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Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers - Movie
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - This is the story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporate America goes to war. Acclaimed director Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed and Uncovered) takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows, and children who have been changed forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq. Iraq for Sale uncovers the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq and the decision makers who allow them to do so. The film is 75 minutes long.

How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America - Mindy Thompson Fullilove
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, is a board-certified research psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and a professor of clinical psychiatry and public health at Columbia University. Fullilove joined the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies in 1986 and has focused on AIDS in relationship to inner city neighborhoods. Most recently, with support of a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Investigator Award, she has studied the long-term consequences of urban renewal for African American people. Her 2004 book, Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It is based on her work in NYC RECOVERS, an alliance of organizations she founded that is concerned with the social and emotional recovery of New York City in the aftermath of 9/11. Part of the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities series on Places, Peoples, and Spatial Practices.

Critical Landscapes: From Pork Barrels to Otherworldly Dumps and Gardens - Mira Engler
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Mira Engler, the Fall University Presidential Lecture and a professor of landscape architecture at Iowa State University, has written extensively on public art and marginal/waste landscapes. She designed The Otherworld Garden, an experimental garden created for the 2004 Westonbirt International Garden Festival in Gloucestershire, West England, and she is the author of Designing America's Waste Landscapes.A reception and poster display in the South Ballroom will precede the lecture from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.

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.