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The Role of the University: A Student Perspective - Molly Olinger, David Young, Julie Bradley, Michael Boulden, Amy Mooney and Bomshad Mobasher
4:00 PM – Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union - Molly Olinger is president of the Government of the Student Body. David Young is editor-in-chief of the ISU Examiner. Julie Bradley is a political science graduate student who recently returned from the Middle East. Michael Boulden is president of Black Student Government. Amy Mooney is an English graduate student and former columnist for the [i}ISU Daily. Bamshad Mobasher is a GSB Senator and Committee on Equality member. Part of the National Affairs Series.

The Role of the University - Pat Gaedelmann, Mary Williams and Bob Hollinger with Richard Van Iten
12:00 PM – Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union - Patricia Geadelmann is director of governmental affairs and was assistant provost for academic affairs at the University of Northern Iowa. mary Williams is a member of the iowa Board of Regents. bob Hollinger is associate professor of Philosophy at ISU and served on the Faculty Senate. Richard Van Iten, interim chair and professor of the ISU Philosophy Department, will moderate. Part of the National Affairs Series.

Higher Education in a Democracy - Gloria Scott
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Gloria Scott is the president of Bennett College, a historically black college for women, in Greensboro, North Carolina. She is chair of the Task Force on Minority Participation in independent Higher Education for the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and serves on a number of boards including the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Part of the National Affairs Series.

George Washington Carver: Making Education Common - Linda McMurry
4:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Linda O. McMurry is professor of Afro-American Studies in the Department of History at North Carolina State and her books include George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol and Recorder of the Black Experience: A Biography of Monroe Nathan Work. She co-authored the textbook America and Its People. Part of the National Affairs Series.

The Effect of Perestroika on Developing Nations - Alejandro Bendana
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Alejandro Bendana recently stepped down as Secretary General of the Nicaraguan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is director of the Center for International Studies in Managua, a social and economic research institute established to study the effects of Perestroika on developing nations. he received his doctorate from Harvard in economic history. Part of the World Affairs Series: Eastern Europe and the World in Transition

Environmental Conditions in Eastern Europe and the USSR - G.V. Menzhulin
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - G.V. Menzhulis is with the Agrophysical Institute in Leningrad and member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change which recently issued a report confirming the growing consensus on the prospects for global warming. his research area includes economic analysis of crop yield variability. Part of the World Affairs Series: Eastern Europe and the World in Transition

Writing Without the Enemy - Andrei Codrescu
8:00 PM – South Ballroom - Memorial Union - Romanian-born writer Andrei Codrescu is a commentator on national public Radio and a professor of English at Louisiana State university. He edits Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Books and Ideas and his collections of poetry, fiction and essays include: Comrade Past and Mister Present, The life and Times of An Involuntary Genius and Raised by Puppets Only to Be Killed by Research. he recently returned from a visit to Romania. Part of the World Affairs Series: Eastern Europe and the World in Transition

After the Cold War: Voices for Global Demilitarization - Iwona Tyszkiewicz
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Iwona Tyszkiewicz joined the Polish Solidarity movement in 1980 and went underground after marital law was imposed. In 1982 she was convicted of "working for the destruction of the state" for distributing newspapers and was sentenced to 3 years in prison. Freed after a general amnesty and a year of forced labor, she helped organize miners' strikes. She now produces television program working through an independent trade union. Part of the World Affairs Series: Eastern Europe and the World in Transition

The Future of Capitalism - Paul Sweezy
8:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Paul Sweezy is co-founder and co-editor of Monthly Review and author of many books including Post-Revolutionary Society, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Chile, modern Capitalism and Other Essays and The Theory of Capitalist Development. He received his doctorate in economics from Harvard University and has taught at Cornell, Stanford, Yale and Cambridge Universities. Part of the World Affairs Series: Eastern Europe and the World in Transition

Iron Curtain Calls: Problems Facing Theater in Eastern Europe - Philip Boehm
8:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Philip Boehm has directed plays by Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard and Lanford Wilson in Poland and translated the works of Ingeborg Bachmann, Christoph hHein and Franz Kafka. he also translated and directed Come Back to the 5 & Dime, jimmy Dean, jimmy Dean for the premier performance in Krakow in 1987. He is currently Lecturer in Performing Arts at Washington University where he is teaching a seminar in Eastern European theatre. Part of the World Affairs Series: Eastern Europe and the World in Transition