COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Television personalities Maury Povich and Connie Chung will moderate a panel on the value and challenges facing intercollegiate athletics at the fourth annual Shirley Povich Symposium, Wednesday, November 11, at 7:30 p.m. in the Colony Ballroom of the Stamp Student Union at the University of Maryland.

The symposium is titled “Intercollegiate Athletics: Pro/Con: the Joys and Challenges of College Sports.” A free-flowing exchange of ideas is expected among panelists William E. Kirwan (chancellor of the University System of Maryland), University of Maryland athletic director Deborah A. Yow, University of Maryland men’s basketball coach Gary Williams, Maryland graduate Stephon Heyer of the Washington Redskins, Michael Wilbon of The Washington Post and ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt.

C.D. Mote, Jr., president of the University of Maryland, and Kevin Klose, dean of the Phillip Merrill College of Journalism, will make opening remarks.

The event was established to honor the late Shirley Povich, who was a sports columnist for The Washington Post for 75 years and for many years the sports editor of the newspaper. Mr. Povich died in 1998. The event is co-sponsored this year by the University of Maryland’s Phillip Merrill College of Journalism and the Maryland Society. The Maryland Society is exclusive to donors who make cumulative lifetime gifts or pledges of $100,000 or more to the University of Maryland.

The program is free and open to the public. Reservations may be made by e-mailing: events@ur.umd.edu or calling 301-405-4638 by November 4.