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Vol. 78 No. 091The

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Nation still on shaky ground after devastat-ing earthquake, tsunami and nuclear concerns

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Disaster Strikes Japan

LET’S DANCEAs a teacher and mock trial coach, University

of Memphis political science instructor Ray Michael Collins cared for his colleagues and students, always putting people before his work. Collins died Sunday night after battling a long illness, two days after his 57th birthday.

Collins, a 1976 alumnus of what was then Memphis State, began teaching at The U of M in 1999 and served as the undergraduate political science adviser for the past two years.

Collins gave his all when it came to the educa-tion of his students, said political science instruc-tor coordinator David Madlock.

“Dr. Collins was a true professional,” he said. “Students always came first to him, and The University came second.”

Collins was still a practicing attorney until his last days. He often fought for fair housing and other social causes during his career. In an e-mail sent by political sci-ence department chair Matthias Kaelberer to all political science majors, Kaelberer cred-ited Collins, called “Mike” by his friends, with inspiring a com-munity of lawyers.

One of those law-yers Collins influenced is Michelle Bliss, a for-mer student of Collins who is now a part-time instructor of political science at The U of M.

“I can honestly say if that Mike Collins had never been in my life, my life would be complete-ly different,” she said. “I would have not gone to law school. I would have not gotten involved in mock trial. I would not be teaching here today.”

Collins also affected the lives of many stu-dents as coach of the mock trial team.

“Mock trial was his baby,” said Bliss, who oversaw the team when he became ill.

Students who were involved in mock trial said they remember Collins as a teacher and coach who cared about them.

“He always put others first, and he worked tirelessly to help his students and his colleagues,” said political science graduate student and for-mer mock trial member Courtney Myers.

Both students and colleagues in the depart-ment also noted that Collins had a unique, endearing brand of humor.

“He (had) this kind of dry wit,” said mock trial member and political science major Steve Ross. “You could always tell there was some-thing else, a subtext, going on in the back of his head. Maybe it didn’t necessarily come out all the time, but when it did, it was priceless.”

Funeral services for Collins will be held in his hometown in Middle Tennessee, but details on the service are not yet finalized. The U of M mock trial team is also planning an on-campus memorial service for his students, colleagues and friends and will announce details as soon as those plans are confirmed.

Faculty

UM loses instructor and coachBY JoShuA BoLDENNews Reporter

With the help of local businesses, neighborhoods and The University of Memphis, one organization plans to transform the areas surrounding The U of M campus into a safe, exciting center for commerce.

The University Neighborhood Development Corporation, an 11-member group of businessmen and alumni, has worked to create a new, more attractive atmosphere in The University area since 2004.

Brent Alvord, president of UNDC and a U of M graduate, said the organization was founded to make The University area a great destination zone for people to live, work and play.

“The UNDC wanted to help promote development in the entire U of M area and to really increase the cool factor in that area,” Alvord said.

The group’s plans include the construction and development of Highland Row, a space of over 113,000 square feet of retail stores, with more than 230 resi-dences located on the three upper levels and a parking garage, which will be shielded from the neighborhood by 30 townhouses. The University Bookstore will also be relocated to the shopping center at Highland and Midland, the former site of Highland Street Church of Christ.

“I’m not at liberty to say (what retail stores will be in Highland Row), but you’re gonna be happy,” said David Cox, executive assistant to the president at The U of M and UNDC secretary.

The Highland Row project is being developed by Poag and McEwen Lifestyle Centers, the same corpo-ration that developed the Shops at Saddle Creek in

Walking in (a better) MemphisBY AmBEr CrAwforDNews Reporter

Pastner pitted against alma mater, Arizona, in first NCAA tournament as Tigers’ coach

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Last week, University of Memphis coach Josh Pastner preached to his team about approaching the Conference USA tournament in El Paso, Texas, as a business trip.

The Tigers earned an automatic NCAA bid by knocking off UTEP in the C-USA championship, but Pastner’s first NCAA tournament game as a head coach may be as much of a giddy reunion with old friends as it is a busi-ness matter.

The Tigers were seeded 12th in the West region and will face Pastner’s alma mater, Arizona, on Friday in Tulsa, Okla., at the BOK Center. Before coming to Memphis in 2008 as an assis-

tant under former coach John Calipari, Pastner played and coached at Arizona for almost 14 years.

“I think it’s cool. That’s neat,” Pastner said at his home Sunday. “Arizona is my alma mater, but I bleed blue and gray, so that’s the bottom line.”

Freshman guard Will Barton said he had a premonition about a first-round game against the Wildcats.

“I kind of felt it would happen,” Barton said. “As soon as I saw Arizona pop up at the 5-spot, I said, ‘Here comes Memphis right after it.’ And that’s what happened.”

Freshman guard Joe Jackson, who essentially single-handedly turned the Tigers’ destiny around in the C-USA tournament last week, said he too felt

that the Tigers (25-9) would be matched up against Pastner’s alma mater.

“I was like, it’d be the perfect situation for Coach to play against Arizona, the former team he went to and coached for,” Jackson said. “It’s a good feeling to know we’re in the tour-nament, but it’s back to business now.”

For the Tigers, the road to the NCAA tournament was far from smooth.

There was considerable doubt that The U of M could sneak into the Big Dance without winning the C-USA tournament against UTEP.

The Tigers, however, rallied from a 12-point deficit with just over six minutes to play in the C-USA title game and shocked UTEP, 67-66, when

BY JohN mArTiNSports Editor

Campus Developmentsee NCAA, page 12

see UNDC, page 4

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Freshman guard Will Barton celebrates after The University of Memphis earns an automatic NCAA tourna-ment bid by defeating UTEP, 67-66, in the Conference USA championship game. They will open tournament play against Arizona in Tulsa, Okla., on Friday at 1:45 p.m.

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Volume 78 Number 091

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TomorrowWednesday Night Live:

Music of Timbre8 p.m. • UC River Room

Coming UpFriday, 3/18

Friday Film Series7 p.m.

UC Theatre

The Commander’s Cup, an annual competition for bragging rights among The University of Memphis’ ROTC branches, has historically pitted members of each branch against one anoth-er in contests of dexterity and brawn.

On Monday, however, mem-bers from each branch came together for a battle of intellect.

For the first time, the Commander’s Cup featured a knowledge bowl event in which teams were quizzed on facts about all military branches.

“We wanted to do a knowl-edge bowl to create more cama-raderie between the branches and learn more about each other,” said Jonathan Simpson, senior psychology major and member of the Air Force ROTC and the Commander’s Cup Committee.

Usually the Commander’s Cup takes place in one after-noon, but not this year’s com-petition willt ake place over the course of several months.

This year’s Commander’s Cup

is also based on a points system. The first event, flag football,

occurred in December. Navy/Marines ROTC came in first place, earning 30 points. Air Force ROTC came in second, earning 15 points. Army ROTC finished third, earning zero points.

At Monday’s knowledge bowl, the second event of the competi-tion, three teams of three, one for each ROTC branch, attempted to outwit their military colleagues. Each team submitted 60 questions based on military terminology, history and armed forces theme songs, which were compiled into a 180-question study guide.

Team members, chosen on a volunteer basis, were given two weeks to study.

Alyson Blain, sophomore hos-pitality major, volunteered to com-pete for Air Force ROTC.

“I had to learn about not only Air Force, but both Army and Navy history and background, as well,” Blain said. “I enjoyed learning about how we are fighting for the same cause of America’s rights — we just do it in different ways.”

A computer program, writ-ten by Air Force ROTC Cadet Commander Joseph Svejkosky, randomly selected 120 questions

during the competition. Teams had 45 seconds to discuss and answer each question.

Army ROTC was the first

branch to answer a question — and the first to get one wrong. The question was about the Air Force.

The competition continued with several “yeahs,” a “get some” and many “oorahs” from the audience.

Air Force ROTC finished in first place with 45 points, Navy/Marines ROTC came in second with 30 points and Army ROTC came in third with 15 points.

The Commander’s Cup con-tinues with a basketball event on March 30 and ends after a day of track and field events and dodge-ball in the first week of April.

Although the cup focuses on solidarity, there is still a dis-tinct element of rivalry between branches.

“The Navy/Marine Corps and the Army probably have the biggest rivalry because they are usually competing for the top at the Commander’s Cup,” said Svejkosky. “Air Force hasn’t won in quite some time.”

Combining scores from flag football and Commander’s Cup Knowledge Bowl, Air Force ROTC and Navy/Marine ROTC are tied for first with 60 points and Army ROTC trails with only 15 points.

Army ROTC currently holds the Commander’s Cup after winning the competition last school year.

U of M ROTC

Camaraderie and competition at Commander’s Cup

Army ROTC members Danielle Fields, sophomore biology major, Cory Bendall, freshman nursing major, and Adam Casey, junior psychology major, face off against rival military branches in Monday afternoon’s Commander’s Cup knowledge bowl. This year is the first that the knowledge bowl has been included in the competition.

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TODAY in the University Center Memphis Room A (UC 340A)

A hard-hitting, investigative film that explores how the current financial crisis, the nation’s worst since the Great Depression, was built on a foundation

of criminal activity.

Monday, March 21 @ 3:30 p.m.Fogelman Classroom Bldg. Rm 119

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A Weekly Devotional For YouChristians, Earn the Right!

This time I am going to require a great deal of the true Christians out there. You must realize that, even though it is unfair, the general populace holds you to a higher standard than any other group. This is really an unintended compliment. Everyone senses that Christianity is a unique religion, in a class by itself. This infuriates some. Recently, the host of a HBO show made the statement that all Christians are crazy and have a neurological disorder. This statement is ludicrous on its face and tells a great deal about the one who made it. If this statement had been made concern-ing someone’s race, gender, “sexual orientation,” or had been made about any other religion than Christianity, there would have been a media firestorm and the person would have been fired. How-ever, because of the blatant hypocrisy of most of the media, nothing will be done. How should Christians react? Should they whine about a lack of fairness and complain about discrimination? They can legitimately raise these issues, but they must not use them as excuses. Christian students should be dependable, trustworthy, and respectful. They should always do the best they can. They should hand in their assignments on time. Even though the secular world and much of the religious world exercises a double standard in regard to Christianity, we Christians should not mind earning the right to be heard by reasonable people.

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Sharing good times in cycling, commuting, mountain biking, road biking and cyclocross

Group Bike RideWednesday, March 16

3 p.m.Meet at the Student Plaza Fountain

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Don’t forget your helmet!Questions? Contact Doug Campbell

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Did injustice ruin their lives?

“The Media’s Role in the West Memphis 3 Case.”A panel discussion featuring Mara Leveritt, author of

Devil’s Knot, a book about the case, and Lorrie Davis, wife of incarcerated Damien Echols

Thursday, March 247 p.m. • UC Theatre

Sponsored by U of M Chapter, Society of Professional Journalists, and Student Event Allocation

Germantown.According to Josh Poag,

president and CEO of Poag and McEwen Lifestyle Centers, construction of Highland Row is scheduled to begin in “late spring or early summer.”

“We hope to bring a lot of vibrancy and a good commer-cial development so it will give a place for students, alumni and parents of students a place to congregate,” Poag said. “And ultimately we hope to tie The University to the com-munity and vice versa.”

The original plan was to begin the project in 2008, but the economy made it extreme-ly difficult to get financing,

Poag said.Alvord said the organiza-

tion is currently working on redeveloping Walker Avenue, then migrating to Highland.

“We are looking to redo parking, plant trees and build sidewalks to get The University to connect a little better to com-merce,” Alvord said. “We are also putting (recycle bins) on Highland Avenue and working on transportation projects.”

Alvord said the UNDC also focuses on providing residen-tial housing to the area. One of these residential projects includes the Laurels condo-miniums located at Central and Highland, which were constructed last year. Alvord said the project went through the UNDC board, and they were instrumental in getting

the overlay and master plan approved by the Memphis City Council.

Cox said the UNDC part-nered with neighborhoods near campus and a number of other organizations to create a master plan for the develop-ment of the Highland area. The plan consists of how buildings and land will be used during planned projects.

As far as the safety factor, Cox said people are safer when living in an area with a lot of activity, which he thinks Highland Row will help generate.

“We just want to continue to make this University area a place where people want to come, where they want to spend their time and where they can learn and be safe,” he said.

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Wednesday Night Livefeaturing the music of Timbre

March 16 @ 8 p.m.UC River Room

A distinctively unique musical experience, combining the uncommon sound of the harp

with an almost classical or Celtic voice, for a performance often described as

breath-taking, peaceful and enchanting.


With a death toll expected to climb into the tens of thousands, more than a half-million people displaced and a nuclear crisis con-tinuing to unfold, rescuers con-verged Monday on Japan’s devas-tated earthquake zone while work-ers in relatively unaffected areas struggled to return to offices and factories.

The government reported Monday that radiation levels again rose above legal limits outside the crippled nuclear complex at quake-battered Fukushima, about 150 miles north of Tokyo, where authorities have been pumping seawater into overheated reactors to try to cool them down. Several other nuclear installations were under close watch for potential problems.

Across a wide swath of earth-quake-hit territory, hundreds of thousands of hungry survivors roused themselves from a third cold night spent huddled in dark-ened emergency centers, cut off from rescuers, aid and electricity. At least 1.4 million households had gone without water since the quake struck and some 1.9 million households were without power. Rolling blackouts to conserve ener-gy were scheduled across much of the country on Monday.

In Tokyo and other large cities outside the quake zone, the first full workday since Friday’s tem-blor began with delays and disrup-tions. Many of the train lines that normally run between Tokyo and outlying suburbs and surrounding cities were either running far less frequently than normal or not run-ning at all.

With fears about how the world’s third-largest economy would weather the ongoing fallout from the massive quake, Japan’s main stock exchange, the Nikkei, opened down Monday morning by just over 2 percent. The central bank said it was prepared to flood money markets with cash to keep the financial system running.

A full reckoning of deaths and damage could take weeks, but the picture grew grimmer with each passing hour.

“We have no choice but to deal with the situation on the premise that it (the death toll) will undoubt-edly be numbered in the ten thou-sands,” Naoto Takeuchi, head of the Miyagi prefectural police, told a Kyodo reporter during a local disaster task force meeting.

An international rescue effort gathered force, with teams arriv-ing from China, New Zealand, Germany and the United States, among other nations.

“We are glad to accept all the help we can get to assist the peo-ple of Japan,” said Air Force Col. Michael Rothstein, 35th Fighter Wing commander at Misawa. “We will do whatever is in our means to support their efforts in this time of need.”

There were some dramatic res-cues of tsunami survivors Sunday, including that of a 60-year-old man who had been waiting for help since he was swept out to sea Friday.

Hiromitsu Shinkawa was spot-ted by rescuers at 12:40 p.m. nine miles off shore by the crew of a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer, Jiji Press reported.

Shinkawa, from the devastated city of Minamisoma, was conscious and in “good condition” after the rescue, Japanese officials said.

“I ran away after learning that the tsunami was coming,” Shinkawa told rescuers, according to Jiji Press. “But I turned back to

pick up something at home, when I was washed away. I was rescued while I was hanging to the roof

from my house.”In Rikuzentakata, a port city of

about 20,000 leveled by the tsu-

nami, Etsuko Koyama escaped the

Nominations Are Now Being Acceptedfor the

President’s Leadership Recognition Awards

Dr. William E. Porter Advisor of The Year AwardRecognizes RSO advisors for their service to & support of U of M students & organizations.

Distinguished Service AwardRecognizes a project or ongoing effort of a student group that has demonstrated

commitment to community and/or social or political cause.

Excellence in Service AwardRecognizes an individual student who has demonstrated commitment to

community and/or social or political cause.

Organization of The YearRecognizes a Registered Student Organization for its contributions

to the campus and its membership.

Phoenix AwardRecognizes a Registered Student Organization that has gone from

a state of non-existence and flourished into a thriving organization.

Program of The Year AwardRecognizes a program or event, sponsored by a student group, that has provided

high-quality, out-of-the-classroom experiences for the campus community.

Nomination applications are availablein Office of Student Leadership & Involvement (UC 211) or online at

www.memphis.edu/student_leadership/organizations.htm

Nominations are due by Monday, March 21 @ 4:30 p.m.

Email online applications to: [email protected], or turn in to UC 211

The President’s Leadership Award Ceremony will be heldSunday, April 17 @ 1 p.m. in the UC River Room

Japan quake toll could number in tens of thousands

World

BY mArk mAgNiEr, BArBArA DEmiCk AND LAurA kiNgLos Angeles Times

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Natori city firefighters patrol the streets of the town once populated with hundreds of homes, now reduced to several dozens in Natori, Japan.

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water rushing through the third floor of her home but was unable to hold on to her daughter’s hand, she told Japanese broadcaster NHK. The girl was swept away by floodwaters and had still not been found Sunday, Koyama said.

“I haven’t given up hope yet,” Koyama told NHK, wiping tears from her eyes. “I saved myself, but I couldn’t save my daughter.”

About 5,000 houses in Rikuzentakata were submerged by the tsunami, and most of the 7,200 houses in Yamada were also under water, Kyodo reported. In Otsuchi, it swept away the town office.

Eighty-eight governments and six international institutions have offered assistance with recov-ery efforts, the Japanese Foreign Ministry announced.

Adding to the misery were more than 40 punishing aftershocks, three of magnitude 6 or higher Sunday.

The Japan Meteorological Agency said there was a 70 percent probability of a magnitude 7 quake in the next three days.

Officials from Tokyo Electric Power Co. began rationing power Monday to the 45 million people they serve to prevent Tokyo and nearby prefectures from experi-encing massive blackouts, Kyodo reported.

Government officials said that the region-specific outages would affect a broad range of things used in everyday life such as traffic sig-nals, medical institutions and train operations, and possibly result in water supply disruptions.

The power rationing should last until the end of April, officials said.

Banri Kaieda, Japan’s trade minister, warned that the coun-try’s quake-damaged eastern and northeastern areas may suffer elec-trical shortages and urged large companies to limit electricity use, Kyodo reported.

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan told reporters Sunday that his country was facing its most difficult challenge since World War II and called on his people to unite in the face of a devastating earthquake, tsunami and potential nuclear crisis.

“This is the toughest crisis in Japan’s 65 years of postwar his-tory,” Kan said during a televised news conference. “I’m convinced that we can overcome the crisis.”

In his remarks to the media, Kan said 12,000 people had been res-cued, including about 5,800 people from Kesennuma, a city in Miyagi prefecture hit especially hard by the tsunami. Kan said 100,000 sol-diers would be deployed to help quake victims.

While search-and-rescue teams struggled to reach battered parts of the northeast obstructed by mud and debris, new fears emerged over a meltdown at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima nuclear complex and trouble at two other nuclear plants.

Kyodo News Agency was reporting early Monday that a cooling system pump had stopped at the Tokai No. 2 nuclear power plant in Ibaraki prefecture oper-ated by Japan Atomic Power Company. The same issue sparked the problems that have befallen the Fukushima reactors.

U.N. nuclear watchdog offi-cials said Japanese authorities had notified them of an emergency at another plant farther north, at Onagawa. But Japan’s nuclear

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As Japan copes with one cri-sis after another at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, a review of federal records indicates that nearly a quarter of America’s nuclear reactors in 13 states share the same design of the ill-fated Japanese reactors.

The plants, called Mark I Boiling Water Reactors, were designed by General Electric. GE, which is donating $5 million to Japan for its relief effort, said Monday it was too early to assess what produced the problems at the complex.

On Monday, the Japanese blasts prompted calls for an immediate review of the 104 nuclear plants now operating in the United States, including many aging facilities, to see if they could withstand a gut-punch by nature that would kill the electricity, cripple the cool-ing system and threaten a nuclear meltdown.

The Japanese crisis, and the potential scrutiny of America’s reactors, comes as the nuclear industry seemingly had won a new lease on life. After decades as an orphan technology shuttered by the meltdown at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, rising concerns about global warming, the need to curb carbon pollution and a quest for more electric production to fuel economic expansion buoyed nuclear fortunes.

GOP lawmakers in the House of Representatives even proposed tripling U.S. nuclear production by building 200 new plants in the next 19 years.

Now, that all seems at risk.With the Fukushima complex

still making headlines, White House officials sought to assure the public that there’s nothing to worry about.

“The U.S. power plants are designed to very high standards for earthquake effects,” said Gregory Jaczko, chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. “All our plants are designed to withstand significant natural phe-nomena, like earthquakes, torna-does, and tsunamis.”

Five of the six reactors at the Japanese plant, which suffered a second explosion Monday, use the same General Electric reac-tor that are at 23 nuclear plants in North Carolina, Georgia, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Alabama, Nebraska, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Massachusetts and Vermont, according to a database main-tained by the NRC.

All but two of them began oper-ating in the 1970s.

“These need to be examined,” said Michael Mariotte, executive director of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, an anti-nuclear organization. “When the reactor designs are the same, and

the reactor’s ages are the same, comparisons seem more than appropriate.”

On Capitol Hill, some are call-ing for a halt to further nuclear development in the U.S.

Rep. Ed. Markey of Massachusetts, the top-ranked Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, called for a moratorium on new reactors in seismically active areas until a new safety review is completed. In addition, Markey joined three other Democrats in asking the House GOP to conduct a hearing on the safety of U.S. nuclear plants.

Independent Sen. Joe Liebermann of Connecticut, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said it was time to “quickly put the brakes on” the U.S. industry.

But in a speech on the Senate floor, Tennessee Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander came to the nuclear industry’s defense: “Without nuclear power, it is hard to imagine how the United States could produce enough cheap, reli-able clean electricity to keep our economy moving and to keep our jobs from going overseas.”

Any reactor design today faced with the combination of an earth-quake and a tsunami would likely be in a similar situation as the plant in Japan, said David Lochbaum, a nuclear engineer who directs the Union of Concerned Scientists’ nuclear safety program. Reactors are built to withstand an earth-quake or a tsunami, but not both on the same day, he said: “We’ll have to go back and revisit that and see if we can do better.”

On a different front, Lochbaum said U.S. reactors generally have less backup battery power than Japan’s. Most have four hours of battery power, though some have eight hours: “We’re light compared to what Japan had and Japan came up short, which would suggest we’re even more vulnerable than they are.”

Richard Caperton, an energy policy analyst with the Center for American Progress, which is close-ly aligned with the Obama admin-istration, said it’s too early to draw lessons from Japan because it’s not fully known what happened.

“The Japanese situation reminds us there’s always a danger with a nuclear reactor and when we build new nuclear reactors we need to realize bad things can happen to them,” he said.

Despite Three Mile Island, he said the U.S. nuclear industry has “justifiably earned a reputation for safety.”

For example, since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, new nuclear plants have to be built to withstand a plane flying into them. Other risks also have to be taken into account, such as climate change that could bring more frequent flooding, he said.

Crisis at Japanese nuclear complex prompts calls for U.S. policy review

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safety agency denied problems at the Onagawa plant, run by Tohoku Electric Power Co., noting that radioactive releases from the Fukushima Daiichi complex had been detected at Onagawa, but that they were within safe levels.

Workers at Fukushima used seawater Sunday in a desper-ate attempt to cool down three damaged nuclear reactors. One of the reactors lost its outer shell in a hydrogen blast Saturday and another was under threat of doing the same, said the country’s chief Cabinet secretary, Yukio Edano.

“Everybody in my neighbor-hood is being evacuated,” said Teruko Tsuchiya, 53, who lives four miles from the nuclear plant and was lining up outside a 7-11 conve-nience store waiting for food. “The buses are going back and forth. People are scared, of course, but they are trying to stay calm.”

Japan’s nuclear and industrial safety agency said more than 70 people were believed to have been exposed to elevated levels of radia-tion, the Asahi Shimbun newspa-per reported. Most were waiting to be airlifted from a field at the high school in Futaba, near Fukushima.

The International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna said it was told by Japanese officials that they would distribute iodine tab-lets to residents near the plant. Iodine is known to protect against thyroid cancer that can develop from radiation poisoning.

The Ronald Reagan, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, was anchored off the coast of Sendai on Sunday, said Stephen Valley, a spokesman for U.S. Forces Japan. The nucle-ar-powered ship is being used as a floating refueling station for Japanese military and coast guard helicopters flying rescue missions in the area.

In Sendai, a city close to the epi-center, residents were charging cell phones on a generator set up by the municipality for traffic lights.

“We’re stealing just a little elec-tricity,” said Sutomo Goto, 38. “Just enough for the cell phones. People were going crazy without phones. There is no information since we don’t have TV. But we’re OK here. Everything within 5 kilometers of the coast has been washed away.”

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The Nuclear Energy Institute, an advocacy group for the U.S. nuclear industry, said that U.S. and international experts would study the Japan accidents and incor-porate the lessons learned in the design of U.S. reactors.

Beyond the safety issues, the growth of the nuclear industry already has been hampered by eco-nomics given their high price tag.

States such as South Carolina and Georgia have passed laws to encourage new plants by allow-ing ratepayers to be assessed for the cost of construction before the plants are built. Banks, however, have been unwilling to give utili-ties loans for new reactors unless the federal government guarantees it will repay the borrowings if the utility can’t.

President Barack Obama, who describes nuclear power as “clean energy,” last month proposed $36 billion in loan guarantees for power companies to build more plants.

White House press secretary Jay Carney said nuclear power

“remains a part of the president’s overall energy plan.”

“When he talks about reaching a clean energy standard, it’s a vital part of that,” Carney said.

The NRC on Monday said it was monitoring events in Japan from its headquarters operations center in

Rockville, Md., on a 24-hour basis.The NRC’s Jaczko said there is

a “very low probability that there’s any possibility of harmful radia-tion levels in the United States or in Hawaii or any other U.S. ter-ritories” as a result of the situation in Japan.

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NFL owners have locked out the players, but both sides in pro football’s labor fight are locked and loaded, firing salvos about who’s to blame for the break-down of talks.

The sniping continued Monday — after a weekend of statements from team owners blaming the players for pushing away from the negotiating table — when the just-decertified NFL Players Assn. conducted a media conference call to tell its side of the story, and to re-emphasize it saw a lockout coming all along.

“We’re not going to allow the league to let 36 hours of a media PR blitz erase what has been planned and prepared for almost three years now,” said George Atallah, spokesman for the NFLPA, which dissolved as a union Friday and is now a trade association.

The NFL, in turn, argues the union has intended for two years to decertify (barring an unlikely agreement in the interim) and always intended to drag this fight into the federal courts. A union is not allowed to decer-tify simply to gain leverage in bargaining.

Meanwhile, there were devel-opments Monday on several fronts:

The NFLPA is attempting to discourage top prospects from attending next month’s draft, according to an ESPN report cit-ing “multiple league sources.” That would alter the time-hon-ored tradition of the early picks walking on stage, shaking the hand of Commissioner Roger Goodell, and sporting the hat and jersey of the player’s new team. Even though a lockout is in effect, there still will be a 2011 draft.

The NFLPA declined to com-ment on the report, whereas NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said: “We plan to invite the 15 to 20 top prospects and their families to New York as we normally do for this once-in-a-lifetime experience. And, as always, it is the decision of the players and their families as to whether they attend.”

An April 6 hearing date has been set for the antitrust law-suit a group of players has filed against the league. The suit is intended to obtain an injunc-tion that would force the league to continue football operations so it would not be able to lock out the players. It remains to be seen whether the sides will make another attempt to negotiate in the next three weeks.

That case is scheduled to be in front of U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson in Minnesota, and not Judge David Doty, who has overseen NFL labor matters since the early 1990s and — at

least in the eyes of the owners — is partial to the players.

New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees, among the litigants in the antitrust suit, said on the NFLPA conference call that he is not concerned that Doty was not assigned the case.

“To us, that’s not an issue,” Brees said. “That was something that the owners seem to be very concerned about and focused on. For us, it’s about the facts and it’s about the law, and we believe those are on our side.”

Kevin Mawae, the NFLPA president, called the assertion that the players walked away from negotiations “a complete fabrication and a lie.” The NFL and the players’ union partic-ipated in 17 days of talks at the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, twice extending the collective-bargain-ing agreement deadline.

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the course of 16 hours spent in mediation, the sides met face to face at the negotiating table for a total of 30 minutes.

“When you say you’ve done everything you can, and then you ask for a caucus that lasts 3{ hours and then you take off for dinner at the end of the day? That’s not negotiating, and that’s not the NFL players walking away from the deal.”

Brees said the players have slammed the door on the concept of an 18-game regular season.

“I’m going to tell you right now that 18 games is not going to happen through the NFL Players Association,” he said. “We can-not justify it for the safety and health of our players. Eighteen games was taken off the table the first time they proposed it, and it was not part of the proposal the last time we gave it to them. And it never will be.”

Then again, the NFLPA in its current form cannot negotiate on behalf of the players anyway. That’s just another aspect of pro football’s strange new reality.

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More people said they got their news from the Web than a physi-cal newspaper last year — the first time in history this has happened, according to an annual report on the news media.

The Internet now trails only television among American adults as a destination for news, and the trend line shows the gap closing, the study released Monday by the Pew Research Center said.

The report predicted that 2010 might also be the year when online ad revenue surpassed print newspaper ad revenue for the first time. The final tally is expected this spring. One of the challenges facing newspapers is that the larg-est share of online ad revenue is going to non-news sources,

particularly to aggregators, the Washington think tank said.

Overall, nearly every sector of the U.S. news industry saw rev-enue growth in 2010, except for newspapers.

After two dreadful years, most sectors of the industry saw rev-enue begin to recover, the study said. With some notable excep-tions, cutbacks in newsrooms eased. And some experiments with new revenue models began to show signs of blossoming.

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newsroom jobs will have been lost — meaning newspaper news-rooms are 30 percent smaller than in 2000,” the study said.

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“Together these hires come close to matching the jobs that we estimate were lost in newspapers in 2010, the first time we have seen this kind of substitution,” the study said.

Traditional newsrooms, mean-while, are different places from they were before the recession. They are smaller, their aspirations have narrowed and their jour-

nalists are stretched thinner, the study found. But they are also more adaptive, younger and more engaged in multimedia presenta-tion, aggregation, blogging and user content. In some ways new media and old, slowly and some-times grudgingly, are coming to resemble each other, the study said.

Less progress has been made in charging for news than many in the journalism industry had predicted, according to the report.

The leading study on the sub-ject finds that so far only about three dozen newspapers have moved to some kind of paid con-tent on their websites. Of those, only 1 percent of users opted to pay. And some papers that moved large portions of content to sub-scription gave up the effort.

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The University of Memphis men’s basketball team still has an opportunity to keep Will Barton’s bold preseason pre-diction alive — to win the National Championship.

The Tigers earned an auto-matic bid to the NCAA tour-nament by defeating the UTEP Miners, 67-66, in the Conference USA tournament championship.

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have lots of things in com-mon. They had a budding rivalry that wasn’t renewed after the 2007-‘08 season. The Tigers won their last meeting at FedExForum, 76-63.

The Wildcats’ best player, sophomore Derrick Williams, averages 19.1 points and 8.1 rebounds per game and was recruited by head coach Josh Pastner. He even had his screen saver on his cell phone set to The U of M logo before trans-ferring to Arizona from USC.

Pastner was an assistant on the Arizona staff from 2001-‘08 after four years as a walk-on for Arizona. He and the Wildcats won a national championship in 1997. To top that, the Tigers are seeded 12th in this year’s tournament. Pastner ’s jersey number while at Arizona? 12.

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Jackson sunk a pair of free throws with seven seconds left and hushed any supposition.

“What we did in that environ-ment, being down like we were down and then Joe Jackson hav-ing to make two free throws, I mean, that’s big-time,” Pastner said. “That’s something that will never be taken away.”

Perhaps only a pairing with Kentucky could provide more sub-plots than the Tigers’ first-round NCAA draw this season.

U of M assistant coach Jack Murphy, who also graduated from Arizona, is married to for-mer Arizona athletic director Jim Livengood’s daughter.

Arizona superstar forward Derrick Williams chose Arizona over Memphis in 2009 after trans-ferring from USC. Had USC pre-vented Williams from transfer-ring to another Pac-10 school, he would’ve likely ended up at Memphis.

While Pastner ultimate-ly lost Williams to Arizona coach Sean Miller, Pastner had only praise for Miller.In fact, Pastner even subtly rec-ommended him for the Arizona head coach opening in 2009.

“I remember when (Livengood) was calling me, ask-ing about the job — not about me personally, we were just talking about stuff,” Pastner said. “Then Sean Miller called me, and I said, ‘Sean, you’re going to do unbe-lievable there. And he’s done unbelievable.”

His Arizona ties aside, Pastner realizes that after all the home-coming handshakes and hugs, there’s still an NCAA tournament game to be played.

Despite the upset-prone 12-5 seeding matchup, the Tigers are a heavy underdog against the Pac-10 regular season champion Wildcats. Because of everything the Tigers endured to make the tournament, Pastner said he isn’t taking the Tigers’ NCAA trip for granted.

“Just the opportunity to be in the NCAA tournament is some-thing that’s special,” he said. “We’re peaking at the right time. I’m pumped. This is going to be great.”

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