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Herb Kaplow~~Great Issues of Our Time"For the first time in the history of the AUSA StudentSenate, the Speakers Program put together a lectureseries this year under one agency. The speakerswere selected over the summer with the theme"Great Issues of Our Time," in mind. In keeping withthe theme, Erich Segal came to defend his bestseller "Love Story" as literature, Herb Kaplow spoke,commenting on a Nixon speech of the previous day,Dean Dorothy Nelson of the University of SouthernCalifornia Law School told what it was like to bethe only woman law dean in the United States andjane Fonda took time out to picket at Safeway followingher speech. The University community also heard anurban ecologist, a specialist in Mexican-Americanaffairs, a deposed Greek leader and "Twilight Zone's"Rod Sterling.Next year the Speakers will come under the auspicesof the newly-formed, 10-member All UniversityPrograms Board (AUPB). The new board, formedafter the Speakers and Special Events committee metinterminable hassles with contract scheduling conflicts,held their first meeting winter quarter and by theend of spring quarter will have planned an entireslate of entertainment and cultural events for D.U.for the following year. Funded by the Board ofGovernors, AUSA Senate and the Graduate StudentAssociation, its members hope to cut down onpoor planning blunders of the past as well asbring better quality entertainment to D.U.236