Michael Dukakis will lecture in Uris on May 10

Former Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis will be speaking on campus, May 10, in Uris Auditorium.

His lecture, beginning at 8 p.m. and sponsored by the Cornell Democrats, is free and open to the public.

Dukakis currently is a visiting professor in Northeastern Uni-versity's political science department, and he has taught in the senior executive program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His research has focused on national health care policy reform and the lessons that national policy-makers can learn from state reform efforts.

Dukakis served as governor of Massachusetts for three terms, from 1974 to 1991. He won the Democratic nomination for president in 1988 but was defeated by George Bush. Soon after, he announced he would not be a candidate for re-election as governor and served his final two years at a time of increasing financial and economic distress in Massachusetts and the Northeast.

During his Uris Auditorium lecture, Dukakis is expected to discuss the 2000 national election, the future of the Democratic Party and health-care reform. Doors will be open at 7:30 p.m.