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Why Try? Motivating Students with Challenges - Christian Moore
6:00 PM – MacKay Auditorium - Christian Moore is a licensed clinical social worker working with at-risk adolescents with conduct disorders and learning disabilities. He will share his personal struggle with learning disabilities and describe the Why Try Program, which he created to help motivate students. The "Why Try" program is a set of practical tools to teach children with learning differencies. It is now mandated in all schools in Nevada and Utah. Mr. Moore was an intern in the Clinton White House, and has an MSW from Birgham Young University.

Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair - Mass Customization: Efficiently Serving Customers Uniquely - Joe Pine
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Joe Pine is the author of Mass Customization: The New Frontier in Business Competition, a faculty leader in the Penn State Executive Education Program, a member of the Executive Education faculty at the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Business, and frequent quest lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, his alma mater. Summary of discussion: The paradigm of Mass Customization will be as significant to 21st Century business practices as Mass Production was to 20th Century management. In this session, Joe Pine will show why Mass Customization is the next step in the evolution of business competition beyond Mass Production and Continuous Improvement, and explain how it provides a means to progress from goods to services and from services to experiences. He will outline the essence of Mass Customization and key concepts such as modularity, design tools, and customer sacrifice. In addition, Pine will describe four types of Mass Customization and the circumstances in which each should be employed.

Institute on National Affairs - Mass Media and Culture in America - Motherhood in the Media: The Last 30 Years - Susan Douglas
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Susan Douglas is the Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Communication Studies at The University of Michigan, and author of Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination, Where The Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media, and Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922. She recently completed a book examining representations of motherhood in the media from the late 1960s to the present.

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.