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Reading Science Fiction - Rudy Rucker
All Day – Ross 212 - Dr. Rucker is winner of the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award and is author of "Software" "57th Franz Kafka" "Infinity and the Mind" and "Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimention." From the University Lectures Program archive.

Hong Kong's Political Future - Kenneth Leung
All Day – Carver 101 - Dr. Leung will discuss Hong Kong's political future when the lease of Hong Kong by the British expires in 1997. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Future of U.S. Agricultural Policy - Walter Falcon
All Day – Ross 124 - Dr. Falcon is Director of the Food Research Institute and Professor at Standford University. From the University Lectures Program archive.

India and World Food Systems - Mohammad Shafi
All Day – Carver 101 - Mohammad Shafi is Chairperson of the Department of Geography at Aligarh Muslim University in India. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Atanasoff and the ENIAC - Arthur W. Burks
All Day – Benton Auditorium, ISU Center - Dr. Burks is Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Michigan. He participated in the development of the ENIAC computer at the University of Pennsylvania and several other early computers. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Comic Vision in a Tragic World - Conrad Hyers
All Day – Gallery, Memorial Union - Dr. Hyers is Professor of the History of Religion at Gustavaus Adolphus College. He is author of "Holy Laughter: Essays of Religion in the Comic Perspective", "Zen and the Comic Spirit" and "The Comic Vision and the Christian Faith." From the University Lectures Program archive.

Toxic Waste: The EPA Scandal - Hugh Kaufman
All Day – Carver 101 - Mr. Kaufman is Head of the Federal Toxic Waste Disposal Program at the Environmental Protection Agency. He has testified before Congress about the E.P.A.'s failure to clean up hazardous waste sites. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Changes in Society and Leisure - Larry Neal
All Day – 186 LeBaron Hall - Dr. Neal is Associate Professor and Director for the Center of Leisure Studies at the University of Oregon and President of the American Association for Leisure and Recreation. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Kissinger and Foreign Policy During the Nixon Administration - Seymour Hersh
All Day – Benton Auditorium, ISU Center - Mr. Hersh won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the My Lai massacre. He was a New York Times investigative reporter, press secretary and speech writer for Eugene McCarthy in 1968, and has just finished a book on Henry Kissinger and foreign policy during the Nixon administration. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Revolution in the Library: The New Technology - Hugh C. Atkinson
All Day – Benton Auditorium, ISU Center - Mr. Atkinson is University Librarian for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the largest publicly supported library in the United States. From the University Lectures Program archive.