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Is the American Family as We Know it an Endangered Species? - Reuben Hill
3:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Reuben Hill is Regents' Professor of Family Sociology at the University of Minnesota. He has made many outstanding contributions to family studies, including classic works in the area of family developmental theory and crisis theory. As a former Iowa State professor, he was a predominant influence in establishing the study of the family as a strong emphasis at this university. Part of the National Affairs Series: Dreams, Myth and Reality.

Human Creativity: Our Never Ending Frontier - William Boyd
8:00 PM – Recital Hall, Music Hall - Former president of the University of Iowa Willard L. Boyd is now president of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. he holds a doctorate of law, has had a long and distinguished career as a professor of law, and has served on the boards of numerous national commissions and committees including the national Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and the metropolitan Opera Association. Part of the National Affairs Series: Dreams, Myth and Reality.

The Computer and the Arts - Charles Dodge
3:00 PM – Recital Hall, Music Hall - Charles Dodge is an accomplished composer of computer music whose works have been performed throughout the world. He studied music composition at the University of Iowa and Columbia University and is now the director of one of the most extensive computer music production centers in this country. Dodge's works have been performed recently at the American Center in Paris, the Modern Museum in Stockholm, and Carnegie Recital Hall in New York. Part of the National Affairs Series: Dreams, Myth and Reality.

Film: Fried Shoes, Cooked Diamonds
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - One strain of the American poetic tradition is examined through the work, personalities, and antics of the summer faculty of the Jack Kerouac School of Poetics at the Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado, where there is a reunion of the "beat generation" greats, including Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, William Burroughs, Peter Orlovsky, and Timothy Leary. their concern about contemporary American problems is also shown through a poetry reading at an anti-nuclear demonstration. Part of the National Affairs Series

Television and The Control of the American Spirit - Jerry Mander
8:00 PM – Benton Auditorium, Scheman Building - Jerry Mander, the author of Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, believes that the medium's inherent problems are so dangerous to personal health and safety, to the environment, and to democratic processes that it should be eliminated. Once a traditional advertising executive, Mander became deeply involved in the Public Interest Advertising Movement ot the point of being called "the Ralph Nader of Advertising." he is currently working on a book, to be published by the Sierra Club, concerning native people and technological society. Part of the National Affairs Series: Dreams, Myth and Reality.

Film: On the Line
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - The most pressing economic problems facing Americans today--inflation, layoffs, unemployment--are examined through the particular lives of several individuals, including angry Ford assembly line workers and engineer scheduled to lose his job and rent strikers in a large city, to show that low-income and middle class groups alike are suffering from financial insecurity. Part of the National Affairs Series

Dialogue on the Turn to the Right
8:00 PM – Benton Auditorium, Scheman Building, ISU Center - Lynn Cutler, the first woman elected to the Black Hawk County Board of Supervisors, has served in that capacity since 1974. As the Democratic candidate for the Third Congressional District in 1980, she lost by two percentage points in that conservative district. Active in civil rights and feminist groups, she is currently one of three vice-chairs of the National Democratic Party and recently announced her candidacy for the Third Congressional District seat in 1982. As the twenty-nine year old Chairman and co-founder of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC), Terry Dolan spearheaded that group's successful effort which helped to unseat five of six targeted liberal senators while raising millions of dollars to aid the candidacy of various conservative candidates in the 1982 elections. He is also the Director of Conservatives Against Liberal Legislation and aboard member on the Committee for Responsible Youth Politics, the Conservative National Committee and Americans for Nuclear Energy. Part of the National Affairs Series

Ronald Reagan: Our First Post-Modern President - Joseph Wall
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Dr. Joseph Wall, Director of the Rosenfield Program in Public Affairs, International Relations, and Human Rights, is the author of a definitive biography of Andrew Carnegie. He is Professor of History at Grinnell College. Part of the National Affairs Series: Dreams, Myth and Reality.

Film: Underground
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - The recent reemergence of the radical Weather Underground makes this acclaimed film timely and reminds us that the voice of dissent has its place in the American spirit. The radical leaders, including Kathy Boudin and Bernardine Dohrn, discuss the movement's goals, methods, triumphs, and failures while commenting on American values and processes that they would change. Because the people interviewed were wanted by the FBI, the filmmakers were surveilled and their footage subpoenaed in an unsuccessful attempt to suppress the film. {b}Part of the National Affairs Series

Tradition versus Democracy in American Culture: A Transformation of National Values - Michael Kammen
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Michael Kammen, professor of American History at Cornell University, received his PhD from Harvard. He was host and moderator for the "States of the Union," a series of 50 one-hour radio programs broadcast by National Public Radio during the bicentennial year. he received a Pulitzer Prize in History in 1973 for People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1979. Part of the National Affairs Series: Dreams, Myth and Reality.