Lecture Series Committee Meeting 9-15-06

Current topics:

• Votes:
  • Fear - 10
  • Humanitarian Aspects of US policy - 4
  • Globalization/Outsourcing
  • Environmental Concerns
  • Freakonomics
  • Technology and our Lives
  • Hyper-competition - 7
  • Immigration
  • Abortion - 5
  • Comparison of US and World - 6

Fear is our overarching topic, and we can use the other topics in conjunction with that.

How FEAR, both rational and irrational, drives our lives:

• No intro lecture - maybe an intro email?
• Global: supernational, e.g. environment
• Foreign: Govt. vs. Govt.
• Domestic: Govt. vs. People
• Personal: people vs. people

1. Global
   1. Environmental concerns
   2. Disease - bird flu, AIDS, e. coli, etc.
2. Foreign
   1. US policy
   2. Immigration
   3. Terrorism
   4. Humanitarian aspects
   5. Nuclear arms race
3. Domestic
   1. Hyper-competition => economic security
   2. technology
4. Personal
   1. Freakonomics topics (people believing that which is no danger to them)

Lecture Styles

• One person lecture
• Debate (one on one or side against side)
• Panel
• Workshop
• Webcam :-P
• Student vs. student debate
• Post-lecture blog

9-18-06 Officer's Meeting

• Late October
  • 18th or 25th
• November after Tri1 break
  • 29th or 6th of Dec.
• January
  • 10th, 17th, 24th or 31st
• February
  • 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th
• Check with Mr. Bondy to make sure the dates are all available.
• Window is 9:40-10:45