Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, December 23, 1993                   TAG: 9312250118
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-8   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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PANEL COVERS WIDE RANGE

Its members represent government, law enforcement, religious and special-interest groups.

The membership includes representatives of: the Montgomery, Blacksburg and Christiansburg governments; the county schools, the Sheriff's Department; the Christiansburg and Blacksburg police departments; the two chambers of commerce; Virginia Tech's Cranwell International Center for foreign students; the Montgomery NAACP; the Blacksburg and Christiansburg ministerial associations; Tech's student affairs office; the county Human Services Council; the Tech campus ministeries; the League of Women Voters; and the Montgomery branch of the National Organization for Women.

The Human Relations Council also includes representatives of four ``communities'': Asian, Jewish, Muslim, gay and lesbian and the disabled.

Though the specific ``community'' organizations are not named in the list given to the Board of Supervisors, they include an Asian student group from Tech and the New River Valley Islamic Society, Schroeder said.