17 November 2006 To: UCSD Christian SOLO Organizations Asian American Christian Fellowship, aacf.ucsd@gmail.com Campus Crusade for Christ, aHeim@ucsd.edu Chinese Christian Fellowship @ UCSD, ccf@ucsd.edu Christians at UCSD, contactus@christiansatucsd.org, Evangelical Chinese Christian Fellowship, eccf.ucsd@gmail.com Graduate Christian Fellowship, gcf@ucsd.edu Harvest Christian Fellowship, j9Chan@ucsd.edu Interpraise Christian Network, IPCN.UCSD@gmail.com International Christian Fellowship-West, ism@ucsdiv.org Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship, teGrubb22@gmail.com Kairos Christian Fellowship, ramsin@ucsd.edu Korea CCC, rPaik@ucsd.edu, Korean American Campus Mission, p5kim@ucsd.edu Kyrie Eleison, ucsdkyrie@gmail.com Living Stone Chinese Christian Fellowship, bolsdcc@yahoo.com Orthodox Christian Fellowship, mCrawford@salk.edu The Navigator, j7chu@ucsd.edu University Lutheran Community, bAtchison@gmail.com Re: Invitation to Join the "Yes, Virginia" Editorial Contest We in the SOLO group AdultThought@UCSD believe it is important for students to contemplate and discuss the fundamental questions of what is real and what is fantasy, as well as what is childish and what is adult. To this end, we are sponsoring a UCSD-wide editorial contest, challenging students to re-write Francis Church's famous 1-page editorial of 1897, "Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus". From our perspective, this editorial presents a social deception which is inimical to modern society; but making it "better" takes a lot of thinking. AdultThought will be choosing six editorials for $1000 in prizes, based on the humanist values of honesty, rationality, compassion, and responsibility. We invite your organization(s) to join this discussion, by sponsoring and judging essays based on the values important to the Christian community. With a (tentative) contest end-date of 5 January 2007, there is ample time to expand the prizes, submission details, and judging criteria. The editorials selected by both groups would be posted side-by-side on our (and hopefully your) Web sites, to stimulate further student discussions. We hope that some of you have the resources to support this discussion, and we look forward to your considered response. Jason Jones Alejandro Diaz C. Fred Driscoll Member Member Faculty Advisor e-Mail: Virginia atSign AdultThought.ucsd.edu