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Show r I l-'- i l(- - More Changes Coming to Sugar House Like Alcohol, Opposition seeks to preserve communitys identity Cell Phones and Daniel Iverson Driving Dont Mix Staff Writer Last September, The Forum reported the develcomplex at the opment of a multi-us- e plot at McLelland Avenue (1040 East) and 2100 South. The reporter said it could be the start of a larger issue. Tohome to Westminster day, the heart of Sugar House is again preparing to face change as the local College businesses where students spend their time and money arc being told to leave. The new development will impact the Granite block, the area southwest of the intersection at 2100 South and Highland Drive named for the iconic Granite Furniture building; The Salt Lake City Council recently approved rezoning the area for larger, multiuse buildings. Soon after the decision, local businesses started receiving eviction notices from the land owners. Details of the project are presently unavailable, but it could feature a mix of retail, office and residential space similar to the Gateway. Existing businesses could theoretically return after the redevelopment, but according to Westminster junior Hillary Pruitt, many of them will no longer be able to afford rent there. She said the nonprofits in particular, Mich as the Free Speech Zone and Ten Thousand Villages, will be unable to survive unless there is enough support from the enmmunt), Some bus15-ac- re six-mo- iness nth minster, and said the buyeott project will continue until every local store on the Granite block has either relocated or gone out of business. Welker maintains a MySpace profile, located at vnuw.myspacc comsavesugarhouse to consolidate information about the redevelopment and provide a discussion forum. Since the profiles creation last fall, 668 MySpace users have added it as a friend. Inspired by the success, Pruitt created a similar Facebook group. It is also growing quickly, with 485 members. College students are not alone in the battle to save Sugar House. The Salt Lake Tribune reported Councilman Soren Simonsen has met with local business owners and is investigating programs, including loans, to keep their stores alive. Daynes said Simonsen is also looking to conduct a survey of historic resources in Sugar House. Rich Collins, associate professor of economics at Westminster, said balancing economic development and the communitys interests is the classic debate about capitalism. The market works wonders and has yielded incredible increases in output. However, capitalism and ...see pagel 1: Sugar House , low-inter- est $ jpof&ak,1- j y III hope to rcloc. ie, some are V eoi Melcring onhne t pportumties and others are urdei imd. Gary Daynes Jr tv tor of the Center for Civ c C ant. associate pit j .i- I 7 J Hi, 4 f ngageti i nt Jf J- or of history wad a few steps at Westminster, remain before the process can bep.n, hot the om elopers appear And members ready to po ahc. of die community arc ready sta d aga'nst it. Man peopleeoiu'eetedto S. ar He se are cornu; ed the re will charge the area s Lvel-opine- identity. Pruitt, who considers Sugai House a hub of whete she grew up, said it will e. use the city to lose much needed Local iv- owned diversity. a stores are the heart and soul of every community, she said. Without th m, everything is tin. wore 1 h liver tv of h A student Edit1 Am Welker is t on. a a . du i the op She helped to ongni. a buveott" to suppoit the threatened People am ene our aged to buv from the Granite block every first and third Friday and Saturday of the month. Pruitt is helping generate interest at West- cal-tur- P y. - L "X kV & ? h f h ksir h) L nt 7 er tv .d V . . Dunn I Sengal ad ajr I spend th after t . i at irli 1 f !v erwn Cvf, Student death brings issue to light Merlin Hodobo Staff Writer After Westminster College freshman Lauren man Mulkey died in a car accident after a ran a red light while text messaging, the community has again been alerted about the dangers of distracted driving. The accident took place Sunday, March 18, in the intersection of 2100 South and 1300 East. Drivers who talk on either handheld or hands-fre- e cellular phones are as impaired as drunken drivers, according to three University of Utah psychologists: Drs. Frank Drews, David Strayer and Dennis L. Crouch. The doctors found that people are as impaired when they drive and talk on a cell phone as they are when limit of they drive intoxicated at the legal 0.08 percent, which is the minimum level that defines illegal drunken driving in Utah ( wvrw.utah.dmv.org ). The study reinforced earlier research by Strayer and cell phones are just Drews that showed that hands-fre- e as distracting as handheld cell phones because of the conversations themselves. They concluded it is not the manipulation of a handheld phone, but just the inherent distraction f the driver. Westminster sr phomore AlyseTonon regrets Mulkeys death, but sayi. she is not willing to give up talking on her cell while driving. The more you get away with it, the more you think you can handle it, she saG. But Tonon admits that iccidents like Mulkcvs make her think twice about her actions. People wait u . something directly happens to them 19-year-- old blood-alcoh- ol before they take action, she said. Tn the study conducted by the three psychologists, 40 participants drove a PatrolSim driving simulator four times: once undbiracted, using a handheld cell phone, using a hands -- tree cell phone and while intoxicated at the 0 08 pement blood-alcoh- ol level, after thinking vodka at a orange juice. Participant followed a simulated pace . ir that braked intermittently. The study four that compared with undistracted r J k on i ither handheld or handsdrivers, motorists n free cGl phones dmve slightly slower, were nine perce.it slower to hit the ' takes, displayed 24 percent more variation in f blowing distance as their attention switched between driving and conversing, were 19 percent slower to resume normal speed after b; king and :rc likely to the pace car. crash. Three study partic pants itur-endAll were talking on cell phones. None were drunk. ed X' A l 'The more yoa get away with it, the more you think ft you can handle it. ' 1 -- AlyscT m, s nhornore v 1 Volume XL: Issue 15 Drivers drunk at the 0.08 percent blood alcohol level drove a bit more lowly than both undotracted drivers and drivers using cell phone , yet more They followed the pace e.a more closely, were twice as likely to brake only four seconds before a collision would have occurred, and hit their brakes with 23 percent more force. The researchers concluded that impairments ...see page 11, Cell phones and driving -- tar"- bv J 1 I 't 1 t If tttfo it Jltobv D.utitl heton Sc veral huunen have been mue eviction notiuias Sugar House prepare jar a multi v -- ue complex to he built. Page 9 v. : |