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Hardball with Chris Matthews Broadcast Live! Special Guest Senator John McCain
4:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium, ISU Center - Doors open at 3 p.m. - ADMISSION FREE - Chris Matthews hosts "Hardball" Monday through Friday on MSNBC. He is also the host of "The Chris Matthews Show," and is a regular commentator on NBC's "Today" show. Special guest: Senator John McCain, the senior senator from Arizona,and possible 2008 presidential candidate, who serves on the Armed Services, and Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committees.

The New World of Water - Margaret Catley-Carlson
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Margaret Catley-Carlson, 2006 Norman Borlaug Lecturer, is Chair of the Global Water Partnership, a network that links thousands of water management professionals around the world. She is also Chair of the Water Policy Advisory Committee of Suez Lyonnaise and the Center for Agriculture and Bioscience International. Her 35-year career in economic development has included terms as President of the Canadian International Development Agency, Deputy Director of UNICEF, and Chair of the Geneva-based Water Supply Sanitation Collaborative Council. She is the former President of the Population Council, a nonprofit, nongovernmental research organization established in 1952. Prior to joining the Council, she was Deputy Minister of Health and Welfare Canada, President of the Canadian International Development Agency, and Deputy Executive Director (Operations) of UNICEF. Annual Norman Borlaug Lecture. Prior to the Lecture, there will be a reception and student poster display from 7 to 8 p.m. in the South Ballroom of the Memorial Union.

Both Sides Now: Misguided Attacks on Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis - Adam Finkel
8:00 PM – Gallery Room, Memorial Union - Adam M. Finkel is Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the University of Medicine and Dentistry, and Visiting Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. From 2000 to 2003, Dr. Finkel was Regional Administrator for the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in Denver, Colorado, responsible for regulatory enforcement, compliance assistance, and outreach activities in Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming.Part of the a Sigma Xi Lecture Series.

Coalition-Building and US National Security Policy: A Military Perspective - Col. Evelio Otero
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Col. Evelio Otero is the Chief for the Sovereign Nation Engagement Plan for Special Operations Command. He was previously assigned to US Central Command as an Intelligence Operations Branch Chief, then served as Intelligence Operations Division Chief-Forward, and, finally, Chief of Coalition Intelligence for planning of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was deployed for 18 months to Afghanistan and Iraq as a member of General Franks staff, and will be able to provide accounts of war planning from the perspective of an operations Division Chief at the Combatant Command level two layers removed from the President. He graduated from Iowa State in 1982 and attended Air War College. Part of the World Affairs Series

Campaign 2006 - Congressman Tom Latham
4:00 PM – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Tom Latham has served in the United States House of Representatives since 1995. He is the only Iowan on the House Appropriations Committee. He sits on the Appropriations Subcommittees for Homeland Security, Agriculture, and Energy and Water, and on several Congressional Task Forces, including the Speaker's Task Force for a Drug-Free America, the House Prescription Drug Action Leadership Team, and the Congressional Task Force for Affordable Natural Gas. He is one of the owners of Latham Seeds, a soybean facility founded by his father.

IN GOOD CONSCIENCE - A film
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - The film chronicles the true story of Sister Jeannine Gramick, who is defying a Vatican edict that she shut down her compassionate ministry to gay and lesbian Catholics, and silence herself permanently on the subject of homosexuality. Her battle takes her all the way to Rome where she attempts an audience with her key adversary over the years - none other than Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger - the Inquisitor who would become Pope Benedict XVI. A panel discussion will follow.

Guantanamo and the Constitution: The Role of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Global War on Terror - Neal Katyal
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Neal Katyal, a Professor at Georgetown University Law School, challenged the policy of military trials at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba. On June 29, 2006, the Supreme Court sided with him by a 5-3 vote, finding that President Bush's tribunals violated the constitutional separation of powers, domestic military law, and international law. Katyal has represented uniformed men and women in the Armed Services who challenged the Guantanamo policy. An expert in national security law, the American Constitution, the Geneva Conventions, and the role of the President and Congress post 9-11, Katyal forged a worldwide coalition of support for his challenge to the Guantanamo policy, including 422 members of the European and British Parliaments and several former Generals and Admirals of the United States Armed Forces, all of whom have publicly supported his work. An expert in matters of constitutional law, particularly the role of the President and Congress in time of war and theories of constitutional interpretation, Katyal has embraced his theoretical work as the platform for practical consequences in the federal courts.Katyal clerked for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer as well as Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals. He attended Dartmouth College and Yale Law School. Part of the National Affairs Series and the 2006 Constitution Day Lecturer

Political Action Week - The Student Struggle: Are we second class citizens?
11:00 AM – Central Campus until 2 p.m. - City Council Members Ryan Doll and Dan Rice, Vice President Tom Hill, Ames Police Chief Loras Jaeger, YSS Director George Belitsos, and Story County Board of Supervisors Don Toms will address student concerns around affordable rental housing, minimum age for bar admittance, Ames Police party patrol, tuition increases. Nourishment for mind and stomach provided - FREE daily meals.

Space, Time, and Storytelling in the Making of an American Place - William Cronon
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - William Cronon is the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England and Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West; and edited Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past; and Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature.Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities series on Places, Peoples, and Spatial Practices.

Political Action Week - Flowers or Freeways?
11:00 AM – Central Campus until 2 p.m. - Candidates for Secretary of Agriculture Democrat Denise Obrien and Republican Bill Northey,along with City Council candidates Jami Larson and Erv Klaas, will address topics including global warming, energy policies, urban sprawl, development policies, and agriculture policies. Nourishment for mind and stomach provided - FREE daily meals.