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VOLUME 2 |
FEBRUARY/MARCH 1997 |
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Styron, Vonnegut, Heller to join FSU celebration |
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Three of the major chroniclers -- and participants -- in the American
era that created FSU will come to campus in March to help celebrate the
transformation of Florida State College for Women into Florida State
University.
Joseph Heller, William Styron and Kurt Vonnegut -- authors
of some of the most powerful works of the second half of the 20th
century -- are scheduled to speak in Tallahassee March 20 - 22.
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Art Lover Enriches University |
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When Arthur I. Appleton's children would spy an antique shop on family vacations, they got scared. They would point out horses, or anything on the other side of the road, to distract him.
"They thought I'd be there for hours," Appleton remembers.
But his love of art, not always appreciated by his children, has brought FSU and Central Florida Community College the biggest gift they have ever received - The Appleton Museum, valued at $42 million, in Ocala.
Appleton's philosophy on buying art is a simple one - he collects what he likes.
The result is a range of art that reflects the eclecticism of the 81-year-old Appleton.
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German Wives Stood Up To Nazi's - and Won |
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Before dawn on Feb. 27, 1943, Gestapo agents and other Nazi police
officers descended upon 10,000 of Berlin's remaining Jews and bludgeoned
them into 300 trucks. It was called The Final Roundup.
Most of them -
old people, children, working men and pregnant women, battered and
bleeding, without their winter coats - died within days in the gas
chambers of Auschwitz. But 2,000 of these Jews who had non-Jewish,
German wives, husbands and children were spirited off to a collection
center on a street called Rosenstrasse in the heart of Berlin.
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Campus Life Transformed by Internet |
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When FSU President Sandy D'Alemberte learned he had cancer, he
and his wife turned to the Internet for information.
"We were amazed at how much very useful information one could
pick up in a short period of time -- hospitals, doctors, details of
procedures," D'Alemberte said. "We actually decided the doctor, the
hospital and the procedure by reviewing this information."
For D'Alemberte and thousands of others at Florida State, the
Internet is changing campus life forever.
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FSU's Stress Expert Helps South Africia Heal Wounds |
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For millions of black South Africans, the end of apartheid marked
the end of a brutal era of racial discrimination and violence. It also
signaled the beginning of a new life, one of freedom, equality and, it
is hoped, peace.
But the years of brutiolence. It also signaled the beginning of a new life, one of freedom, equality and, it is hoped, peace.
But the years of brutal racist treatment at the hands of the former government left deep wounds in the hearts and minds of many, black and white, wounds that will be
hard to forgive and even harder to forget.
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What Makes Art Awesome? |
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One of the most extraordinary professors of the 20th century will
take FSU art history students to strange lands and far away places this
semester.
Oleg Grabar, respected across the world for his research on Islamic art and architecture, will bring the holy lands to Tallahassee. Grabar
will introduce the history of Islamic art to students, and try to help
them understand "why people say 'wow' " when they look at a piece of
art.
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