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What Will it Take to Make the Future Sustainable? - Frances Moore Lappe and Joel Kovel
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Frances Moore Lappe, author of Scarcity Myths: The Power of Ideas to Shape the World We Want, is the co-founder of two national organizations focused on food and the roots of democracy. The Institute for Food and Development Policy (known as Food First), is action-based non-profit organization dealing with the causes of and solutions for world hunger. She later co-founded the Center for Living Democracy, a ten-year initiative that inspires and prepares people to make democracy a rewarding, practical, everyday approach to solving society's problems. Her other books include Diet for a Small Planet, and Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet. Joel Kovel is Professor of Social Studies at Bard College and author of many books including White Racism, which was nominated for a National Book Award in 1972; A Complete Guide to Therapy; The Age of Desire; Against the State of Nuclear Terror; and The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or The End of the World.

Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series - President Gregory Geoffroy
6:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Gregory L. Geoffroy became president of Iowa State University in 2001, where he is also professor of chemistry. He began his academic career at the Pennsylvania State University in 1974, and was appointed head of the Department of Chemistry in 1988 and dean of the Eberly College of Science at Penn State in 1989. Geoffroy was appointed senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1997, where he also served as interim president for two months in 1998. Geoffroy is a nationally acclaimed researcher in organometallic chemistry, having published more than 200 research articles and has presented more than 200 invited lectures in the United States and nine other nations. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture Series.

Being Asian American - Gil Asakawa
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Gil Asakawa is executive producer for DenverPost.com. Under his leadership, the Web site has expanded to include blogs, audio and video podcasts, multimedia and flash content, games and RSS feeds. In 2005, DenverPost.com launched News Hound, a custom-branded RSS reader with a simple user interface so non-technical users can take advantage of RSS feeds. Gil has a BFA in fine arts, and began his journalism career as a music editor for an alternative weekly. He was a rock critic for 15 years and daily newspaper entertainment editor before falling in love with the Internet. He has written freelance pieces for Rolling Stone and other publications, and is the author of "Being Japanese American" (Stone Bridge Press, 2004) and co-author of "The Toy Book" (Knopf, 1990).

HAPPY HOUR COMEDY - Bernie McGrenahan
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Bernie McGrenahan provides thirty minutes of stand up comedy before tackling the number one substance abuse crisis on campuses today. Whether we call it "high risk", excessive, of "binge" drinking, the problem is claiming the lives of students across America, and McGrenahan motivates and inspires students to "be responsible". His stand up comedy warms the crowd. His powerful message to follow includes the alcohol and drug related suicide of his nineteen-year-old brother, and Bernie's six-month incarceration from three DUI convictions.

An Untouchable Cries Out: The Dalit Art of Savi Savarkar - Gary Tartakov
7:00 PM – 181 Design College Gallery - Gary Tartakov, ISU art historian, discusses the work of Savi Savarkar. In India, Dalits or "untouchables" make up 17 per cent of the population and occupy a social and economic place at the bottom of the India's notorious caste system, comparable to the situation of African Americans in the United States. Savi Savarkar is the rare case of a gallery artist with a national and international reputation built upon a critique of the caste system. Viewing his art, even in the United States brings up difficult and even painful questions of intercultural and international communication and understanding. An exhibition of Savi Savarkar works will run from April 14-22 in181 Design College Gallery .

Legislative Student Forum
12:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - The Government of the Student Body is hosting a legislative forum with the Story County legislators, providing students with an opportunity to meet with legislators and discuss issues important to students. Lunch will be provided for ISU students.

Naming God, Naming the Infinite: Religious Mysticism and Mathematics in France and Russia, 1890-1930 - Loren R. Graham
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - is Professor of the History of Science in the Program of Science, Technology and Society at MIT. Professor Graham specializes in the history of science and the study of contemporary science and technology in Russia. His recent publications include Science and the Soviet Social Order (1990), Science, Philosophy and Human Behavior in the Soviet Union (1987), Science in Russia and the Soviet Union: A Short History (1993), The Ghost of the Executed Engineer (1993); A Face in the Rock (1995); and What Have We Learned About Science and Technology from the Russian Experience? (1998). This is part of the History of Technology and Science Series.

Can I Kiss You? - Mike Domitrz
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - For over 15 years, Mike Domitrz has been inspiring students with his hilarious sense of humor and his truly unique approach to healthier dating and communication. As an interactive and entertaining expert on dating and intimacy, Domitrz teaches audience members how to ask for what they want sexually or intimately - without having to play any of the games. He reveals a fun and revolutionary approach to insuring each person's boundaries are respected. While he presents one of the "cleanest" shows, Mike holds nothing back. Males and females from all cultures, backgrounds, sexual orientations, and diverse populations appreciate his sincerity and honesty.

International War Crimes Tribunal in Rwanda - Stephen Rapp
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Stephen Rapp , a former U.S. attorney in Iowa, has spent the last four years rounding up and prosecuting suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide that left 800,000 dead. As chief of prosecutions for the head of the United Nations' International War Crimes Tribunal of Rwanda, he is coordinating at least 40 more trials, assisting in international efforts to find suspects hiding abroad, and teaching what he's learned practicing a largely uncharted area of international law. Part of the World Affairs series on Global Justise and Human Rights.

The Art of Scientists - Robert Root-Bernstein
7:00 PM – Kocimski Auditorium, Design College - Robert Root-Bernstein is a professor of physiology at Michigan State University and a MacArthur Award recipient. He is the author of numerous books, including Discovering: Inventing and Solving Problems at the Frontiers of Scientific Knowledge, a book about how discoveries are made in science, and Sparks of Genius: The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World's Most Creative People. He is currently working on a project titled "The Essential Connection: The Arts of Scientists." As a scientist, Root-Bernstein has over a half dozen patents. In addition to his research on molecular complementarily, autoimmunity, and AIDS, he writes on scientific creativity and art-science interactions. He has also created five works of art based on his scientific research for publication or exhibit. The Donald R. Benson Lecture in Literature, Science, and the Arts.