The unrelenting sun pelted down on the students participating in the Multi-cultural Festival on the Southwest Terrace of the University Student Union held May 8.
From 12:00 to 3:00, a small number of students visited the festival. Those who braved the heat were treated with a variety of free food which consisted of several different ethic recipes, including Hawaiian pork and chicken dishes.
Brandy Bandrauk, 20, recreation and leisure major, provided entertainment for the sparse amount of students huddled under the blue umbrellas of the tables. Clad in full Tahitian attire, which included a coconut shell bikini top, Bandrauk performed the gyrating hip motions of the classic Tahitian style dancing.
“I think the performance went really well,” said Bandrauk, “but it’s just really hot outside and since I’m barefoot, I think I burned the bottom of my feet on stage!”
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Friday, May 4, 2007
Long Beach Secular Students Bring the "eBay Atheist" to school
The newly formed Long Beach Secular Students held a special speaker event May 3.
Self proclaimed "friendly atheist" Hemant Mehta spoke to an audience of a little over twenty about the controversy surrounding his ebay auction where he "sold his soul" for $504, and also to promote his new book I Sold My Soul on Ebay : Viewing Faith Through an Atheist's Eyes.
A section of the book Religion on Campus, depicts Mehta’s experience prior to the auction at the University of Illinios (UIC) at Chicago, where he was a student at the time. In it, Mehta writes about the difficulty he had finding secular students like himself on campus.
“It turned out UIC had not a single atheist club, but it had 27 religious groups! And most of them were Christian.” Mehta wrote. “I was stunned.”
This lack of secular student clubs is also present at CSULB. There are twenty-three religious clubs on campus, none of which are secular, or of a non-spiritual nature.
However, Sean Bernhoft, 20, a CSULB history major, is the president of the newly forming Long Beach Secular Students.
“There needs to be a secular club because there wasn’t really any social environment for atheist, agnostics, and skeptics on campus.” said Bernhoft. “We want to meet people with similar opinions and we thought the best way to do so would be to take initiative and start the group.”
For more information on Mehta’s religious experience, check out his blog at friendlyatheist.com
Self proclaimed "friendly atheist" Hemant Mehta spoke to an audience of a little over twenty about the controversy surrounding his ebay auction where he "sold his soul" for $504, and also to promote his new book I Sold My Soul on Ebay : Viewing Faith Through an Atheist's Eyes.
A section of the book Religion on Campus, depicts Mehta’s experience prior to the auction at the University of Illinios (UIC) at Chicago, where he was a student at the time. In it, Mehta writes about the difficulty he had finding secular students like himself on campus.
“It turned out UIC had not a single atheist club, but it had 27 religious groups! And most of them were Christian.” Mehta wrote. “I was stunned.”
This lack of secular student clubs is also present at CSULB. There are twenty-three religious clubs on campus, none of which are secular, or of a non-spiritual nature.
However, Sean Bernhoft, 20, a CSULB history major, is the president of the newly forming Long Beach Secular Students.
“There needs to be a secular club because there wasn’t really any social environment for atheist, agnostics, and skeptics on campus.” said Bernhoft. “We want to meet people with similar opinions and we thought the best way to do so would be to take initiative and start the group.”
For more information on Mehta’s religious experience, check out his blog at friendlyatheist.com
*** Media Credit: Long Beach Secular Students posing with Mehta from the event. Taken from friendlyatheist.com.
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