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The Costs of Global Warming - Laurent Hodges, Don Roberts and Ross Talbot
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Laurent Hodges, ISU Physics Department, has been teaching classes on the greenhouse effect since 1970 and is author of Environmental Pollution. Don Roberts, ISU Nuclear Engineering Department, is a member of the Environmental Studies Faculty Committee. Ross Talbot, ISU Political Science Department, has taught environmental politics and polices and was a faculty member of the Water Resources Program. Part of the World Affairs Series: Transforming the Ecological Crisis

Transforming the Ecological Crisis - Barry Commoner
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Internationally recognized environmentalist Barry Commoner is director of the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems and professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Queens College, CUNY. He is president of the International Environmental Institute in Cervia, Italy; scientific advisor to the N>Y> State Legislative Committee on Science and Technology; and serves on the board of the Committee for Responsible Genetics. His books include:Science and Survival, The Poverty of Power, and The Politics of Energy. He received his doctorate in biology from Harvard University. Part of the World Affairs Series: Transforming the Ecological Crisis

Film: If you Love this Planet & Greenpeace's Greatest Hits
3:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Environmental activist Helen Caldicott traces the development of atomic weapons and the immediate and long-term medical and environmental impact their use would have in the film If You Love this Planet. Footage from civil defense films and of the Hiroshima survivors is also included. Greenpeace's Greatest Hits shows the non-violent confrontational actions used by Greenpeace to stop the killing of endangered whales, the spread of man-made pollutants and other assaults on our environment. Part of the World Affairs Series

Teachers of the Year: Share the Excellence - Joe Washington, Patricia Taylor, Anna Mueller
7:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Joe Washington, 1980 Kentucky Teacher of the Year; Patricia Taylor, 1983 Texas Teacher of the Year and Anna Mueller, 1988 Iowa Teacher of the Year. From the University Lectures program archive.

War and Peace in Central America - Rodrigo Carazo
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Rodrigo Carazo is the Director of the World Peace Institute based in Costa Rica and was the President of Costa Rica. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Political Ethics in a Revolutionary Setting - Jose Miguez Bonino
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Jose Miguez Bonino is Professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics at Emory University. He is author of Doing Theology in a Revolutionary Situation and Toward a Christian Political Ethics. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Needs and Benefits of Research in Fluid Power - Robert Koski
All Day – - Part of the University Lectures Program Archive. Exact Date is Unknown

The Poetry of Three Wars - Paul Fussell
8:00 PM – Carver 101 - Paul Fussell is Donald T. Regan Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. His book The Great War and Modern Memory won the National Book Award and the Ralph Waldo Emerson award. His other books include Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars, Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays, and Wartime. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Religion and Peace for the 1990's - John M. Swomley
8:00 PM – Carver 101 - John Swomley is on the board of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, a lobbyist for peace groups in Washington, and author of American Empire. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Performance: Cajun and Traditional French Songs - Lilianne Labbe and Don Hinkley
8:00 PM – Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union - Lilianne Labbe and Don Hinkley perform jazz, blue grass and classical guitar in addition to Cajun and traditonal French songs. Their albums include 'Un Canadien Errant" and "Crossing Borderline." From the University Lectures Program archive.