George Stephanopoulos To Speak At UB

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- George Stephanopoulos, ABC-TV news political analyst, author and former top aide and communications director in the Clinton Administration, will speak at 8 p.m. March 22 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.

The lecture will be the third in the 13th annual Distinguished Speakers Series presented by UB and the Don Davis Auto World Lectureship Fund.

The UB School of Management Alumni Association is sponsor of the lecture.

The series featuring political figures, authors, media celebrities and other newsmakers is sponsored by the UB Student Association.

For more than a decade, Stephanopoulos has been a major player in strategies and events that shaped history on Capitol Hill and in the White House.

In his former positions in the Clinton Administration and as a top Congressional aide to House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt and others, he helped develop virtually all major policy initiatives for more than a decade.

He is a visiting professor of political science in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, contributor to Newsweek magazine and author of "All Too Human: A Political Education."

The Distinguished Speaker Series will continue April 26 with a lecture by Alice Walker, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Color Purple."

Lecture tickets are available at Ticketmaster locations by calling 852-5000. For information, call 645-ARTS.

Series affiliate sponsors are the University Bookstores and the Western New York Independent Living Project.

Contributing series sponsors are Makin' Copies, UB Alumni Association, the Buffalo Niagara/Marriott, the Amherst Chamber of Commerce, the UB Center for the Arts, WBFO-FM 88.7 and CITIBANK.