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Segregatioi out of the three of us (black students) who lived on campus. I felt isolated." Some of his experiences were funny, while some were painful. Some, he said, left bitter memories and scars. "I grew up in a segregated system. However, when you've got parents like mine, they protected you from the impact of racism," Anderson said. "So for me, coming to Carolina was the first experience of being impacted by racism. "In retrospect, I can see how for many years I denied the impact of tnose experiences and those, traumas," he said. Anderson could remember walking across the Horseshoe, and there was a young man standing in the window with a broom stick. The man said to Anderson, "Nigger we've got you now." "This is a symbol. This is a memory that never left me. This is a symbol of all that this experience meant to me on a psychological level. "It is something that is now resolved, and I hope that if we have learned anything from it, that no individual, no group, can be made to experience that kind of situation, that kind of pain, that kind of trauma," he added. "And I think as individuals, as Southerners and as Americans, we should cut out this cancer called racism." Solomon, now a South Carolina Department of Social Services commissioner, said, "In 1963, I was reading in the paper that the courts had ordered Henri Monteith admitted to the University of South Carolina. In either the same article or in an article a few days later, Robert Anderson had been ordered admitted." INTERESTED I .?> u Q oli Kinko's Copies has an sell our services to th organized and know t commission. Ideal for to: Kinko's Copies 999999999999 9 ^ 9 ' fJ N Cotton Sw<z ^ from STORE HOU, a ? CHARLESTON ^ 66 State St. RESI Available reserved will be assigned by mitted at the Depar Services, Pendleton Office Hours Persons selected in check at the depa 1 Continued from page 1 Solomon said the articles were tl reason he decided to come to USC "So I said to my wife, 'You kno\ I really want to be a good teacher < mathematics. Now that the universii had been desegregated, why can't go?' " he said. Solomon attended the gradua program in mathematics. The pr< gram was young, and the studen who enrolled with him were all vei friendly, he said. "They were all very helpful. The were all very kind. A reporter aske me, 'Why do you think they treate you like that?' I said, 'When you ai in a graduate program i mathematics, you don't have time t be prejudiced,' " he said. He said he did feel some of th professors had a problem wit racism, but he said he didn't thin any of them were ever unfair to hii in grading. He said he always felt h got th* grades that he earned. "But I did not feel I was always a< cepted the way the other studeni were. But my feeling was 'That their problem, not mine,' " Solomo said. Treadwell, who is now a prograi director for the W. K. Kellogg Four dation of Battle Creek, Mich., wa keynote speaker for the Friday nigf session of the conference. She described her entry into US< as "an orchestrated calm." "Lots of things happened tha aren't worth mentioning, nor are th individuals involved wort remembering," she said. "But think in the presence of calm tha surrounded my attendence at th universitv. the atmosnhere of a nm turing environment was not si good." "The question I think we mus begin to ask is, 'But is USC an effec IN WORKING FOR THE Call 777-7726 1 n x ;s anu tusiumer i opening for a bright a le USC community. Ca he USC Columbia Can recent grad. 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They would teach in 0 a tense atmosphere as USC students, black and white, began their protests it of the war. :- In 1969, James Luck would 1 GAMECOCK? Service ind energetic person to mdidate should be well ipus. Hourly wage plus mediately with resume Columbia SC 29201 KK2-017 * I ,ny I to - $22.00; 1 talogs ? urday 10 to 6 5 SPARTANBURG; 900 E. Main St. q KING he spring semester ications may be subI Vehicle Registration 0 Aonday - Friday in by mail or may December 12, 1988. PR 017 ^jg 1 USC undergraduate students, speaks watch. become the first tenure-track faculty member as a USC assistant professor of English education. Charles McMillian became the first black administrator when he accepted the position as coordinator for Minority Student Affairs in 1969. These advances would continue through the 1970s. In 1982, John McFadden i New [ m m Ttirs pro 7 Now is the season for big savings on your college ring. 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