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One Decade and the Politics of Ethnic Studies: Focus for the Future - Charles Irby
All Day – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Chair, Future Studies Department, California State Polytechnic University and editor of "Explorations in Ethnic Studies." From the University Lectures Program archive.

The Next 200 Years - Leon Martel
All Day – Benton Auditorium, Scheman Building - Film Title: Reflections on the 21st Century. The Film examines the world hunger problem from the view of Word Bank experts. Mr Martel is Executive Vice President of the Hudson Institute, specializing in predicting future trends in population and energy and food consumption. Part of the World Affairs Series. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Film: Metropolis
8:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Metropolis offers an interesting twist to the Institute on World Affair's theme: "Humankind in the 1980's". While all scheduled events look at the future from a current perspective, this film takes the viewer back into how one writer in the 1920's imagined it. Metropolis is a silent film made in Germany before World War II and is put to piano accompaniment. This cross between Buck Rogers and George Orwell was acclaimed as a masterpiece and contains some of the most expensively mounted special effects to come out of the movie industry technology of its day. Part of the World Affairs Series

Film: Terrorism, the World at Bay
8:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Investigation of the causes and effects of worldwide terrorism on people, governments, diplomacy and political decision-making. Originally broadcast live, the program seeks solutions to this international problem by incorporating segments from a number of locations in Europe and the mideast and brings together government leaders, academic experts, journalists and individuals with direct personal experience in terrorist activity. The program surveys terrorist incidents such as the massacre at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, the Entebbe Rescue, the Hanasi Takeover in Washington D.C., and takes up with questions of how negotiations should be carried out with terrorist groups and the involvement of the news media. Part of the World Affairs Series

Poetry by Carl Sutsma - Carl Sutsma
All Day – - Part of the University Lectures Program archive.

Frank Kreith
All Day – - Part of the University Lectures Program archive.

Lost Town and Living Peoples Archaeology and Ethnography in West Africa - Mevrick Posnansky
All Day – Gallery, Memorial Union - Chairperson for Archeology at UCLA, he is a former Chairperson for African Studies Institute at Makere University, Kampala, Uganda for 8 years. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Vientam: An American Journey - Robert Richter
All Day – Fisher Theater - The first American filmmaker allowed in Vietnam after the war, he shows on film his seven week trip down Highway 1 from Hanoi to Saigon. From the University Lectures Program archive.

The Chinese Joint Family and Socioeconomic Development in Taiwan - Bernard Gallin
All Day – Gallery, Memorial Union - Chairperson, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Health Impacts of Nuclear Power - Dr. Bernard Cohen
All Day – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Professor of Pysics at the University of Pittsburgh. From the University Lectures Program archive.