Daily Staff Writer

Lecture will explore evolution

Pieces of evolutionary history will be put together in a lecture presented by Maeve Leakey tonight at 8 in the Sun Room of the Memorial Union.

The title of her lecture is “The Search and Discovery of Our Earliest Ancestors.”

Leakey is the head of the division of paleoanthropology at the National Museums of Kenya, and she is noted for her discovery of a new species of early human who began to walk upright at least 4 million years ago.

She is part of a family that has been digging in Africa for more than 70 years, discovering traces to ancestry.

Leakey’s lecture is free and open to the public.

Jischke to address IRHA about Veishea

Iowa State President Martin Jischke will be talking to the Inter-Residence Hall Association tonight about the issues surrounding an alcohol-free Veishea and taking the Veishea pledge.

The special meeting will be held at 8 p.m. in the Wallace-Wilson Conference Room.

IRHA is the only major student organization that has not yet adopted the alcohol-free Veishea pledge. IRHA parliament is scheduled to vote on the pledge at its Thursday meeting.