
There was also a bit of discussion at the end of the meeting, and spontaneously temporarily metamorphosed into the YouTube club once again.