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Magic Mountain ticket sales are low
Sponsors do not expect sellout
By Tommy Li
Staff Writer
Although ticket sales for the 8th USC Trojan Night at Magic Mountain are increasing, the business fraternity sponsoring the event has sold only 2,500 tickets out of an available 7,000 tickets.
Alpha Kappa Psi is sponsoring the event this Saturday from 3 p.m. to midnight.
"We're not expecting to sell out," said Chris McAlary, chairman of the Trojan Night Committee. "We still anticipate selling at least
5,000	tickets because sales have increased dramatically."
Of the six buses available to take students to the park, only two have been filled so far, said John Fruehe, ticket booth coordinator.
Tickets for bus seats are $2 and can only be purchased at two kiosks near Tommy Trojan, McAlary said.
Tickets for admission cost $8.95 and can be purchased at the kiosks from 9:45 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, or during regular business hours at the university ticket office.
Free parking passes are available at the booths.
The kiosks only accept payment by cash or check, but the ticket office accepts credit cards, McAlary said.
If tickets are ordered by phone, they can be picked up at either the ticket office or at a Trojan will-call booth alongside the main entrance to the park between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., McAlary said.
"Provided that we don't sell out of our tickets (on campus) you can purchase tickets at the park," McAlary said.
However, McAlary said, "It's in (a person's) best interest to buy the tickets (on campus)" because "we only expect to have a few hundred tickets available (at the park)," he said.
Some of the special attractions at the park will include about 60 members of the Trojan Marching Band, as well as The Fine Young Cannibals and the John Doe Band.
The Fine Young Cannibals, a British band, will be performing at
5	p.m. and 6:30 p.m. at the park's Showcase Theatre, a Magic Mountain public relations secretary said.
After 8 p.m. Trojan Night is "going to be exclusively 'SC this year," McAlary said, and those who attend are reminded to keep their specially marked ticket stubs because staff members at Magic Mountain will be monitoring the rides to make sure that only university students are in the park.
Volume C, Number 39
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University of Southern California
Friday, March 7, 1986
'Swim with Mike7
Disabled athlete szvim-a-thon is slated for April
By Gerhard Taeubel
Staff Writer
Saying they hope to raise $60,000 for the university's disabled athlete fund, organizers of the "Swim with Mike" program held a reception Wednesday night at the Faculty Center to kick off the annual event.
"Swim with Mike," a swim-a-thon designed to collect funds for the Physically Challenged Athletes Scholarship Fund, is scheduled for April 19 at the Olympic Swim Stadium.
Since its inception in 1981, the fundraiser has brought in over $200,000 for the scholarship program, and has provided financial aid to 11 disabled athletes.
This university is the only one that offers scholarships to disabled athletes.
At the reception, Bruce Fur-niss, a former swimmer and teammate of Mike Nyeholt, for whom the event is named, said organizers "never would have dreamed" that the program would eventually grow to be so extensive.
"This program is truly unique," Fumiss said, "in that we are the only university" that offers scholarships for disabled athletes."
Fumiss said a primary goal of the organizers is "to get more bodies in the water" and eclipse the amount of funds raised in previous years.
About 200 swimmers are expected to participate in the swim, said Ron Orr, assistant director of development in the athletic department and a chief organizer of the event.
Orr said "Swim with Mike" started "out of frustration" after Nyeholt, a former All-American swimmer for the university, was paralyzed in a motorcycle accident in 1981.
Nyeholt's teammates organized the event to raise funds to purchase him a specially equipped van, Orr said. From its personal beginnings, the program expanded after Nyeholt indicated he wanted to continue the program to raise funds for other disabled athletes.
In its first year, "Swim with Mike" raised $58,000, he said. After slipping to $25,000 in funds in 1982, the amount of funds raised has steadily increased.
Orr said six students at the university are presently receiving the scholarships, which are based on financial need and compliance with university grade requirements.
The scholarships cover the students' entire stay at the university, and the amount awarded is dependent on each recipient's demonstrated need, he said.
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Dorm may change
Med student housing in peril
By Sigal Rose Kletzky
Staff Writer
Many pharmaceutical and medical students will be evicted from their homes if a proposal is enacted to convert the Seaver Student Dormitory, the only dormitory on the medical campus, into a diagnostic clinic.
Facing an expiration of its lease in October, the Diagnostic Clinic, an outpatient facility that evaluates all types of medical and surgical diseases, needs to move from its present location at the Doheny Eye Foundation.
Estelle Doheny donated the foundation in her will "solely and specifically for research into eye disease," said Dr. Alexandra Levine, executive associate dean of the School of Medicine.
"(The Doheny Eye Foundation) has already helped the university a lot when they were really under no obligation to do it," Levine said. "We are really thankful for that support over the years," she added, referring to the lease that was given to the university's Diagnostic Clinic.
Seaver is just one option, Levine said. But she said it would meet many of the needs of patients, such as easy access to parking.
"If the clinic does move into Seaver, we will make every effort to find alternative housing for students living at Seaver," she said.
Kim Schlack, a second-year medical student living in Seaver, said the alternatives that have been proposed include transferring the 96 Seaver residents to the Intern Residence Dormitory or back to the main campus. She calls both solutions implausible.
"It would be a real hardship for medical students to move,"-Schlack said. Many of the students living in Seaver have taken jobs near the dorm, and a relocation would create major problems for transportation to and from these jobs, she said.
"We don't really consider Seaver an alternative (location for the clinic) because Seaver, in itself, is necessary," Schlack said.
She said petitions signed by both Seaver residents and other medical and pharmaceutical students were presented at a meeting held last week to discuss the proposal.
"Dr. Levine, especially, is really trying her hardest to find alternatives to place the students," Schlack said.
Levine said that construction of a new hospital is expected to be completed sometime within the next five years.
The question of where to house the Diagnostic Clinic in the interim will not be decided for another month, possibly two, Levine said.
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Medical students may be forced out of Seaver Student Dormitory, the only dormitory on the university’s medical campus, if a decision is made to convert the building into a diagnostic clinic.
JOEL ORDESKY/DAILY TROJAN
Tickets for Trojan Night at Magic Mountain can be purchased at the kiosk.