Daily Staff Writer

Hixson to meet with scholarship recipients

Christina Hixson, founder of the Christina Hixson Scholars Program, will be visiting campus until Friday. The following is her itinerary :

Hixson will meet with the 1997 Hixson scholars over brunch at Summerfield’s in the Holiday Inn Gateway Center at 10 a.m. today.

She will host a forum for Hixson seminar leaders and staff at 302 Catt Hall at 1 p.m.

At 5:30 p.m., some 1998 Hixson scholars will have dinner with Hixson at Aunt Maude’s, 547 Main St.

At 7 p.m., 1999 Hixson scholars are invited to a reception at the Scheman Building.

Hixson will conclude her visit Friday morning by meeting with the Hixson Advisory Council and Hixson program staff over brunch at Summerfield’s.

She will be leaving Ames early Friday afternoon.

—Tiffany Clauson

Class contemplates end of civilization

In an educational exercise, an Iowa State class will be deciding today exactly which aspects of civilization need to be preserved and which are expendable.

“The Final Episode,” a project taken on by the members of LAS 101, an orientation course for undeclared freshmen in the LAS college, is a class exercise that challenges students to study the pleas of professors from five areas of liberal arts and sciences.

The class will meet today at 7:45 a.m. The Tuesday section of LAS 101 had to make its selections for its last class meeting.

The premise for the presentation is that, despite Y2K preparations, civilization will end at midnight on Dec. 31.

However, ISU has a lifeboat that can carry representatives from three fields into the next century to start a new world, according to a press release.

The professors will make their arguments to the 270 members of the class, who then will decide which areas of study will go into the lifeboat.

Robert Hollinger, professor of philosophy, will represent arts and humanities; Barbara Mack, associate professor of journalism and communication, will represent communication; W. Robert Stephenson, professor of statistics, will represent mathematical disciplines; Eugenia Farrar, associate professor of zoology and genetics, will represent natural science; and Hal Pepinsky, visiting professor of sociology, will represent social sciences.

Peter Orazem, interim associate deal of LAS, will moderate the discussion.

—Carrie Tett