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By RUTH DAVIS
Staff Writer
The Southeast Compact Commis
Mon's decision to make North
Carolina the host state for a low
level radioactive waste site was
random. Gov. Jim Martin's science
adviser told about 40 people in the
School of Public Health auditorium
Wednesday.
Earl MacCormac called the com
mission's decision method an
"expensive lottery."
"(The commission) spent
hundreds of thousands of dollars to
make a decision that could have been
made with a roll of the dice or a
draw of the straw," MacCormac
said.
Last September the commission;
made up of two representatives from
each of the eight southeastern states
Vice president reff erendum sidetracked
By TERESA KRIEGSMAN
Staff Writer
Students will not be able to decide
in the February election if they want
a student body vice president, the
Student Congress decided Wednes
day night.
By' a vote of 7 to 15," the congress
rejected the bill that would allow
students to vote on a referendum
concerning the election of a student
body vice president.
In' other action, the congress
Price pleased with committee posts
By JEANNIE FARIS
Assistant State & National Editor
The competitive process for com
mittee assignments in the U.S. House
of Representatives is over and Rep.
David Price, D-4th District, will now
serve on the Banking, Finance and
Urban Affairs Committee and the
Science and Technology Committee.
Price believes his two assignments
were the best that he could have
received in his first term, his press
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in the compact, chose North Carol
ina as the next site for waste
repository.
, He said the commission chose
North Carolina through a two-step
process which involved making
projections of expected volumes of
radioactive wastes and making
assessments based on those volumes,
transportation to the site, area
population and weather conditions.
The projections made were inac
curate because dramatic changes in
waste volume from 1983-1984
occurred, MacCormac said.
MacCormac said that when he
recomputed the projections by using
the original formula, he found North
Carolina to be ranked fourth while
Georgia ranked first.
"North Carolina was chosen
randomly, it (the choice) was not
rejected a bill requesting $4,700 to
pay for updated computer software
for the Student Activities Fund
Office.
The vice presidential referendum
stated that the student body vice
president would be elected campus
wide, and the candidates would be
elected on a joint ticket ballot with
a student body presidental candidate
if the candidates for both offices
agreed.
Jody Beasley (Dist. 16), who co-
secretary, Jim Jordan, said
Wednesday.
Although they were not his first
placement choices, he was especially
pleased with his Banking Committee
assignment, Jordan said.
"Banking was a good assignment,"
Jordan said. "That's a good commit
tee. It appeals to him intellectually."
The science committee is a good
assignment because Price represents
the Research Triangle Park district.
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rigged," he said. "It was an expensive
way to make, a random choice.
Money was spent to reassure the
public that it was an objective way
to choose."
The N.C. state legislature must
choose between accepting the com
mission's decision or doing it alone
by setting up a state facility, Mac
Cormac said.
If the legislature does decide to set
up its own facility, it would be
impossible to keep other states from
entering and using th waste site
because of legal implications, he said.
"The way to solve the problem of
keeping other states from dumping
(in North Carolina) is through
compacts," he added.
MacCormac said building and
running a site alone is also costly.
Since the federal government
authored the bill along with Rob
Friedman (Dist. 16), supported the
referendum. "It is irresponsible on
a campus of this size not to have
that (vice presidential) role or at least
not to let students make the deci
sion," Beasley said.
Steve Griffin (Dist. 5) disagreed,
saying the format of the election
could change too often. "It gives no
consistency from year to year
whether you're going to have people
elected together or separately," he
said.
Jordan said. Howard Coble, R-N.C,
of the 6th District serves on the
science committee as well.
Both of Price's committee assign
ments divide into sub-committees
seven in the science committee and
eight on the banking committee. The
democratic leaders of each commit
tee will determine sub-committee
membership next week, but Jordan
would not say which of these assign
ments Price preferred.
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regulates all radioactive materials, a
state-regulated facility in which more
could be charged for waste coming
from out-of-state would be impos
sible, MacCormac said during a
question-and-answer period.
MacCormac said he intends to run
the case through the "analytical
hierarchy" process, which would
allow several factors, such as values
and conservation, as well as econ
omy, to be considered in a series of
trade-offs.
MacCormac said the dangers ot
having a low-level waste repository
in North Carolina are minimal. He
said the exposure from the site will
be less exposure than the governor
gets in his office. The governor's
office is made of granite which
contains the radioactive element,
uranium.
Student Body President Bryan
Hassel said he didn't think the issue
was urgent. He warned the congress
against having a "knee-jerk reaction"
making a quick decision just to
get the referendum on the February
ballot.
The congress also voted against
spending $4,716.19 on computer
software expressly designed for
dealing with SAFO's new computer
svstem.
Since no other organization uses
the same accounting procedure as
the congress, SAFO asked the
congress to help pay for the special
system.
John W. Williams, student body
treasurer, said that without the new
software, the congress would not be
able to keep their funds in SAFO
unless the congress's accounting
procedure was changed.
Michael Lentz (Dist. 4) said it
might have been less expensive to
change the accounting procedure
than to have software designed.
To pay for the rest of the updated
computer software system, SAFO
plans to raise the fees it charges
student groups to use its services,
Beasley said. He said he didnt know
if SAFO would raise Student Con
gress's fees to recover the money for
the accounting system.
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After plaguing NCSU,
flu 'n 2a future for UNC
By NANCY HARRINGTON
Staff Writer
An influenza virus once thought
to be isolated at N.C. State Univer
sity has been found at UNC, with
the potential to reach epidemic
status, doctors at UNC's Student
Health Service announced Tuesday.
The virus, labeled by doctors as
Taiwan Influenza, is a mutation of
a virus that last surfaced in the
United States in 1956, said Dr. James
McCutchan, director of the Clinical
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About 35 UNC students have been
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days, said McCutchan, and the
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"We know there is a virus. Most
students have not had it before and
they are very susceptible," he said.
"It's a highly contagious virus and
the onset is sudden. Its incubation
period is as short as 36 hours, instead
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taking their rightful place among
the tan, brown, yellow, orange
and green.
The return of the red candies
was prompted by a national
outcry that included thousands of
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of the usual length of incubation for
a virus, which is usually 2-3 weeks."
The virus is easily transmitted,
McCutchan said. "You can pass it
on by coughing, through direct
contact (with someone) or even
drinking after a person with the
strain," he said.
Since there is a lot of contact
among students in college environ
ments, McCutchan said the virus
could reach an epidemic stage, but
that Student Health officials can't
predict what trail the virus may take.
"Immunity is the only thing that
will keep students from getting it,"
he said. However, since it takes a
long time to make Taiwan Influenza
vaccine, not enough is available.
McCutchan said the virus was
probably brought to Chapel Hill by
students who went home to Raleigh
for the holidays and then came back
to school and interacted with other
students.
In 1986, almost 700 students got
sick with another strain of Influenza,
McCutchan said. This year the
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"We don't know how many stu
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McCutchan said students should
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