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Show mm i. . i mini .jiijii il m , m m mi ,WWWBW By HEIDI SOKENSEN Chronicle Staff Writer Challenge '68 focusing on the domestic do-mestic social problems facing Americans Am-ericans today will bring 13 speakers speak-ers to the University this week to discuss "Man Against Himself." Visiting participants wil address audiences daily at 11 a.m., 1:10 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. in the Union Ballroom. ' Speakers will cover topics such as the problems of urban life, drug usage, the Negro, man's potential and his problems with population ' and food, and man's development for the future. Films will be shown daily at 9:55 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. The films i include "Rhinoceros," "B'ack and I White Burlesque," and "The Need to Choose." Keynote speaker for the week is Robert Theobold, a British socio-cccncmist, socio-cccncmist, who will present h i s ideas on "Man Against Himself." Theobold will speak Monday at 8 p.m. in the Union Ballroom. He claims "Man has indeed been set against himself because of the fact that our present institutions and myths force us to act in ways which we would not normally accept." ac-cept." Theobold is presently coordinating coordinat-ing several organizations which have the goal of enabling people in rich and poor areas of the world to effective-y shape the future through new educational methods. He has done extensive work as an author of books, and editor of publications pub-lications on sociology and economics. econom-ics. Monday's schedule also includes Patrick Healy at 11 a.m., Executive Execu-tive Director of the National League of Cities, presenting his views on the "City of Man." Allen Ginsberg, Gins-berg, American Contemporary Poet and advocate of eased legislation on drug use will address students cn the "Modern Poet" at 2:15 p.m. Speaking Tuesday at 11 a.m. will be Abel Lajtha, Director of the New York State Institution for Neurcchemestry and Drug Addiction Addic-tion on "The Brain as a Chemical Mechanism," and at 1:10 p.m. Julian Jul-ian Bond, Member of the Georgia House of Representatives and founder of SNCC, on "Man Against Himself-Human Equality." Wednesday's speakers will include in-clude Dr. Willem Kolff, Dr. James Ross, and Ian McHarg. Dr. Kolff, speaking at 11:00, chairman of the Division of Artificial Organs, Uni versity Medical School, will present pre-sent "Heart Transplant or Else WhyBury Two Good Kidneys." Dr. Moss, sociologist of the Office of International Educational Services, will speak at 1:10 on "Man Against Himself." McHarg, speaking at 8 p.m. on "Building America Man Against Himself," is the chairman chair-man of the Department of Landscape Land-scape Archietecture and Regional Planning. Beginning Thursday's sessions will be Donald Eller, Portfolio Analyst, An-alyst, Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fen-ner Fen-ner and Smith, at 11 a.m. on "The Stock Market as a Barometer of Social Variance." At 1:10, Paul Ehlrich, professor of Biology at Stanford University, will speak on "Population, Food and Environment; Environ-ment; the Problem and the Conse quences. Rt. Rev. John P. Leary, President of Gonzaga University, will talk at 8 p.m. on "Theology and Morality on American Campuses." Cam-puses." Concluding speakers on Friday will be Sidney Bijou, Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois, and Esther Peterson, assistant as-sistant secretary of labor, Bijou will speak at 11 a.m. on "A Be-havorial Be-havorial Analysis of Man and His Potentialities." Mrs. Peterson's address will be at 1:10 on "Man Against Himself Labor Standards." Stand-ards." University radio, KUER, will broadcast live the Challenge lectures. lec-tures. The FM radio station will broadcast the events from the Union Un-ion to make Challenge Week activities ac-tivities available to more people. |