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The Soul of Democracy - Paul Wellstone
12:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Paul Wellstone is the U.S. Senator from Minnesota.

Writing in Shared Fantasy Worlds - Jeff Grubb
5:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Jeff Grubb is the author of nine fantasy novels as well as short stories and novellas. He has a degree in civil engineering and worked as a structural engineer before becoming a game designer and author.

Advertising and Diversity in America - Marilyn Kern Foxworth
8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Marilyn Kern Foxworth is professor of journalism Texas A & M and author of Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben Rastus: Blacks in Advertising.

The Resurrection of Jesus: Factor or Fiction? - Hector Avalos and Rubel Shelly
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Hector Avalos is assistant professor of Religious Studies at Iowa State and executive director of the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion. Rubel Shelly is the pastor of the Woodmont Hills Church in Nashville and author of Genesis: The Beginnings of Faith and A Defense of the Christian Faith.

The Challenge of Race - Herman Blake
8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Herman Blake is the chair of the African American Studies Program at Iowa State.

Advertising: A Lot of Good It Could Do - Marvin Waldman
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Marvin Waldman is executive vice president and group creative director of Integrated Communications Worldwide, Young and Rubicam, NYC.

Asian American History - Evelyn Hu-DeHart
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Evelyn Hu-DeHart is professor of history and director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America at the University of Colorado.

Speaking Truth to Power - Anita Hill
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Anita Hill is the author of Speaking Truth to Power, co-edited Race, Gender, and Power in America: The Legacy of the Hill-Thomas Hearings, and is working on a book on sexual harassment. Her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Supreme Court nomination of Clarence Thomas was viewed by 40 million Americans. Strong-Minded Women Awards Lecture

Proposition 209 - Affirmative Action Forum
2:00 PM – Curtiss Auditorium - Thomas Hill, ISU Vice President for Student Affairs, will moderate. Carla Espinoza, director of ISU Affirmative Action, will introduce George Jackson, Ames Branch President of the NAACP; Leon Mosley, member of the State Central Committee of the Republican Party; Juan Rodriguez, governmental and community affairs director of the Chicago advertising and public relations firm Sanchez Healy; Lena Avila Robison, Latinos Unidos; Col. Felipe Torres, U.S. Marines.

From Boarding School to Tribal College: Changing Indian Education in the U.S. - Richard Lundy
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Richard Lundy is interim academic dean and chair of the Indian Studies Division for the Nebraska Indian Community College. He is a graduate of Iowa State and was co-founding president and member of UNASA who began the annual symposium. American Indian Symposium