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Jones leaves ghetto for FSU

For many students, college means passing exams, eating a full meal once in a while and staking out the cheapest bars in town. For LeAlan Jones, just being on FSU's campus this fall will mean survival, and more.

Jones is arranging to leave his home in the crime-ridden south side of Chicago, where making it home from school was a tribute to being alive

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Hard work gives art to all ages

Like bees swarming to protect their hive, a low buzzing permeates the Museum of Fine Arts at FSU. As the noise grows louder, Allys PAlladino-Craig, the museum director, appears undaunted by the approaching... children?

About 50 elementary school kids jabbering, pointing and laughing, appear heading in her direction.

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Life in the extreme ­ Mars?

Imre Friedmann has brought prestige to FSU by studying life in the extreme.

Since Hungarian-born Friedmann arrived on campus in 1968 as an associate professor in biology, he has become world-renowned for discovering microorganisms, or cryptoendoliths, in rocks found in the hottest and coldest climates on earth.

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Paper, brushes and watercolors define memories

Professional artist Barbara Mulligan was 5 years old in 1940 when she first saw the old FSU library, now Dodd Hall, and the Westcott building.

Mulligans mother was carrying her FSCW yearbook and was reminiscing about the days she spent on campus. Mulligan was just learning to draw and remembers thinking, "someday I'll be able to paint the Wescott towers."

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Secret is out: elderly women are abused too

An old woman lies on the floor until someone comes to move her. Some of her bones are broken. Her body is bruised. Her husband has abused her.

Their daughter denies the abuse, saying they like each other's company.

Though scenes like this happen every day, elder abuse is one of the nation's dirty little secrets. Most of us don't know or don't accept it.

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FSU Communication boasts internships

FSU is keeping good company these days. It's ranked with the likes of New York University, the University of California at Los Angeles and other top notch institutions in placing communication students in coveted broadcast internships

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