Members of the Metro State community are invited to attend the seventh annual Honors Conference, "Campaign 2004: Did it Clarify or Obfuscate?," next Tuesday and Wednesday.

The free conference, sponsored by Metro's Honors Program, will feature panel discussions on issues of importance during the 2004 campaign season including the economy, immigration, health care, education and foreign policy. Speakers include campus and community experts such as former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, economics Professor Trey Fleisher, Denver Post columnist Fred Brown, sociology Professor Rae Shevalier and Morey Wolfson of Colorado Renewable Energy.

Panel sessions will be held at 8:30 a.m., 10 a.m., 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. in Tivoli 320 on both days of the conference. Floyd Ciruli, a well-known Denver pollster, will speak during a 6 p.m. dinner on Tuesday in Tivoli 620.

The Honors Program, which has about 100 students, organizes this conference each year as a way to call attention to important policy issues and to contribute to the intellectual community on campus, according to history Professor Dolph Grundman, who is director of the Honors Program. Students are involved in all aspects of planning the conference.

Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to stop by the conference for some or all of the panel sessions. For more information, contact Grundman at 303-556-4865 or visit the Honors Program Web site at www.mscd.edu/~honors/.

To view the conference schedule go to http://www.mscd.edu/~collcom/@metro/tw@metro_vol2/HONORS_Schedule.pdf