We have nominees for each position and will continue the elections process Monday, April 5 at 5.20 in Room 312 of the SAC.  All candidates will deliver their speeches.

Please remember that only active members will be able to vote in this election.  Voting will occur Monday, April 12 at 5.20 in Room 312 of the SAC.  If you have any questions regarding your status as a member/ability to vote, please contact me at alicia@sbuft.org to check your status.

All members are encouraged to attend the next two meetings, as they determine who will run your group for the upcoming year!  I hope everyone has a happy, safe Spring Break.

We had a short ice breaker just for people to introduce themselves.  It was great idea as it gave the members a chance to interact a bit and learn about the new faces in the group. One of the best things about all these freethinker groups is the amount of diversity in the group. We have people coming from the Hasidic Jewish community, from the South and quite a few other interesting backgrounds. The new members seemed to have really liked it and the older members seem to be excited about the prospect of engaging in discussions with new people.

From the impression that I received, it seems very likely that SBU Freethinkers has doubled in size. Hopefully the interest stays high for the entire year and SBU Freethinkers can really establish itself as a visible force on campus.

At home, you’ll find our lovely description of freethought, and our goals. At the bottom, in the footer you will see somewhat of a sitemap with my validation logos, and a full site search box. This is the only search box on every page that will search the whole site, the other search boxes are for more specific purposes. On the side of the page, a recognizable feature throughout the website, is the latest news and a call-to-action. Join Us!

If you look to the right of this post you are reading, you’ll find a search box just for the blog, recent blog entries, tag cloud and blogroll, but I want to point out the recent forum entries. I have created a forum that is integrated with the blog so that you only need one account to post to either. And yes, we are hoping that everyone will join us on the forum and write a blog entry occasionally. Between the 40+ of us, we should be able to run at least a weekly blog.

We reiterate who we are and what freethought is on the about page, and we throw in a few more details. The executive board (as it stands now), affiliations, documents. If you aren’t on facebook, then this will be the place to look for meeting dates and times. You can also check for upcoming events here, but we will probably email you for those. The last item on the sidebar is “Documents”. That is still a little vague at this point, but includes our constitution and minutes. Although we haven’t finished the constitution and don’t have any minutes yet, you can click on Minutes and find a little hidden page for that.

Last, but certainly not least, the links page, which I just finished up tonight. I am still hoping to add more to the extended blogroll, but the page is plenty full for now. Since there were so many on the old site, I split them up into categories, and I still couldn’t use all of them. These are just the ones I felt were most important. If you have any comments or suggestions for the links page, drop it off below.

SBU Freethinkers are now all over the internet. We’ve even been around long enough for Google to have indexed us. I asked ChaCha if there was an atheist group that I could join at SBU and they were able to find us! Not only do we already have a reputation, but I purchased a few more domains to make the website a little easier to reach. http://sbuft.com, http://sbufree.com, http://sbufreethinkers.com and http://sbufreethinkers.org