Students and faculty from Nicholls are working with the Secular Student Alliance to start a group for atheists, agnostics, humanists, free-thinkers and skeptics on campus.

Ory Fromenthal, freshman Morgan City, is the organizer of the group and is being supported by associate professor of biological sciences David L. Schultz. Fromenthal and Schultz hope to get about 10 students, the minimum number required for a new student organization.

The focus of the group will be to have a social community, to educate and to advocate.

"The community is for people to have intelligent conversations and to know they aren't alone in their disbelief," Fromenthal said.

He continued by saying the group is a social community minority.

"Religion is not a monopoly," Schultz said. "We use rational thinking and hope to put a positive image on negative baggage misunderstood about atheists, agnostics, humanists and free-thinkers."