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Agricultural mechanization, Social Change and Rural Values in the People's Republic of China - Benedict Stavis
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Assistant Professor, Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University.

China: Her Conception of Her Place in the World - Han Suyin
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Medical doctor, lecturer and author, she has written 14 books including a major work on Mao Tsetung and the Chinese Revolution, The Morning Deluge. A George Gund Lecture.

Human Rights and the Challenge of the Future - Coretta Scott King
8:00 PM – C.Y. Stephens - President of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change. The Center promotes the concept of non-violence through seminars, workshops and institutes for teachers, community leaders, administrators and others who influence the young. Mrs. king is also co-chairperson of the Full Employment Action Council, active member and co-founder of the National Black Leadership Forum and was commissioner of International Women's Year. Co-sponsored by Black Student Government and Committee on Lectures.

Reviewing the Crash of '29 - Frank Cappiello
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Financial vice president of Monumental Corp., an insurance holding company and chief executive officer of two of its affiliates: President, Monumental Capital Management, Inc. and Chairman of the Board, Fiduciary Counsel, Inc.(New York). He is on the faculty at John Hopkins University and is a contributing economic columnist for the Chicago Tribune and the Baltimore Sun.

Ethics vs. Professional Ethics with Alasdair Mac Intyre
8:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Boston University and chairman of philosophy department. has written a number of books including "Against the Self Images of the Age: Essays in Ideology and Philosophy. Co-sponsored by Graduate Office, iowa Philosophical Society, Departments of Philosophy and Sociology, and Committee on Lectures.

Economic Democracy - Jane Fonda & Tom Hayden
8:00 PM – C.Y. Stephens - Jane Fonda is an actress, feminist, and an outspoken social and political activist. She rose to fame starring in 1960's comedies that included Cat Ballou, Barefoot in the Park and Barbarella, but then received her first Academy Award nomination for the challenging They Shoot Horses, Don't They. She went on to win a Best Actress Oscar for Klute in 1971, and Coming Home in 1978. Most recently, she starred in The China Syndrome.As a New Left activist,Tom Hayden was a co-founder of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), serving as president from 1962 to 1963; organized Viet Nam War protests; and played a major part in the 1968 Democratic Convention protests. He went to trial as one of the "Chicago Seven" and was convicted, though it was overturned on appeal. Women's Week 1979

Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and the Future of Southern Africa with Winston Churchill
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Churchill is now serving in Parliament, as did his father, Randolph, his grandfather, Sir Winston, and his great-grandfather, Lord Randolph. An international journalist, Churchill has covered the wars in Arden,Yemen, Angola, the Congo, Borneo, Vietnam and Israel.

The Nonviolent Cross and the Arms Race
8:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Shelley Douglass is an active member of the Pacific Life community in Seattle. He is an augher of several articles in the Fellowship of Reconciliation Magazine and a former member of the Maria Casa (Justice) Community in Milwaukee.

An Intervenor's Perspective on the Three-mile Island Nuclear Accident
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Judith Johnsrud ,a Pennsylvania delegate to the White House conference on Balanced national Growth and Economic Development; on the faculty at Bucknell University: vice-president of the board of National Solar Lobby and is co-director of the Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Power.

An Annotated Dracula
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Leonard Wolf is a professor of English. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He teaches the only course on monsters in the country at San Francisco State University. Wolf will bring his "vampire-killing kit," and will weave a fascinating story of 19th century horror including complex religions, sexual and psychological themes.