Campus Freethought Alliance

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CAMPUS FREETHOUGHT ALLIANCE (CFA)

In 1996, students from fifteen campuses launched an alliance for atheists, humanists, and skeptics. Represented were students from the following universities, and more were soon added:

Alabama U at Birmingham (Adam Butler) Amherst College (David Beckman, Nathan Hartshorn: Doubters’ Club) Auckland United Atheists, New Zealand (Alex Clark) Birmingham-Southern College (Bradley Davis) British Columbia U (Michael Kraft of Humanists’ Society) Brock University, St Catherines, Ontario, Canada (Sara E. Moodie) California U at Irvine (Doug Semier) Chicago U (Scott Oser) Christopher Newport U, Virginia (Christopher Green, Gautam Srikanth) Colorado U at Boulder (Miriam Black of Campus Heretics) Columbia U (Joel Finkelstein) Florida International U (David Bendana) Guelph U (Diana Carter) Harvard (Derek Araujo) Houston U (Joe Lynch) Illinois U at Chicago (Michael S. Valle) Kalamazoo College (Jason Pittman) McGill U, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Stephen Ban) Marshall U (Deidre Conn; Chad Docterman) Maryland at College Park (Alireza Aliabadi, Keith Augustine, Brianna Waters) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sarah Carlson) Minnesota U (Nicholas J. Rezmerski) Missouri U at Kansas City (Anthony Walsh) New Mexico State U (John F. Kennedy) Ohio State University Oregon U (Selena Brewington) Pennsylvania State (Daniel Smith) Puget Sound U at Tacoma, Washington (Nancy Richardson) Queens U, Ontario, Canada (Jascha Jabes) State University of NY at Albany (Carrie Fowler) State University of NY at Buffalo (Etienne Rios) Stony Brook U (Vincent Bruzzese) Tel Aviv U, Israel (Amnon Eden) Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Tim Law) Tennessee U at Martin (Jason Tippitt) Texas U at Austin (Michael Lowry) University College, Los Angeles (Vagan Karayan) University of Buffalo Webster (John Muhrer) Western Washington U (John Simons) Wisconsin U (Peter Braun, Eric Shook) Yale University

They issued “A Declaration of Necessity,” calling attention to an increasing opposition to freethought and working toward the establishing on campuses skeptical, secular, and freethinking organizations. In 1998 they issued a “Bill of Rights for Unbelievers.” Officers as of the summer of 1998 were as follows:

• Derek Carl Araujo, President (Harvard)—following his graduation in 1999, Amanda Chesworth became President: • Daniel Farkas, Vice President (Yale) • Deidre Conn, Secretary (Marshall) • August Brunsman, Treasurer (Ohio State) • David Schummer, Press Coordinator (SUNY Buffalo) • Adam Butler (Alabama at Birmingham), Pearl Chan (Harvard); Chris Mooney (Yale); Bill Bishop (Florida); Paula Duckhorn (College of Lake Country)—Executive Council

(See complete list of groups and officers.) (See entry for Bill of Rights for Unbelievers.) {International Humanist News, December 1996}