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Sigma Xi Lecture - Medical Pluralism and Patterns of Medical Choice in a Southern Mexican City: Some Perspectives and Observations
8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Dr. Michael Whiteford is Professor of Anthropology and Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. His research interests focus on alternative curing practices and health-care decision-making processes, and he has worked in Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. His research results have been published in journals such as Medical Anthropological Quarterly, Human Organization, Medical Anthropology, and Social Science and Medicine. He is co-author (with John Friedl) of an introductory anthropology textbook entitled The Human Portrait. With his brother, he edited Crossing currents: Continuity and Change in Latin America. For the past eight years, Dr. Whiteford has been editor of the quarterly Newsletter published by the Society for Applied Anthropology.

Is it Sharing or Stealing? File-sharing and Copyright Issues on your Campus
8:00 PM – Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union - Short presentations by each panel member will be followed by an open question & answer session. Barbara Mack is an associate professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication. She has served as executive assistant to former ISU President Martin Jischke and has worked as a reporter and Attorney for the Des Moines Register. Her research interests include media law and ethics. Mike Bowman is assistant director of customer services for Academic Information Technologies and serves as Iowa State University's designated Digital Millennium Copyright Act Agent. Bethany Schuttinga is Assistant Dean of Students under Judicial Affairs in the Dean of Students Office. Her work includes investigating academic and non-academic complaints of student misconduct and interpreting general university regulations and guidelines.

College of Design 25th Anniversary Lecture - The Flashlight and the Owl - Brenda Laurel
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Brenda Laurel is chair of the graduate Media Design Program at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. She has worked in the area of human-computer interaction since 1976, for companies including Atari, Activision, Epyx, Apple, and Interval Research, where she led a three-year research program to explore gender and technology. She was the co-founder of Purple Moon, a transmedia company devoted to girls, based on her research at Interval. She also works as a consultant, designer, speaker and researcher, focusing on the cultural aspects of technology. Laurel is the editor of The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design and Design Research: Methods and Perspectives, and author of Computers as Theatre, and Utopian Entrepreneur. She holds an MFA and doctorate in theatre from the Ohio State University. She serves on the boards of Cheskin, the Comparative Media Studies Program at M.I.T., the Digital Storytelling Association and the Communication Research Institute of Australia.

Motherhood in a Changing World Conference - Mothering Extended: Who's Really Raising the Children Today? - Lynet Uttal
9:00 AM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Lynet Uttal teaches at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. This presentation is free and open to the public as are other presentations throughout the day. To register for free childcare and lunch, and additional information check: http://www.iastate.edu/~wsprogram/about/conference.html.

Motherhood in a Changing World Conference - What Can Scholars of Motherhood Learn from Gay Fathers? - Ellen Lewin
9:00 AM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Ellen Lewin teaches at the University of Iowa. This presentation is free and open to the public as are other presentations throughout the day. To register for free childcare and lunch, and additional information check: http://www.iastate.edu/~wsprogram/about/conference.html.

NOTE TIME CHANGE!!! - War and the Economy - Felice Yeskel
5:45 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Felice Yeskel is a founder and spent 7 years as the Co-Director of the Boston-based, national, non-profit, United for a Fair Economy. She is also on the faculty of the Social Justice Education Program, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where she founded and directs The Stonewall Center: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Educational Resource Center. She is also the co-director of DiversityWorks, Inc., an organization of social justice educators that provides training and consulting on issues of diversity and multiculturalism. She has led hundreds of workshops across the country about economic inequality and about healing divisions among Americans of different class backgrounds, races, genders, and sexual orientations.(Felice Yeskel is the keynote speaker for the 4th Annual Multicultural Leadership Summit which will be held on Saturday, February 7, and is free to all ISU students. Registration for the Summit is required: http://www.sac.iastate.edu/PowerofOne/Msummit/.)

A Debate: The Resurrection of Jesus: Fact or Fiction? - William Craig
7:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium, Iowa State Center - Admission free - William Craig is research professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in Atlanta and author of several books including Reason Faith; No Easy Answers; Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology; The Existence of God and the Beginning of the Universe; and Knowing the Truth about the Resurrection. Hector Avalos is associate professor of religious studies and director of the U.S. Lantino/a Studies Program at ISU, and executive director of the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion, a part of the Council for Secular Humanism based in Amherst, New York.

Institute on the National Affairs - Is the Bill of Rights in Jeopardy? - The Patriot Act in Iowa
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - U.S. Attorney for the Northern District Charles Larson, and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Stephen O'Meara will join Iowa Civil Liberties Executive Director Ben Stone for a discussion of the impact this anti-terrorism legislation in Iowa. Barbara Mack, Greenlee School of Journalism and Mass Communication, will moderate.

Spring 2004 Presidential University Lecture - Is Cancer Preventable? - Diane F. Birt
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Diane F. Birt is Professor and Chair of the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition and Director of the Center for Research on Botanical Dietary Supplements nationally recognized for her research in nutrition and cancer prevention. She has over 100 publications and was director of the Plant Sciences Institute's Center for Designing Foods. She has been awarded major federal grants for diet and cancer prevention research, in addition to her work with botanical dietary supplements.The Presidential University Lecture Series highlights faculty excellence in learning, discovery, and engagement. Iowa State faculty members are chosen by the university president to present lectures from their areas of expertise on topics of interest to students, faculty, staff and the general public. 7-8 p.m. Reception and student poster display in the Campanile Room, Memorial Union

Institute on National Affairs - Is the Bill of Rights in Jeopardy? - An NRA Perspective - Kayne Robinson
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Kayne Robinson is president of the National Rifle Association, a position previously held by Charlton Heston. He retired from his position as assistant chief of police and chief of dectives with the Des Moines Police Department. He served as chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa during the 2000 presidential race.