WORCESTER— Activist secular college students from the Boston area said here last night that campus secularism is on the rise even if most nonbelievers are unlikely to advocate against the supernatural and are unsure what to call themselves.

“If I’m in a hurry, I say I’m an atheist,” Byung Min, founder of the Secular Student Alliance at Bentley College told the Greater Worcester Humanists. “If I have some time, I say I’m a non-theist and if I have a lot of time for a long conversation I say I’m a humanist.”

That line drew hearty laughter from the 75 or so humanists at the Unitarian Universalist Church on Holden Street who heard five student secular leaders from Harvard, Tufts and Brandeis Universities and Bentley and Bates colleges discuss their organizing efforts and student reaction.