Note to Editors: Reporters and photographers wanting media passes to this event should contact Peter Caughey at (303) 492-4007.
The Cultural Events Board of the University of Colorado at Boulder's student government will host a talk on the Middle East by former U.S. Ambassador Dennis B. Ross on Jan. 22.
Ross served as a special ambassador in the first Bush administration and the Clinton administration and for more than 12 years was instrumental in developing the U.S. role in the Middle East peace process.
He will speak at 7 p.m. in the University Memorial Center's Glenn Miller Ballroom.
The talk is the second in a two-part series focusing on the Middle East hosted by the University of Colorado Student Union's Cultural Events Board. Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, was the first speaker featured in the series and appeared on campus Sept. 14.
Ross assisted the Israelis and Palestinians in reaching the 1995 Interim Agreement. He also successfully brokered the Hebron Accord in 1997, facilitated the Israeli-Jordan peace treaty and worked on intensive negotiations to bring Israel and Syria together.
After more than 12 years as the nation's point person on the Middle East peace process, Ross became the director and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
In the first Bush administration, Ross was director of the State Department's Policy Planning office, playing a prominent role in developing U.S. policy toward the former Soviet Union. He also worked on the unification of Germany and its integration into NATO, arms-control negotiations and development of the Gulf War coalition.
Ross, who graduated in 1970 from UCLA, wrote his doctoral dissertation on Soviet decision-making and served as executive director of the Berkeley-Stanford program on Soviet International Behavior from 1984 to 1986. He has received UCLA's highest medal, has been named UCLA alumnus of the year, and has received honorary doctorates from the Jewish Theological Seminary and Syracuse University.
Tickets will be available at the Connection on the first floor of the UMC on Jan. 14, 2003. Tickets are free for students with a Buff One card and are limited to two tickets per student. Tickets for non-students are $5 each. No glass bottles, plastic disposable bottles or cans will be permitted at the lecture. No food, signs, banners or flags of any kind will be permitted. Bulky bags and parcels may be subject to search. No recording or playback devices will be allowed. Metal detectors will be in use.
There will be no re-entry once admitted into the event.
For information call (303) 492-3227.