Author Archives: Tara
SSA @ UCMO Meeting Minutes for March 5, 2012
SSA @ UCMO Meeting Minutes for March 5, 2012 Start: 5:35pm End: 6:40pm Attendance: 21 Tonight’s meeting featured our second MU guest speaker, Dave Muscato. Dave Muscato is a 28-year-old musician, LGBTQ-, human- and animal-welfare activist, and … Continue reading
SSA @ UCMO Meeting Minutes for Feb 27, 2012
SSA @ UCMO Meeting Minutes for Feb 27, 2012 Start: 5:30pm End: 7:05pm Attendance: 18 Tonight’s meeting featured a MU guest speaker: James Pflug. James is an evolutionary biologist, current entomology researcher at MU, and was the … Continue reading
SSA @ UCMO Meeting Minutes for Feb 13, 2012
SSA @ UCMO Meeting Minutes for Feb 13, 2012 Start: 5:35pm End: 7:10pm Attendance: 14 Announcements: February 14, 2012 @ 8pm will be the first official meeting of the UCM Philosophy Club. Anyone interested in all things … Continue reading
SSA @ UCMO Meeting Minutes for February 6, 2012
Start time: 5:30pm End time: 8:45pm Attendance: 16 Tonight was the Central Skeptics’s first social of the semester. While we weren’t able to have the Wii hooked up after all due to a lack of TV, we had … Continue reading
SSA @ UCMO Meeting Minutes for January 30, 2012
(Sorry for the late post of minutes. By not posting right after the meeting like I usually do, I completely forgot that I did not have these done yet.) Start Time: 5:40pm End Time: 6:45pm Attendance: 16 … Continue reading
SSA @ UCMO Meeting Minutes for January 23, 2012
Start Time: 5:35pm End Time: 6:15pm Attendance: 15 (including one new attendee and one troll) Annie opened up the meeting with introductions and hello to all our returning members and all our new attendees. An announcement was … Continue reading
A Quick Thought On Accountability
I am proud to be part of a movement that thrives on accountability. The idea that no one gets a “free pass” just because they are part of this movement is liberating. The idea that if one of our own … Continue reading
Honesty and Backlash
A few months ago, I got a phone call from a relative who was very unhappy with me. Among other things, I was asked if it was true that I had said I did not believe in God in front … Continue reading
I am an atheist, not a rebel without a cause
I am an atheist. Not one of those “I am young and rebeling against everything so I decided to say I’m an atheist” atheists. Not one of those “My life has been shitty so fuck God, he’s fuckin’ fucker and … Continue reading