2010 – 2011 Activities

See Also Reasonfest 2011

• Joined the university’s freshman interest survey and received interest from more than 150 incoming freshmen
• Tabled at the Hawk Week Student Group Info Fair the first week of school, connected to another 75 interested people
•  Counter Protested Brother Jed’s hate with love, picked up by FriendlyAtheist.com
•  First informational meeting attended by 60+ students, a huge increase
•  Ask an Atheist tabling through the year with printed vinyl signage to increased visibility
•  Clinical Psychologist and Recovering from Religion founder Darrel Ray spoke to a crowd of 75 on “The God Virus”
•  Hosted Pastafarian Pasta Party for International Talk Like a Pirate Day
•  Hosted socials for Christmas, Easter, and Halloween
•  Weekly social gatherings at Java Break with our information and artwork permanently posted at local coffee house
•  Created literature library where members can browse more than 80 freethought books online and check them out for free at bit.ly/somalibrary
• Showed Morgan Spurlock’s FX show “30 Days” episode where an Atheist lived with Christian family in Texas, followed by a behind the scenes presentation by the atheist participant Brenda Frei
• Held “Life of Brian” movie screening for Blasphemy Day
• Darwin Day Activities
• Collected Signatures on campus for AHA’s petition for a National Darwin Day
•  Presented James Randi Education Foundation Director of Educational Programming Michael Blanford on the importance of evolution education to a crowd of 100 people
• Gave out science themed Valentines Day Cards (e.g. I Select You, Naturally! – Chuck Darwin)
• Event covered on front page of campus newspaper including interviews with JREF and SOMA representatives* *
•  Took group field trip to Springfield, MO 3 day student group run skeptic conference Skepticon (skepticon.org)
•  Took group field trip to Wichita, KS student group run event Rapture Day (raptureday.org)
• Started recording guest speakers and created Youtube.com/OpenMindedAtheists to host them
•  Created a new facebook presence to replace old group format and provide information for Reasonfest
•  Held SOMA’s most competitive election in recent history, creating the new position of Director of Member Recruitment and committees for Community Organization and Publicity/Web Design.
• Hosted discussions on Humanism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Coming “Out” Atheist, Diplomats vs Firebrands, Sexuality and more
• President: Joey Ralph
• Vice President: Conrad Hudson
• Community Organizer: Thomas Birdeno
• Secretary: C. B .
• Treasurer: P. W.
• Constitution Revised
• Darrel Ray lectures on the “God Virus”
• Brenda Frei returns to speak on her experience on 30 days
• Member Adam Brown starts website AtheismResource.com
• Group Membership: 190