Hold on to your hat! For, Connery team up in Last Crusade See Performance, page 5	1 Students lose out in teachers’ strike See Viewpoint, page 4			 USC goes to playoffs after split with Waves in two-game tune-up See Sports, page 12
			
	j Stars come out for charity ball game See News, page 6		
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Volume CVIV, Number 2
University of Southern California
Wednesday, May 24, 1989
Strike force
-	Clay	Walter	/	Summer Trojan
Nicholas Gibbs, s student of Baldwin Hills Elementary and Aaron Cope, a student of Audobon Jr. High School sit Friday on the steps of the Museum of Natural History. Both boys wear signs in support of the striking Los Angeles teachers and have not been attending classes because they say their parents do not want them to.
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AIDS rate on campuses below national average
WASHINGTON — The American College Health Association said Tuesday that a study of 19 U.S. campuses, including USC, found that two out of every 1,000 students tested was infected with AIDS, a rate below the national average but a figure one official said “should cause real concern.”
The study — the nation’s first survey attempting to determine the prevalence of AIDS among college students — tested the blood of 16,861 students who sought medical attention in their campus health centers.
Of those, 30 tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. This amounts to an overall infection rate of 0.2 percent, said the association, which conducted the study with the federal Centers for Disease Control.
No student tested positive at 10 of the schools, while five of the schools had rates of 0.4 percent or higher.
University settles suit
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In million dollar case, former student said security beat him
By Vivien Lou Chen
Staff Writer
The university settled out of court May 11 in a $l-million lawsuit filed by a former student who claimed four University Security officers assaulted him five years ago, according to court documents.
Daniel Escamilla claimed he "suffered extreme and severe mental anguish and physical pain" after the officers allegedly beat him with nightsticks, kicked him in the head and placed him in a bar-arm choke-hold, according to a typed complaint by Escamilla's attorney, Timothy Meyer.
Escamilla was hospitalized and treated for head trauma, said Joseph Posner, Escamilla's former attorney, in the April 26, 1984 edition of the Daily Trojan.
At a Superior Court trial, Escamilla and university attorneys announced that a settlement had already been reached.
Attorneys in the case declined to release the amount of the settlement, but in a similar incident in August 1988, the university settled for $1 million with a student who claimed security officers assaulted him in 1983.
Meyer, Richard Hutchinson of University Counsel, and Chief Steven Ward of security declined to comment.
(See Suit, page 3)
USC professor wins scientist of year award
By Kay Devgan
Staff Writer
University chemistry professor George Olah was named 1989 California Scientist of the Year by the California Museum of Science and Industry, the first time since 1975 that the recipient has been from USC.
Olah, who is also scientific co-director of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, received the award and its accompanying $5,000 prize May 10 during a black-tie banquet at the museum.
The award, established in 1958, "has been looked at as sort of a pre-Nobel Prize," said Eugene Harrison, aerospace coordinator of the museum and coordinator of the awards panel. Seven past winners have been awarded the Nobel Prize for their scientific contributions.
"Olah has made very fundamental contributions and pioneering work," said Lawrence Singer, vice chairman of the university chemistry department. "He's in the top group of world class chemists who are annual candidates for the Nobel Prize."
Olah was selected for his contributions to the development of superacid systems, the chemistry of stable carbocations (positive ions of carbon atoms), and the synthesis of petrochemical hydrocarbons.
"Olah has developed a totally different way of looking at chemistry. It's bizarre chemistry because it violates the important rules, but it7 s really exciting work," said John Aklonis, director of the Loker Institute.
But Olah is modest about his achievements.
"In science," Olah said, "we try to find what there is in nature. There is no other way than to be modest. If you learn anything, you leam how little you know."
Olah has done extensive work in the field of superacids, hundreds of billions of times stronger than conventionally used acids such as sulfuric add. Olah used these highly reactive acids to trigger reactions that do not normally occur in nature, and to develop methods for the conversion of methane into useful hydrocarbon products like gasoline.
"Our work is geared to do something about the time when our natural resources are depleted," Olah said. "We want to find new approaches to provide man-made fuels for the future."
His techniques can be used to make petrochemicals from materials such as coal and methane.
"Olah's discoveries can provide us with a longterm solution to the petrochemical crisis," said Larry Shapiro, chairman of the selection committee for the award.
Olah, who was bom and educated in Hungary, came to the university in 1977.
Student production deal
Company sponsor to put film school in spotlight
By Suzanne Reichart
Staff Writer
A Los Angeles film production company has announced that it will produce at least one feature screenplay written by a graduate student at the School of Cinema-Television and will also hire a university student to direct another film.
The offer was made by the Management Company Entertainment Group, Inc., after students approached the company looking for financial spon-
sors for this year's spring "First Look" film festival.
Jonathan Krane, company chairman ami chief executive officer, announced on April 27 that his group had decided to finance the production of one feature script and togive one student every year the chance to direct a project.
"That's unheard of in the film industry," said David Wemer, associate dean of the cinema school. "Who's going to give you $10 million to direct something that isn't a student film?
"It's not only sponsoring the semiannual film festival, which could mean a pledge of anywhere between $50,000 and $70,000 per year, but it's a pledge to take an active interest in students and to give a minimum of two to three students a year their first professional • opportunity."	^
Krane will make the final choice of the director and screenplay to be used.
The school could not afford to rent space for the four days needed to (See Cinema, page 3)