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Editors: A complete schedule of Assistant Attorney General Deborah Daniels' visit to Colorado on Oct. 20 appears below. A high-ranking U.S. Department of Justice official will visit Colorado on Oct. 20 to observe violence prevention programs recommended by the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Assistant Attorney General Deborah Daniels will visit programs based in Littleton and Longmont throughout the day.

NEWS TIP SHEET A CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business professor who studies the impacts of gambling says Amendment 33 would override local community decision-making and does not clearly define the scope and scale of the proposed gaming.

Clay Johnson III, deputy director for management in the White House Office of Management and Budget, will give a public talk at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Friday, Oct. 24. Johnson, who will be on campus as a guest of the World Affairs Athenaeum, will speak at noon in the Old Main Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.

John Nichols, author of "The Milagro Beanfield War" and several other critically acclaimed books and screenplays, will be honored at 7 p.m. Oct. 28 by the University of Colorado at Boulder's Center of the American West. The center will present Nichols with its highest honor, the Wallace Stegner Award, during the event in the Old Main Chapel on the CU-Boulder campus.

Society's growing need for expertise when faced with decisions involving science and technology has led to the creation of a new graduate certificate program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The science and technology policy certificate program will begin in spring semester 2004 and is open to all CU-Boulder graduate students. The application deadline is Nov. 14 and admissions decisions will be made by Dec. 19.

Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder continued their search in southeast Alaska last summer to pinpoint rapidly melting glaciers and ice fields that hold prehistoric human artifacts before exposure triggers their decomposition. For thousands of years, humans hunted on the glaciers and ice fields that cover what is now the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in southeast interior Alaska. During the summer months these ancient ice fields attracted caribou and other animals seeking refuge from insect swarms that blanket Alaska during summer.

Corporate scandals involving illicit accounting practices and students using cell phones to cheat on college exams are just some of the ethical issues to be discussed at the first annual CU-Boulder Japha Ethics Symposium on Oct. 23.

The fate of religious and moral traditions in the ruthlessly competitive business world is among a number of intriguing ethics topics to be discussed by experts Oct. 23 at the first annual University of Colorado at Boulder Japha Ethics Symposium of the Leeds School of Business.

Lynnell Stephani Long, an intersex woman, educator and activist, will present "Intersex 101" on Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. in the University of Colorado at Boulder. Intersexuality refers to the medical diagnoses of people born with anatomical sexual variations, or mixed male and female sexual characteristics. The talk will be in the MCD Biology Building, room A2B70. An intersex child, Long was given a male identity but suffered due to emerging female traits. Later, she committed herself to educating others about intersex conditions.

Professors Lynn Schofield Clark and Kirby Moss of the University of Colorado at Boulder will discuss teen interest in the supernatural and cultural experiences of low-income whites in a joint book-talk on Oct. 22. Clark, author of "From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural" and Moss, author of "The Color of Class: Poor Whites and the Paradox of Privilege" will discuss their research findings from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel on campus.