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Individuals should stereotype an entire raceoi people, especially if they an not a member of that group, she said. Clarification The student body presi dent candidates listed March 4 in "Candidates jockey in SBP contest"ate Kyle Carlton, chair of the Student Senate external affairs committee and Luke Cheatham, who led Unity Project's off-campus bonfire last fall. Also, Ed Brown will be listed on the ballot by his nickname "El Ramos." Hecufauj^or Terrorism mpass College Ministries would gaged couples and those thinking of g igaged to join us for a 6-week seminar on ow to build a lasting marriage. — - Continued from page 1 $75 Per Couple Fee Includes: Seminar Notebook PREPARE < Evaluation & Reading, Marriage Enrichment Material and more! “Universities tend to be very good targets,” he said. “Just the nature of campuses make them wide open.” Kroll, Inc. typically ana lyzes three categories for col leges, including terrorism, environmental and location risks. A few risks Maurer identi fied included elements such as ROTC programs, government funded research facilities and locations by railroad tracks. Maurer stressed that not every risk could be identified, but every effort must be made to realize the major ones. “The World Trade Center was probably one of the most secure buildings in the world ” he said, “but it wasn’t ready for an airplane slamming into the side of it.” Maurer said that every establishment , including uni versities, needs to have an emergency procedure and warning plan that will be effective for the organization it will be applied to. “Always plan for Murphy’s Law,” he said. “If it can go wrong, it will go wrong.” Dr. Bill Waugh of the Georgia State Public Administration and Urban Studies said an emergency plan for a university is a dif ficult matter because of the different number of people involved in the decision. Waugh said at a large uni versity, officials would have to deal with reluctant profes sors, researchers and perhaps even students, who may refuse to evacuate in an extreme situation. “Experience shows that if you issue a warning, compli ance won’t always be the case,” he said. “If you give enough information to people so they know what’s going on, they will be less likely to panic.” Battalion Continued from page 1 President John Casares said mis takes in The Battalion have been unacceptable. “The Battalion needs to be more accurate,” said Casares, a senior management major. “A lot of times things need to be double-checked.” Students said the Battalion staff has been unresponsive to sugges tions and complaints. One student said he made four phone calls to the Battalion that were never returned and wrote numerous letters that w$re. not pub- lished. “Do not assume your letters won’t get published,” said Liffick, a senior journalism major. “Don’t assume your calls won’t get returned.” Several students attending the forum said they were unhappy with the coverage their organizations’ events had received from The Battalion. Panelist Burke Wilson, Corps of Cadets public relations officer, said The Battalion focused too much on negative issues. “I want to know what things students are doing,” sail Wilson, a senior speech comniur cations major. “There are positr things happening on campus, b they are never on the front page." Battalion News EditorRolant Garcia, a senior politcal sciena major, said The Battalion’s goal was not to focus on negative issue and focused on covering issue vital to the student body. 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