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Show THEY'RE SWEET, BUT ARE THEY ELITE?: V! 2/2008 i v IJ r : * i. i '•- w [" ;_ I i.;,. h *?r I n d *_• p c f i «:1 | No. 74 | <^008 Device stops drivers from using cells developed the Key2SafeDriving device, which, when it's in the ignition, sends ASST. NEWS EDITOR out a Bluetooth signal to the driver's cell Wally Curry's 14-year-old daughter is phone to disable it. U psychologists David Strayer and taking driver's education classes this year Frank Drews came out with results two and he's worried about whether she will years ago revealing that drivers who talk drive while talking on a cell phone. on their cell phones or send text messag: Instead of living in fear of a possible es are impaired more than someone withcar crash, Curry, a U alumnus who coma blood alcohol level of .08. pleted his medical residency at the UniStrayer, who used simulation tests to versity Hospital, helped develop a car key that shuts down cell phone use while show the impairment of hands-free cell phone drivers, said anything that could the key is in the ignition. • "It will be totally disabled," Curry said. prevent teenagers or other drivers from "If you try to send a message, it will send talking on their phones will make roads a message to an insurance company or safer for everyone. your parents. If someone tries to call or "While talking on a cell phone, you're text you, they'll receive a message saying four times more likely to get in an accithat you're driving." dent," he said, "If you're text messaging, ;' Curry and U civil and environmental you're at least six times more likely." Teenagers, who account for about 7 engineering professor Xuesong Zhou Lana Groves percent of all drivers, cause 14 percent of accidents in the United States, according to the cell-phone study. Zhou said they will talk to insurance companies about using the key to keep track of teenagers who try to talk on their phones and about decreasing insurance costs because teen drivers won't be as distracted by phones. AAA Utah insurance spokeswoman Roylane Fairclough said if the key works, it could have a positive impact in the future, but said that she wasn't sure whether it would lower insurance rates. However, Drews said he is more concerned about creating another piece of technology to prevent people from using technology. "It would be much, much more effec- •Drivers talking on cell phones are 4 times more likely to get in accidents. •Drivers texting are 6 times more likely to get in accidents. •U researchers developed a key that uses a Bluetooth signal to stop people from calling or texting on their phones while driving. To watch a video of the new key, visit www.dailyutohchronicle.com See CELLS Page 4 Tap on/off system to start Januaiy 1 Isabella Bravo spokeswoman, said the fines and sanctions exist so cardholders use the tap system correctly. "We really want people to tap on UTA will ring in the new year by tracking commuters with the recent- and off, so we can track students' ly installed tap pads on buses and at commutes," she said. "This allows UTA to better evaluate routes and TRAX and FrontRunner stations. The "tap on, tap off" devices will improve service." activate on Jan. i and start tracking With each tap of an Ed-Pass, the Utah Transit Authority cardholders' scanner sends the route information commutes. This new system will to UTA and to the U. allow. UTA. to evaluate, where., stu."It also allows UTA to provide valudents are riding and for how long so able reports on travel patterns to the they can make routes and services university that can be used to plan for more efficient. Students who don't the future," Bohnsack-Ware said. use the electronic fare collection The new system will also allow system correctly will risk fines and TRAX riders to pay for adult fares deactivated transit passes. with credit and debit cards that have UTA will fine students and other contactless microchips installed, cardholders the price of one monthly such as American Express expresspass, $74.50, for not tapping OIL If stu- pay, Discover Network Zip, Masterdents fail to tap off three times in a Card PayPass and Visa payWave. row or three times in two weeks, the Alex Ecton, afreshmanin electrical U and UTA will deactivate their pass. engineering, travels 60 miles by bus The front desk in the Union, Com- every weekday. Ecton said the new tap muter Services, the University Cam- on, tap off system sounds easy. pus Store or the UCard office can reRuthann Shurtleff, a junior in activate UTA passes afterward, Carrie Bohnsack-Ware, a UTA See TRAX Page 4 STAFF WRITER LUCAS [SVt\/The Daily Utah Math 1010 students Zak Cedarholm, Jordon Emerson, and Penn Eastbur sing "Radical Equations" during a math-themed karaoke night Tuesday. Students received extra credit for singing their songs. M a t h M C s Page 4 Crimes decreasing as tempertures fall U students win membership debate Rita Totten Michael McFall uted to students leaving the campus en masse for Winter Break. Similar lows appear Criminals at the U might from May to July, during the be trying to stay off Santa's U's Summer Break, when much of the campus is just naughty list. Every year since 2003, as vacant. reported crime at the U Once the holiday break drops from Labor Day to is over, despite the freezing Christmas as reliably as the January temperatures, crime temperature outside. Begin- heats back up again. ning at an average of 184 An average of 40 thefts are crimes in September, the reported to campus police crime rate drops by about each January, an increase 20 occurrences each month. from the average 22 thefts in Crime hits its annual low by the previous month. MitchDecember, before steadily ell said that it's because evclimbing again from Janu- ery year, students, faculty ary to April. and staff forget to lock up "Someone's probably less before they leave for Winter inclined to steal a TV when Break. Before they return, it's raining or snowing," said thieves often break into Capt. Lynn Mitchell of the U buildings to take advantage of these mistakes. Police Department. Part of the low crime rate in December can be attrib- 5ee CRIMES Page 4 STAFF WRITER Average rate of reported crime, 2003-2007 Per m o n t h SOURCE: U POLICE 180 ?nn r 1 8 5 1 8 5 Apr a S December c Feb Octobe 100 Septembe 150 Derek Snarr makes a case for the elimination of private club memberships during a debate Thursday against BYU's Bruce Daniel and John Fetters at the S J. Quinney College of Law. Carlie High also debated for Utah's team. memberships, in the debate. High and Snarr argued that STAFF WRITER there are three main harms that To have a membership or not to come from the current memberhave a membership—that is the ship legislation, the first being question. Or at least that was the the national perception that it is question students from the U and hard to get a drink in Utah, which BYU argued at Thursday's public harms the tourism industry. debate at the S.J. Quinney College The affirmative team also pointof Law, which addressed the pros ed out that 10 percent of all revand cons surrounding the pro- enue from alcohol sales goes to a posed elimination of required pri- school lunch program. vate membership at Utah bars. High and Snarr said that requirStudents Carlie High and Derek ing memberships is a form of govSnarr represented the U and ar- ernment intrusion because bars gued in favor of doing away with have a list of people who attended memberships. They beat Brigham the bar. They argued that having Young University students Bruce door personnel at the bar who Daniel and John Fetters, who represented the side favoring the See ALCOHOL Page 4 Hospital's breast-feeding focus earns it baby-friendly title nursing officer for the hospital. "We are very excited to offer the resources to new The University Hospital mothers that they need to get has received international their infants started off in the recognition from the World right direction." Heath Organization and the The recognition requires United Nations as being "ba- participating hospitals to folby-friendly"—a distinction low a rigorous 10-step profor hospitals and care centers gram that emphasizes breastthat promote breast-feeding feeding techniques between in newborn infants. mothers and their newborn The U Hospital is the first babies. The program utilizes care center in Utah and one of training of hospital staff and only 73 hospitals nationwide patient care experts to help new mothers develop the conto earn the title. "The baby-friendly desig- fidence and skills needed to nation is a milestone for us/' initiate and continue breastsaid Margaret Pearce, chief feeding throughout a child's Jeremy Thompson STAFF WRITER early years. Hospital, said that for mothBrenda Gulliver, project ers, breast-feeding is an imcoordinator for promoting portant decision they have to breast-feeding, said the big- make. gest barrier to implementing "We don't force the isthe program was the fact that sue one way or another, but most new mothers thought we provide the necessary they needed both formula and resources for mothers who breast milk for the baby to be want to nurse. By encouraging healthy. breast-feeding at an early age, "Education was the key," the benefits can continue for Gulliver said. "Using educa- many years." tion, we helped mothers see Breast-feeding is encourthat breast-feeding is the best aged by health care profesthing they could do for their sionals at the U because they babies." say there is strong evidence Karen Buchi, a pediatrician that breast-feeding promotes and medical director of the Well Baby Nursery at the U See HOSPITAL Page 4 |
