Within one week of the presentation you attend, you must submit to me a one-page (no more) paper analyzing or debating one or all of the issues discussed at the presentation. A summary of the event will earn NO credit. In fact, submitting a summary will have a negative effect on your grade.

Each paper can eliminate one of the following (I will eliminate whatever mark is having the greatest negative effect on your grade):

• one missed homework assignment / failed quiz
• one tardy
• half of an absence (reducing it to a tardy; two papers would then eliminate one absence)

This is not a license to skip class. You may only submit three of these papers. If you currently do not have a missed homework assignment / failed quiz, tardy, or absence, you may still attend a lecture that looks interesting, write the paper, and save a "free quiz" for later (that would make up for a possible bad grade on a future homework assignment / failed quiz).

List of Events
Below is a list of possible events you could attend. If you have another event you would like to attend and possibly receive credit for this "assignment," talk to me at least a week before the event, and we may be able to use that event as well. The University's list of events is online here; usually academic lectures and multicultural events will count for this assignment.

Theme	Topic	Speaker	Date	Time	Location
Campus Art	Public art, love it or hate it, but do you understand it?	Lynette Pohlman	Thursday, February 6	7:00pm	Brunnier Art Museum
Institute on National Affairs - Mass Media and Culture in America	Motherhood in the Media: The Last 30 Years	Susan Douglas	Thursday, February 6	8:00pm	Sun Room, Memorial Union
Campus Art	Recreating History: The Stained Glass Skylights and Oculus at Beardshear Hall	Marty Gund	Sunday, February 9	2:00pm	Brunnier Art Museum
Campus Art	The G-Nome Project Revisited	Andrew Leicester	Thursday, February 13	7:00pm	Molecular Biology Building, First Floor Auditorium
Nature as Art	Conserving and Recording Iowa's Natural Resources	Carl Kurtz	Sunday, February 16	2:00pm	Brunnier Art Museum
Sigma Xi	Can Values Be Good for Science?	Helen Longino	Thursday, February 20	8:00pm	Campanile Room, Memorial Union
Perspectives	Visual Thinking Process in Design From the Viewpoint of A Person with Autism	Temple Grandin	Tuesday, February 25	8:00pm	Sun Room, Memorial Union
Wednesday Walk	College of Family and Consumer Sciences Icons	Carol Meeks	Wednesday, February 26	Noon	Sun Room, Memorial Union
Institute on National Affairs - Mass Media and Culture in America	Understanding the World: An Argument for TV News	Michael Gartner	Wednesday, February 26	8:00pm	Sun Room, Memorial Union
Science and Society Dialogue	New Social Challenges in Science, Engineering and Technology	Neal Lane	Tuesday, March 4	8:00pm	Sun Room, Memorial Union
Gender Equity	Braless Banshees vs. Brainless Barbies: Feminism for Today	Jennifer Baumgardner & Amy Richards	Wednesday, March 5	8:00pm	Sun Room, Memorial Union
Gender Equity	Will Title IX Survive?	Christine Grant	Thursday, March 6	Noon	Sun Room, Memorial Union
ISCORE Keynote Speaker	NASA Mission Highlights	John Herrington	Friday, March 7	Noon	Great Hall, Memorial Union
Gender Equity	Exploring Gender 101	Debra Davis	Wednesday, March 26	7:00pm	Gallery, Memorial Union
U.S. Government	Who Stole the First Amendment?	Molly Ivins	Tuesday, April 1	8:00pm	Sun Room, Memorial Union
American Indian Symposium	Ways of the Matriarchy vs. Paradigms of the Paternal Order	James Starkey	Thursday, April 3	8:00pm	Gallery, Memorial Union
American Indian Symposium	Reflections: Tapestry of a Common Man	James Starkey	Friday, April 4	3:00pm	Gallery, Memorial Union
American Indian Symposium	Native American Rights in the 21st Century	John Echohawk	Friday, April 4	8:00pm	Great Hall, Memorial Union
Institute on World Affairs - Religion and Conflict	The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam	Karen Armstrong	Tuesday, April 8	8:00pm	Sun Room, Memorial Union
Institute on World Affairs	Ethical Implications in Counterterrorism	Jim Olson	Thursday, April 24	8:00pm	Great Hall, Memorial Union