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From Iowa to Hollywood: The Business of Entertainment - Tim Menke
12:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Tim Menke is Senior Publicist for Paramount Pictures, an entertainmen unit of Viacom Inc. He graduated from Iowa State in 1986.

Elections
4:00 AM – Varsity Theatre Lincoln Way - Free Sneak Preview

Take Back The Night Speaker: War Zone - Maggie Hadleigh-West
8:00 AM – Benton Auditorium Scheman Building - Maggie Hadleigh-West, filmaker, writer and director, will show her 30-minute documentary War Zone and discuss what she calls "street abuse" of women.

The Fatherhood Project: New Strategies for Balancing Work and Family - James A. Levine
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - James A. Levine is director of The Fatherhood Project which he founded in 1981 while he was vice president of the Bank Street College Education. He is a consultant to Corporate Family Solutions, the nation's leading provider of workplace-based child care. Dr. Levine is also a contributing editor to Child magazine and persident of James Levine Communications, Inc.

How the Nature Nut Put Bugs on the Box - John Acorn
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - John Acorn is the host of " Acorn, The Nature Nut" aired on the Animal Planet Channel, Discovery Channel, and others internationally. He is an entomologist with experience in paleontology and insect ecology whose books include Butterflies of Alberta and Tiny Perfect Dinosaur.

Film: Smoke Signals
8:00 AM – Pioneer Room, MU - American Indian Symposium

Killing Indians: Myths, Lies and Exaggerations - Sherman Alexie
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Sherman Alexie wrote and produced the film Smoke Signals, winner of two awards at the Sundance Film Festival. he is currently at work on a film based on his novel Indian Killer, which he is writing and directing. He is the author of a short story collection, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven; four poetry collections including The Business of Fancydancing; and two novels, Reservation Blues and Indian KillerHe is a Coeur d'Alene who was born on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Part of the National Affairs Series.

Film: Smoke Signals
6:15 AM – Pioneer Room, MU - American Indian Symposium

Annual Bessey Lecture: Did Decreased Carbon Dioxide Cause Extinctions Among Grazing Animals? - James Ehleringer
8:00 AM – Gallery, Memorial Union - James Ehleringer is editor-in-chief of the journal Oeocologia; serves on the editorial boards of several journals and on review panels for NSF, DOE, USDA; and has been a major figure in the Ecological Society of America.

Film: Smoke Signals
8:00 AM – Pioneer Room, MU - American Indian Symposium