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Preventing Sexual Harassment in the University Community - Jonathan Alger, Carla Espinoza, and Hessie Harris
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Jonathan Alger is a counsel with the American Association of University Professors; Hessie Harris is associate counsel at ISU; and Carla Espinoza is assistant vice president for Human Resource Services and Affirmative Action director at ISU. Faculty Senate President Denise Vrchota will moderate.

Africa Week 1999: Africa in the 21st Century - Randall Robinson
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Randall Robinson is the director of TransAfrica, an organization working to achieve more progressive U. S. foreign policy toward the nations of Africa and the Carribean.

Donald Benson Memorial Lecture: The Conflict Between Word and Image - Leonard Shlain
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Leonard Shlain is the Chief of Laparoscopic Surgery at California Pacific Medical Center and an associate professor of surgery at UCSF Medical School.

Holocaust: A Survivor's Story - Daisy Miller
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Daisy Miller,born in Yugoslavia, hid with her family for years to survive Nazi occupation. She now works with the Shoah Foundation in Los Angeles, an organization founded by director Stephen Spielberg to tape and perserve the stories of Holocaust survivors.

Bruce Lee Meets Snoop Doggy Dog - Tou Ger Xiong
3:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Tou Ger Xiong is a Hmong comedian, cultural consultant, storyteller, rap artist and actor. He developed Project Respectism, a program that provides cultural entertainment and education for people of all professions and backgrounds. His work as an artist and activist has been featured on national television and radio. His documentary Hmong Means Free is currently airing on the International Cable Channel.

The Creative Writing Business: How to Get Published - Margaret Weis
5:00 AM – Oak Room, Memorial Union - Margaret Weis is a freelance author, editor, consultant to T. S. R. Inc., and co-owner of Gameguild. She is author of Chronicles: Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night and Dragons of Spring Dawning.

George Washington Carver Spring Scholar: A Evening with Mari Evans - Mari Evans
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Writer, poet, educator, and musician known for her classic poem "I Am a Black Woman," her volume Nightstar, and most recently A Dark and Splendid Mass, and a collection of essays about African American women writers. She recently adapted Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God into a musical drama.

Global Water Issues - Wulf Klohn
8:00 AM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Wulf Klohn is a senior engineer at the Food and Agriculture Organization, Water Resources, Management and development services, affiliated with the United Nations.

Helen Lebaron Hilton Chair: Welfare Reform in Iowa: Welfare or Poverty Reduction? - Shirley Zimmerman
3:00 AM – Pioneer Room, MU - Shirley Zimmerman is a professor in the department of family social sciences at the University of Minnesota. A panel of state and local policy makers will respond.

Presidential Caucus Series: A Vision for Rural America - Lamar Alexander
12:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Governor Lamar Alexander will be the first in a lectures series of candidates who will be running in the Iowa caucuses in February 2000. This series is designed to provide students with an opportunity to hear from every candidate before they participate in this unique Iowa event.