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Hispanic Heritage Month - Family Weekend - Fiesta of the Americas
9:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union -- Free Admission - Join Orquesta Rumba as they take you on a journey through the best of Latin American music. Under the direction of Angel Rodriquez, this 10-piece ensemble plays salsa, merengue, cumbia, bachata, mambo and more. The band's mambo medley features the tunes made famous by the later Tito Puente. Along with a wide selection of today's top hits, Orquesta Rumba plays a little of something for all Latin dance aficionados. Joining Rumba is Mexican vocalist Jesus Enriquz, a Sony RMM recording artist, who will bring "The Best of Mexico" to the stage. Trio Manases also takes the stage playing the ballads of Cuba, Venezuela and Colombia.

Sigma Xi Lecture - Heresy, Excommunication and Other Weeds in the Garden of Science - Theodore Rockwell
8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Theodore Rockwell has been directly involved in nuclear power for nearly 60 years, starting in an elite Process Improvement Task Force at the war-time atomic bomb project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. After the war he transferred to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and became Head of the Radiation Shield Engineering Group.He is a member of the Health Physics Society, a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society and a vice president and a founding director of Radiation, Science & Health, Inc., an international non-profit organization of independent radiation experts committed to bringing radiation policy into line with the best scientific data and theory.

Women's Week 2003 - Media Images/Lived Realities: Women in the Middle East - Susan Schaefer Davis
7:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Susan Schaefer Davis first went to Morocco with the Peace Corps in the 1960s to work in a rural women's center and has returned often, doing research on gender and working on development projects. She also is a social scientist with extensive experience as a development practitioner in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt for agencies including the World Bank, FAO, USAID and the Peace Corps. She has written numerous articles on these topics and two books, Patience and Power: Women's Lives in a Moroccan Village, and Adolescence in a Moroccan Town. She has traveled to Iraq, Palestine and Israel as Clerk of the Middle East Panel for the American Friends Service Committee. Her has undergraduate degree in psychology and a masters and doctoroate in anthropology from the University of Michigan, with post-doctoral work at Harvard.

Madam President: Shattering the Last Glass Ceiling/2004 Campaign Preview - Eleanor Clift
7:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Eleanor Clift is a contributing editor at Newsweek, and co-authored, with her husband Tom Brazaitis, War Without Bloodshed: The Art of Politics, a look at Washington through the eyes of its several prominent personalities. Their newest work, Madam President, examines a woman's prospects in a run for the White House. Clift is a panelist on the volatile The McLaughlin Group and provides commentary for the Fox News Channel. She has appeared as herself in the feature films: Dave, Rising Sun, Independence Day, Murder at 1600, and the television comedy Murphy Brown. Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics Mary Louise Smith Chair.

Women's Week 2003 - No! Addressing Rape and Sexual Assault in the African American Community - Aishah Shahidah Simmons
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Aishah Shahidah Simmons is an award-winning, independent, feminist filmmaker and the founder and president of the multimedia arts company AfroLez Productions. She will show her film "NO!" which explores the issues of race, gender, homophobia, rape, and misogyny from a Black feminist lesbian perspective. A discussion with the audience will follow.

Women's Week 2003 - Bridging the Personal and Political: A Global Perspective - Adrien Wing
7:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Adrien Wing is the Bessie Dutton Murray Professor of Law at the University of Iowa. She specializes in both U.S. and international law, and has published in such areas as constitutionalism in Namibia, South Africa and Palestine; critical race feminism; legal decision-making in the Palestinian intifada; rape in Bosnia; women's rights in Palestine and South Africa; and foreign sovereign immunity and the act of state doctrine.

WE THE PLANET - Activism, Discussion and Music!
8:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium - Admission Free - Musician Tracy Chapman, environmental activist and author Julia Butterfly Hill and sustainable agriculture activist Howard Lyman will be joined by local citizens for a dynamic discussion with audience members about the most pressing issues facing our planet, our country and communities. Following the discussion, Tracy Chapman will play a 30-minutes acoustic set. The panel is traveling the U.S. in a bus powered solely by vegetable oil and bio diesel fuel (non-petroleum).Women's Week 2003 and the Committee on Lectures welcome local groups to distribute information in the lobby during the event.

J.R.R. Tolkien: The Man and The Myth - Joseph Pearce
1:00 PM – Sun Room/South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Joseph Pearce is the author of Tolkien: Man and Myth and the editor of Tolkien: A Celebration. He is a Writer in Residence and Professor of Literature at Ave Maria College in Michigan

Banned Book Week - The Patriot Act and Libraries
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Gina Millsap, Ames Public Library Director; Olivia Madison, Dean of the University Library; and Barbara Mack, associate professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, will discuss the impact of Homeland Securities measures on public and university libraries. Michael Bugeja, Director of the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, wil moderate the discussion.

Attributes of Successful Engineers: What they don't teach you in school - Paul Anderson
7:00 PM – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditoirum, Howe Hall - Paul Anderson is a Lockheed Martin Astronautics senior manager, who grew up in Ames watching his dad head coach the ISU Men's Basketball team. After working for many years on several space projects, he has had the opportunity to recognize a few very important, "non-technical" skills in the workplace that are invaluable to engineers. The first 100 attendees will receive a Free Lockheed Martin T-Shirt. Reception following.