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Show :vv '. POSTAGE AND PEES PAID TWIT IDUVr OCPARTUFMT Commander nr 11 U.S. Army uugway proving urounaj,"3x i'lJriSTAPf 84022-500- 0 C-u --a.1J 035 UT Dugway. t- : OFFICIAL BUSINESS PENALTY FOR PRIVATE USE. S 1 ': I- -- -V . . '. :. 000-31- 4: -- 11 1 1 na i i 300 I, fc 0.39 1 STEDP-P- A f State Historical Society State WIStreet . 816 53706 Madison, est of the personnel of Dugway Proving GroundThursday( September 5, 1985 board will enable Ed center to offer more classes than ever before DA LABEL 1B-- 1. 1 OCT. ROD. 74 (AH S40--S) by Lisa Simunaci More classes than ever before can now be offered at the education center here telewith the help of a recently-acquire- d , communications device. An electronic blackboard will bring seven classes from the University of Utah to Dugway. The new system includes a micro- phone that will allow students watching the class oh a monitor to talk with the professor. The system is made up of three parts: the blackboard on one screen, a slow scan of the professor on another and the audio . system. It will allow to offer taught on the system before, he said there is a period of adjustment for both the student and the teacher. Tor a teacher, it means a different form of preparation. You must think carefully of what you're going to say and- how you're going to say it. In a typical classroom you have a little fudge time." One of the biggest difficulties, according to Wild, is not seeing the students faces. "You cant tell if they really understand the information." e The students also face a encountered situation. Dugway classes it was not able to offer before because of small class sizes. Students will be taught by top professors and use the same books and materials a e college student would use, accordto Vince LafTerty, university represening tative for Tooele Army Depot. 'This program is one of the biggest in the state," noted Laff-ert"It is operated in eight other locations." University professor Dr. Glenn Wild called it a very dependable system. Having full-tim- - tele-communicati- y. never-befor- The slow scanning screen produces a still picture of the professor. "There is no sense of movement," Wild said, "and the students will have to get adjusted to that." Of the classes offered on the new system, two are master's degree courses. "Students will now be able to get a bachelor's degree in business or psychology," said Bill Whitham, Education director here. That would have been unlikely without the use of this system." The classes will also be recorded so that if students miss a class they will be able to review it on tape. 0 by Lisa Simunaci After a period of inactivity, tower grid is being restored for use in a test scheduled for the end of this month. A portion of the grid was Used a couple of years ago, according to project officer Tom See. The entire grid has not been used for about six to eight years because there haven't been any programs that require that type of grid. Thegridis set up in a circle shape with marked arcs up to 1200 meters from the center. The grid is being restored to the 400 meter arc Towards the center stand a 300 and a 75 foot tower. They are used to fire rounds that explode on impact in the center of the grid. Thin vertical "pipe" towers encompass the grid. Air samplers are placed on . these grids at different heights from ground level to 60 feet. After the round is fired a large vacuum grid. When the sampling period is complete, the samplers are collected and analyzed in the chemical lab here. The tests are used to evaluate the round's dissemination characteristics. The 300 foot tower is designed to shoot small chemical rockets. It will not be restored, "the days of those smaller weapons 7Ce3L7DD contact. Cot. (Dr.) Edmund C. Tra-mon- t, the chief of bacterial diseases at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research here, points out that AIDS is not spread by homosexuals alone, as is popularly believed. AIDS can be transmitted heterosexually. He cites several known cases where the woman has been disagnosed as the carrier of the virus. "Recent studies . (S8-Z2Di)- 0U(aJD'L7S 0 (Washington, ARNEWS) -- One of the Army's major concerns about the spread of Immune DeficAcquired ' iency Syndrome (AIDS) centers on contracting the AIDS virus through sexual have implicated prostitute exposure and heterosexual promiscuity in the spread of the HTLV-II-I virus", he said. AIDS, along with gonorrhea, herpes, syphilis and B, can be acquired through indiscriminate sexual contact, Tramont added that one way soldiers can reduce the chance of acquiring AIDS is to abstain from promiscuous sexual contact. According to Tramont, the virus can be spread in semen, in blood, (either through plasma or cells), in breast milk, by intravenous injecting and possibly in , Published by the. Transcript-Bulleti- n Publishing Company, a private firm in no way connected wtth the Department of the Army. Opinions uDCa3U0ljD . ( WDd cases of AIDS or Fifty d diseases have been diagnosed among U.S. Army active duty soldiers since 1983. An additional 26 cases have occurred in Army family members and civilians, based on admission records at Army medical treatment facilities. More than 75 percent of the active duty patients have been medically all with honordischarged able discharges. Current records indicate that about 25 percent of the individuals identified in military facilities have died. AIDS-relate- he-patit- us saliva. i THIS AERIAL VIEW of the tower grid complex shows the 75 and 300 foot towers as well as the thin vertical pipe towers - DLTDGt? . steam draws air through the samplers set not only at different heights but also at marked distances from the center of the WIRE CHECK Government employee Jerry Rydalch checks the wiring at of the control points on tower grid. Me?dodw V ii are over," said Phil Miller of Lockheed. Lockheed has been tasked with the restoration project and has been working on the grid since May. Flood lights on the grid assist in night testing. "Since the tests require distinct weather conditions, the best time to test is usually before dawn or after sunset," See said. The grid was built in 1952 as a square grid. Since then it has undergone many changes. Over one million dollars was used to modernize the grid in the 1960's. Lockheed has restored the grid's lighting and electrical system. Lockeed has also modernized the large vacuum unit. - . Having the HTLV-H-l antibody does not mean automa We deserve cred it9 Grandparents appreciate day See story on Page 5 encompassing the grid. (U.S. Army photo) (il(3DG(2lLJ,DDO p?DQ0D8(3QDQD8 tic dismissal from the ser- vice. Current Army publicity states that individuals found to be 4 HTLV-II- I antibody-positiv- e are medically evaluated to determine their current health. Those with no signs or symptoms of im- mune deficiency continue in their present duty assignments without any restric- tions. Soldiers found to be positive receive, confidential counselling by trained physicians on what signs to watch for that way indicate progression of the disease and how to minimize transmis sion of the disease. A health education eft by the . writers herein are their own and are not to be consi dered an official expression by the Department of the Army. The ap-V .is being coordinated in the Army community about AIDS. These materials and programs are being devel- oped to reach soldiers, commanders, health care professionals and the patient and his or her family. The AIDS cases which are diagnosed are merely the Tip of the iceberg," according to Tramont He goes on to say that apof proximately 85 percent those who have the HTLV-II- I antibody may not show any symptoms of the disease for up to five years after virus at The HTLV-II- I contracting it. tacks the body's immune system by infecting the T-Hel- per lymphocyte cells, which are central' to the working of the immune system. Without the immune system, everyday fungi and bacteria, which would normally cause humans no medical problems, become ser- ious health threats. The cells number of sedetermines the destroyed said. he of verity the disease, "Infected patients with no symptoms of the AIDS disease are the human reservoir that continue to spread it," he said. 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