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Yesterday was our 2008 AGM and as a result we have a new committee. Congratulations to everyone who got elected, details will be posted on the website soon.

Our new executive committee is composed of Norman as president, Nicola as secretary and Charlie as treasurer.

The nominations of the 2008 Riley Awards have been announced and A-Soc has been shortlisted for the best publicity award.

Unfortunately the union has decided not to shortlist us for best new society or indeed any other category despite the fact we are clearly the best society around but that is how it goes :P.

Head over to the homepage of BBC Leeds and you will currently find a feature on the society. El presidente Chris Worfolk was down there chatting to them yesterday.

Next Tuesday there is an interesting talk happening at Leeds University which you may want to check out.

Professor Slavoj Zizek will be talking about his latest book "The (Mis)uses of Violence). Full details can be found here.

First of all the provisional timetable for Rationalist Week 2008 is now online! This will probably change a bit as we haven't got into the full swing of planning meetings with the whole society yet but we have a complete timetable provisionally (not all of it has been announced yet).

Along those lines, our first guest speaker, Mike Lake has now be confirmed. Anyone who was here last year will remember Mike gave a fantastic talk back in April so it's great news he has agreed to come up once more.

More details will hopefully be coming soon. We will be having a meeting before the end of term for people wanting to get involved and if anyone is around over Easter there will be some planning meetings too.

Nominations for the union's society awards, The Rileys, are now open. So if you think A-Soc should be nominated head over to the union's website and fill the form out.

Norm's talk on social evolution is now available as a video for the people that missed the talk - head over to the videos section of the website to watch.

I'm pleased to announce the date for Rationalist Week 2008 has now been set - 14 April to 18 April which is the first week back after Easter! It should be another amazing week and a fantastic opportunity to get involved with the society.

Don't forget guys - today is Darwin Day! We will be outside the union pretty much all day talking to people, handing out information and selling cakes too. With a talk on at 1pm and 7pm you have no excuse not to turn up :p.

First of all next week is Why Jesus? Week which is the re-named Mission Week for the Christian Union. Carl tells me there will be events going it all times of the day with Club Mission running through the night on Tuesday and Friday.

Secondly, the week starting February 18th is Discover Islam week. I don't have any information on this year's event yet but it will no doubt feature a selection of events each evening.

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