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The recent scandal involving the 2002 Winter Olympics will be the topic of the next University Forum lecture.

Howard Berkes, a senior correspondent for National Public Radio, will discuss the origins and aftermath of the worst ethics scandal in Olympic history in his lecture on April 10, "Probing the Olympics: Sacred Cows and the Olympic Trough."

Berkes is one of the journalists whose reporting helped uncover the scandal involving the award of the Winter Olympic Games to Salt Lake City.

On April 14, UNLV social work professor William Epstein will present "American Cruelty and Public Child Welfare."

He will argue that cruelty -- the deliberate choice of policies that cause suffering -- has been undervalued as a motive for America's social welfare programs. His lecture will show how inadequacies of the public child welfare system, as well as other social policies, are best explained by an embedded preference for cruelty.

Both lectures begin at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History. All University Forum lectures are free and open to the public.

The University Forum lecture series is sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and is underwritten by the UNLV Foundation. For more information on the series, call 895-3401.