ENDOWMENT FUELS reseabch
Funds from Shah of Iran pay engineering prof’s salary
By Marsha Johnston
Assistant City Editor
Funds from a $1 million academic chair endowment by the Shah of Iran pay for the salary' and research activities of a university professor of petroleum engineering.
"The function of a university is to educate and do research. I think if someone is interested in education and research (enough to give money) it doesn't matter where it comes from," said Todd Doscher, a professor of petroleum engineering.
"We don't do research for the Shah or tell him how to run his society," he said.
In another action, Doscher received
$500,000 from the United States Department of Energy to direct research and development in petroleum engineering.
"The money, whether it comes from the United States or the Shah, is intended to increase the flow of energy, particularly liquid fuels, to the United States especially," Doscher said.
The chair, which was received more than a year ago, is only one of several in the School of Engineering. Academic chairs are said to recognize distinguished instructors.
The Shah's endowment also supple-
ments the Iranian Students Fellowship program..
Once an academic chair has been established, it is funded by the yearly interest paid on the actual amount of endowment.
The university is continuously trying to develop enough endowment to become less dependent on tuition to pay professors' salaries, said Zohrab Kaprielian, executive vice-president.
The research and development funded by the Department of Energy is contracted for periods ranging from six months to three years.
"We are facing an energy shortage," Doscher said. "We are concerned with enhancing domestic resources. All of the projects in our department are directed toward that goal."
Projects being funded by the Department of Energy include:
•	How to increase recovery of oil from known accumulations using advanced techniques. Methods using steam and carbon dioxide are being explored.
•	Trying to find ways to produce extra reserves of natural gas from deep-water wells in the Gulf of Texas.
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Volume LXXV, Number 20 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Tuesday, October 17,1978
PARALLEL VIEW - A student reads
OT photo by L»rry Drum
The Parallel Trojan, the university's first alternative paper since the60s.
First alternative paper since late ’60s debuts
By Betty Wong
Staff Writer
Selling about 500 issues to students at 25 cents a copy, The Trojan Parallel made its debut yesterday as the university's first alternative newspaper since the Free Trojan in the late 1960s.
The new monthly newspaper is produced by a staff of 10 students concerned about the conservative political climate at the university.
"People are getting less and less involved," said Micheal Korvin, editor of The Trojan Parallel. "We feel that USC is not at all open to national and international issues."
Korvin said the newspaper was here to get rid of the "rigid Southern California conservatism once and for all."
Staff members worked on the first issue for two months.
The issue is a 16-page paper featuring full-page graphics, stories written by students and articles taken from the Pacific Wire Service on issues ranging from crowded prisons and political prisoners to South African draft evaders and USC/CIA ties.
Reactions to the paper were mainly skeptical. Clarence Anderson, university editor, said from time to time attempts are made to establish an alternative press on campus, but they are usually short-lived. "I admire the effort but you have to realize it also requires a great deal of resources," Anderson said.
Korvin said most of the students involved with the project dug into
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Journalism student stripped of curiosity in nude photo session
By Amy Alpern
Feature Focus Editor
"Nancy Amons swam here" was painted on a sign above the pool. These seemingly harmless words gave the parents of Nancy Amons, Playboy model and a senior in broadcast joumaiism, a surprising and slightly embaras-sing jolt.
The words greeted Amons' parents at a party in their home town in Massachusetts.
Since Amons posed nude for Playboy's October issue, both she and her family have experienced instant notoriety along with a few questioning stares.
"My parents thought it was a good picture but wished I hadn't gone quite so far," Amons said. But for Nancy,not quite so far may not be quite far enough.
She is seriously considering accepting a $5,000 offer to pose again — this time as a feature centerfold for Playboy.
"They called and said that 1 did them a favor by getting good responses so they offered to repay the favor by offering me $5,000 for a centerfold shot."
Amons, however, is hesitant about posing again because she
feels it may cause problems for her in a career.
"I have gotten a lot of job contacts because of the first pose, but I also realize that this could come back to me in a negative way in the future."
Amons originally became interested in posing for Playboy after reading a Daily Trojan story which said Playboy was interviewing university students to pose in their annual series featuring college women.
After attending the first interview, Amons learned the.girls would pose either clothed, seminude or completely nude, and would be paid $100, $200 or $300, respectively, if their photograph was used. Amons chose to pose nude.
"It wasn't the money that made me pose," Amons said. "At first I was just curious. Then it became like a challenge and ego thing to see if I could qualify."
Amons' curiosity was aimed at the selection process itself.
One's imagination can go on an all-out field day when it comes to conjuring up images as to how Playboy models are chosen.
It is not unusual to picture a
selection process emphasizing "activity" in the back rooms. The belief that "Mr. Sophisticated" greets th« perspective inter-viewees at the door and cheerfully welcomes them to his humble abode does linger in the back of some curious minds.
Stop. Hold everythig.
Conceptions about how models actually end up on the pages tend to be very different from the actual selection process.
"I really didn't know what to expect when I was going over to the Hilton for the first interview," Amons said.
"What really surprised me about the whole thing was how professional and proper it was. There was another woman in the room during the interviews and when they were taking the pictures," Amons said.
Amons admits to being slightly surprised at the three-hour make-up job done on her prior to the shooting. It wasn't the length of time it took to make her up, but areas that they made up that surprised her.
"They made up my face and my knees. Why my knees, I (continued on page 5)
NANCY AMONS
DT photo by Doug Gray