Mock HMO to be featured at meeting of new student group EPIHC@Harvard, a new undergraduate group dedicated to "Exploring Policy In Health Care," will host the creators of HMO Black for a press conference on the current state of health care. The conference will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Emerson 105.

HMO Black is a mock health plan, which by its very absurdities, pokes fun at the more ridiculous and disconcerting aspects of managed care. Further inquiries may be directed to epihc@hcs.harvard.edu, or answered by calling 493-1297.

Sri Lankan civil war is subject of meeting

A civil war that has engulfed Sri Lanka for the past 14 years is the subject of a meeting called "The Political, Social, and Economic Reconstruction of Sri Lanka," to be held Nov. 20-22 at the Faculty Club.

The event, sponsored by the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) and the World Peace Foundation (WPF), in cooperation with the International Centre for Ethnic Studies in Sri Lanka, will bring together, among others, 12 leading Sri Lankans, including government officials, military officers, and persons prominent in civil society. Also participating are Stanley Tambiah, the Rabb Professor of Anthropology, and Donald Snodgrass of HIID. The co-chairs are Robert Rotberg of HIID and the WPF and Neelan Tiruchelvam, director of the International Centre.

Participation is by invitation. For information, call Maeve McNally at 496-4521.

Debate on constitutional amendments to be held

A two-hour debate by six prominent scholars and litigators on whether constitutional amendments have simply become political tools and whether there is a need for greater restraint in amending our founding charter will be held 2 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 20, at the Austin Hall North, Law School.

The event is hosted by the Harvard Law Students Forum and is cosponsored by the nonpartisan Citizens for the Constitution and the Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies.

Among the participants are Richard Parker, professor of constitutional law; and Frederick Schauer, academic dean at the Kennedy School of Government.