Alumna is grateful, proud for FSU help in bombing
Yesterday I received my copy of Florida State Times, Vol. 1, No. 1, and read with great interest the article on page one entitled "FSU organizes help for bombing victims." The article features Dr. Charles Figley and was written by Sarah Robinson.
As a resident of Bethany, Okla. (part of the Oklahoma City metroplex), and a graduate of FSU, I read the article with gratitude and with pride.
The bomb that destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and shook the nation (also) rattled the windows in my home and started me and many others on an emotional roller coaster that exists today as it did on April 19. Everyone I know was personally touched in one way or another; the tears still flow.
I wish to express my gratitude to those on the FSU campus who were so prompt and so willing to help heal the wounds we sustained. Our peace and quiet -- and our innocence -- were all damaged by that bomb. Healing will be a long time coming.
I wish to express my pride in FSU for the kindness in wanting to help those of us who were so close to the disaster but so far from the Tallahassee campus. This kindness does not surprise me; it does, however, please me greatly!
Barbara Boling Anderson, `50
Bethany, Okla.
Reader laments liberal bias he sees in FSU publications
This is to notify you that I am in receipt of two copies of Florida State Times, mailing labels from which are attached.
Permit me, also, to avail myself of this opportunity to inform you that the growing "liberal" bias in Florida State University publications has not escaped notice.
Thirty years ago, it was apparent that some FSU faculty members were more interested in propagating thinly disguised Marxist political and socio-economic theories than in teaching students to perform specified tasks.
Today, the continued expression in Florida State University periodicals of such discredited views is embarrassingly anachronistic.
By way of expressing my disappointment, I have already acted to reduce financial support of the Florida State University by two thousand dollars.
I am in a position to do considerably less.
In determining the appropriateness of further subtractive action, your various journalistic ventures are an important factor.
F. Stuart Smith
Ocala