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There are only two places left for this year's trip to London in November!

If you want to join us for what promises to be the social, educational and cultural trip of the year then get in contact with Norman as soon as possible with your £70. Once the last places go that's it. Don't miss out!

Bookings are now open for London 2008, so if you want to join us for an amazing weekend then head over to the weekend away page and begin reserving your place! It really is a fantastic weekend and we're offering at half the price it would normally cost you so it's a bargain.

What a week!

As always Intro Week has lived up to its billing of high octane action, the consumption of large quantities of alcohol and the sight of campus filled with fresh faced (or not deppending on what they up to the night before) students looking to sign up for the massive variety of societies on campus.

A-Soc was one of those societies and for only our second Intro Week we managed to attract our fair share of new members. In fact we have doubled our membership since this time last year!

Well done to all those that manned the stall all week and welcome to all our new members.

Finally, just a reminder that our Intro Meeting is taking place on Tuesday 30th September at 7pm in the ARC. We will be introducing the society and our events for the coming year and it is the ideal opportunity to get that first stamp on your membership cards! Don't worry if you don't have one yet, membership is still open. Catch up with a committee member and get signed up!

The remaining updates to the website have gone live today. Most of this is backend tools to allow the committee to manage the society but we also have big changes for members too.

You can now join online and log into your members' account which gives you access to your profile and the members directory!

Today is the first day of A-Soc's new year! Our session for 2008-2009 has officially started!

So, what does this mean for you?

Well, membership is now open for returning members! All we need is your money and an update of any details - name, student number (if applicable), mobile number and email address. The committee will be armed with membership forms at meetings and socials until Intro Week which starts on 22nd September. The memebrship fee is unchanged for this year, so for the ridiculously cheap price of £5 you will have access to all the wonderful beenfits of being part of the university's only forum for rational, free thought:

- Invites to all our events, talks and debates.
- Weekly newsletter.
- Membership pack, containing information on us and everything we do as well as our famous wristband.
- Discounts on our socials.
- £10 discount on our trip to London.
- Automatic membership of the National Federation of Atheist, Humanist and Secular Student Societies.
- New for this year, a membership card that rewards you for getting your money's worth from A-Soc in the form of free drinks!

So see a committee member this Tuesday at the first social of the new year, Old Bar at 7pm!

Well, it is official!

A-Soc is the best attended society on campus. The Tuesday socials are turning out to be the highlight of many people's summer calendars. Our attendence for our weekly meet in the Terrace/Old Bar has been rising steadily all summer with numbers reaching into the twenties on some weeks.

Thanks to all our members who make the effort to come along and get involved with the society and to any one else in Leeds over the summer you should get yourselves down to Leeds University Union, 7pm every Tuesday!

Our new website has now officially launched! We're still working on it and there will be some more changes before September but for now I will talk about the changes that we have already made.

New features: we have a photo gallery! With photos from some of our best events over previous years that will bring back lots of memories for our long standing members, I know they did for me.

We also have the store launched now so if you fancy a t-shirt or hoodie then head over there.

Improved features: we've added an RSS feed for our events which you can find on our all new RSS feeds pagge which links to the new and easier, more memorable URLs.

We've rewritten the about us page and added loads of new information about the society. We've now got links going all over the place too to things such as our Facebook group and Secular Portal.

Indeed we have rewritten most of the site and updated all the page content to bring it up to date.

We're currently working on re-doing the website given that summer is upon us and we will have a fresh intake of students joining the society in September.

The new website will not really change design wise, we won't be altering the layout or design too much, we will more be playing with the content as that is the most important part after all.

The new site will focus on providing more information on what the society actually does and will feature a few more rich media sections too. We'll keep you posted on development.

We have got an exciting new course planned for next year called Perspective. Details are still being bashed out by the boffins but we will be releasing the details very soon.

Well that's it folks, term has finished and Atheist Society has officially ended for the year.

Don't worry though, we will continue to run our weekly socials in the Terrace every Tuesday from 7pm. Come along and enjoy the summer with A-Soc.

Remember summer camping is only a few weeks away now so if you fancy joining us for some outdoor fun then get in touch with Chris or Norm.

Good luck for all those getting results and have a great summer!

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