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Dr. Martin Luther King Birthday Party and Musical Celebration
12:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Members of the groups Shy of a Dozen and First Premiere will perform. Speakers include Provost Ben Allen, Government of the Student Body President T.J. Schneider, and Black Student Alliance President Brad Johnson. Reception following with cake graciously donated by the Campus Dining Services.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday Celebration - Dr. King's Dream
8:00 PM – Maintenane Shop, Memorial Union - This brilliant depiction of the life and career of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. begins at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April 4, 1968, as Dr. King answers a young colleague's question with an anecdote from the Montgomery bus boycott. The play instantly shifts to Montgomery and, over the next forty-five minutes, brings to life all of the dignity, courage, devotion, and humanity of a most remarkable American leader. Both the external events in Dr. King's career (the Selma and Birmingham demonstrations, the 1962 March on Washington, winning the Nobel Peace Prize, etc.) and his wide-ranging thoughts and opinions (on fear, non-violence, his children, the police, Malcolm X, and other topics) are included in Dr. King's Dream as is his soaring "I Have A Dream" speech. Yet for all the historic and specific incidents, what emerges is the spirit of a man dedicated to racial equality through non-violence, dedicated to an ideal and to a dream.

Testing
1:00 AM – Durham 129 - Testing Bold

Sigma Xi Lecture - What Constitutes "Sound" Science? - Fred Kirschenmann
8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Fred Kirschenmann is director of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State, and a leader of the organic/sustainable agriculture movement. He has completed a five-year term on the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Organic Standards Board, and has chaired the administrative council for the USDA's North Central Region's Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program. He has been a member of the board of directors for the Henry A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture since 1994, and was president in 1997. He earned degrees from Yankton College in South Dakota, Hartford Theological Seminary in Connecticut, and a doctorate from the University of Chicago. He chaired the Department of Religion at Yankton College, and was Dean of the College at Curry College in Boston. He has authored or co-authored numerous articles and book chapters dealing with ethics and agriculture

Helen LeBaron Hilton Co-Chair - Work IS Theatre, So Act Your Part - Joseph Pine
8:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Goods are manufactured, services delivered, but experiences are staged. In the emerging Experience Economy, enterprises must embrace the principle that work IS theatre. Whether acknowledged or not, done well or not, every time work is performed before the watching eye of a customer, the activity performed is literally theatre. In this session, Joe Pine will discuss how to orchestrate compelling business drama and describe specific techniques for helping direct workers to act their part. Joseph 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 guest lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, his alma mater.

Institute on World Affairs - Religion and Conflict - Jerusalem and Interfaith Understanding: Challenges and Opportunities in the Current Climate
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Duncan Macpherson co-authored Accessing Hinduism and edited and contributed to A Third Millennium Guide to Pilgrimage in the Holy Land. He has also published a number of articles on the theology of World Religions, Muslim-Christian Dialogue and on Palestinian issues. He is the current editor of Living Stones Magazine and is a member of the international advisory board of the new multidisciplinary journal Holy Land Studies. Duncan Macpherson recently retired as Principal Lecture in Theology and Religious Studies at Saint Mary1s University College, University of Surrey, He is chair of the friends of Bir Zeit University and was a founding member of Living Stones, a British charitable trust promoting links between British Christians and Christians in the Holy Land.

Public Radio in A Changing World - Kevin Klose
7:00 PM – Brunnier Art Museum, Scheman Building - Kevin Klose is president and chief executive officer of NPR, America's premier nonprofit news and cultural radio programming service. A former editor, and national and foreign correspondent with The Washington Post, Klose is an award-winning author and international broadcasting executive. Prior to joining NPR in December 1998, Klose served successively as director of U.S. International Broadcasting, overseeing the U.S. Government's global radio and television news services (1997-98); and president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), broadcasting to Central Europe and the former Soviet Union (1994-97). Klose first joined RFE/RL in 1992 as director of Radio Liberty, broadcasting to the former Soviet Union in its national languages.

Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair - So What Turns You On? Why Some Experiences Are More Engaging Than Others - James Gilmore
8:00 PM – 1010 LeBaron Auditorium - James Gilmore is co-founder of Strategic Horizons LLP, a consulting firm and think tank helping businesses conceive and design new ways of adding value to their economic offerings. Pine and Gilmore challenge traditional business assumptions, point out new market turbulence phenomena, and introduce a new set of questions that drive companies to think differently about themselves and the world in which they compete. James Gilmore began his career with Proctor and Gamble, was a consultant for ten years with Cleveland Consulting Associations, and is a certified instructor of Dr. Edward De Bono's lateral thinking methodologies andPre a member of both the Creative Education Foundation and Creative Thinking Association of America. He serves on the faculty of the Institutes for Organizational Management for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and is a graduate of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

10th Anniversary Celebration - A Performance: The Yellow Rose of Suffrage - Jane Ann Cox
8:30 PM – Benton Auditorium, Scheman Building, ISU Center - Jane Ann Cox in a one-woman play highlighting the life of feminist leader Carrie Chapman Catt. Catt was born in Iowa and is known as an advocate for women's suffrage. Taking over the leadership role from Susan B. Anthony, her "winning plan" achieved suffrage for women with the passage of an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. She was also a co-founder of the League of Women Voters, and a crusader for world peace. Free to students.

GSB Comedy Festival - Dave Cross & Tony Rock
8:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium, ISU Center - Dave Cross created and starred in HBO's hit Mr. Show; created the role of the jerky, quirky brother in Just Shoot Me; appeared as the buggy morgue guy in Men in Black; and won an Emmy Award for writing on The Ben Stiller Show. Here's a rare opportunity to see this outrageous and hilarious comedian in person. Adult content. Tony Rock has a knack for entertaining, just like his big brother Chis. And he has the kind of talent that lets him film a pilot for Disney AND appear on the Howard Stern Show. Best known for his appearances on Comedy Central, Tony is a regular at LA's Comedy Store and Laugh Factory, and NYC Caroline's. $5 students/$10 students at the door/ $15 nonstudents Tickets available through Ticketmaster