AUGUST 1999

COMPRESSION

Megavision

FSU football fans who come to Doak Campbell Stadium in 1999 will see the big plays on the field and then - again - above it.
A new, state-of-the-art, digital screen was installed in the north end-zone scoreboard. The 24' x 32' color screen will add fuel to the mass hysteria of the screaming football fans.
The screen is a high resolution, light emitting diode (L.E.D.) board worth $4 million - but it didn't cost the university a thing. Outdoor Systems Inc. paid for the board in return for the advertising rights for 10 years. All advertisements and displays must be approved by Florida State University.
"The board will give fans another vehicle to stay involved with the game," said Scott Kull, director of athletics marketing at FSU. "The pictures are great at high noon or at night. We will also be able to promote other FSU athletic programs and university messages. Everyone is very excited about it, and we are going to have a contest to give the board, which is now called Megavision, an official name."

Same people, new gift

Jim and Jan Moran are helping Florida State again. A few years ago Moran - the automobile industry legend who was once known in Chicago as "Jim Moran the Courtesy Man" - gave FSU $1 million to set up the Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship.

That's done, and now the Morans have given the Institute $2 million more to add staff, scholarships, entrepreneurship showcases, regional workshops and direct assistance to entrepreneurs. The gift will also be used to expand the Entrepreneurial Certification Program.

One school honors dean, another hires him away

Chuck Cnudde, FSU's dean of social sciences, has recently won a major honor from North Carolina and a major new job in Massachusetts.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where Cnudde got his doctorate in political science, is naming a new fellowship the "Chuck Cnudde Award."
And the University of Massachusetts, Boston, has hired him to be provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs.
The university, in announcing his appointment, noted that Cnudde has been chairman of the department of government at the University of Texas at Austin and the department of political science at Michigan State University and professor at seven important universities (including FSU).
He has also made a reputation abroad - doing international academic research in China, England and Yugoslavia, representing the United States at the International Institute for Comparative Government Research in Switzerland and Italy and accepting an honorary professorship at the University of St. Kliment Ohridski, Bitola, in the Republic of Macedonia.

LeRoy Collins Chair

Florida State has established an eminent scholar chair in the name of LeRoy Collins, a Florida governor known across the nation for political courage and leadership, especially in the times of civil rights struggles.
The new chair is in the field of civic education and political science.
Collins was governor from 1955 to 1961 and had a close relationship with FSU over the years. He died in 1991 at the age of 82.
In 1989, Florida State initiated the LeRoy Collins Center for Public Policy, which has worked on major issues affecting Floridians, such as crime and prisons, constitutional review, campaign ethics, citizen participation in public decisions and hurricane catastrophe issues.

New gates at stadium

Gates designed by internationally known sculptor Albert Paley were installed on the northeast side of the University Center on April 29. The gates, which weigh more than 15,000 pounds, were designed to give a ceremonial formality to the archway in the T.K. Wetherell Building that serves as the main entrance to Doak Campbell Stadium.

Education dean moves up

John W. "Jack" Miller, dean of the FSU College of Education, has been appointed chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
"I welcome the opportunity to move from a single area of the university to a position where I will work with all aspects of student and faculty life," Miller told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Miller has been at FSU since 1993. Before that, he was a professor and dean of education at Georgia Southern University. He has held several positions at Wichita State University, including professor, program director and associate dean of education.
Earlier in his career, he was a public school teacher in Chicago and Indiana.

Setting baseball records

FSU player Marshall McDougall made the NCAA baseball record books on Sunday, May 9. McDougall hit six home runs and drove in 16 runs - both NCAA records - to lead the Seminoles to a 26-2 victory over Maryland in College Park, Md.
McDougall (6-1, 190), is a junior second baseman from Gainesville. He had seven hits in seven at bats, which set FSU and Atlantic Coast Conference records. He had 25 total bases, which also set school and ACC records.

New theatre dean

Bruce Halverson, 54, head of the theatre department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is replacing Gil Lazier as dean of the FSU School of Theatre.
"Bruce has been a leading theater administrator in higher education for many years," said Lazier, who is taking a one-year sabbatical and then returning to teaching and directing. He has excellent credentials in both theater education and the theater profession itself. That's a major plus - you don't find it very often in theater program administrators."
Halverson founded and produced Sunshine Too, an international touring theater company featuring deaf and hearing actors.
Halverson has also been theatre department head at Ithaca College in upstate New York.

Religion fellowship

Kathleen M. Erndl, associate professor of religion at Florida State, has won a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship for distinguished achievement in the subject of women, goddess possession, and power in Kangra Hinduism. She is one of 179 artists, scholars and scientists who receive the fellowship this year, out of about 2,800 who applied.

Business and cookies

FSU's dean of the College of Business, Melvin T. Stith, has been elected to the board of directors of Keebler Foods Company, the second-largest cookie and cracker manufacturer in the United States. The products include Girl Scout Cookies, Keebler brands, and Famous Amos cookies.
Under Stith's leadership, the FSU College of Business has been ranked for two consecutive years as one of the top 50 undergraduate programs in the country, according to U.S. News and World Report.

The boys made Tallahassee look good

The city of Tallahassee won a national honor in June, with a lot of help from the Boys' Choir.
City officials went to Philadelphia to show the judges that Tallahassee ought to be named an All-America city. But the most convincing lobbyists in town to help win the title were the members of the Tallahassee Boys' Choir, a group organized by FSU's School of Social Work.
When the Boys' Choir broke into song, the Tallahassee Democrat reported, "it was raising goose bumps on the arms of competitors."
A couple of days later, after Tallahassee was one of 10 cities to win the title, the Democrat concluded that "it really was the boys that the judges and just about everyone else fell in love with."
"These boys are going to be known throughout the country and the world," City Commissioner Steve Meisburg was quoted in the newspaper. "They're that good."

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