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Volume CV, Number 59	University of Southern California	Wednesday. November 25. 1987
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Thanksgiving dinners available for students
By Catherine Habel
Staff Writer
Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity and International Peer Advocates are sponsoring events to help students away from home celebrate a traditional American Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday.
Kappa Alpha Psi is inviting students to spend Thanksgiving Day with them at a free dinner to be held in the Marks Tower lobby.
"Don't spend Thanksgiving alone," said Marion Womack Jr., chairman of the affair.
The festivities will start at 11 a.m. Students can enjoy refreshments and watch Thanksgiving Day football games on television together.
Dinner will begin at 2 p.m. and will consist of four types of meat, including turkey, ham, and roast, an assortment of vegetables, mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce. Desserts will include pumpkin pie, sweet potato pie, apple pie, and a variety of cakes.
A movie will be shown after dinner.
The free dinner is an annual event founded by an out-of-state Kappa Alpha Psi member about four years ago, said Womack.
"He saw it as a way to bring students from various cultures together on Thanksgiving.
"Last year they really enjoyed it. They asked us about the different foods we had because they had never heard of some of them before.
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Activity card holders can hjm in coupons Dec. 1
Rose Bowl ticket lottery to begin
By Brad Bowlin
Staff Writer
As the Trojan football team prepares for its trip to Pasadena, USC fans have begun their search for tickets to the 1988 Rose Bowl game against Michigan State.
Trojan season ticket holders and -students with activity cards can get their tickets for $38. Others will likely pay much more, with choice spots being sold for $250 and more.
Students with activity cards can turn in their Rose Bowl coupons and the $38 beginning Tuesday, Dec. 1. The deadline for turning in coupons is Friday, Dec. 4, and payment must be included with the coupon, said Tom Johnson, associate director of the Ticket Office. Payment must be cash or check only. No credit cards will be accepted.
Johnson encouraged students to come to the Ticket Office early in the week in order to avoid long lines as the deadline approaches.
Student tickets will be distributed on a random lottery basis, Johnson said. Coupons can be submitted in groups no larger than 10, he said.
Students will be able to pick up their Rose Bowl tickets from the Ticket Office between Dec. 14 and Dec. 17.
Those students who did not purchase activity books can still buy them at the Ticket Office for $55, Johnson said. Over 8,000 books will have been sold by the time tickets are distributed, said Bill Hardekopf, director of marketing and promotions The university- Ticket Office sent over 10,000 ticket applications to season ticket holders Tuesday, Johnson said. The application and payment of $38 per ticket must be returned to the office postmarked no later than Dec. 1, he said.
Any season ticket holder who does not receive an application by Nov. 30 can return their payment. including a $3 handling fee. to: USC Tickets-/ File 2235, Los Angeles, CA. 90074-2235 If any tickets remain after student and season ticket holder requests have been filled, there is a "slim chance" a public sale will be held, according to a Ticket Office supervisor If such a sale is to be held, it will be announced Dec. 15. he said.
The last time USC was in the Rose Bowl, in 1985.
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Angry students rally against financial aid
‘Mad /4s Hell’ demonstration sponsored by Student Senate
BRUCE LE DAILY TROJAN
MAD AS HELL — Student Senate Vice President Phil Clement addressed the crowd at yesterday's financial aid “Mad as Hell” rally sponsored by the Student Senate.
The Student Senate's "Mad As Hell" noontime rally at Tommy Trojan lived up to its billing Tuesday as frustrated students, some visibly shaking in anger, aired their complaints about the university 's financial aid program.
Eight students from the crowd of nearly 300 people spoke at the rally and painted a picture of a financial aid office that is understaffed, overworked and incompetent, and of an administration that doesn't care about its students.
"My friend has absolutely nothing," Geoffrey Mark, a junior majoring in music, said. "If it weren’t for me, she would be starving."
Mark's comments were echoed by several students who haven't had their financial aid applications even processed yet, with less than a month remaining in the semester. No official university- figures on the exact number of students still without financial aid could be obtained, but Student Senate estimates place the number around 1.000 students.
Kristina Alg, a junior engineering maior. said she turned in her application on time but that the financial aid office lost it. They filed a new application for her but placed it in the late file since thev completed it after the deadline. She lost her scholarship and now she is unable to take out a loan because she has no collateral.
Alg said the financial aid workers are rude and unknow iedgeable "If you call the financial aid department, they- don't know anything."
Besides numerous complaints to the Student Senate of lost forms.
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Presidential candidate tours gerontology center
By Jess Edwards
Staff Writer
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Albert Gore Jr., D-Tenn., toured the Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center yesterday morning as part of an effort to emphasize his role as a health-care advocate.
Prior to the tour, the 39-year-old senator was met on the stairs of the center by Cornelius Pings, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, and Vem Bengtson, a professor of sociology and director of the Gerontology Research Institute.
The senator said he chose to visit the facility because, "(It's) the best center in the entire country. There was a survey of
gerontology experts around the country and this was cited as the best center, and 80 percent of those surveyed identified this as the best center."
Susan Romeo, media director for Cer-rell Associates, Inc. of Los Angeles, said Sen. Gore made this trip to California to assist with his campaign fund raising and to make appearances highlighting issues of concern to the state and to the nation.
Health care has played a major role in Gore's legislative history. His first bill as senator was co-sponsored with one of Florida's democratic representatives, Claude Pepper. "(The bill) reorganized the national effort to deal with Alzheimer's disease," Gore said.
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