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Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist Clarence Page will speak at UNLV on March 1 as part of the Barrick Lecture Series.

Page's presentation, "Building a Bridge to a Multi-Cultural Society," is set for 7:30 p.m. in Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall. The event is free, but tickets are required. Tickets may be picked up beginning Feb. 13 at the Performing Arts Center box office at the concert hall.

Page, the 1989 Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary, has been a columnist at the Chicago Tribune and a member of its editorial board since 1984. His column is syndicated nationally. He also does a twice-weekly commentary for Chicago television station WGN.

Based in Washington-D.C., Page is a news analyst for ABC's This Week. He is an occasional guest panelist on The McLaughlin Group, a regular contributor of essays to The News Hour with Jim Leher, and the host of documentaries on PBS. He is a regular panelist on Black Entertainment Television's weekly Lead Story news panel program and a biweekly commentator on National Public Radio's Weekend Sunday.

Page, 51, also is the author of "Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity."

In addition to the Pulitzer Prize for commentary, Page's awards include a 1980 Illinois UPI award for community service for an investigative series titled "The Black Tax" and the Edward Scott Beck Award for overseas reporting of a 1976 series on the changing politics of South Africa. In 1972, he participated in the Chicago Tribune Task Force series on vote fraud, which won the Pulitzer Prize.

He has received awards from the Illinois and Wisconsin chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union for his columns on civil liberties and constitutional rights. He was inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame in 1992.

A native of Ohio, Page began his journalism career as a freelance writer and photographer for the Middletown Journal and Cincinnati Enquirer at the age of 17. He received his bachelor of science in journalism degree from Ohio University in 1969.

From 1969 until 1980 he was a reporter and assistant city editor for the Chicago Tribune. He joined television station WBBM in 1980 as director of the community affairs department. From 1982 until 1984 he was a reporter and planning editor at the station.

The Barrick Lecture Series, funded through a grant from philanthropist Marjorie Barrick, presents nationally and internationally known speakers from a variety of fields each year at UNLV. The presentations are free and open to the public.

For additional information, call 895-3801.