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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Election - Dianne Bystrom
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Dianne Bystrom will illustrate the use of humor in political campaigns with television ads from the Political Commercial Archive at the University of Oklahoma. She is director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics at Iowa State University and is coeditor and contributing author to The Lynching of Language: Gender Politics, and Power in the Hill Thomas Hearings and the soon-to-be-published The Electronic Election: Perspectives on the 1996 Campaign Communication. Part of the National Affairs Series.

Politics and Humor in America - Institute on National Affairs
All Day – Memorial Union - Political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow, Capitol Steps and producer Bill Strauss, voice of The Simpsons, and actor Harry Shearer, Des Moines Register editorial cartoonist Brian Duffy will join politcians, scholars and activists to discuss the role humor in a democracy.

50 Years of Independent India: Democracy and Culture in Balance - J.C. Sharma, Joseph Elder, Harpal Bal and S. Gayathri
All Day – Memorial Union - J. C. Sharma is Consul General of India at the Indian Consulate in Chicago; Joseph Elder is professor of sociology and South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Harpal Bal is professor emeritus in the College of Vet Medicine at Iowa State, and S. Gayathri is a Bharatnatyam classical Indian dancer.

Heather Has Two Mommies: Homophobia Censorship and Family Values - Leslea Newman
All Day – Memorial Union - Leslea Newman is the author of Heather Has Two Mommies, Writing From the Heart, A Letter to Harvey Milk, and Still Life with Buddy.

Big Wild Road Show - Northern Rockies Preservation Project
All Day – Memorial Union - A multimedi presentation by activists from the Northern Rockies Preservation Project working to stop loggin of the last remaining roadless areas of the Northern Rockies, the Coveland/ Mallard area in central Idaho.

Gender Barriers for Women Working with Subsistence Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa - Kitty Cardwell
All Day – Memorial Union - Kitty Cardwell is research plant pathologist at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Ibadan,Nigeria and a project leader for the Maize IPM Project. She received her doctorate in plant pathology from Texas A&M and her undergraduate degree in botany from the University of Texas.

Film:Rosewood - Rosewood
All Day – Memorial Union - This true story about the racially-motivated destruction of a small Florida town in 1923 was directed by John Singleton and stars Ving Rhames and John Voight.

Where Do We Go From Here? - Patricia Russell- McCloud
All Day – Memorial Union - Patricia Russel-McCloud is the president of The Links, Inc. a 9,600-member national community service organization and president of Russell-McCloud and Associates, a corporate management training firm.

- Ames Community Sing with the Urban Bush Women
All Day - A musical celebration with members of the Urban Bush Women, a visiting company of African American artists. Afterwards they will join the audience for birthday cake.

Concert - Let Freedom Ring
All Day - A crillon concert in honor of Dr. King. Tin-Shi Tam, carilloner.