Russert To Lecture At Fairfield Univ.

FAIRFIELD — NBC’s Meet the Press moderator and managing editor Tim Russert will kick off the 2005 season of Fairfield University’s Open Visions Forum. He will be lecturing on Monday, September 19, at 8 pm.

Mr Russert took the held at Meet the Press in 1991 and, since then, it has become the most watched Sunday morning interview program in the country. In addition to his duties at Meet The Press, which is the longest-running program in television history, Mr Russert is a political analyst for NBC Nightly News and Today, the anchor for CNBC’s The Time Russert Show, and a contributing anchor for MSNBC.

Open Visions is an ongoing public outreach program of University College engaging the “life of the mind” with the Connecticut community. Its mission is to integrate the academic perspective of the university’s students and faculty with the wide general interests of its regional audience.

Through lively and informative lectures, these “public conversations” have presented eminent opinion-makers, artists, authors, learned contributors to the humanities and sciences and civic and political commentators to audiences with topical issues facing a global and national agenda.

Tickets for the lecture are $35 for adults, $30 for seniors citizens. Call 203-254-4010 for info or reservations. The lectures are presented in Fairfield University’s Regina Quick Center for the Arts.