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The Nicaraguan Revolution - Amilcar Navarro
All Day – - Exact date is unknown. Part of University Lecture Series. University Lectures Program Archive.

The World Bank and Economic Development in the Third World - Sigrid Blobel
All Day – - Exact date is unknown. Part of University Lecture Series. University Lectures Program Archive.

An Alternative to the Kissinger Commission Report - Bob Armstrong
All Day – - Part of the University Lectures Program archive.

Agriculture in Transition - Hiram Tranche
All Day – - Part of the University Lectures Program archive.

The Orwellian World of Modern Sport - Harry Edwards
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Harry Edwards is Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. Professor Edwards attended San Jose State University on an athletic scholarship and received his PhD in Sociology at cornell. He has lectured widely throughout the United States and Canada on sports and race and society. He has published numerous articles and books, including Sociology of Sport and Playing to Win: A Short Guide to Sensible Black Sports Participation. Part of the National Affairs Series: How Close Have We Come?

1984 and the Cold War Mentality - Warren Wagar
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Part of the National Affairs Series: How Close Have We Come?

Film: THX-1138
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - The 1971 film, directed by Star War's George Lucas, is a sci-fi depiction of a futuristic robot-like society in the 1984 vein, where sex is forbidden and a vast uniformity is imposed on the populace. Part of the National Affairs Series

High Technology and 1984: The Dark Side of the Computer Age - Robert Ellis Smith
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Robert Ellis Smith, publisher of the Privacy Journal, has been called "the Paul revere of the Information Society" by Bill Moyers and The New Yorker. Smith, author of Privacy: How to Protect What's Left of It, has testified before Congressional committees on the perils of increased reliance on computerized information and giant data banks. He served as assistant director of the Civil Rights Office of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and was director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Privacy Project. He is a Harvard graduate and received a law degree from Georgetown University. Part of the National Affairs Series: How Close Have We Come?

Orwell, Newspeak, Doublethink and Doublespeak - William Lutz
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - William Lutz is the editor of the Quarterly Review of Doublespeak and has published extensively on the use of language as a tool of power. Among his articles are "Language as a Means of Social control in 1984," "The Rhetoric of Ideological Hegemony," and "Doublespeak: Reading the Media." Dr. Lutz chairs the Department of English at Rutgers University and has researched intensively the teaching of English composition and the design of English curricula. Part of the National Affairs Series: How Close Have We Come?

To Secure the Blessings of Liberty - John Henry Faulk
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - John Henry Faulk received an MA degree from the University of Texas, specializing in American folklore. Impressed with his character sketches and interpretations of folk humor, CBS signed him shortly after WWII for a weekly radio show. The program lasted until 1957 when his contract was not renewed because he had been blacklisted by a self-appointed "patriotic" organization which listed performers with "pink" or "communist front" records. Faulk fought and won a six-year legal battle to clear his name. His book Fear on Trial was made into a television special in 1975. In 1980, the National Broadcast Editorial Association named Faulk as recipient of the James Madison First Amendment Award for his "steadfast devotion tot he First Amendment." Part of the National Affairs Series: How Close Have We Come?