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Cultural Madness Comedy Jam and Afro-Cuban Salsa with Son de la Habana
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Admission Free - Latino Heritage Month opens with the music of Son de la Habana, a 7-piece Afro-Cuban band, following stand up comedy performances from the Cultural Madness Comedy Jam with Frank Townsend, Sean Flannery, Sapna Kumar and Patti Vasquez.

Legislative Forum for ISU Students - Beth Wessel-Kroeschell, Lisa Heddens and Jim Kurtenbach
12:00 PM – Pine Room, Memorial Union - State Representatives Beth Wessel-Kroeschell, Lisa Heddens and Jim Kurtenbach will be discussing effective methods of lobbying and the Partnership for Transformation and Excellence. Following the panel presentation, there will be a question and answer period with students who are encouraged to bring their lunch and join the discussion. Hosted by GSB.

America's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Will a Tradition of Protection Soon Be Lost? - Lois Norrgard
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Upcoming votes in both houses of Congress this fall threaten the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.This presentation will discuss the place, the wildlife, the Gwich'in native community who lives there, as well as information on oil and drilling alternatives that provide solutions to energy independence.

The Constitution in a Time of Terror - Paul Finkelman
8:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Paul Finkelman is the Constitution Day Lecture. He is the Chapman Distinguished Professor of Law University of Tulsa College of Law, and a specialist in American legal history, race and the law, and first amendment issues. He is the author or editor of numerous articles and books, including A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States, Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson, Baseball and the American Legal Mind, and American Legal History: Cases and Materials. He gave expert testimony in the original case involving the monument to the Ten Commandments, and was part of the amicus brief before the Supreme Court. Prior to joining the College of Law faculty in 1999, he was the John F. Seiberling Professor of Law at the University of Akron Law School. He was also a Fellow in Law and the Humanities at Harvard Law School and received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Chicago.

Banned Book Week: When Real Life Fiction Meets the Censor - Chris Crutcher
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Chris Crutcher writes about controversial issues - bigotry, abuse, teen sexuality - and feature strong language, which has gotten all nine of his books banned or censored somewhere. These include: Stotan!, Chinese Handcuffs, The Crazy Horse Electric Game, The Deep End, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Ironman, Whale Talkand The Sledding Hill, as well as a collection of short stories -- Athletic Shorts-- and his autobiography, King of the Mild Frontier. His column appears in Voices from the Middle, Family Energy Magazine, the Signal Journal, and iParenting.

An Evening of Spoken Word - Henry Rollins
8:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium -- FREE ADMISSION - Henry Rollins is a post-punk renaissance man. In addition to making albums with the Rollins Band, he writes books and poetry, performs spoken-word tours, and appears in movies and on television. He has always kept his artistic integrity, becoming a kind of father figure for many alternative bands on the strength of albums like 1992's The End of Silence, 1994's Weight and1997's Come In and Burn. He won a Grammy Award for his spoken word performance.

Where Is Creativity? - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities presents Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of FIow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience and Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life and the C.S. and D.J Davidson Professor of Psychology at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate College.

The End of Oil - Alternatives for the Future - Paul Roberts
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Paul Roberts is the author of the critically acclaimed The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World. He is a journalist who contributes regularly to Harper's Magazine and The Los Angeles Times, and has covered the timber industry, the auto industry, and the evolving world of energy. He has also written for The New Republic, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and Outside magazine, and was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. He was recently named a finalist for the 2005 New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism.

KIP and PEDRO! - An Evening with the Stars of Napoleon Dynamite - Aaron Ruell and Efren Ramirez
8:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium - FREE ADMISSION - NO TICKETS REQUIRED - Aaron Ruell and Efren Ramirez will talk about their experiences making the film, and answer audience questions. Aaron will show some of his behind the scenes Napoleon Dynamite clips and still photographs. They will sign autographs after the show. DOORS OPEN AT 7 P.M.

A Peculiar People Revisited: - Demographic Foundations of the Iowa Amish in the 21st Century - Elizabeth Cooksey
3:30 PM – Gold Room, Memorial Union: - Elizabeth Cooksey is an expert in the area of adolescent fertility patterns and has been active in the development of a highly regarded National Longitudinal Study of Youth). She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Ohio State University. Dr. Cooksey holds degrees from Oxford University and Brown University where she received her Ph.D. in 1988. This lecture is sponsored by the College of Consumer and Family Sciences, the Miller Endowment Fund, the Institute for Social and Behavioral Research, and the Department of Sociology.