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Access to Education Denied: Are Iowa Public Universities Excluding Low-Income Students? Thomas Mortenson
8:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Thomas Mortenson is Senior Scholar at the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education in Washington DC and an independent higher education policy analyst living in Oskaloosa, Iowa. He is editor and publisher of Postsecondary Education OPPORTUNITY, a monthly research letter devoted to analysis and reporting on the demographics, sociology, history, politics and economics of educational opportunity after high school. He provides consulting services on higher educational opportunity policy to state and national organizations and makes presentations on opportunity throughout the country.

Banned Book Jeopardy!
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Join a Banned Book Week battle between two teams of literary mavens as they attempt to answer questions about banned books and their authors. Panelists include Ames Tribune editor Alexandra Hayne, Memorial Union Director Richard Reynolds, director of University Library Special Collections Tanya Zanish-Belcher, Greenlee School of Journalism faculty member Barbara Mack, Mary Greeley Medical Center physician Tim Leeds, and English assistant professor Ben Percy. Ames Tribune reviewer Steve Sullivan will emcee. Questions developed by Iowa State's very own $10,000 Pyramid winner, Fern Kupfer, associate professor of English. Banned books will be on display and available for purchase.

Live Webcast: The World Before Darwin - Everett Mendelsohn,
7:00 PM – E164 Lagomarcino - A live webcast of a lecture by Everett Mendelsohn, Harvard University. A celebration of the 150th anniversary of Darwin's "Origin of the Species."

The Battle for Whiteclay: A Documentary and Panel Discussion
7:00 PM – Cardinal Room, Memorial Union - The State of Nebraska's refusal to halt alcohol sales to the dry Pine Ridge Indian Reservation from its border town of Whiteclay gets an in-depth look in this new documentary. Four off-sale beer stores in this 14-person hamlet sell over 11,000 cans of beer a day to an Indian clientele with virtually no legal place to drink it. Struggling with crippling poverty and epidemic alcohol abuse that afflicts four out of five families, the Oglala Sioux Tribe has for decades banned the sale and possession of alcohol on their reservation. The Battle for Whiteclay follows Indian activists Frank LaMere, Duane Martin Sr. and Russell Means through the streets of Whiteclay to the halls of Nebraska's State Capitol in their efforts to end alcohol sales in the place many have dubbed "skid row on the prairie." A panel discussion will follow the showing of this documentary with the director-producer Mark Vasina and Frank LaMere, one of the orchestrators of the movement and a member of the Winnebago tribe of Nebraska.

The Difficulty of Dating in a Hook-up Culture - Christine Whelan
8:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Christine Whelan is a professor, journalist and author of Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women and Marry Smart: The Intelligent Woman's Guide to True Love. She also writes a bi-weekly relationship advice column for BustedHalo. Whelan is a visiting assistant professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Iowa. She earned a master's and doctorate from the University of Oxford and has held teaching positions at Princeton University in the Sociology and Politics Departments. Whelan will discuss changing dating and marriage patterns in the United States and explore the myth of soul mates and talk about the implications of the hookup culture for young adults. Msgr. James A. Supple Lecture.

Numbers in the Court of Law - Panel Discussion
7:30 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - This panel concludes the daylong event "Should We Trust the Numbers? A Workshop on Philosophy, Mathematics and Statistics in the Court of Law," which brings together multiple perspectives on the question of whether we can, or should, count on numbers in a court of law. Iowa State faculty Alicia Carriquiry, Statistics, and Kevin de Laplante, Philosophy, will join guest speakers Susan Haack and Joseph Kadane. Wolfgang Kliemann, chair of Mathematics, will moderate. Susan Haack is a noted expert on the philosophy of mathematics and the use of numbers. She is the Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences and a professor of philosophy and law at the University of Miami. Joseph Kadane is an authority on legal statistics and the Leonard J. Savage University Professor of Statistics, Emeritus, at Carnegie Mellon University. Part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 50th Anniversary Celebration.

Health Care Reform - A Faculty Forum
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Iowa State faculty will share their research contributing to the current debate on health care reform. Participants include associate scientist in Economics Liesl Eathington, author of a recent report on the uninsured; economist Mark Imerman with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, who has conducted research on nursing labor markets and patient hospital choices; and marketing professor Doug Walker, who has researched the impact of pharmaceutical advertising. They will be joined by Dr. Michael Kitchell, McFarland Clinic physician and president of the Iowa Medical Society, who has testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health. Dianne Bystrom, director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics will moderate the discussion, with opening remarks on the role of political rhetoric in this process. Part of the Faculty Forum Series.

Your Global Mortgage - James Bernard
6:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - James Bernard, Jr. is general manager of MarketWatch.com, where he is responsible for driving product development and innovation, design, operations, and general management of the web business. It is part of the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, the digital arm of Dow Jones's consumer media division. Part of the Globalization, Technology, and Culture Series.

COMEDY with Wyatt Cenac from THE DAILY SHOW
8:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium - Admission Free - Doors open at 7 p.m. - Wyatt Cenac joined Comedy Central's The Daily Show in 2008 and has been "reporting" on the presidential election, the economy, and black people's popularity among white supremacists ever since. He honed his talents performing stand-up, improv and sketch comedy at the Los Angeles Upright Citizens Brigade. He spent three seasons writing and contributing voice-over work for King of the Hill, and his movie credits include Medicine for Melancholy.

Destination Iowa State Presents the Comedy of Jeff Dye
9:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium - Jeff Dye finished third in the last season of NBC's Last Comic Standing, and has opened for Shawn Wayans, Greg Giraldo, Jim Norton, Bill Burr, among others.