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By KIMBERLY TURNER
Staff Writer
Sometimes it's either all or no
thing, and for some professors,
there is no middle ground.
"Students either enjoy my class
and come back for different classes
I teach or they tell everyone within
ear shot/Don't take Salomon,"'
Dr. Hilel Salomon, associate professor
of history, said. "Students
rate me either the best or the worst
teacher they have, never in the
middle," he says.
Growing up in Bolivia, Salomon
held Spanish as his native language.
His parents traveled extensively,
allowing Salomon to acquire
eight other languages: English,
Chinese, French, Hebrew,
Polish, Portugese, Mongolian and
Japanese.
"I am fluent in four of these languages
? English, of course;
Spanish, because it's my native
language; Chinese and Hebrew,
which I learned in Hebrew school.
The others I am relatively fluent,
especially in the readings," Salomon
said.
Throughout his life, Salomon
has traveled throughout the world.
"I have always had a kind of wonderlust,"
he explains, "I lost count
of which countries and how many
long ago."
Salomon estimates that he has
visited between 85 and 90 counLibrary
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resources are great. "They have
tremendous resources here, a very
good collection," Price said, recommending
that genealogists do
thorough research at home with a
family Bible and birth certificates.
Price is no amateur ? she's
been tracing family histories since
she graduated from college 18
years ago. Currently compiling a
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Salomon's jobs early in life re
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the usual teenage jobs, Salomon
worked on a ship going to Africa,
was briefly a teamster working on
a loading dock, and was a salesman
and a taxicab driver in
Philidelphia.
Salomon, who teaches three
classes here at USC this semester
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has been teaching for twenty years.
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Salomon speaks of his classes
with a frankness. "I guess I am a
hard instructor," he says, "I give
hard exams and I am not a lenient
grader. I'm not the hardest I've
seen; but on the scale of easy to
hard, I am probably closer to the
hard end."
Salomon explains that each class
he has reacts differently to his
teaching style. "Some like me and
some don't. I'd rather be disliked
and respected than liked a great
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even getting it started takes patience.
"I've heard people say, 'Oh,
I just found such-and-such that
I've been looking for for six
years.' And they're just happy as a
clam," she said. "It takes patience
and a lot of digging, but you can
find some real plums here."
Richardson says most of the
people tracing their roots are older,
probably because they have more
free time, but they come from all
over. "Some husbands and wives
come through doing a little family
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In describing himself, Salomon
says he has "strong opinions" and
sometimes "drifts into sarcasm."
Salomon says he pushes his students
as well as criticizes. "But I
try to tease and criticize myself,
and that warrants my criticism of
others," he said.
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peeve has been people taking
themselves too seriously," he says,
"me included. When people take
themselves seriously, whether in a
religious, economic or political
mood, nothing good comes of it.
Large, organized bodies take liberties
away."
"I guess I could call myself antiestablishment,
a theoretical anarchist."
Salomon goes on by saying,
"I believe that to excercise intellect
is to question, to criticize. I am
critical, over-critical sometimes. I
want my students to question and
to criticize. I want them to question
their texts, their learning facilities
and positions of authority.
"I would rather them be upset
with my opinions and form their
own, than to just accept what I say
because I am the instructor," Salomon
says.
Salomon lives in the suburban
Columbia area and has three children
in Ivy League universities. The
oldest son graduated from Princeton
and is currently enrolled in
medical school. The youngest son
is enrolled in Harvard. His only
daughter is enrolled in the University
of Pennsylvania.
"After seeing the grading systems
of these schools," Salomon
said, "I know I am not the hardest."
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come here because they know their
roots began in South Carolina. I
received a letter yesterday from
someone in Canada interested in
our materials," she said.
The library's visitors usually I
come from 20 or more different
states. Stokes says because the library
is often the only part of the
university these people have contact
with, the library plays a unique
role in the USC's national
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