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By NANCY BRANHAM SONGER
Staff writer
Descendents of America's oldest
inhabitants have formed one of
USC's youngest organizations.
The Native American Association
has become an official campus
organization, according to Caroletta
Shuler, political science senior and
the association's president. She
believes it is the first native American
organization at USC.
"A main purpose for the association
is to educate other students that
there are American Indians and that
some are on campus," Shuler said.
"Most people don't know that. People
at Carolina seem to think that Indians
are extinct. When they hear
you're an Indian, they're shocked."
Last year there were 18 American
Indians enrolled at USC-Columbia
and 38 enrolled systemwide, said
(JSC's Director of Media Relations
Debra Allen. This year's figures are
not yet available.
At the time of the 1980 census,
there were 6,655 American Indians in
the state.
"What this organization is is an interest
group and it's basically like any
other interest group," said Juanita
Allen, a psychology and Spanish
sophomore who is the association's
vice president.
"It's to educate people about
American Indians and their culture,"
Allen said.
"We're in the process of talking to
tribes around here to find out how
they would like to be represented on
campus, and of finding out what the
students would like to know about
them."
Among the activities that are being
planned is an American Indian Day
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numbers and maps.
"You constantly have to prove
your worth," Hemphill said, adding
that special libraries are at "the cutting
edge of libraries."
Leslie Barbon, also a recent
graduate, works at Richland County
Library in the children's section.
Librarians are not "shy, bookish
people," she said. She attributes the
increased enrollment to higher
salaries and increased computer
technology in libraries.
"Librarians know a lot about a
lot," she said, adding that their
knowledge was gained through exposure
to new information every day.
"Their spectrum of knowledge is
very wide."
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cultural events and artifact exhibits.
The organization is hoping to invite
Indian performers and perhaps tribal
lawyers to campus next spring,
Juanita Allen said.
"We want people to understand
what Indians really are," Shuler said.
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"If someone asks me my heritage,
I'm a black American Indian."
Her maternal grandmother spoke
Cherokee, but did not teach it to her
children because she felt it wasn't
"healthy" for them to be so strongly
identified with the Indian culture, she
said.
"My mother always taught me that
on the totem pole whites were on the
top, blacks were in the middle and
Indians were on the bottom," she
said. "At Carolina, friends have asked,
'Why don't you call yourself
black?"'
"If someone is half this and half
that, they have the right to be both
and not have to choose," said
Juanita Allen, who is BlackfootCherokee
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Her Indian grandparents also
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didn't want them to be looked down
upon, so they just taught them the
'American way.' Because of that, I
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Shuler hopes the association can
"give the students a sense that they
don't have to be ashamed that they
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have adapted to a changing world,
Curran said.
In the near future, 60 percent of all
Americans will be employed producing,
processing or communicating information,
he said.
Librarians' duties will never
change, however. They will always
help people get the information they
need, Curran said.
"Even when the entire Vatican
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all the Library of Congress is
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trol device, there still will heed to"be
somebody who will make some sense
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They're not there to build a better bomb, a USC
dean said.
Most Ph.D. candidates who do research at the
Savannah River Lab at the Savannah River Plant
in Aiken County investigate ways to clean up waste
by-products of SRP and eliminate the environmental
hazards of nuclear power, said James Durig,
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Professors who provide thesis topics for their
students suggest "good science" projects that
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The plant and lab are owned by the U.S. Department
of Energy. SRP, which is located in Aiken,
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Most of the projects at SRL are federally funded,
Durig said, and most research is related to
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Scientists believe the Earth's temperature will
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years unless nuclear power becomes a main power
source, he said.
"Whether people want to believe it or not, we're
going to have to go back to nuclear power," Durig
said. "Nuclear power is the only thing that will
reduce the amount of C02. And you'll see in the
next 20 years a shift. For example, that's what the
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"We do not encourage any of our faculty or
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published in literature," he said.
"I think if you looked at the projects that we
have, I think more of them are environmental,"
Durig said. "About 20 percent of it is 'how can we
make nuclear power safer?' The other 80 percent is
'how can we make it cleaner? How can we
generate nuclear power without contaminating the
environment?"'
Nuclear power can be used without adversely affecting
the environment, Durig said. New nuclear
plants are necessary because most plants are old
and are unsafe, he said. SRP, though not a nuclear
power plant but a weapons plant, is more than 30
years old.
"I think'that the solution is going to be that we
have to have one type of nuclear generating facility,"
Durig .said. "We need to have what we call a
'standard' facility that everybody accepts as safe
and environmentally sound."
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