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Nielsen TV Ratings: What, Why and How - Edward Schillmoeller
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Vice President, Statistical Research, Media Research Group, A.C. Nielsen Company. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Countdown 1984 - Ted Howard
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Author, activist, and political commentator, Mr. Howard is co-director of the Peoples Business Commission, a non-profit organization exploring the issues of the '80s and '90s. In this program, he will examine George Orwell's Futuristic warnings of 30 years ago. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Non-Violence From a Theological Perspective - Charles C. McCarthy
8:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Instructor at St. Gregory the Theologian Seminary, Newton Center, Massachusetts. From the University Lectures Program archive.

The Real Henry Kissinger - William Shawcross
8:00 PM – Benton Auditorium, Scheman Building - English journalist and author of "Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia." A George Gund Lecture. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Israel and the Middle East Today - Natan Yanai
8:00 PM – Campanile Room, Memorial Union - Lecturer in the department of Political Science and Israeli Studies at Haifa University, Member of the Foreign Minister's Advisory Board on Overseas Information. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Lessons of the 60s for the 80s - Dave Dellinger
8:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Author of "More Democracy," Editor of Seven Days Magazine, World War II war resister, and organizer of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee. From the University Lectures Program archive.

Comedy Performance - Anne Beatts
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Anne Beatts graduated with a B.A. in English Literature from McGill University in 1966. In 1970, she became a contributing editor of the National Lampoon and wrote for the Lampoon Radio Hour. In 1976, she co-edited Titters: The First Collection of Humor by Women, and in 1977 she co-edited the best-selling Saturday Night Live. In 1979, her work was seen on Broadway in "Gilda Radner: Live From New York." She also edited The Gilda Radner Cut-out doll Book. Part of the National Affairs Series: Humor in America.

Female Wits - Emily Toth
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Emily Toth is Assistant Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. A graduate of Swathmore College, Professor Toth received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Before joining the staff at Penn State, she taught at the University of North Dakota, the University of New Orleans, and Morgan state College. In addition to her many honors and awards, she was noted in the 1979 edition of Who's Who of American Women. Some of Professor Toth's professional activities included membership in the Author's Guild and the Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages. Formerly the editor of Regionalism and the Female Imaginations, she has edited and written several books including A Kate Chopin Miscellany and the soon-to-be-published Female Wits, a study of humor in American women's writings. Part of the National Affairs Series: Humor in America.

TV Humor - Horace Newcomb
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Horace Newcomb is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.A. degree from Mississippi College in 1964. He attended the University of Chicago as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow and received his M.A. in General Studies in the Humanities and Ph.D. in English. He has taught at colleges and universities in Iowa (Cornell College), Michigan and Maryland. In 1976-1977, he was a Fellow of the National Humanities Institute at the University of Chicago studying Culture and Technology. Professor Newcomb is the author of TV: The Most Popular Art and editor of Television: The Critical View. Part of the National Affairs Series: Humor in America.

Afro-American Humor - Daryl Dance
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Daryl Dance, Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, received her A.B. and M.A. degrees from Virginia State College. She received her Ph.D. fro the University of Virginia. Professor Dance's articles on black American humor have appeared in such journals as American Humor, The Journal of Afro-American Issues, Negro American Literature Forum. Professor Dance is also a co-editor of Prospects on Afro-American Women and an advisory editor of Black American Literature Forum. Her recently published Shuckin' and Jivin' is an authentic and revealing collection of Black American folklore. Part of the National Affairs Series: Humor in America.