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AHEC Sttrdying P"op Mover Bids
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at its October 8 meeting and study that system against a parking systems
by Kwin Veughen Edlta?, Thc Metrophtun
The Technical Advisory Committee to the Auraria Board last week recoma- mended two transportation firms be further considered for construction of a people mover linking the campus with 'Mile Eigh Stadium. According to AHEC Executive Director Jerry Wartgow, the Auraria Board hopes to choose one of the
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garage and acquiring more trolley cars.
Originally, ten companies submitted bids for the transportation sptem, but
three were eliminated immediat6lv
because they exceeded the $B millioir spending cap imposed by AHEC.
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Three more companies were eliminated from consideration bv AHEC because they did not have existing systems;similar to the ones they
The Unirnobile People Mover.
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photo-courtesy of AHEC
Artistb conception of the Otis people mbver arriving at the Student Cenfer -photo court€sy of AHEC' proposed, in operation now. AII three The Unimobile system, howwer, were top suspended systems. - utilizes three six-car. trains which can AHEC then heard proposals from the each hold 77 people. This system four remaining companies and the moves at 10 miles per hour. ' Technical Advisory Committee recomWartgow said the Auraria board is mended Otis Elevator and Universal planning to visit existing people mover Mobility for {urther consideration. systems operated by the two firms and The Otis Elevator system is a bdttom talk with users before it makes a finalsupported system which would utilize decision on which firm to negotiate one vehicle with a capacity of ll2 perwith. sons. Tlhe car would be fullv automatiO' i{ssuining that Auiaria deciiles to and would move at about i5 miles per build a people mover instead of a parkhour betiveen the campus and much ing garage or an expanded version of needed parhng spac€s at Mile High the Auraria trolley, Wartgow said that constrriction could be underway lust after the first of the year, "We hope to come to some sort of a r€solution by the first of the year," The State Health Department is Wartgow said. "That's always been thq mainly conc'erned about immunizing time frame. ..We hope to talt to users of pregnant women, he said. Pbople with the existing systems with the hope that diseas€s of tlte immune system, such as we can find out about them beforb we AIDS or leukemia, and people on crreven think about negotiating a tisone, should not g€t the slrots, he contract." Both Otis and Unimobile estimate e -added. Before receiving the vaccine, each 14 month construction time, with Otis student must read and sign a Health . needtng an additi,onal three months for Departrnent information sheet which tesdng and Unimobile an additionel explains both the importance and Ore two montbs. dangers of the lmmunizations. Both q'stems would lint Aurarir Among the possible side-effects listed $dth 5,000 badly needod parhng are fever, rash, gland swelling and spacrc at Mile High Stadium and could aching and swelling of the joinc. These be the permancnt psrldng soludon for @tr,; 6) p4gc g tlecamous. O
Snilents Immrrnked Against Measles fessica Snyder ,
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Tbe State Health Department's and rubella immunizatiori rpaign came to MSC Monday as t of a nationwide program targeted
college students wtrose ctritdirooa may be ineffective. The Mon&y clinic was ttre first of 'o days of fie immuaizations (the seond will be October 1l) that follows the "Don't Be Caught By the Me.asles' malllng drive sponsored by MSC Studcnt Affrl$ and the MSC Health
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-Our ctdn oonoerl is about people mdn conc.ern who think they're immunized-, 6ut rr. r^--r-1-----r procedures in tbe ear-r faulty bcqsu* of .r . i.' r,. ---'rndr nid-shdes, aren't" said Tim -a-ly Engl.rt, disease control specialist for the State Departrnent of H;alth.
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Recent measles outbreaks have shown that people who received childhood vaccinatons bef,ore the age of one year, as was oommon practic.,e in the 196frs, didn't get immunily because interference by maternal antibodies,
In 1968 it was elso discovered that only live-virus vaccines were effective. Approximadey 20 peicent of the vaccines given befiore 1968 cnntained only the dead vinrs, actording to Englert, d ltose vaccinat€d in 1S8 or liter are coruldered immune, as are people l7 or . older,. who are conddered lo harre
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natural immunity by
e{posure, according to a facts}reet put out by the MSC Student Health Clinic, Measles and rubella, also called the l0-day and the 3-day measles, are generally resaded as mild childhood diseases with rare but serious.c.omplica9ons. In adulc, these complications become mort sdrious and less rare. In pregnant women who contract rubella, there is a danger of miscarriage and
bjrft d€fects, ac,,cording to Betty fo Collard, director of the health clinic. With immunization from a live-virus vaccine, these same complications, though rare, are a possibtlity.