LEWISTON – A Bates College panel will debate the differences and similarities of the Vietnam War and the current conflict in Iraq at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 20.

The panelists will be Chris Beam, Trang Nguyen, Oliver Wolf and David Emery.

• Beam is a veteran of the Vietnam War and a native of Brunswick. He served in the Marine Corps from 1967 to 1970 and is now the Bates College archivist and a lecturer in history. He teaches a course on the Vietnam War.

• Trang Nguyen is from Hanoi. A Bates sophomore who plans to major in economics, she attended two years of high school in the United States and transferred to Bates from St. Norbert College in Wisconsin.

• Oliver Wolf, a Bates junior, is a political science major. He is president of the Bates College Republicans and vice chairman of the Maine College Republicans. Originally from Pittsburgh, Wolf is currently an active volunteer with the Maine Bush-Cheney 04 campaign.

• David Emery represented Maine’s First Congressional District from 1975 to 1983, service that included a stint on the House Armed Services Committee. In June 1983 President Reagan appointed him deputy director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, a position he held until June 1988.