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America Needs a New Intercollegiate Sports System - John F. Rooney
All Day – Gallery, Memorial Union - Professor of Geography, Oklahoma State University. Dr. Rooney is interested in the geography of sport: spacial reorganization of sports/athletic recruitment. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Healthy Lifestyles and Wellness - Murray Vincent & Mary Beth Love
All Day – 101 Carver - Developers of the Open Door Health Program at the University of South Carolina. As they call their program, "a move towards prevention", it is designed to provide easy access to health counseling and education oriented toward positive health. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Visit Holographic -
All Day – Benton Auditorium, Scheman Building - Part of the University Lectures Program archive.

Calligraphy Today - Ieuan Rees
All Day – Benton Auditorium, Scheman Building - A freelance artist from England, his many comissions include works for Buckingham Palace and the National Portrait Gallery in London. Mr. Rees will be coming to Iowa State from a four-week workshop for the Colleagues of Calligraphy in Minneapolis. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Waiting for Godot - Old Creamery Theatre
All Day – Fisher Theater - Part of the University Lectures Program archive.

Democracy vs. The First Amendment - Martin M. Shapiro
8:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Martin Shapiro is professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his BA from UCLA and his Ph.D from Harvard and taught at Stanford, University of California at Irvine, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Riverside. His books include Law and Politics in the Supreme Court, Freedom of Speech: The Supreme Court and Judicial Review, Supreme Court and Administrative Agencies, and Courts (in press). He has also written many scholarly articles and co-authored or edited several other books including The Supreme Court and Constitutional Rights, American National Government, The Politic of Constitutional Law, and American Constitutional Law. Part of the National Affairs Series: The Bill of Rights - Taking Liberties?

Hyde Park Speaker's Corner
1:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Like its London progenitor, the Institute's Speakers' Corner will be open to all corners. Small platforms will be provided for speakers. Anyone may get up on one of eight to ten platforms to argue any cause-from legalization of abortion to abolition of zoos. And, of course, spectators are encouraged to argue back, or at least to offer counter views, in our effort to create a marketplace of ideas. Part of the National Affairs Series

Film: Deadline USA
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Humphrey Bogart portrays an editor struggling to maintain his newspaper's integrity while fulfilling its civic duties without yielding to official pressures. Ethel Barrymore, Ed Begley, and Jim Backus also star. Part of the National Affairs Series

The Legal and Social Crisis of Capital Punishment - Henry Schwarzschild
8:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Henry Schwarzschild currently serves as the director of the Capitol Punishment Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. The project seeks to prevent all executions and to abolish the death penalty in the United States. Born in Germany, Schwarzchild immigrated to the US in 1939 and received his education from the City College of New York and Columbia University. He participated in the first desegregation sit-ins in the 1960's and the Freedom Rides in 1961 and worked closely with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. Part of the National Affairs Series: The Bill of Rights - Taking Liberties?

In Defense of Life - Doug Brown
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Doug Brown has been associated with WOI AM/FM radio for seventeen years and currently serves as that station's senior producer. He has been involved in broadcasting since he was 16 years old, and was active in professional theater in Chicago and Memphis before joining WOI's "The Book Club." Tapes of his program are sent to the Commission for the Blind, enabling them to be distributed to the blind in the Iowa community. Mr. Brown received his education at Knox College in Illinois and at the University of Iowa. Part of the National Affairs Series: The Bill of Rights - Taking Liberties?