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Don't bla USC insti By Peggy Brady G?m?cock 8taft Writer Blaming the Organization ( Petroleum Exporting Countries fc our current oil crisis i "irresponsible" and will onl hinder our search for governmer energy policies, Mohamme Daoudi, a USC teaching associate said this past summer. Daoudi, whose . pendin dissertation deals with economi resources as political weapon* made his remarks in response t Stuart Eizenstat's June 28 mem which labeled OPEC as a "clea enemy." uizenstat, chief domesti affairs policy adviser to th president, urged President Carte to shift the cause of inflation an energy problems to OPEC to allo> the administration to "regain ou political losses." "Creating animosity towar OPEC is not the answer," Daouc said. "This will lead to cor frontation rather than coir promise." WHILE THE possibility of usin oil as a political weapon agaira the United States to force th establishment of a Palestinia nomeiand is "unlikely," Daouc warned that creating hostilit toward OPEC could be dangerous. Asked about OPEC's recent 2 percent increase in prices, Daouc said by raising prices th producing nations hope to pressur the consuming nations to conserv and look for other energy sources. OPEC chose the middle cours rather than the extreme when the decided to raise oil prices, Daouc said. The other alternative was t change from the dollar to th German mark as a medium c exchange. Daoudi said if OPEC had decide to switch to the mark, the dolla would have devaluated to a ne\ low overseas, and the Unite States would be "ten times wors off than it is now." Kenneth Perkins, assistan history professor at USC, said tha in terms of real dollars, oil price have been rising proportionate! with the rate of inflation. When th rise in oil prices and th devaluation of the dollar ar considered simultaneously, "th prices have, in fact, been keepini pace with inflation." DAOUDI, WHO is teaching : summer course at USC entitle* Freshman c to be rev i By She! Qinwco An updated and revised gramm implemented at USC this fall, i Carolyn Matalene, director of fres Matalene and Keith Walters, a are largely responsible for revisin "The Revision and Editing reorganize a sentence from sera spelling and punctuation," Mats] show an ability to perceive senten and organization, as well as detei hn? hM>ri hv tho u;rHci sense of purpose." The exam will be more closely r 101, Matalene said. "The test is geared more to wh written paper rather than functii said Nancy Thompson, assistant the English 100 program and a n "This test would more nearly n course," she added. Obsolescence as well as the ne improvement of the old exam, acc "Tests must always be revised, become too predictable." Matalene applied for a grant thi request was approved, and the mc Productive Scholarship Fund, a 1 nniversitv-relAtfid nroieots nronos "A usage survey was distribu structors and teaching assistant usage requirements will be base a _ _ iL a v rn/^i it ml leacn me courses ai ur><^. i ne pi the fairness of the test, and the res Other faculty members, inclu< Education, have provided assis develop techniques and format for me urcu, ructor says "The Politics of Oil," said the United States needs to be educated >f on such an important issue af?r fecting their lives. s He said we need to stop blaming y others and begin looking for it energy alternatives in the United d States. "Government energy 5, policy should be set ud to decrease oil imports and conserve energy g until alternative sources are found c that are cheap and plentiful," he >, said. o Daoudi blamed America's rising o gasoline consumption on the 1970's r trend toward vans and pickup c trucks, migration of Americans to e Sunbelt states, where distances r are long, and inadequate mass d transit facilities in the cities. N Althnnah thp ITnitoH Ctofoc . .....VWQ.a vaav v/a??WVI UMHVW r comprises only 6 percent of the total world population, it consumes d 33 percent of the world's oil and is li the biggest oil importing country in i- the world, Daoudi said. i- Since the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo, United States dependence g on foreign oil increased by nearly ;t 50 percent, Daoudi said, e Asked if the current oil crisis is n real, Daoudi said, "That's difficult li to say, but it's probably partly real \7 anH nartlii " J U1IVI put ujr V.VS111& i V CU. 4 A CONGRESSIONAL study li released in May indicated that the e petroleum shortage in the United e States was mainly a result of e sudden cutbacks on gasoline production by American refiners e despite sufficient supplies of crude y on. ti Daoudi said that in 1973-74 o American oil companies were e "actors who needed a crisis for >f their own ambitions. At that time, the oil crisis was not as serious as d it was blown up to be." r Even though the Arab oil emv bargo was imposed during this d time period, two major oil- , p nrnHnpino natinnc Iran onrl ConJi !# IIUVIVI1U) A1U1I QIIU OdUlAI Arabia, exported extra oil to the t United States to make up for any it shortage caused by the embargo, s according to Daoudi. y The profit margins for the oil e companies was "astronomically e high" in 1974-75 as a result of the e crisis, Daoudi said. e He contends that until the adg ministration subpoenas all of the oil comcpanies' records and documents, the American public a will never know whether the oil j crisis is real or contrived. jrammnr test sed for fall lly Kaufman ck 8taff Writer ar test for English 101 students will be replacing the old test, according to ihman English. USC graduate student in linguistics, g the required test. 4 : 11 _ : 4i? -i?i ? i- A icai win icvjuiic uit; siuuenis 10 tch and correct errors in grammar, lene said. "The students will have to tee structure, paragraph development *mine the thesis sentence, how well it r and whether the writer has a clear elated to the course content of English lat a person needs to know for a final oning as an isolated grammar test/' professor of English, coordinator of lember of the Freshman Committee, rieasure what we're teaching in the ed for a more relevant test required ording to Matalene. " Matalene said. "They wear out and is past year to re-write the exam. The >ney was allotted by the Research and LJSC committee that grants funds for ed by faculty members. ted in early April to all English ins," accordint to Matalene, "so that id on me sianoaras 01 teachers who eliminary survey was taken to insure ults will be published. iing Joseph Ryan of the College of tance on the project. Ryan helped the exam. 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