The war in Iraq has generated one emotion after the other, since U.S. soldiers and civilians began finding themselves in harms way in the desert and at home.

Theres pride and patriotism felt by the families and friends of those fighting and working in the war zone.

But theres also anger and anxiety as the casualties of war continue to mountand as America continues to grapple with realization that it is longer immune from terrorism on its shores.

How the people here at home work through those emotions is the subject of a Wednesday (Sept. 29) forum hosted in part by West Virginia University and the City of Morgantown.

Campus and Community Civility in a Time of Unrestwill take place from 7-9 p.m. at the Metropolitan Theater, 369 High St.

WVU graduate student M. Noelle Lee is organizing the forum with the help of the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission and the West Virginia African American Voting Electorate (WAAVE), a get-out-the-vote group based in north-central West Virginia that she founded last year.

National Public Radio correspondent Juan Williams will moderate the forum, which Lee says will bea dialogue on liberties, rights and war.

This is just a chance for members of the West Virginia University and Morgantown communities to get together,Lee said.This isnt going to be a partisan event. We wont be stumping for Republican and Democrat candidates. Well be talking about people. Well be engaging in honest, open discussions about this current era of national and international unrest.

Williams and a six-member panel will field audience questions and work through a 33-point list, Lee said.

Discussion topics will cover a broad rangefrom racial profiling and the Patriot Act to propaganda versus news reporting. The forum, she said, will also give a historical look at West Virginians who have gone off to war, while also exploring the idea ofgenerational traumathat wars inflict on societies.

The panel:

• Professor Robert Bastress, WVU College of Law

• Dr. Jamie Jacobs, WVU Department of Political Science

• Ibrahim Iba NDiaye, a WVU doctoral candidate in Economic History

• Asra Nomani, a lifelong Morgantown resident, journalist, author and founder of Daughters of Hajar

• Jared Towner, a combat veteran of Iraq and WVU senior

• Sen. John Unger, D-Berkeley

WVU co-sponsors are the Office of Institutional Advancement; Presidents Office for Social Justice; Center for Black Culture and Research; the Division of Social Work and Department of Social Science (both housed in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences); and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority. The City of Morgantown Civil Rights Commission is also a sponsor.