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Sex Signals: The Real Life, Funny, Sort-of-Improv Show about Sex and Other Stuff
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Blending a unique combination of improvisational comedy, education, and audience participation, Sex Signals provides a provocative, in-your-face look at issues surrounding dating, sex, and date rape on college campuses. Through the use of humor, the show explores how mixed messages, gender role stereotypes, and unrealistic fantasies contribute to misunderstandings between the sexes. Students are thus engaged in a candid discussion on dating and the realities of date rape as they are challenged to provide solutions that will better improve communications in interpersonal relationships. All of the performers have extensive training in interactive theater and sexual assault education.

The Deviants - Sketch Comedy
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Admission Free - The Deviants are a group of six dangerous L.A. talents who spew their experiment in comedy with a mix of punk rock ferocity and Nancy Sinatra conceit. Produced by Maverick Television and Joe Forristal (Kids in the Hall) and directed by Patrick Bristow (Ellen, Curb Your Enthusiasm), the Deviants chew through current events and social taboos with panache, always on the wrong side of right. Their original characters and biting impressions include Chloe Sevigny, George W. Bush, Paris Hilton and That Gay Ghost. The Deviants are Brian Clark (That Gay Ghost), Drew Droege (Reno 911 and Campus Ladies), Tanya McClure (Pussytag), Nicol Paone (Punk'd and The Big Gay Sketch Show), Carrie Seim (Seven Deadly Hollywood Sins) and Michael Serrato (The Big Gay Sketch Show).

From Iowa to Hollywood: Comedy Writing, Performing and Promotion - A Panel Discussion with Carrie Seim and the Deviants
4:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Carrie Seim will discuss her path from "Grandma Mojo's Moonshine Revival" on the stage of the Maintenance Shop at Iowa State to Hollywood and her comedy career. Her fellow sketch comedians and Deviants will offer helpful suggestions and fill in embarrassing details she may leave out. The other Deviants are Brian Clark (That Gay Ghost), Drew Droege (Reno 911 and Campus Ladies), Tanya McClure (Pussytag), Nicol Paone (Punk'd and The Big Gay Sketch Show), and Michael Serrato (The Big Gay Sketch Show).

An Evening with Terry Gross
8:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium, ISU Center -- Free Admission - Terry Gross is the host of Fresh Air, National Public Radio's weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, where her interviews are heard by more than 4.7 million people on more than 450 public radio stations. Her guests have included many of the most celebrated artists, writers, actors, and musicians of our time, such as Philip Roth, James Brown, John Travolta, Sonny Rollins, and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. She is known for her thoughtful, probing interview style. In her trusted company, even the most reticent guest relaxes and reflects on his or her life and work. But Gross doesn't shy away from controversy or asking challenging questions. That's why Bill O'Reilly terminated his interview with her. Her interview with Gene Simmons of Kiss inspired Entertainment Weekly to name Simmons "Crackpot of the Year - Male." Part of the National Affairs series.

The Preservation and Laundering of Native Languages - Albert White Hat
8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Albert White Hat is a Traditional Chief of the Sicangu Lakota Nation and director of the Lakota Language Program at Sinte Gleska University, located on the Rosebud Reservation in Mission, South Dakota. He is the author of Reading and Writing the Lakota Language. White Hat has been the president of the Sinte Gleska University Board of Directors and a Rosebud Tribal Representative. The 2007 Richard Thompson Memorial Lecture.

Painting with Indigenous Words and Music - Michael Jacobs
8:00 PM – College of Design Atrium - Michael Jacobs is a member of the Oklahoma Western Band Cherokee Nation. His debut solo CD, Sacred Nation, received the 2003 Native American Music Award for Best Independent Recording. His follow-up CD, They Come Dancing, was nominated in 2004. The Journey, Jacobs's newest CD, includes material ranging from upbeat anthems to tender ballads and flute music. Jacobs is a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. He lives in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives - Frank Warren
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Frank Warren started PostSecret as a community art project in October 2004. Since then Warren has received over 50,000 secrets mailed to him on decorated postcards that are sent anonymously. Individuals are encouraged to send secrets that reveal anything - as long as it is true and he or she has never shared it with anyone before. Warren shares the postcards he receives on his blog, www.postsecret.blogspot.com. The postcards have also been featured in galleries, a traveling art exhibit, the popular music video for the All-American Rejects' "Dirty Little Secret," and, most recently, in Warren's books PostSecret, My Secret, and, most recently, The Secret Lives of Men and Women. A portion of the proceeds from the books support 1-800-SUICIDE, a national suicide hotline. Warren's website has earned several awards and continues to attract over 3 million visitors a month. At the lecture, Warren will share never before seen postcards.

From Wilderness to Wal-Mart: The Evolution of Conservation Philosophy and Practice - John Wiens
7:30 PM – 1414 Molecular Biology Auditorium - John Wiens is the Nature Conservancy Chief Scientist. He is responsible for developing and helping to implement science-based conservation throughout the Nature Conservancy and for forging new linkages with partners. Wiens has degrees from the University of Oklahoma and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was on the faculty of Oregon State University and, subsequently, the University of New Mexico and Colorado State University, where he was a professor of ecology and University Distinguished Professor. His work has emphasized landscape ecology and the ecology of birds and insects in arid environments on several continents. He has authored or edited six books, including Issues and Perspectives in Landscape Ecology (2005, edited with M. Moss) and some 200 scientific papers. The 2007 Paul Errington Lecture.

Turning on the Mind: French Philosophers on Television - Tamara Matheson
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Tamara Matheson is an assistant professor of modern European history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of modern France, the history of gender and sexuality, and the history of the media. She is particularly interested in the influence of mass media and globalization on the construction of national identities. Matheson is the author of Turning on the Mind: French Philosophers on Television, in which she examines the role television has played in constructing the image of the "intellectual" and defining that image as one central to French national identity.

The ONE Campaign: Get Involved in the Fight against Global Poverty and AIDS - Mike Batell
6:00 PM – 3534 Memorial Union - The national ONE campaign believes that allocating an additional ONE percent of the U.S. budget would transform the futures and hopes of an entire generation in the world's poorest countries. It is an effort to rally Americans -- ONE by ONE -- to fight global AIDS and extreme poverty. The ONE campaign brings together a diverse coalition of faith-based and antipoverty groups, including Bread for the World; celebrity spokespeople, such as U2 lead singer Bono; as well as corporate partnerships and local ONE Campaign organizers. The Bread for the World Institute, a ONE campaign affiliate, seeks justice for hungry people through research and education on hunger and development. Mike Batell, the Upper Midwest Regional Outreach Organizer for Bread for the World, will discuss volunteer and service opportunities available to students.