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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

The Healing Power of Language and Culture for Education - Tobasonakwut Kinew
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Tobasonakwut Kinew is scholar-in-residence and visiting instructor at the University of Minnesota and is a leader and elder in Anishinaabe society in Canada and the U.S. American Indian Symposium

The Status of Women in Islam - Mamdouh Mohammad
7:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Mamdouh Mohammad is a consultant and curriculum designer at American Open University and author of Introduction to Islam.

African Reactions to the Plight of Refugees in Africa - Students and Refugee Experts
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - ISU students from Mauritania, Liberia,Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and Sudan discuss the topic. Representatives from the Iowa Department of Human Services Refugee Program, Catholic Social Services and Lutheran Social Services will discuss their role in helping refugees.

George Perkins Marsh: A Nineteenth-Century Environmental Pioneer - David Lowenthal
All Day – Memorial Union - David Lowenthal is emeritus professor of geography and honorary research fellow at University College London.

Burma: South Africa of the 90's - Ohmar Khin
All Day – Memorial Union - Ohmar Khin is a student refugee from Burma working in support of the country's democracy movement.

Journey to Excellence - Paula Mahone
All Day – Memorial Union - Paula Mahone is medical director of perinatal services at Iowa Methodist Medical Center and helped deliver the McCaughey septuplets.

A Performance: A Musical Romp Through Women's History - Gerri Gribi
All Day – Memorial Union - Gerri Gribi is a musician, historian and storyteller playing the autoharp, mountain dulcimer and guitar. She has recorded three albums, ""Womansong,"" ""Prince Charming Doesn't Live Here"" and ""The Womansong Colleciton.""