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Video Presentation: Television In America - Michael Moore
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Michael Moore was host and executive producer of TV Nation where he redefined the newsmagazine. He is currently hosting and producing the television show The Awful Truth. His films include Roger and Me, and The Big One. His first book, Downsize This: Random Threats from an Unarmed American became a national best seller. He recently published Adventures in a TV Nation. Institute on National Affairs: Channeling Reality: Television in America. From the Lectures Program archive.

Washington Week in Review - Gloria Borger, Elizabeth Arnold, Gwen Ifill
2:00 PM – C.Y. Stephens - Part of the National Affairs Series.

Washington Week In Review-Live - Panel
1:30 AM – Stephen's Auditorium, Iowa State Center - The panelists will be David Broder, Washington Post; Gloria Borger, US News and World Report and CBS News; and Elizabeth Arnold, National Public Radio (NPR). Gwen Ifill, former political reporter for The New York Times and NBC News, will moderate. From the Lectures Program archive.

The End of 'Try and Fly': The Origins and Evolution of American Aeronautical Engineering Education throughout WWII - Deborah G. Douglas
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Deborah G. Douglas is the author of United States Women in Aviation 1940-1985. She has been a staff member at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington D. C. and was a NASA historian; she is currently curator of the MIT Museum in Cambridge, MA. History of Technology Series. From the Lectures Program archive.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Celebration & Musical Celebration
12:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Performances by the New Beginings Gospel Choir and "Off the Record" ISU vocal jazz group presentations by ISU students, faculty, and administrators. Reception following with cake graciously donated by the Memorial Union.

Sigma Xi Lecture: Impact of Computers on Engineering Design and Modeling - William Lord
8:00 AM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - William Lord holds the Palmer Chair in electrical and computer engineering and is associate director of the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation and the Institute for Physical Research and Technology at Iowa State University. His research has led to commercial products: a PC-based edddy current inspection system and an acoustic microscope. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the American Society for Nondestructive Testing and the British Society of Nondestructive Testing. From the Lectures Program archive.

Errington Memorial Lecture : Wolves and Moose: The Balance of Nature at Isle Royale - Rolf Peterson
8:00 AM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Rolf Peterson is professor of wildlife ecology and management at Michigan Technical University and author of The Wolves of Isle Royale: A Broken Balance. From the Lectures Program archive.

Rethinking Engineering and Higher Education: The Kellogg Commission in Historical Context - Howard Segal
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Howard Segal is a Bird Professor of History at the University of Maine. Segal is author of Future Imperfect; Technological Utopianism in American Thought; and Technology, Pessimism and Postmodernism. From the Lectures Program archive.

Ron, Maria, David, Daniel and Mark Rosmann, family farmers, Harlan, Iowa
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Farm Crisis Series: Wither the Farm? Moving Beyond the Current Crisis in Agriculture

Presidential Caucus Series: Higher Education - Orrin Hatch
1:30 AM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Orrin Hatch has been a United States Senator for four terms and a leader in developing bipartisan legislation in balancing the budget; protecting Medicare and Social Security; lowering taxes; and improving health care services for children, seniors, the disabled and the homebound. From the Lectures Program archive.