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The Challenge of Techonology - Jeremy Rifkin
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Jeremy Rifkin has authored several books, including Who Should Play God? and Declaration of a Heretic. He is currently Director of the Foundation on Economic Trends and is best known as a critic of genetic engineering. Mr. Rifkin received his Master's Degree in International Affairs from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Part of the National Affairs Series.

Film: War Games
3:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - In this 1983 film, high tech intersects with leisure pursuits when a technologically proficient teenager accidentally taps into the Defense Department's computer and unknowingly challenges it to a game of thermonuclear warfare. The distinction between reality and game playing is blurred as it becomes apparent that the computer doesn't know it's a game and the teenager doesn't know it's war. Part of the National Affairs Series

Bigger is not always better Human Values and the Decentralization of Technology in the 1930's - Howard Segal
All Day – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Dr. Segal is Mellon Faculty Fellow, History of Science Department, Harvard, and author of "Technological Utopianism and American Culture, 1880-1930. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Performance Techniques of Low Brass Instruments - William Winkle
All Day – - Exact date is unknown. Part of University Lecture Series. University Lectures Program Archive.

From Cambodia to Mayor Koch - Sydney Schanberg
All Day – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Sydney Schanberg wrote "The Killing Fields" and is a columnist for the New York Times. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Global Thoughts-Local Actions: Expression by Contemporary American Indian Artists - A Panel Disccusion
All Day – - Participants Included: George Longfish, Joan Randall, Juane Quick-To-See Smith. Exact date is unknown. Part of University Lecture Series. University Lectures Program Archive.

Halley, Giacobini-Zimmer and the Exploration of Comets - John Brandt
All Day – - Part of the University Lectures Program archive.

Twentieth Century Vocal Works - Maria Di Palma
All Day – - Exact date is unknown. Part of University Lecture Series. University Lectures Program Archive.

Humanism and World Peace - Ivan Supek
All Day – - Part of the University Lectures Program archive.

Public Science: Natural History Museums in Late 19th and early 20th Centuries - Sally Kohlstedt
All Day – Curtiss Auditorium - Dr. Kohlstedt is Associate Professor of History at Syracuse University and author of "The Formation of the American Scientific Community: The American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1848-60. From the University Lectures Program archive.