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Institute on National Affairs - Mass Media and Culture in America - Stop the Internet; I Want to Get Off! - Clifford Stoll
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Clifford Stoll, widely known for being involved with computer networks since their inception, is an astronomer and computer security and network expert. He is the author of High Tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian, and Silicon Snake Oil. He has a doctorate in Astronomy from the University of Arizona, and an undergraduate degree in physics from SUNY, Buffalo. He is currently building software for the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

An Evening with John Waters: Negative Role Model
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - John Waters is a writer and director whose films include: Cecil B. Demented, Pecker, Serial Mom, Cry Baby, Hairspray, Polyester, Desperate Living,Female Trouble, and Pink Flamingos. In addition to writing and directing feature films, Waters in the author of four books: Shock Value and Trash Trio , Crackpot, and Director's Cut. John Waters has been creatively involved from the beginning in the hit Broadway musical "Hairspray" based on the movie he wrote and directed.Institute on National Affairs - Mass Media and Culture in America

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8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Lorraine Ali is music critic for Newsweek. She has covered everything from the Grammy Awards to the growing subculture of Christian rock and has interviewed everyone from rapper Eve to Johnny Cash. Prior to joining Newsweek, Ali was a senior critic for Rolling Stone, a music columnist for the Los Angeles Times and Mademoiselle, as well as a regular contributor to GQ. Ali has also written for The New York Times, The Village Voice, Entertainment Weekly, Harper's Bazaar and US Magazine. She was voted 1997's Music Journalist of the Year. In 1996, she was Best National Feature Story honors at the Music Journalism Awards.

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7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Virgil Suarez was born in Havana, Cuba, and moved to the United States in 1974. His poems have appeared in over 250 magazines and journals, and he is the author of four novels, three collections of poetry, and one collection of short fiction. His work has been included in hundreds of magazines, journals, and anthologies. He is a professor of creative writing at Florida State University, and holds degrees from California State, Long Beach, and Louisiana State University.

Honoring Multiple Identities in Our Quest to Understand Multicultural Issues - Rebecca Gutierrez Keeton
10:00 AM – St. Thomas Aquinas Church and Student Center (Lower Lounge)2210 Lincoln Way - Dr. Rebecca Gutierrez Keeton is director of the Office of Student Life and Cultural Centers at California Polytechnic University in Pomona. Rebecca Gutierrez Keeton is a first generation college student who was raised in Southeast Los Angeles. Rebecca graduated from Chapman University in 1986 with a Bachelor of Music Education degree and teaching credentials in Vocal Music Education. She completed a Master's Degree in Student Development at Azusa Pacific University, and a doctorate from the Claremont Graduate University in 2002. Her dissertation is entitled: Reframing Identities for Justice: Honoring Multiple Identities. This presentation is part of the third annual Multicultural Leadership Summit: "Don't Sleep Through The Revolution."

Revolutionary Art For Cultural Revolution! - Amiri Baraka
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Amiri Baraka, dramatist, poet, essayist, orator, and fiction writer, is the Poet Laureate of New Jersey. Writing as LeRoi Jones during the Beat movement in the late 1950s, he founded the Beat literary journal, Yugen, and won an Obie for his play, Dutchman. Best known as a black nationalist writer and activist in the 1960s Black Power movement, he has produced more than 12 books of poetry, 26 plays, eight collections of essays and speeches, and two books of fiction.

Art, Science and Interdisciplinary Thought - Howard Gardner
8:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium, ISU Center - Howard Gardner, best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, is the author of eighteen books and several hundred articles. His most recent books include Intelligence Reframed; The Disciplined Mind: What All Students Should Know; Extraordinary Minds; and Good Work: When Excellence and Ethics Meet. He is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor in Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also chairs the steering committee of Project Zero and is Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, and Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine. Most recently, Gardner and his colleagues have launched the GoodWork Project, examining how individuals succeed in doing good work during challenging times.

Dr. Martin Luther King Holiday Celebration - Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare - James Hal Cone
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - James Hal Cone, Charles A. Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary, is the author of Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare; Risks of Faith: The Emergence of a Black Theology of Liberation 1968-1998; Black Theology and Black Power;A Black Theology of Liberation; The Spirituals and the Blues: An Interpretation God of the Oppressed; Speaking the Truth: Ecumenism, Liberation, and Black Theology. He received his B.D. from Garrett Theological Seminary and his masters and doctorate from Northwestern University.

Coral Reefs - Sascha C. Steiner
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Sascha C. Steiner is a Professor of Marine Ecology and President of Institute for Tropical Marine Ecology in the Commonwealth of Dominica, West Indies.

Political Corruption and Campaign Financing - Gary Hart
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Gary Hart is a former Colorado Senator and presidential candidate. He co-chaired the U.S. Commission on National Security for the 21st Century with former Senator Warren Rudman. Their report predicted Americans were likely to die on American soil well before September 11. He is the author of Restoration of the Republic: The Jeffersonian Ideal in 21st-Century America and The Minuteman: Restoring an Army of the People. He practices law in Denver and just received his doctorate from Oxford University.