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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.

Roe vs. Wade: An Intergenerational Conversation - Jill June
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Jill June is president of Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa. She was named Ms. Magazine Women of the Year 2002 for refusing to violate the confidentiality of her clients and successfully fighting an attempt by police in Storm Lake, Iowa, to subpoena Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa's patient records as part of the investigation of the death of a newborn. Krista Jacob is the founder and editor-in-chief of Sexing the Political: A Journal of Third Wave Feminists on Sexuality, and edited Our Choices, Our Lives: Unapologetic Writings on Abortion. She has a long history of involvement in women's issues, from domestic violence and sexual assault to reproductive freedom.

The Right to Religious Liberty - Congressman Steve King
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Steve King was elected to Iowa's Fifth Congressional District in 2002. He describes himself as a social conservative, and serves on the House Committee on the Judiciary and the Constitution and Immigration Subcommittees in addition to the Agriculture and Small Business Committees. As State Senator he worked to pass legislation on the English as the official language bill, elimination of the inheritance tax, and the God and Country bill. Institute on Naitonal Affairs Series - Is the Bill of Rights in Jeopardy?

Black History Month Comedy Celebration - Mark Reedy
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Admission Free - Mark Reedy has performed on MTV, Showtime, and HBO, and opened for Marsha Warfield, Redd Foxx, at Patty Labelle. He is a multi-faceted comic who finds the absurd in the most obvious places.