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Institute on World Affairs - What Happened on the Road to Peace? - Michael Tarazi
8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Michael Tarazi is a legal and communications advisor with the Negotiations Support Unit of the Negotiations Affairs Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization, providing legal and communications advice and assistance to the Palestinian team in peace negotiations with Israel. Prior to taking his current position, he was the European General Counsel at Euronet Services Inc. based in Budapest, Hungary. Previously, he specialized as a securities attorney and worked in New York, Helsinki and Istanbul for the law firm of White & Case, and in Paris for the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. He received undergraduate and law degreesz from Harvard University, and is a member of the New York State Bar.

Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Series - Photography: Vision, Reflection & Connection - Mary Stieglitz
7:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - 2003-2004 Distinguished Arts and Humanities Scholar Mary Stieglitz works in wide-format digital imagery on textiles and alternative surfaces and in hybrid art forms, especially those synthesizing current with traditional technologies. She is a professor of Art and Design at Iowa State University, with an undergraduate degree and doctorate from the University of Wisconsin.

Institute on National Affairs - Name the Accuser and the Accused: Reconsidering the Coverage of Rape - Geneva Overholser
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Geneva Overholser served on the editorial page at the Des Moines Register, on the editorial board of The New York Times, as editor of Des Moines Register, ombudsman at the Washington Post and a syndicated columnist with Washington Post Writers Group. The Register won the Pulitzer gold medal for public service for "It Couldn't Happen to Me," the story of one woman's experience with rape, during her tenure. She has been a regular media commentator, CJR columnist, former congressional fellow, Nieman fellow, chair of Pulitzer Prize Board and an officer of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. She is currently a trustee of Stanley Foundation, Knight fellowships at Stanford, National Press Foundation and the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowship. Overholser joined the Missouri School of Journalism in September 2000.

Personal Stories about Abortion
7:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Georgette Forney, executive director of NOEL, the National Organization of Episcopalians for Life, joins representatives from the National Silent No More Awareness Campaign to tell their personal stories. The Campaign is an effort to make the public aware of the impact of abortion.

The Passion of the Christ - A Forum
4:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Is theThe Passion of the Christ too violent? Anti-Semitic? Biblically inaccurate? Rabbi David Kaufman of Temple B'nai Jeshurun, Religious Studies Professor and Supple Chair of Catholic Studies David Hunter, and Pastor of College Ministries Zeke Pipher at the Ames Evangelical Free Church will discuss the controversary surrounding Mel Gibson's movie. Steve Sullivan, movie reviewer for the Ames Tribune, will moderate the discussion.

Celebrating Brown vs. the Board of Education - Opening Doors, Opening Minds - Terrence Roberts
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - The Supreme Court's May 17, 1954, ruling on Brown vs. the Board of Education ended racial segregation in public schools and laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement. The court unanimously ruled that an 1896 "separate but equal" clause was unconstitutional, because it violated the 14th Amendment by separating students based on the color of their skin Terrence Roberts was one of nine students blocked from entering Little Rock's Central High School in September 1957 when Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus joined local whites in resisting integration by dispatching the National Guard. President Dwight Eisenhower responded by sending federal troops to protect the students. Following the closing of Little Rock's schools during the 1958-59 school year, Dr. Roberts completed his senior year at Los Angeles High School in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Roberts graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from California State University, Los Angeles. He received his Master's degree in social welfare from UCLA and his Ph.D. in psychology from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is currently chair of the master's in psychology program at Antioch University in Los Angeles and has a private psychology practice in Pasadena, CA. He is also CEO of the management consulting firm, Terrence J. Roberts & Associates.

COMEDY! - Margaret Cho
8:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium, ISU Center-Admission Free and Open only to ISU Students, Faculty & Staff & Thei - The outrageous and hilarious Margaret Cho gives her own take on the contemporary social and political scene, covering everything from free speech to same sex marriages. She is best known for her ground-breaking and controversial ABC sitcom, All-American Girl, and her one-woman shows, I'm The One That I Want and the Notorious C.H.O. Material may not be suitable for children under 17. This performance is a highlight of the Institute on National Affairs series "Is the Bill of Rights in Jeopardy?"

Science and Society Lecture - Science Policy: Why Should You Care? - Mary Good
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - What scientists and engineers do, affects you. Mary Good is past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, following Dr. Stephen Jay Gould. During the terms of Presidents Carter and Reagan Dr. Good served on the National Science Board and chaired it from 1988-1991. She was the Undersecretary for Technology in the U.S. Department of Commerce and Technology during President Clinton's first term. She spent 25 years teaching and researching at Louisiana State University and the University of New Orleans, before becoming a guiding force in research and development for Allied Signal. She is currently the dean of the CyberCollege at University of Arkansas in Little Rock, and serves as the managing partner of Venture Capital Investors, LLC in Little Rock.

Issues in Agriculture - Organic Foods - Kathleen Delate
7:00 PM – Hughes Auditorium, Reiman Gardens - Admission Free - Kathleen Delate is an organic crops specialist with a joint faculty appointment in the Departments of Horticulture and Agronomy.

Confessions of the Guerilla Girls
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - The Guerrilla Girls are a group of anonymous women activists fighting for gender and racial equality. Their battle is fought mainly in New York City, but it has begun to spread to other artist venues across the United States. In their "real" lives, the Guerrilla Girls are artists, curators, art historians; as individuals, they remain silent so that they are not alienated from the art community. But as a group, they put on their gorilla masks to hide their faces and assume the names of obscure dead female artists.