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Is This Finally the Year of the Woman? - Kathleen Frankovic
All Day – South Ballroom, Memorial Union - Kathleen Frankovic is director of Surveys and Producer of CBS News where she is responsible for the design, analysis, and broadcasting of results from the CBS News and CBS News/New York Times polls. Panel discussion following with: Columnist Donald Kaul, Natonal Women's Political Caucus past-president Sharon Rondine, and ISU political scientist Ardith Maney. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Campaign '92 - Donald Kaul
All Day – Gallery, Memorial Union - Donald Kaul is a nationally syndicated political columnist who writes for the "Des Moines Register" and author of "The End of the World as We Know It." From the University Lectures Program archive.

From the Social Construction of Race to the Abolition of Whiteness - David Roediger
All Day – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - David Roediger is a professor of history at the University of Missouri and author of "Our Own Time: A Histor of American Labor and the Working Day." From the University Lectures Program archive.

Images of the Other: Arabs in American Media - Jack G. Shaheen
All Day – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Jack Shaheen is professor of mass communication at Southern Illinois University and author of "Nuclear War Films," "The TV Arab," and "The Hollywood Arab." From the University Lectures Program archive.

Hispanic Progress in USA - Antonia Novello
All Day – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Antonia Novella is the Surgeon General of the United States. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Hispanic Progress in USA - David Ochoa
All Day – Great Hall, Memorial Union - David Ochoa is vice-president for development and public affairs at Chicago State University. He is founder and owner of Buena Vision and was executive producer of the film "The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez" and co-produced "The Milagro Beanfield War" with Robert Redford. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Discussion of Muslim Vs. Christianity - Richard N. Osslund, Shaker Elsayed
All Day – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Shaker El-Sayed is coordinator of the Islamic Teaching Center of Islamic Society of North America and author of "Fight of Fasting in Islam." From the University Lectures Program archive.

A Moral Perspective on the Atrocities in Yugoslavia - Steven Fink, Mohammad Khan, Nenad Kostic and Ted Lapkin
All Day – Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union - Steven Fink is rabbi of the Bnai Jeshurn Synagogue. Mohammad Khan is kadi of the Islamic Center of Des Moines. Nenad Kostic is ISU associate professor of Chemistry from Yugoslavia and Ted Lapkin is executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Commission of Des Moines. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Insect Horror Film Festival
7:00 PM – Memorial Union - Insect Horror Film Festival

Stand-up Comedian - Jeff Marder
All Day – C.Y. Stephens Auditorium - Jeff Marder performs comedy for both hemispheres of the brain. He has appeared on more than 20 network shows and in hundreds of comedy culbs across the country. From the Univerity Lectures Program archive.