October 1, 1977 - Dr. Phyllis Fleming, assistant professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, speaking at Annual Conference of the Minnesota Health Association. Speech was titled "Nutrition and Lifestyle: How to Change Behavior.”
October 8, 1977 - On this regional public affairs program, a presentation of speech to Citizens League by Tom Berg, state representative of Minneapolis and chairman of the House Local and Urban Affairs Committee, about the ongoing studies on the financial health of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
October 8, 1977 - On this regional public affairs program, John Boland, chairman of the Metropolitan Council, addresses the Citizens League on the priorities of the council for 1978. Priorities include appointments, frameworks, and controlling operating budget.
October 10, 1977 - Dr. Jean Houston, Director of the Foundation for Mind Research with her husband Dr. Robert Masters, speaking at symposium on human potential sponsored by the Science Museum of the Minnesota. Houston discussed altered modes of thinking, human consciousness, and the effects of technology on the human personality.
October 13, 1977 - Eugene McCarthy discusses political personalities and issues before a campus audience at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.
October 14, 1977 - Socialist writer and critic Michael Harrington and Conservative columnist William F. Buckley debate the question "We Welcome the Growth of the Public Sector" at St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota.
October 20, 1977 - Judge Leon Higginbotham, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia, speaking at From Brown to Bakke and Beyond conference, held at Carleton College in Northfield. Higginbotham’s speech was titled “The Roots of Brown and Bakke", and addressed what has happened since the case Brown vs. the Topeka Board of Education decision declared separate but equal to be unconstitutional. Higginbotham was for 13 years a U.S. District Court Judge for Eastern Pennsylvania. He has written a book about race and the law in this country titled, "The Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process."
October 21, 1977 - A report providing excerpts from National Meeting of State Committees for the Humanities conference held in Minneapolis. Representatives from state councils gathered to discuss the task of defining what their studies involve.
October 23, 1977 - President Jimmy Carter makes a stop in Minnesota to visit and celebrate Hubert H. Humphrey with a signing of bill that will name the newest building of the Health Education and Welfare Department after Senator Humphrey.
October 26, 1977 - A Midday broadcast of economist and author John Kenneth Galbraith speaking before the National Town Hall meeting. Speech topics include inflation and unemployment.