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Colleges seek faster warnings (AP)

The two hours it took for Virginia Tech officials to e-mail students a warning about a gunman on campus has raised concern about how schools can get critical news out faster in a crisis.”When you’re in the middle of something, two hours is not very long. But when you’re looking in, it does seem like a long time,” says Mitchell Celaya, the assistant chief of campus police at the University of California, Berkeley.