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"Perspectives on Politics"
Alternate Thursdays, 10 a.m.-noon
Sept. 14— "Perspectives on California Politics" with Wylie Aitken, attorney and CSUF alumnus
Sept. 28— "The American Welfare State" with Paul Peretz, CSUF professor of politics, administration and justice
Oct. 12— "Political Philosophy of a Republican Leader" with state Sen. Dick Ackerman
Oct. 26— "A Lifetime of News Reporting" with Ken Reich, retired Los Angeles Times reporter
Nov. 9 — To be announced
Nov. 30— "The Pasco Report" with Jean Pasco, director of the Orange County Archives and former political staff writer for the Los Angeles Times
"The Ocean Around Us"
Alternate Tuesdays, 1:15-3:15 p.m.
Sept. 18— "Marine Protected Areas: Controversial But Effective Conservation Tools" with Steve Murray, dean of the CSUF College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and the university's 2003 Outstanding Professor Award honoree
Oct. 3— "The History of Human/Marine Mammal Interactions" with Dennis Kelly,
Orange Coast College professor and chair, Marine Science Department
Oct. 17— "Irving Johnson, High Seas Adventurer— Around the Horn" with Lydia Jewell and Nancy Richardson, crew members on the Yankee, Johnson's brigantine tall ship
Oct. 31— "Haunted by the Plastic Debris From the Rivers to the Sea" with Gwen Lattin, Algalita Marine Research Foundation biologist
Nov. 14— "California Seals and Sea Lions, the Pacific Pinniped" with Carolyn Heath, Fullerton College assistant professor of natural history
Dec. 5— "The Wet and Dry: A History of the Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific" with Diane Witmer, CSUF professor of communications and aquarium volunteer diver, and Terry Tibor, and speakers bureau coordinator
Eclectic Series
Alternate Thursdays, 1:15-3:15 p.m.
Sept. 21— "Cal State Fullerton and the Orange County Great Park" with George Giacumakis, director of the CSUF Irvine Campus
Oct. 5— "Practical Alternative Energy Strategies" with Charles Ritz, Cal Poly Pomona professor of mechanical engineering
Oct. 19— "Attractions and Multimedia Spectaculars Around the World" with Mel Horan, art director
Nov. 2 and 16— "Perspectives on Heaven" with Jerry Lauer of Eastside Christian Church
Dec. 7 — "The Hereafter as Viewed by Five Great Religions" with Ven Miao Hsi, Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple; Jim Swaney, minister of outreach, Eastside Christian Church; Prem Saint, CSUF emeritus professor of geological and environmental sciences; Sandy Rosen, rabbi emeritus; and Hussam Ayloush, executive director, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Southern California |
