inbrief

IRHA elections until midnight

Residence hall students can vote online Wednesday for the Inter-Residence Hall Association 2002 executive positions.

Election results will be announced Thursday during the IRHA meeting in the Gallery Room of the Memorial Union. The meeting will be at 7 p.m.

The voting site is located at www.vote.iastate.edu. The polls will be open Wednesday until midnight.

– Erin Randolph

Michigan prof to speak on film noir

Edward Dimendberg, assistant professor of architecture, film and video studies and German studies at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, will deliver the lecture “Film Noir and Postwar Spacial Anxiety” on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. in Kocimski Auditorium in the Design Center.

The free event is the third of four installments of the College of Design’s “Transparent Geographies: The Dean’s Lecture Series.”

– Jeff Mitchell

Two professors to give `Last Lecture’

Two professors will speak Wednesday as if it were their last lecture.

Barbara Mack, associate professor of journalism and mass communication, and Charles Dobbs, assistant to the president, are speaking as part of the “Last Lecture” series. The professors will act as if it’s their last chance to tell an audience what they want them to know.

The lectures, which are free and open to the public, will be Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Lush Auditorium in Kildee Hall.

– Cavan Reagan

Debate about morality Wednesday

The Rock and ISU Atheist and Agnostic Society are sponsoring “Morality: Absolute or Relative?” Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in Curtiss Hall Auditorium.

The event will feature a debate between Hector Avalos, associate professor of religious studies, and Tom Short, a national Christian speaker.

– Erin Randolph