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How to Make Your Vote Count - Ben Cohen
8:00 PM – Sun Room/South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Ben Cohen, cofounder of Ben and Jerry's, is a partner in the team that built that store-front venture into an ice cream empire with $200 million in annual sales while demonstrating a commitment to social responsibility. With Jerry, he captured this business philosophy in a book titled Ben & Jerry's Double-Dip: Lead with Your Values and Make Money, Too. Ben also founded the Priorities! Campaign, whose 700 business executives and 500,000 grassroots activists are providing a positive vision for America. Its local project, Iowans for Sensible Priorities, is on the ground now through 2012 to force presidential candidates to tell voters how they would divide up the federal budget pie. Join us for FREE Ben and Jerry's ice cream!

Iraq, Iran, and the Fight against Terrorists: Where Do We Go from Here? - Trudy Rubin
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Trudy Rubin writes the Worldview column for the Philadelphia Inquirer on Wednesdays and Sundays. Her new book, Willful Blindness, The Bush Administration and Iraq, describes how the administration got us into Iraq and the prospects for getting out. This book of Rubin's columns from July 2002 to June 2004 draws on her extensive experience in the Middle East, four lengthy trips to Iraq, and her close contacts with Iraqi officials, clerics and ordinary people. In Willful Blindness, she simplifies a complex story and lays out the steps necessary to stabilize Iraq. Part of the World Affairs Series.

Rethinking America's Future Security - Senator Joseph Biden
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Joseph R. Biden was first elected to the U.S. Senate from Delaware in 1972 and serves as the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The 2006 Manatt Phelps Lecture in Political Science.

A Campus Divided? ISU College Republicans and ISU Democrats: A Debate
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - This debate between ISU Democrats and ISU College Republicans will cover candidates and issues in Campaign 2006. There will be opportunities for questions from the audience.

Spirit and Food - Mary Swander
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Mary Swander, a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, has been with the Iowa State University Department of English since 1986. Her most recent memoir, The Desert Pilgrim: En Route to Mysticism and Miracles (2003) was a Barnes and Noble "Discover Great New Writers" selection. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities series on Places, Peoples, and Spatial Practices.

Planning for a Sustainable Campus - A Webcast
11:30 AM – Cardinal Room, Memorial Union - As part of the observance of Campus Sustainability Day, the ISU Council on Sustainability will host a webcast entitled "Where is Your Campus on the Continuum of Integrated Sustainability Planning?" The webcast will feature four case studies from different American universities, including Arizona State and Harvard.

Meeting the Challenge of Implementing a Quality Rating System: Improving Child Care Quality through Policy and Research - Dr. Thelma Harms
7:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Dr. Thelma Harms (Graham Institute, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) is the 2006 Barbara E. (Mound) Hansen Early Childhood Lecturer in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies. She will discuss how the Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale and state policies affect child care and education.

Peace in Sudan? One Year After the Death of John Garang - Brian D'Silva
8:00 PM – Gerdin Auditorium - Brian D'Silva's involvement in Sudan has covered more then 25 years. He first met Dr. John Garang DeMabior when they were both graduate students in Agricultural Economics study with Prof. John Timmons at Iowa State. Later, during his tenure as Ford Foundation Visiting Professor at the University of Khartoum, he and Dr. Garang taught together until Dr. Garang left Khartoum in 1983 to start the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army ( SPLM/A). Brian worked in Sudan from 1987-90 with the USAID Mission in Khartoum, and on issues related to Southern Sudan while being based in Nairobi, Kenya. Since 2000, he has continued to work on Sudan from Washington, first as part of USAID's Sudan Task Force and more recently as the senior Policy Advisor on Sudan to USAID. He actively participated as part of the USG delegation that was involved in the negotiations leading to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the Government of Sudan and the SPLM/A, signed in Nairobi on January 9, 2005. He was there when Dr. Garang was sworn in as First Vice President of Sudan and President of Southern Sudan on July 9, 2005. His lecture will cover themes related to the Legacy of Dr. Garang -- the Comprehensive Peace Agreement - its implementation and prospects for Peace in Sudan. Part of the World Affairs Series.

The Crack at the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 - Simon Winchester
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Simon Winchester is the author of The Crack at the Edge of the World. In 1906, there were powerful, destructive earthquakes from Taiwan to South America. In San Francisco, a quake occurred just after five in the morning on April 18, causing fires that raged for three days, destroying much of the city. This was the world's first major natural disaster to have been extensively photographed and covered by the media, and is the subject of Simon Winchester's latest book. He is also the author of The Map that Changed the World, The Professor and the Madman, and Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883. Simon Winchester has worked as a foreign correspondent for most of his career, although he graduated from Oxford in 1966 with a degree in geology and spent a year working as a geologist in the Ruwenzori Mountains in western Uganda, and on oil rigs in the North Sea.

The Design Process, Autism and Animals - Temple Grandin
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Temple Grandin is a professor of animal science at Colorado State University. She designs humane livestock handling facilities, and has done extensive research on cattle temperament, environmental enrichment for pigs, reducing dark cutters and bruises, bull fertility, training procedures, and effective stunning methods for cattle and pigs at meat plants. She has also developed an objective scoring system for assessing handling of cattle and pigs at meat plants, which is being used by many large corporations to improve animal welfare. Her history as a person with autism has given her insights into animal thinking that ordinary people do not share. As a person with autism, she describes the unique way her visual mind works and how she first made the connection between her autism and animal temperament in her book Thinking in Pictures. InAnimals in Translation, she explores the connection between autism and animal behavior.