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Msgr. Supple Lecture - Good Sex: Intimacy, Love and Marriage in the Christian Tradition - Maura Ryan
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Maura Ryan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theology, at Notre Dame University. She co-edited The Challenge of Global Stewardship: Roman Catholic Responses and is the author of the newly published Ethics and Economics of Assisted Reproduction: The Cost of Longing (Moral Traditions & Moral Arguments).

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday Celebration - Living with a Purpose - Jamal-Harrison Bryant
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Jamal-Harrison Bryant was the Director of the Youth and College Division of the NAACP where he spearheaded the "Stop the Violence Start the Love Crusade." He has appeared on BET, CNN, C-Span and Politically Incorrect. Bryant is the host of Baltimore's number one rated Sunday talk show, "Keepin' It Real". He is also co-host of the "Larry Young Morning Show." He is the founder and Pastor of the fastest growing AME Church in the nation. He has an undergraduate degree in Political Science and International Studies from Morehouse College and a Masters of Divinity Degree from Duke University.

Activism Then and Now - Bobby Seale
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Bobby Seale is an activist and former director of the Black Panthers. Defining himself as an "revolutionary humanist," he demonstrates how civil-rights issues are interconnected and interrelated with environmental problems and global economics. He also encourages greater direct community democracy, including cyber- space activism. His books include : Seize the Time, A Lonely Rage, and Polylectic Reality: The Non-Linear Analytical View Memoirs: Bobby Seale & all the Original Black Panthers.

Ames * Iowa State University *Martin Luther King Jr. * Holiday Celebration - DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
12:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - A Musical Celebration The Point of Grace Choir and members of the ISU Chamber Choir will perform, with a dramatic reading from the World Theatre Group. President Gregory Geoffroy, Government of the Student Body President Andy Tofilon, and Black Student Alliance President Robert Price will speak. Birthday cake has been graciously donated by the Memorial Union

Surviving the 2002 Legislative Session
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Commission on the Status of Women Executive Director Charlotte Nelson, will be joined by State Senator Johnie Hammond, and lobbyist Judie Hoffman for a discussion of the upcoming legislative initiatives, particularly those affecting women.

Ames * Iowa State University *Martin Luther King Jr. * Holiday Celebration - COMMUNITY BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
7:00 PM – 210 South Fifth - Something for the entire family.

Amnesty International/Ames Group 40 - The International Criminal Court: Is Global Justice Possible? - Douglass Cassel
2:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Douglass Cassel is Director of the Center for International Human Rights and Clinical Associate Professor at Northwestern University School of Law. He is also President of the Due Process of Law Foundation, based in Washington, D.C., and Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Justice Studies Center of the Americas, to which he was elected by the Organization of American States. He has served as consultant on human rights to the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the United States Department of State and the Ford Foundation. He has lectured in universities and academic institutions in Europe, Asia and the Americas, and his articles have been published nationally and internationally in English and Spanish. His weekly commentary on human rights is broadcast on Chicago Public Radio and published in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.

Sigma Xi - Research Universities: Past, Present and Futue - Gregory L. Geoffroy
8:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Gregory L. Geoffroy is Iowa State University's 14th president. He was Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Maryland, College Park, and briefly served as interim president of the university. He served as professor, chair of the Department of Chemistry, and dean of Eberly College of Science at the Pennsylvania State University. He is a nationally acclaimed researcher in organometallic chemistry. He has published more than 200 research articles in refereed journals; presented more than 200 invited lectures in the United States and nine other nations; and is co-author of the book Organometallic Photochemistry. He earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Louisville, and a doctorate from the California Institute of Technology.

Institute on World Affairs - What Is Terrorism? - The Role of Intelligence in Counterterrorism
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Jim Olson is a Senior Lecturer and the CIA Officer in Residence at the Bush School of Government and Public Service in College Station, Texas. He joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1969 and served for 31 years, mostly overseas in clandestine operations. He held the positions as Deputy Chief of Station in Moscow and Chief of Station in Vienna and Mexico City. He also served as Chief of Counterintelligence at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Professor Olson received his law degree from the University of Iowa in 1969.

Institute on World Affairs - What Is Terrorism? - The Military Role in the War on Terrorism
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Piers M. Wood was Chief of Staff at the Center for Defense Information, an organization which conducts research on trends and developments in U.S. and international defense policies and strategies, and provides forums where legitimate viewpoints on defense matters can be discussed. In May of 2000, he started a new national military research organization, Military Insights. Previously, he served 28 years in military service, earning the Silver Star and two Bronze Stars with the combat V, retiring as a Lt. Colonel. His assignments included serving as an Assistant Professor of history at West Point and as an Aide-de-Camp to a four-star Army Group Commander in NATO.