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Show Campus News The Utah Statesman, A_ Wednesday, Sept. 7,2005 Utah relief efforts shifting > RED ZONE From page 7 referral telephone line, emergency shelter, food, clothing and household supplies. "We're an abuse preventation agency — we do advocacy work for victimes of domestic violence and assault," Larsen said. "We make the process of little bit easier for them." On USU's campus, there is the One in Four program, which is an all-male peer education group that teaches other college men about rape and sexual assault. "It lowers the likelihood that men will be coercive toward sexual assault," said Hickman. Women can also join the rape aggression defense course on campus, which teaches them to use their own strength to defend themselves. Students can also contact the SAAVI office at 797-1510 for additional information about sexual assault or rape or visit www.stopcampusrape.com. ~mmackay@cc.usu.edu BY JENNIFER DOBNER The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY - Officials are shutting down Utah's hurricane assistance hot line numbers after 7,000 Utahns dialed in to offer aid to New Orleanian refugees brought here over the Labor Day weekend. Callers offered everything from clothing, child care and professional services to music lessons and teddy bears. Officials say there are more volunteer names and services in the database - roughly a dozen for each of the 583 refugees who have come to Utah - than there are immediate needs. The state and local agencies at the National Guard's Camp Williams working with the refugees are assessing needs and will be matching those to assistance offers in the coming days, a news release from the office of Gov. Jon Huntsman said. Hot lines could reopen should Utah see another influx of refugees, or if needs change, officials said. The Greater Salt Lake Chapter of the American Red Cross also on Tuesday concluded three days of training for those wanting to work as volunteers at Camp Williams in Bluffdale, Utah, where refugees are being housed. More than 500 people attended two-hour training classes Sunday and Monday. CEO Mariann Geyer said volunteers will be assigned to 12-hour shifts at the National Guard base for as long as needed. After a request from some refugees for bible's the Episcopal Diocese of Utah has made arrangements to get 300 copies of the New International Version translation delivered to Camp Williams at no cost. Episcopal priets and trained lay leaders have also joined the ranks of chaplains attending to the religious needs of refugees. Of the refugees brought here, 15 have already departed using their own means, officials said Tuesday. Another 22 have been taken to hospitals for medical treatment, while 120 are receiving onsite outpatient medical services. About 250 evacuees have asked for help in relocating to 27 other states and Canada. Officials are helping on those arrangements, saying most will travel by bus and seven people with medical problems will be flown to new destinations. For refugees staying awhile, the Utah Transportation Authority has added bus service from Camp Williams to light-rail service in nearby Sandy, a Salt Lake City suburb. The transit authority has provided bus and rail passes to evacuees. Despite the outpouring of support and aid for refugees, Utahns should not look to the state to ease any pain they're feeling at the gas pumps in the aftermath of the devastating storm. Gas prices have jumped to near $3 per gallon over the past week, but the state director of the Division of Consumer Protection says Utah's antiprice-gouging statute doesn't clearly apply to these circumstances. "We certainly don't want to the get expectation out there that we're going to cut prices because we don't believe we have the ability to do that," said Francine Giani, consumer protection director. The law, passed by the Legislature this year, is designed to prevent retailers from suddenly raising the prices of goods on hand during a crisis, she said. A bottle of water, for example, could not be sold at a low price one day and then double or triple the price after a disaster declaration. Lawmakers approved the measure after January flooding in St. George brought attention to absence of an anti-price-gouging law in Utah. "It wasn't because something happened," Giani said. Questions arose this week about the state's ability to cap gas prices under the law after Huntsman declared a state of emergency because Utah had taken in victims of Hurricane Katrina, she said. Huntsman also asked President Bush for an emergency declaration for the state - which he got - ensuring Utah could get federal disaster funds to cover costs. • ROBERTS From page 1 ««4f 6 r> APphoto JOHN ROBERTS leaves his home in Chevy Chase, Md,, Tuesday. Roberts was nominated by President George Bush to succeed former Chief Justice William Rehnquist. odest Fashions ..:•" , fora • • Modest Pnee DOWNEAST biisirs •'4 S 435.753.5122 Compare at SI 8.95 AVAILABLE AT 119 East 1400 North Logan, UT www.downeastbasics.com •it. casket from the hearse and began the slow climb up the steps. Absent were Justices Anthony M. Kennedy and David Souter. The Rev. George Evans Jr., the Rehnquist family pastor at the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Virginia, read from psalms and led the Lord's Prayer. There were audible sobs from the family. Rehnquist's personal employees were the first to make a circle around the coffin. A stream of other court workers followed. Two sprays of flowers and a large portrait of the chief justice were on display. After the brief ceremony, a long line of people formed outside the court and people began walking inside past the coffin of the chief justice. Public viewing was to take place until 10 p.m. on Tuesday and from 10 a.m. until noon Wednesday. Rehnquist, whose brand of conservatism pushed the court to the right, was involved in two extraordinary interventions in the executive branch - the impeachment trial of President Clinton and the settlement of the 2000 election in Bush's favor. He oversaw a court that dealt with the separation of church and state, the rights of states, affirmative action, abortion and gay rights. He died after a long battle with thyroid cancer. On Wednesday, funeral services will be at 2 p.m. at St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, open to friends and family. Rehnquist was Lutheran, but his funeral will be held at a Catholic Church, St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington. Susan Gibbs, spokeswoman for the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, said Rehnquist's family had requested use of the church, primarily because of space. She said church rules allow a Catholic church to be used for other Christian services if there is a need. Gibbs noted that Rehnquist had been to St. Matthew's many times over the years to attend the annual Red Mass, which is dedicated to judges, lawyers and others in the legal system. "It's a church he knows and a place he's been often," she said. Gibbs said plans call for "just a very simple Lutheran service" led by Evans. St. Matthew's was the site '*\ of President Kennedy's funerat1 in 1963. The funeral of former). Justice William Brennan, a \ Catholic, also was held there. >\ Burial at Arlington National Cemetery will be private. % The bodies of Rehnquist's \\ two immediate predecessors, } Warren E. Burger and Earl Warren, also are buried at Arlington. Burger and Warren lay in repose in the Supreme \ Court Building before their \\ services. '« As chief justice, Rehnquist ;J is entitled to a state-sponsored*, official funeral, a ceremony \\ that includes a 19-gun salute, / four ruffles and flourishes *< from drums and bugles, and \ the last 32 bars of the John -• Philip Sousa march "Stars and Stripes Forever" among other '• military honors. |
