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Volume XCVIII, Number 42
University of Southern California
Wednesday, March 13, 1985
Women of Troy given chance to appear in Playboy magazine
By James Jones
By James Jones
Assistant City Editor
At least three Women of Troy will have the chance to appear in Playboy's "Girls of the Pac-10" pictorial and earn up to $400, when photographer David Chan completes his week-long recruitment of models for the September issue.
Chan will be holding interviews and photo sessions at the University Hilton through Friday and expects nearly 100 USC women to apply for the chance to appear in Playboy.
Three or four women will be chosen from each of the Pac-10 schools for the issue and paid according to the amount of clothes they wear: $100 if fully clothed, $200 if semi-nude and $400 if nude.
The last time the Pac-10 pictorial ran was in 1978. In that issue, three of the women went on to earn $15,000 as Playmates, Chan said.
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Grades undergo change
Grade policy changing for Freshman Writing
By Owen Gross
Staff Writer
After receiving a barrage of student complaints since its inception in 1977, the Freshman Writing Program will change its current grading policy to a standard A through F scale for both 101a and 101b courses, effective Fall 1986.
Currently, students enrolled in FWP 101a receive marks of A, N or F for the semester. If a student does not receive an A in the class, he receives an N for the semester and must take 101b for a letter grade worth eight units.
The changes will thus eliminate the carry-over of four units from 101a classes to 101b classes.
An initial action under the new guidelines calls for the separation of students in 101a and 101b into different classes. More classes will be offered to students so they have the opportunity to finish the program under the old system.
Wally Bobkiewicz, a student member of the university's Undergraduate Studies Committee, said the proposed changes will make the program better than it is now.
"Once the grading problem is cleared up, we will be able to look at the program more objectively," Bobkiewicz added.
He said the Student Senate realized the students' concerns through a study on general education and then pursued them. "The Student Senate had a pretty good influence and would like to take some credit for the change," Bobkiewicz added.
Betty Bamberg, director of the Freshman Writing Program, was not as optimistic. She said once the grading problem is rectified, students are going to find other problems. "We are not going to be able to please everyone," she added.
Marshall Cohen, dean of humanities in the College of Letters, Arts
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Students, faculty recognized for achievements
Awarded academic honors
By Richard Hatem
Staff Writer
The Annual Academic Honors Convocation was held Tuesday, recognizing the achievements of both students and faculty members.
Marshall Cohen, dean of humanities for the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, delivered an address on the importance of maintaining the study of humanities while also recognizing its importance in combination with other fields such as psychology and the social sciences.
The highlight of the awards presentation was the acceptance speech of Solomon Golomb, professor of electrical engineering systems and mathematics, who received the University of Southern California Presidential Medallion.
Golomb said that when he found out he must give a three-minute acceptance speech for the award, he asked what previous winners had said.
"However, the only two winners were awarded the Medallion posthumously. Maybe that explains why the preceding statements about me sounded like a eulogy," he said.
To avoid following the footsteps of his predecessors, he said, "I have avoided standing under any meteorites, jay-walking on busy freeways and riding in some of USC’s more questionable elevators."
On the constant attempt to maintain quality at the university, Golomb said, "When your hotel room sink leaks, you change rooms. But if the sink leaks in your home, you get it fixed. This university is our home ..."
Golomb said that when something is wrong one cannot assume that "they" should fix it. "They is us. Or, more grammatically, we are them."
In closing, he listed the three most important features of a speech as related to him by his wife. "Keep it short, don't rehash the past and say 'Thank you'. President Zumberge — thank you."
The first award presented was the Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Award for Scientific Work. Gere diZerega won the award for his discovery of "Follicle Regulatory Protein: A Paracrine Modulator on Mammalian Folliculogenesis." His research, still in progress, holds possibilities of allowing greater control over fertility in the near future.
Jerry Mendel, dean of the electrical engineering department, also won in this category for "Optimal Seismic Deconvolution: An Estimation Approach." Mendel has published numerous papers and articles which have received critical acclaim.
The Phi Kappa Phi Awards for scholarly books went to John Hawkins, for his book. Word Order Universals, and Terry Seip for his book, The South Returns to Congress: Men, Economic Measures and Intersectional Relationships, 1868-1879.
The President's Award for Staff Achievement was awarded to Mary Takagaki, manager of diplomas / commencement, registration and records. 'Trom day one I have enjoyed my work here at USC," Takagaki said. "I have learned a lot and made many friends."
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STEVE FULTON/DAILY TROJAN
Outstanding students and faculty members were recognized with full pomp and circumstance at the Academic Honors Convocation in Bovard Auditorium Tuesday.
Housing services plans to scrap $50 security deposit in Fall 1985
By Charisse Jones
Staff Writer
The $50 security deposit students pay with their housing fees will be eliminated beginning in Fall 1985, said David Blackmar, director of housing services.
Blackmar said housing will bill those students who have done damage to their residences at the end of the school year, instead of having students continue to pay the security deposit with their first feebill payment.
Housing services eliminated the deposit, Blackmar said, because they "were finding the majority of students did no damage and cleaned up after themselves (before moving out)."
Currently, students who pay the security deposit in August do not receive their refund until nearly a year later in June, which causes "too much of a burden on them," Blackmar said.
"That was $50 they could be
using for books and the academic school year," he added.
Making all the students in campus housing pay the deposits, and then having to send the money back at the end of the year — instead of just billing those who caused damage at the end of the year — "seemed a little backwards," Blackmar said, and was time-consuming for the housing staff.
"We realized that there is quite a bit of work involved," he said.