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Volume CV, Number 68	University of Southern California	Friday, December 11, 1967
Tapping
Quang Nguyen, from Mortar Board, honors biomedical engineering Professor David D’Argenk) with the December Faculty of the Month Award Wednesday.
Senior disappears after Thanksgiving
By Aaron Smith
Staff Writer
Michael Mingrom, a 21-year-old senior who was scheduled to graduate next spring, packed a sleeping bag, several T-shirts and a pair of Levi's on the Monday after Thanksgiving break, Nov. 90, and has not been seen or heard from since.
The student has been missing for 11 days, leaving his parents, friends and Navy ROTC commanders searching for dues to his disappearance — and secunty and police forces combining efforts in an attempt to find him.
Foul play is not suspected and there is evidence that the missing student had given a great deal erf thought to leaving beforehand, according to Los Angeles Police Department officials
Mingroni was having problems with his classes this semester and had expressed a desire to "go fishing or play golf' to several friends in the days and weeks leading up to his disappearance He also made a joke to at feast one friend that he was going to "drop out and hustle pool." But his cue stick and billiard balls remain in his apartment, friends said.
"He was really bummed out, totally dejected. You could see it in his posture," recalled Gary Kresca, a junior drama student and resident at La Sorbonne, an off-campus, universitv-owned apartment
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Semester in review: from Pope to Rose Bowl, this fall had it all
PSA crash victim will be honored
The Alumni House is inviting members of the Trojan family to attend "A Memorial Celebration for Kathleen Elizabeth Mika" Monday at 4 p.m. at Heritage Hall.
Mika, a 1984 university graduate, died Monday, Dec. 7, when her Pacific Southwest Airlines flight bound for San Francisco crashed about 40 minutes after departing from Los Angeles International Airport.
Deeply involved in the university both as an undergraduate and as an employee of the Alumni House since 1985, Mika was flying to San Francisco on university' business. She boarded the ill-fated flight after rescheduling an earlier flight because she was working on preparations for the pre-Rose Bowl rally.
Various university officials and organizations, including the Trojan Marching Band, will be in attendance.
— Brad Bowlin
Flood damages could cost up to $150,000
By Gale Lance
Staff Writer
Widespread flood damage from last Friday night's rainstorm could cost as much as $150,000, according to university officials.
"We do not have a handle on the amount of water damage yet. The $150,000 figure could go up or down depending on film damage," said Alex Ratka, the university's insurance and risk management director.
Ratka, who surveyed the campus with insurance adjusters Monday and Tuesday, said this was the worst incident of water damage in 15 years. Seven buildings were flooded in the downpour, including a cinema school building where a wall collapsed and forced 15 people to evacuate.
Arnold Shafer, Physical Plant
Last DT
This is the last issue of the Daily Trojan under the editorship of Jim Logan. The DT will resume publication in the spring semester under the editorship of Alan Robertazzi.
executive director, said a backup in the city's flood control system “rendered our drains useless."
"There's no question that water overflowed from the streets into subterranean levels in dose proximity," he said.
However, some people who witnessed the flooding continued to doubt the effectiveness of the university's drainage system that has contributed to flooding problems in the past.
"This damage should not have happened. Somebody will catch hell for this and should. We're lucky no one was hurt or killed," said Steve de Satnick, School of Cinema-Television's operations director.
He said drainage outside the Harold Lloyd Motion Picture Sound Stage is inadequate and often plugged with litter and leaves. The north wall of that building gave way under more than four feet of water and sent a river rushing through the ground floor toward the cinema school's main electrical control room.
Shafer said that drains are checked by groundsmen on a daily basis and pumps throughout the system are tested weekly.
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By Danielle Sanford
Assistant City Editor
Members of the university community had their share of tragedy and celebrations this semester, thanks to the forces of Mother Nature and the forces of Larry Smith's football team. Trojans survived a semester of earthquakes, stock market crashes, stunning football victories and musical extravaganzas.	-	—
The fall semester brought with it a visit from Pope John Paul II and a rude awakening from Mother Nature, as the university community was jolted into reality Oct. 1 by a 5.9 earthquake and subsequent aftershocks.
But the pope brought his own special brand of hysteria to Los Angeles when students and visitors crowded campus Sept. 15 to see John Paul II land on Cromwell Field en route to his Mass at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The pope also celebrated Mass to a sell-out crowd at Dodger Stadium Sept. 16.
The university community was bombarded with a veritable "pope-pourri" of paraphernalia. Such items as 'Tope Soap on a Rope" and "Pope World Tour" T- shirts were sold in Exposition Paris prior to the Mass.
October began with a jolt — literally. A 5.9 earthquake rolled through the Southland at 7:42 a.m. Oct. 1, leaving at least six dead, hundreds hurt and many buildings destroyed.
But the university came through the quake relatively unscathed, with only minor damage reported at the Embassy Residential College and the Health Sciences campus.
"We really suffered very little damage," said Anthony Lazzaro, vice president of business affairs, after the quake. "I am very pleased with all departments and personnel's disaster-p re pa redness. . . . They were professionally organized."
In fact, the university may
have sustained more damage from recent rain storms. The second level of the Doheny Library stacks were damaged after
rainfall on Oct. 22 and, more recently, the ground floor of the Cinema Building was evacuated after the Dec. 4 rainstorm. Water damage was also reported in The Grill, Traditions and several other buildings.
The semester was also marked by a new brand of awareness as angry students rallied against financial aid delays and others rallied in support of Justiceville, a group of homeless
people who camped out at the university in early November
The first financial aid ratty, sponsored by the Student Senate, was planned to elicit support and concern for those students who were “mad as hell" about financial aid delays About 300 people attended the noontime event cm Nov. 24.
Awareness was also the goal of Justiceville, led by homeless activist Ted Haves, when it came to campus to inform students about the problem of homelessness. Many student (Continued on page 5)