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Environmental and Economic Benefits of Sustainable Agriculture - David Pimentel
All Day – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - David Pimental is professor of Entomology at Cornell University and chief editor of "C.R.C. Handbook of Pest Management in Agriculture." From the University Lectures Program archive.

Civility and Community: Recapturing the American Dream - James Autry
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - James Autry is author of the management primer Love and Profit: The Art of Caring Leadership. He was president of the Meredith corporation magazine Group where he oversaw the publication of a wide variety of magazines including Better Homes and Gardens. His other books include Nights Under a Tin Roof...Recollections of a southern Boyhood and Life after Mississippi. Part of the National Affairs Series

The Great Game of Business - Jack Stack
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Jack Stack is the president of Springfield Remanufacturing Center Corporation which was a dying division of International Harvester before it was purchased by 12 employees and turned into one of America's most successful, employee-run small companies. Success has come from innovative practices which involve all of the creative energies of the workforce sharing the risks and rewards of running the company. Part of the National Affairs Series

Schooling for the American Dream - Henry Levin
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Henry Levin is the David Jacks Professor of Higher Education, Affiliated Professor of Economics and director of the center for Educational Research at Stanford University. he is the author of Community Control of Schools, Comparing Public and Private Schools, Limits of educational Reform, Public Dollars for Private Schools, and Schooling and Work in the Democratic state. He is editor of the Review of Educational Research and received his doctorate in economics from Rutgers. Part of the National Affairs Series

America: What Went Wrong - Donald Barlett
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Donald Barlett co-authored America: What Went Wrong? with James Steele. they are investigative reporters for {i}The Philadelphia Inquirer where they have collaborated for years, winning two Pulitzer Prizes and every major national journalism award. other books they have co-authored include Empire: The Life, Legend and Madness of Howard Hughes and Forevermore: Nuclear Waste in America. Part of the National Affairs Series

The State of the American Worker - Joe Henry, Johnie Hammond and Tony Smith
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Joe Henry is an international representative for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and was an active member of the Teamsters for a Democratic Union, a reform movement within the union. Rep. Johnie Hammond chaired the subcommittee on Healthcare and Social Services in the Iowa House. ISU Philosophy Professor Tony Smith, who is co-director of the Murray G. Bacon Center for Ethics in Corporations and Government, will moderate. Part of the National Affairs Series

Multi-Media Presentation: American Pictures
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Jacob Holdt moderates this multi-media presentation of his personal journey through the American underclass. Images of the lives of southern sharecroppers, the rebellion at Wounded Knee, secret Ku Klux Klan meetings, and the effects of poverty and racism on the inner cities contrast with those of some of the wealthiest families in the country. Part of the National Affairs Series

Families and the American Dream - Stephanie Coontz
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Stephanie Coontz is author of The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap. She is a scholar on family systems and teaches at Evergreen State College in Washington. her other publications include The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families and Women's Work, Men's Prosperity: On the Origins of Gender and Class. Part of the National Affairs Series

The Ezekiel Experience: Values from the Other Side - Lawrence Jones
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Lawrence Jones recently retired as dean of the Howard University School of Divinity. Previously, he served as Dean of the Seminary, William E. Doge Professor of Applied Christianity and acting president of the Union Theological Seminary. he has written extensively on the history of African American churches. Part of the National Affairs Series

Living Democracy - Frances Moore Lappe and Paul DuBois
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Frances Moore Lappe and Paul DuBois co-founders of the Institute for the Arts for Democracy, will lead an informal discussion of how Americans can develop, apply and refine the concepts and practices of a citizen democracy. Part of the National Affairs Series