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Film: The Ancient Games
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - The Ancient Games is Erich Segal's re-creation of ancient Olympic competition at Delphi, featuring Olympic decathlon gold medalists, Bill Toomey and Rafer Johnson. Part of the National Affairs Series

The Football Myth - Dave Meggyesy
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Dave Meggyesy, an outside linebacker with the St. Louis Cardinals for seven years, quit the game at the height of his career "to expose the racisma nd fraud, the unbelievable brutality, the dehumanization that is football." His football autobiography, Out of Their League, mercilessly dissects authoritarian coaches, recruiting schemes, payoffs, and the use of body-building drugs. "My trainer ran a 'drugstore'," he says. Meggyesy is currently associated with the Institute of Sport and Society. His lecture will explore the football revolution and its association with the dissatisfaction and concurrent cultural revolution in the US. Part of the National Affairs Series: Playground to the Pros - Sports in American Society.

The Poet in the Camera - James Broughton
12:00 PM – -- - From the University Lectures Program archive.

China: First Hand Report - Steve Bell
12:00 PM – -- - ABC Foreign Correspondent. Headquarters: Hong Kong. From the University Lectures Program archive.

F.A.O. And The World's Food Needs - Howard Cottam
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Howard Rex Cottam has served since August, 1969 as North American Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as a career foreign service officer. Part of the World Affairs Series: World Without Borders

Art in China - Peggy Patrick
3:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Part of the World Affairs Series: China in Change - Another Long March?

Dr. Norman Bethune - Gerald Tannenbaum
3:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Part of the World Affairs Series: China in Change - Another Long March?

The Academic as Scholar and Wolrd Citizen - Maurice Zeitlin
3:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Zeitlin is a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin. Part of the World Affairs Series: World Without Borders

The Non-Role of M.N.O.'s in Guinea - F. Kourouma
1:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Part of the World Affairs Series: World Without Borders

Has China Lost the Road the Socialism? - Dr. Paul Sweezy and John Gurley
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Part of the World Affairs Series: China in Change - Another Long March?