Lecture Series speaker March 30

Gulf War veteran and author Anthony Swofford will be the University Lecture series speaker on March 30. The program will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Satellite Student Union.

Swofford served in the front line of the U.S. Marine Corps Surveillance and Target Acquisition/Scout-Sniper platoon during the Gulf War.

After the war, he received his degree from the University of California , Davis , then completed graduate work at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, where he edited fiction at the Iowa Review and was awarded a Michener Copernicus Fellowship.

His short story "The Snipers" appeared in Men's Journal and his essay "Fighting the First Gulf War" was published in The New York Times.

The University Lecture Series is sponsored by the Office of the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, the University Student Union, Associated Students, Inc., Coke and James Hallowell, KJWL, Borders and Piccadilly Inn Hotels. 

Advance tickets are available at the University Student Union Information Desk and at Borders. Tickets are $10 general admission; $6 Fresno State faculty, staff, Alumni Association members and seniors; $5 elementary and secondary students; and $2 Fresno State students. Prices on the day of the event increase by $2 for general admission, faculty, staff and Alumni Association members.

For further information contact the University Lecture Series office at 8-4680 or see www.csufresno.edu/universitylecture .