A new newspaper and other great things at FSU...

Welcome to Florida State Times and a new era in publications at Florida State University. This new era is replete with growth and opportunity for further progress.

Florida State Times begins as a bimonthly publication, and by January 1996 will be published monthly. The Florida State Magazine will be issued twice yearly.

The greater frequency of communication achieved by combining the two will give the 45,000 alumni, friends, faculty and staff of FSUmore news about teaching, research and public service at our university.

Florida State Times readers will learn of Norm Thagard, who took an FSU pennant on board the Russian Mir space station. Thagard will hold the record as the American who will have spent the most time in space.

The Times will introduce Dave Hart, the new director of athletics, and his plans to use the football national championship to reach out for others in men's and women's sports.

Florida State Times will tell about Lisa Earnest, the FSU student who received a national Humanitarian Service Award for bringing health care to the needy.

Our readers will learn about Randy Ser, a graduate of the School of Theatre, who will direct a feature film on campus. Another Florida State graduate, Burt Reynolds, will be among the stars of this film.

Readers will get these stories through the talents of staff writers like Browning Brooks and Larry Keough, recent winners of a Gold Medal writing award of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Their work was judged best in the nation in "Research, Medicine and Science Writing."

Brooks, Keough and other writers on campus and off will bring you the stories that show why so many people feel Florida State University is at the brink of national and international greatness. And now, with Research I status as a university -- no small feat without a medical school -- FSU radiates with anticipation of greater things to come.

To paraphrase Anatole France, winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature: To achieve great things, you must not only dream, but believe. You must not only plan, but act.

The people of FSU dream, believe, plan and act. Such spirit comes through in the Capital Campaign entitled "An Investment in Learning."

The campaign now stands at $145 million, and is fast closing in on the 1996 target of $200 million. The FSU National Alumni Association is creative and energetic, with a stalwart membership that reaches across the world, even to the Vatican. And our Seminole Boosters Inc., recently surpassed Clemson to become No. 1 in the country in number of donors and annual fund raising. The Boosters now have 19,000 members and last year raised $7.6 million.

That nationwide Seminole Club Network has helped recruit the more than 100 Merit Scholars expected to enroll here next fall. Only 13 universities in the country -- public or private -- have recruited that many.

Great things are what we are all about at Florida State.