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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.

John Pesek Colloquium on Sustainable Agriculture - Agricultural Policy for the Twenty-First Century and the Legacy of the Wallaces - Daryll E. Ray
2:00 PM – Oak Room, Memorial Union - Daryll E. Ray is the Director of the Agricultural Policy Analysis Center in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Tennessee.

Women's History Month - The Shoulders We Stand On: Women as Agents of Change - Louise Bernikow
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Louise Bernikow is an activist, author, editor and feminist scholar who will discuss the history of women's activism in this country, with anecdotes and provocative questions about race, sexual preference, and ethnicity. She was a Fulbright scholar and a pioneer of women's studies. She is the author of six books, including Among Women, The World Split Open and The American Women's Almanac: An Inspiring and Irreverent Women's History which was published in association with the National Women's History Project.

Porn: its popularity and draw... - Fred Stoeker
7:30 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Fred Stoeker is an accomplished businessman, author and speaker who will share his 20 year struggle with pornography. After realizing pornography distorted his view of women and himself and damaged his own marriage, he decided to act. He is passionate about sharing the negative impact of pornography and solutions for the problem.

Design College 25th Anniversary Series - Not by Design - Lucy Lippard
7:00 PM – Kocimski Auditorium, Design College - Activist Lucy Lippard is a contributing editor to Art in America, a former art critic for The Village Voice and Z Magazine, and the author of 20 books, including her most recent, On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art and Place.

Institute on National Affairs - Is the Bill of Rights in Jeopardy? - Homeland Security and the Rights of International Students
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Dennis Peterson, director of International Education Services; Michael Levine, an attorney with Student Legal Services will discuss the impact of Homeland Security measures on the rights of international students at Iowa State University. Robert Lowry, ISU Political Science Department, will moderate.

Transgenic Crops and Environmental Protection - Paul Thompson
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Paul Thompson is Professor in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University. He is the author of The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics; The Ethics of Aid and Trade; Food Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective, and co-editor of The Agrarian Roots of Pragmatism. He has served on many national and international committees on agricultural biotechnology and contributed to the National Research Council report The Environmental Effects of Transgenic Plants. He has a doctorate from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

U.S. Foreign Policy and Cuba - Piero Gleijeses
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Piero Gleijeses is Professor of American Foreign Policy in the School of Advanced International Study at John Hopkins University. He is the author of Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959-1976 ; Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States; Politics and Culture in Guatemala; Tilting at Windmills: Reagan in Central America; The Dominican Crisis: The 1965 Constitutionalist Revolt and American Intervention. He has a doctorate in political science from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.