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Performance - Judy Gorman
8:00 PM – Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union - Judy Gorman, singer and guitarist, will perform her original songs with roots in folk, blues, jazz and gospel music. Admission Free

Women's History Month - Finding Our Own Voice: The History of Women and Music
3:00 PM – Gold Room, Memorial Union - Judy Gorman, singer, songwriter, and guitarist, will discusses the primary role women have played in the history of music as a human expression beginning in pre-biblical times and including today. She has an undergraduate degree in literature and a masters in art history.

Women’s History Month - Finding Our Own Voice: The History of Women and Music
12:00 PM – Gold Room, Memorial Union - Judy Gorman, singer, songwriter, and guitarist, will discusses the primary role women have played in the history of music as a human expression beginning in pre-biblical times and including today. She has an undergraduate degree in literature and a masters in art history.

Institute on World Affairs - What Is Terrorism? - Collateral Damage: Civilians and the Air War in Afghanistan
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Marc Herold has been gathering data on civilian casualities since October 7 by culling information from news agencies, major newspapers, and first-hand accounts. Whenever possible, he has sought to cross-corroborate accounts of civilian casualties. He is associate professor of Economics, International Relations, and Women's Studies at the University of New Hampshire, and has a M.B.A. in International Business and a doctorate in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Bultena Lecture in Sociology - Newcomers to Old Towns: Suburbanization of the Heartland - Sonya Salamon
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Sonya Salamon is professor of Community Studies and director of Community and Rural Studies Concentration at the University of Illinois. Her publications include Prairie Patrimony: Family, Farming and Community in the Midwest and the forthcoming Newcomers, Old Towns: Community Change in the Postagrarian Midwest. She received her doctorate from the University of Illinois, her masters in anthropology from University of California at Berkeley, and her B.F.A. in Painting & Design from Carnegie Institute of Technology,

Practice Makes Perfect: Buddhism's Four Noble Truths - Carol Anderson
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Carol Anderson is associate professor of Religious Studies at Kalamazoo College and author of Pain and Its Ending: The Four Noble Truths in Theravada Buddhism. Theravada Buddhism is the form of Buddhism practiced by the majority of Buddhists living in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka. It is a form not frequently encountered in American popular culture.

A Message of Hope and Triumph for Youth - Darrell Scott
7:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium - Darrell Scott is the father of Rachel Joy Scott, one of the victims at Littleton, Colorado's Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. His son, Craig, was in the library that day and watched as 10 of his classmates were gunned down. Two of his close friends died beside him, and his sister, Rachel was killed just outside the library door, a few yards away. When asked, "Do you believe in God?" she said "YES." Darrell is the co-author of the bestselling book, "Rachel's Tears" and author of his newest book, "Chain Reaction: A Call to Compassionate Revolution."

The Coming Extinction of the Human Race? Overpopulation and Global Population Control - Steven Mosher
8:00 PM – Molecular Biology Auditorium - Internationally known Steven Mosher is president of the Population Research Institute and director of the Asian Studies Center of the Claremont Institute. In1979 he became the first American social scientist to live in rural China after their Communist revolution. His best selling, A Mother's Ordeal: One Woman's Fight Against China's One- Child Policy , is one of several books written based on his firsthand observations of a government telling families how many children they should-or should not-have. His articles on such topics as population control and female infanticide have appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest, The Asian Wall Street Journal, and the Ladies Home Journal.

Institute on World Affairs - What Is Terrorism? - Human Rights and the War on Terrorism
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Holly Burkhalter is the Advocacy Director of Physicians for Human Rights, a human rights organization that works to promote health by protecting human rights. Physicians for Human Rights coordinates the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines (USCBL), a coalition of over 500 U.S. non-governmental organizations. Holly Burkhalter, who is based in the organization's Washington office, served as co-chair of the USCBL from 1998-1999 and coordinator from 1999-2000. Before that, she was affiliated with Human Rights Watch for fourteen years as that organization's Advocacy Director and director of its Washington office.

Grand Challenges in Science for the 21st Century - Leonard Krishtalka
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Leonard Krishtalka is Director of the Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, and Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. Krishtalka is on the Advisory Committee for Biological Sciences at the National Science Foundation and serves other national organizations. In the past five years, he has helped lead an international initiative for the knowledge networking of biodiversity information, and helped form the North American Biodiversity Information Network. He is the author of more than 130 research and popular articles as well as one book, Dinosaur Plots & Other Intrigues in Natural History, a collection of popular articles about science and nature.