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Dramatic Form and Social Reality in the American Film - Steve Zito
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - The American Film Institute in Washington, DC sends its Executive Editor of its film catalog, Steve Zito, to the campus. Part of the National Affairs Series: Pop! Goes Our Culture.

Workshop: Bluegrass Music
4:30 PM – Rippey's Orchard, 2522 Chamberlain St. - Fred, Don and Bob are Something Different: three Iowa State staff members with a unique style of Bluegrass music that combines a three-part vocal harmony with the use of a dobro in place of a banjo. Part of the National Affairs Series

Clowns and Kings: Television in the Fifties - Joseph E. Dispenza
3:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Former television writer and theatre playwright, Joseph E. Dispenza, has also been an actor and director of note. currently, he sports the title of Educational Programs Manager for the American Film Institute in Washington DC. Part of the National Affairs Series: Pop! Goes Our Culture.

Pop Culture: Can We Really Afford It? - David Manning White
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - If you haven't read PopCult in America and/or Mass Culture Revisited before listening to David Manning White, you may be making a mad dash to the bookstore after his appearance. Those are the titles of Mr. White's most recent books. As lead-off speaker for the week, Mr. White brings his unique analysis of popular culture to the campus. Mr. White was the former chairman of the Department of Journalism at Boston University and now holds a journalism professorship there. Part of the National Affairs Series: Pop! Goes Our Culture.

Workshop: Firesign Theatre - John Fitsgerald
4:30 PM – Rippey's Orchard, 2522 Chamberlain St. - A discussion on the top dogs in the field of counter-culture humor. Part of the National Affairs Series

Film: How to be Very, Very Popular
3:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - The frantic 1955 comedy stars Betty Grable, Sheree North and Robert Cummings. Two chorus kids on the lam find refuge in a college fraternity whose members hide them. Part of the National Series

Film: Start Cheering
12:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - This daffy 1938 musical stars the Three Stooges, Jimmy Durante, Broderick Crawford and Joan Perry. jimmy sticks his nose into college life and the Three Stooges go crazy on campus. Part of the National Affairs Series

Film: College Swing
8:30 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Bob Hope, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Martha Raye, Edward Everett Horton and other comics romp through this 1938 collegiate musicomedy. Singing such forgetable songs like "What Did Romeo Say to Juliet," scatterbrained Gracie Allen finds it difficult to graduate from school. Part of the National Affairs Series

Film: College
3:30 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Buster Keaton stars in the 1927 comedy as a young , absent-minded genius who goes to college and decides to take up athletics. His deadpan antics characterize him as a baseball player, track star and bugling cockswain of the racing crew. Part of the National Affairs Series

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