ÒRACE MATTERSÓ AUTHOR CORNEL WEST TO SPEAK AT U.VA.

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Nov. 11 -- Cornel West, author of the
best-selling book ÒRace Matters,Ó will speak on business ethics
related to minorities on Friday, Nov. 18 at the University of
Virginia.  His talk is free and open to the public.
	West will speak at 3 p.m. in Caplin Auditorium at the U.Va.
School of Law, located on the North Grounds of the University just
off Arlington Boulevard.  A discussion period will follow.
	His talk is the first scheduled in this yearÕs Ruffin
Lectures, an annual program featuring leading thinkers on ethical
issues in business.  Sponsor of the three-day event is the Olsson
Center for Applied Ethics at the Darden Graduate School of Business
Administration.
	West has written nine books and many articles for national
publications and was co-author, with Tikkun Magazine editor Michael
Lerner, of ÒBlacks and Jews:  Conflicts and Coalescence.Ó
	In ÒRace Matters,Ó published last year, he argued that the
major obstacle to good race relations in the United States is a
sense of worthlessness that he sees as growing among African
Americans.
	Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, West graduated magna cum laude from
Harvard University after only three years of study and went on to
earn a masters degree and a doctorate at Princeton University.  He
joined the faculty at Harvard last year, after heading the
Afro-American Studies Program at Princeton for six years.
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November 10, 1994
	EDITORS:  West will be available for interviews for 15
minutes after the discussion period.  If you wish to attend the
session or interview him, please contact Tom Doran, University News
Services, at (804) 924-6858 or Ken Kipps at (804) 924-7502.