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Volume CV, Number 66	University of Southern California	Wednesday. December 9. 1987
Sociologist says
’88 candidates must address health care
By Michael Lambert
Staff Writer
Long-term health care is an issue that must be addressed by the candidates in the 1988 presidential election, said a highly respected sociologist on Tuesday before students and faculty members at the Andrus Gerontology Center.
Stephen McConnell, coordinator of Long-Term Care '88 and former staff director of the Senate Committee on Aging, said that his group started a campaign in October to make long-term health care a national issue.
Speaking at a lecture in Davis Auditorium, McConnell said, "I think long-term care is an issue that deserves to be right at the top of the list of domestic issues. That is why our organization has started this campaign to put long-term care at the top of the national presidential agenda."
McConnell said that "the jury is still out" whether they succeeded in getting the issue on the public agenda, but he feels they are moving in the right direction.
"Long-term care came up several times on the NBC presidential debate,” McConnell said, refering to the debate by the 12 presidential candidates that aired on NBC Dec. 1.
McConnell added that the Presidential Campaign Hotline, a daily pamphlet that describes current affairs in the presidential campaign^ said the winners of the de-bate were "the Democrats, Pat Robertson, Tom Brokaw and long-term care."
McConnell then told the audience how to get an issue, such as long-term care, on the public agenda.
"First, you have to have the right time and the right place," he said, adding that now is both a good time and a good place to get long-term care on the agenda because "it's a family issue and family issues are in right now." He added that the fact that there is an election coming up has also helped considerably.
The next step to getting an issue on the agenda, McConnell said, is to take a na-(Continued on page 9)
Alumna kilted in PSA plane crash
Graduate boarded a later flight due to Rose Bowl preparations
By Brad Bowlin
Staff Writer
Freshmen to be charged in sign prank
By Craig Hausman
Staff Writer
The 13 university freshmen who attempted to alter the Hollywood sign to read "USC!WOOD" during Troy Week last month are being prosecuted by the dty of Los Angeles and are scheduled for arraignment beginning Friday.
Most of the students were notified to appear at the Los Angeles Munidpal Court in Hollywood by City Attorney James Hahn yesterday for arraignment on charges of violating restricted entry into a mountain fire district zone. As of Tuesday, a few of the students had not yet been subpoenaed. The remainder are scheduled for arraignment on Wednesday.
"It's a pretty ridiculous charge," said Ken Domer, who formulated the plan to change the sign early in the semester. "It was something minor. There was no damage done."
The students hope to get the arraignment postponed until after finals and Christmas, since some of the students live out of state and will be on vacation. The students also said they would like additional time to put their case together.
Domer said the students feel they are being made examples of by the dty attorney's office in an effort to discourage alterations of the famous sign located in the Hollywood Hills.
The students, all residents of Bimkrant Hall, said they were the first individuals to be arrested for tampering with the Hol-
lywood sign. However, 20 Pepperdine University students were arrested shortly thereafter on a similar charge for an ind-dent in which they raced to the sign atop the hill and attempted to alter the "L" for fraternity initiation, Domer said.
The USC students are looking for legal counsel to represent them as a whole, preferably a fellow Trojan, Domer said.
"We'd like a USC alumru lawyer." he said. "Someone who understands the Trojan pride.
"We really need some advice on what action we can take to correct the matter," Domer said.
So far, they have already taken steps on their own that may get the case thrown out of court, he said.
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DAN OLSON / DAILY TROJAN
IN MEMORIAL — Flags flew at half mast on campus yesterday in honor of Kathleen Mika, an alumni house employee and a university graduate who died in Monday’s PSA plane crash.
Monday's plane crash took the bves of 43 passengers- and crew members, including an alumna who was flying to San Francisco on university business.
Kathleen Mika, 25, a university alumna who was deeply involved in Alumni House and numerous other campus organizations and activities, was among the 44 passengers and crew members who died when a Pacific Southwest Airlines jet en route to San Francisco crashed a half an hour after leaving Los Angeles.
Mika graduated in 1984 with a degree in journalism and public relations, and worked at the Health Sciences Campus before joining the Alumni House staff in August 1985.
Friends and co-workers all de-
KATHLEEN MIKA
scribed Mika as being extremely dedicated to the university
"1 have known many people, and I've never known anybody who was a more dedicated Trojan," said Carol Thueson, coordinator of alumni services.
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Local college newspaper may stop
Cal State L.A. Times needs money
By Brad Bowlin
Staff Writer
Amid a storm of controversy, the newspaper at California State University, Los Angeles faces an uncertain future after its final issue of the fall quarter is published tomorrow.
The school's University Times may fold if the university doesn't bail it out financially, according to a commentary by the paper's publisher, Joan Zyda, printed in the Times' Nov. 24 issue.
'There are certain expenses associated with a newspaper which are unavoidable. If the university wants a newspaper, it must recognize this and provide ongoing financial support," Zyda said in her commentary.
The newspaper is currently running in the red, with a projected defidt of $118,000 by the end of the 1987-88 fiscal year.
Unlike most newspapers, the Times is not financed through the sale of advertisements, but through subsidies from various campus organizations.
According to the paper's editors, attempts at gathering more money to help the Times out of its present financial straits are being blocked by Eric Peacock, president of the Associated Students at CSLA, and other members of the Associated Students.
"They hate us," said Shiela Salazar, sophomore news editor.
Peacock also sits on the Communications Board, which oversees all campus publications and its television news broadcasts. In addition, he is chairman of the Instructionally Related Activities Board, the newspaper's primary source of funding.
Tuesday, Peacock and Keith Jordan, the Times' editor in chief, squared off in a (Continued on page 24)
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