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Film: This Land is Home to Me
2:30 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - This film presents some underlying structural reasons for poverty in Appalachia while examining the Church's role in changing the injustice and exploitative conditions created there primarily by wealthy companies. Part of the National Affairs Series

Films: Harvest of Shame & Migrant Farm Workers
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - The first film is an Edward R. Murrow-narrated documentary showing the degradation and exploitation of migrant workers in 1960; the second film shows that little has changed for the migrants in 1982. Part of the National Affairs Series

Social Welfare in Capitalist America - Jeff Glaper
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Dr. Galper, an associate professor in the School of Social Administration at Temple University, received his Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College School of Social Work and Social Research. He has authored numerous articles and reviews, as well as his two books: The Politics of Social Services and Social Work Practice: A Radical Perspective Over the past decade he has been involved in progressive political work, particularly in Philadelphia. Part of the National Affairs Series: Poverty - The Great American Nightmare.

The Two Wars on Poverty: Before and After LBJ - Charles Murray
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Charles Murray is currently a Research Fellow with the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and is writing a major study of the postwar history of poverty, race, and federal social welfare policy. He has spent several years with the American Institutes for Research studying the effectiveness of various government spending programs. A defender of the trickle-down theory of economics, he has recently published articles in The Wall Street Journal and The Public Interest. His forthcoming book is titled Crime and Public Policy. Part of the National Affairs Series: Poverty - The Great American Nightmare.

Film: From Cradle to Grave
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - 1976 Nobel Prize Winner in economics Milton Friedman debates with opponents the conflicts between growing economic controls and dwindling personal freedoms while condemning the "welfare state". Part of the National Affairs Series

The New Poor - Barbara Mikulski
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Congresswoman Barbara Mikulski is a Democrat representing the Third Congressional District of Maryland. She began her career as a child-neglect social worker and community organizer. After receiving her M.S. from the University of Maryland School of Social Work, she served as the chief social worker in a program for the elderly which was part of Baltimore's anti-poverty program. Part of the National Affairs Series: Poverty - The Great American Nightmare.

Film: The Grapes of Wrath
3:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - John Steinbeck's Joad family comes alive on film as they migrate from the 1930's mid-western dustbowl to California, desperately seeking an end to their poverty. Henry Fonda stars in the 1940 classic. Part of the National Affairs Series

Goodbye Gutenberg - Film
All Day – Carver 1 - This documentary film examines the history, development and future of both the printed and the processed work and escorts the viewer on an international survey of the communications revolution. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Draft Registration - Rusty Martin
All Day – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Mr. Martin, student body president of UNI, will discuss his decision not to register for the draft. From the University Lectures Program archive.

The Psyche of a Racist Culture - Alvin Poussiant
All Day – Carver 101 - Part of the University Lectures Program archive.