The times have changed for a CU-Boulder panel discussion on school safety being held in conjunction with the Oct. 15 White House Conference on School Safety.
The White House conference will be downlinked from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. MDT via satellite to the Coors Events/Conference Center, room 4, followed by a local panel discussion. The event is free and open to the public.
The White House panel will feature First Lady Hillary Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, Attorney General Janel Reno and Education Secretary Richard Riley.
A local panel discussion will follow the broadcast from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at CU-Boulder, including a question and answer session with the audience. The local panelists are:
o Delbert Elliott, director of the CU-Boulder Center for the Study
and Prevention of Violence and professor of sociology
o Susan Foster, director of the Boulder County YouthNET
o Dorothy Rupert (Dem.), Colorado State Senate, District 18
o Thomas Seigel, superintendent, Boulder Valley School District
The satellite broadcast of the White House conference will resume at 10:45 a.m. with a panel discussion led by President Clinton. The satellite downlink at the Coors Events/Conference Center will end at 11:30.
The teleconference is sponsored by the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence and the Boulder County YouthNET.
For further information contact Jane Grady at the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at 303-492-1032 or Dirk Martin in the Office of Public Relations at 303-492-3140, or Peter Caughey at 303-492-4007.