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Although several car companies are manufacturing "I'd like to see it go down to these kinds of vehicles right S2 a gallon again, but I don't' now, they are still very expenknow if it will ever happen," • sive because the production said Carlsen. ;; Jamie (rane/jamiecrane@a,u$u.edu numbers are still low. In the meantime, most peot pie can only hope, Beard said. "These high prices just PRICES IN LOGAN have reached more than S3 per gallon open up the door for a lot of "I think the gas prices will at most gas stations. new technologies," Wood equalize, they'll kind of go said. "The reality is that with back down, but not to where prices again," he said. the growth of oil consumption they were before," he said. Most of the gas stations throughout the world, I'm pret- throughout Logan have had as -mmackay@cc.usu.edu ty sure we will not see lower gas difficult time with the rising (For Breakfast) Victims find acceptance in racially different Utah (For Studying) (For Class) 101 IMM.VTMMI II UtVIBTT 1 : U T I (For Everything) USU Community Credit Union -,-« -««« Phone: 753.4080 WWW.USUCCU.org NCUA T = Campus Branch: 695 East 1000 North Downtown: 198 North Main Smithfield: 890 South Main SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Stepping off the plane, one refugee from Hurricane Katrina noticed immediately that the change in his surroundings was about more than just geography. "It sure is white here," the man told a Utah National Guardsman. Ninety percent of Utah's 2.4 million residents are white, compared to 64 percent of Louisiana's population of 4.4 million. Narrowed even further about 67 percent of New Orleans residents - where most of the refugees who came to Utah originated - are black, while only 1.9 percent of Salt Lake's population is black, U.S. Census Bureau reports show. If refugees decided to stay here, as many believe they will, their presence could make a noticeable cultural influence on Utah. "I think it means that Utah is going to be more culturally diverse, and I think we're going to be able to raise our level of understanding and acceptance of all people," said Michael Styles, director of the state's Office of Black Affairs. "It's not a black thing, it's not a white thing. It's just how we connect to people in need and show love to everybody," he said. "The evacuees have already felt that. They're so appreciative of all the Utahns. We've seen bridges built between black and white that I've just been amazed at, and it's gratifying. It's truly gratifying." University of Utah psychologist Lauren Weitzman says the tragedy of Katrina has given Utahns a chance to interact differently with African Americans than they might have in other circumstances. It feels like it breaks down a barrier that is often there in everyday life around prejudice. We're having the opportunity to see folks as > fellow human beings to whom we're reaching;" out in a time of need," said Weitzman. •! Utah residents have not been hesitant to *\ offer assistance. More than 7,000 flooded a '.; relief hot line with offers of money, goods and shelter. Weitzman hopes that spirit of giving and acceptance will continue as the refugees begin to integrate into the community. Styles believes there will be challenges, particularly as young people enroll in local schools, where many children might not have "been exposed to many African-Americans, just as many of the evacuee children haven't been exposed to many white people." Historically, the infusion of a new culture is nothing new to Utah, says W. Paul Reeve, assistant professor of history at the University of Utah. Originally inhabited by American Indian tribes, the region was first changed by the arrival by the mostly white members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the 1850s and later by the transcontinental railroad and the growth of the mining industry. ; "To me, I see the story of Utah history, other cultures coming together," Reeve said. "And I'm hopeful that at this stage in our hisr tory, we're open-minded enough to be accepting, and it seems to me that that's what is happening." Katrina gives Utah a unique opportunity to expand its cultural base while the country examines larger social issues, Weitzman said. "It's one of these opportunities that this tragedy has given us as Americans to look at' things like racism and classism squarely in the eye," she said. |