Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Dr. Noam Chomsky lectured on the Oregon State University campus on October 24, 1995. Chomsky spoke as the fourteenth Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Memorial Lecturer for World Peace. Speaking on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, Chomsky offered a radical analysis of the evolution of international relations throughout the twentieth century, paying special attention to the utopian viewpoints often represented by the UN from its birth following World War II.