{"id":119,"date":"2017-04-29T00:04:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T07:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/?p=119"},"modified":"2017-04-29T00:04:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T07:04:35","slug":"my-archival-research-topic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/jjburwell\/2017\/04\/29\/my-archival-research-topic\/","title":{"rendered":"My Archival Research Topic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I talked a little about what I found in the archives as my research topic, and some new discoveries I made along the way about the research process, but I never really explained the full outline of what my topic was about. I thought I would use this post here to explained that a bit.<\/p>\n<p>The artifact I found in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scu.edu\/library\/asc\/\">SCU archives<\/a> and decide to write about was a press release from SCU on April 6, 1967. It announces the debut of a brand new program on campus, called the &#8220;Center of Contemporary Studies,&#8221; or CSCV. It said\u00a0that the center will promote discussion around the most relevant topics at the time through guest speakers, symposiums and classroom engagement.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/4\/45\/Tom%C3%A1s_Regalado_Parkview_Gardens_Ribbon_Cutting.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cutting the red ribbon is always exciting, isn&#8217;t it? (<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/4\/45\/Tom%C3%A1s_Regalado_Parkview_Gardens_Ribbon_Cutting.jpg\">Source<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So why was this interesting to me?<\/p>\n<p>1) I was first intrigued by what &#8220;contemporary values&#8221; meant. What could have been contemporary at 1967? What were they discussing in school? When I read the whole news report, it became\u00a0obvious that much of what was going to be discussed as &#8220;contemporary&#8221; values revolved around the role of religion in SCU&#8217;s education. Was this what SCU was concerned most about this time?\u00a0So I wondered,<strong> What was the role of religion in the 60s compared to SCU now?<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>How does this center represent the &#8220;values&#8221; the university possessed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2) I found this document in a box with other artifacts about small programs which don&#8217;t exist on campus today. One of them was even a folder containing news articles about a academic wrongdoing scandal that SCU was involved in. I was curious so I looked for any information about the center online, but I found nothing at all. SCU has no public information about the history of CSCV, and I found this lack of material weird. So I thought to myself,<strong> Why is there no information left? Why is it placed in the archives hidden, what are the implications of this situation?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 3046px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/37\/Empty_book.jpg\" width=\"3036\" height=\"2112\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why is there no information? Sometimes the lack of info is more interesting then it being right in front of you&#8230; (<a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/3\/37\/Empty_book.jpg\">Source<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These questions had to be answered! But were they? 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