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Japan Nuclear Plant Leak
Produces High Radiation
Associated Press
TOKYO - A leak at a uranium-pro
cessing plant in central Japan Thursday
sent radiation levels skyrocketing and
led to the hospitalization of three work
ers, two in critical condition.
Hiromu Nonaka, the top government
spokesman, called the accident
“unprecedented,” and officials said no
previous Japanese accident had left
workers so seriously injured. About 150
people were evacuated from the area
around the plant in the town of
Tokaimura, 70 miles northeast of Tokyo.
A nuclear reaction apparently
occurred while the workers there were
processing the uranium into fuel for
nuclear power plants, a highly delicate
task, said Makoto Ujihara, head of the
Tokyo office of JCO Cos., the private
company that operates the plant.
Radiation levels around the plant
were 10,000 times higher than normal at
one point, and about 10 times higher
than normal 1 1/4 miles from the acci
dent, said Tatsuo Shimada, an official of
Ibaraki Prefecture.
The levels dropped off later, but they
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remained higher than normal late
Thursday, and there were fears of a pos
sible continued nuclear reaction at the
plant, said Science and Technology
Agency official Ken Muraoka.
“A major accident resulting in a
radioactive leak has happened. We apol
ogize from the bottom of our hearts,”
saidJCO President Koji Kitani, bowing
deeply at a news conference in Tokyo.
A nuclear reaction is a dangerous
phenomenon that releases extremely
intense energy as well as radiation, but
it stops once the radioactive material is
spent
The government set up a task force of
top ministers to investigate the accident,
the first time such a step has been taken
in Japan for a nuclear accident. It sent
specialists to the area to monitor the
radioactivity.
The nuclear reaction was set off when
the workers accidentally mixed too
much uranium in the tank, company
officials said.
They said they thought that while
radioactivity was released into the
atmosphere, the radioactive material
itself remained contained.
Board Candidates
Air Ideas for System
By Jason Owens
Assistant City Editor
In an evening of debate and discus
sion, eight candidates for the Chapel
Hill Carrboro Board of Education vying
for four open seats shared their plat
forms in an open forum.
Community Action Network board
member Fred Black moderated the
forum, grilling candidates on their
vision and plans for the school system
for next year and beyond.
“Everybody has ideas about how to
make good schools even better,” he
said. “What is the most important issue
facing the school system?” he asked.
While most candidates agreed local
schools were in good shape, they had
different ideas of how to improve them.
Candidate Christina Grobin said the
school board needed to focus on self
evaluation.
“We test our students and our teach
ers and extensively test our schools,” she
said. “It is time that we test our board.”
Candidate Maryanne Rosenman
focused on growth as the primary con
cern of the school system.
“Our school district has been grow
ing at a rate of five percent a year,” she
said. “ We need to try to plan ahead.”
One of the primary issues that repeat
edly came up during the meeting dealt
with class size.
Candidate Teresa Williams said it was
important to reduce the number of stu
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dents in classrooms. “It makes a differ
ence whether you’re sitting in a class
size of 23 or 30,” she said.
Candidate Gloria Faley said smaller
class sizes were vital for the education of
students through the third-grade level.
“Children all learn differently,” she
said. “We need to realize that. They
need to have the room and the
resources to recognize that they are indi
viduals.”
Most candidates supported stricter
evaluation of the school system.
Candidate Lynne Townsend Albert
suggested using bonuses and incentives
as a form of evaluation for teachers.
“One area that we can show our com
munity they’re getting value for their
money is compensating teachers for
good performance,” she said.
Candidate Elizabeth Carter also said
she supported increasing teacher pay.
“I think teachers should be able to
live in the community in which they
teach,” she said.
Candidate Michael Bryan suggested
having teachers evaluate each other.
“I would like to add peer evaluation
where veteran teachers evaluate novice
and rookie teachers.”
Candidate Patti Adams summed up
her goals in one statement.
“My vision is that the school system
stay the superior system that it is.”
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.
POARCH
From Page 1
In a March 15, 1998 interview with
The Daily Tar Heel, Swain said he did
not expect the department to make
adjustments in accordance with the
report because similar findings in a
1990 report did not spur action.
Barely in the door, Poarch sought to
change the department’s image and phi
losophy into an active listening and
problem-solving team.
He immediately focused his agenda
on interviewing each DPS employee.
For three months, he spent about six
hours each day talking to employees.
The interviews helped Poarch to assess
the department’s structure, which he
adjusted in March.
He reassigned officers into four
squads and shifted parking enforcement
officers from the police operations sec
tion to the control of an assistant direc
tor for parking.
Poarch eliminated some unfilled
management positions and said he
would fill them with regular officers.
He also started to schedule standing
meetings with senior staff members and
the lieutenants in charge of the four
campus regions. IACLEA had reported
that DPS needed to establish routine
and predictable communication.
During the spring, Poarch surveyed
employees’ e-mail access and found
many were not connected. He pledged
to connect as many DPS employees to
e-mail as possible in the next year.
On Sept. 24, the department sent out
its first newsletter filled with informa
tion on hirings, promotions and birth
days. “Communication was a big issue,”
Poarch said. “It continues to be. We’ve
taken some steps in the right direction,
but that’s something we need to work
on.”
Hitting the Streets
In its report, IACLEA stated the
department effectively handled routine
calls but struggled to handle matters
beyond law enforcement.
“The organization defines policing
solely as law enforcement, when in real
ity policing is a much broader band of
activities,” the report stated. “The true
goal of policing is a safer campus.”
At the time, UNC staffed two squads
for community policing that worked
from 3 p.m. to 3 a.m. and concentrated
on patrolling North Campus. The
report noted: “This approach treats
community policing as a program as
opposed to a philosophy.”
Poarch has stressed the change in
mind-set. “We have asked everyone in
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our department to become problein
solvers - to find ways to do their job
more productively, more efficiendy.”
Officers are now assigned to one of
four regions on campus: South Campus,
based in Chase Hall; Mid Campus,
based in Kenan Field House; North
Campus, based in Student Stores; and
off-central, based in Abernathy Hall.
Officers are on duty at the substa
tions 24 hours per day. They serve as
liaisons between students and the
broader Chapel Hill community and
develop crime prevention programs.
McCracken said officers were striv
ing to meet their new roles. “They’ve
adapted well,” he said. “This was a big
change for the way the majority of peo
ple spent their career policing.”
Poarch said the substations were still
working out computing issues because
the machines for officers had only
recently arrived. And the department
still needs to fill some officer positions
to get to full strength.
“I think it will be several years until
we’re all comfortable with it,” he said.
“At the 90-day point, I’m very pleased.”
Forging a Future
Poarch stressed that time would be
needed for the changes to settle.
“We’ve got to realize in this problem
solving, in this partnering, in this phi
losophy we’re asking the employees to
take (that) it’s not a stop and start thing,”
he said. “... It has to continue to be
examined and modified where it’s
appropriate to do that.”
He pledged DPS would continue to
strengthen ties with the community.
He said it would examine hiring and
training processes. The department will
survey its procedures to ensure they fit
the Commission on Accreditation Law
Enforcement Agencies’ regulations. The
commission will review DPS for accred
itation in the year 2000.
University officials said that with
Poarch, stability had returned to DPS.
“One thing that’s important in this
department is having some stability in
the leadership,” Elfland said. “I think it’s
very fortunate he’s been here, and I
hope that continues.”
Poarch, however, prefers to shy away
from the spotlight and credit his
employees for the gains.
“I do think we’ve made some good
strides,” he said. “I don’t know if the
department would have made those
strides with another police chief,
though. I tend to not get too excited
about what I do in the organization, but
what the organization does while I’m
allowed to be part of it. The last year
has been rewarding for our department.
“I don’t really know but one speed,
but that’s at a very fast pace and figuring
that what you’ve accomplished, there’s
always a lot more to be accomplished,” -
he said. “(That) clearly gives me the
motivation daily that I’m doing the job
the University hired me to do ... to
move this department in the direction jt
needs to go.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
COURT
From Page 1
necessary information for both the stu
dent and prosecutor in all cases.
He receives all complaints brought
against alleged violators of the
Instrument for Student Judicial
Governance and decides whether to
charge the student.
“Academic cheating is such a serious
issue,” he said. “I always like to talk with
the student before making a charge
decision.”
Students employ a number of diverse
cheating techniques, student judiciary
members said. Some students choose
the traditional “glance at a neighbor’s
paper” method, while others use papers
plagiarized from a variety of sources.
“(Internet plagiarism) is on the rise,”
said Judicial Programs Assistant Emily
Thom, who coordinates cases for the
Honor Court.
She said Internet plagiarism cases
had occurred only a few times in the
past year, but the Honor Court was
preparing for more as the semester con
tinued.
The Honor Court also hands down
sentences to students found guilty.
In a case of academic cheating, the
Student Code-mandated sentence is sus
pension for the term and an “F” in the
course.
To determine a verdict, the Honor
Court hears the results of the attorney
general’s investigation and might delib
erate for several hours.
“Faculty are great at being thorough
(in providing evidence),” Chance said.
“All it takes is one question or (pla
giarized) sentence to be suspended.”
Faculty members are the primary
reporters of cheating, especially those in
the English department, Haywood said.
Two-thirds of complaints concern
freshmen, particularly those in intro
ductory English classes such as English
11 and 12.
Though Honor Court sessions are
initially open to the public, they are
immediately closed under the Family
Educational Records Privacy Act.
If the defendant wishes, the case can
remain open to the public.
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.