NOVEMBER 2000
BOMBMAKER'S CONSCIENCE FINALLY FORCED HIM TO DEFECT
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One of Florida State's physics grads lived a hellish, though
luxurious, life in Iraq until he decided he was no longer willing
to make bombs for Saddam Hussein.
Khidhir Hamza, a top student and grad assistant in FSU's physics
department from 1965 to 1969, had been ordered back to his homeland
of Iraq and put to work creating the big bomb for Saddam Hussein.
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40,000 YEARS OF HISTORY TO DISCOVER IN CETAMURA, ITALY
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It's midsummer in Central Italy, and a Florida State University
student is squatting in the dirt, carefully, slowly chipping
with a trowel to reveal whatever is there - just soil, or a tool,
a jewel, a kiln or a wall from 40,000, 2,500 or just 1,000 years
ago.
For the last 25 years, the finds at the site, Cetamura, have
been exciting enough to interest the Italian government in a
public exhibition at the nearby town of Gaiole-in-Chianti
MIAMI ARTIST CREDITS FSU PROFESSORS WITH HIS SUCCESS
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Like many incoming freshmen, Robert Flynn wasn't sure what
career he wanted. Now he knows. He is a painter and art professor
living in South Beach Miami; his work has been shown around the
world; and he gives credit to two "incredible" professors
at FSU.
"When I went to Florida State, I initially wanted to go
into architecture," said Flynn, 32. "And then I thought
engineering. After that I wanted landscape architecture."
His wandering course track quickly found a groove after he registered
for art classes.
GRADS GIVE TIME AND MONEY TO FSU
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Mark Hillis tells a great story that sounds like pure Seminole
romance. And it's all true.
He was a banker at SunTrust in Atlanta in 1976 and was tied up
with work when Nan Casper, who also worked at SunTrust, called
him. A recent graduate of Florida State, she was calling all
the other alums she could find at SunTrust to come to a meeting
of the Atlanta Seminole Club.
FSU PRESIDENT SPELLS OUT HIS VISION FOR THE UNIVERITY'S FUTURE
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FSU President Sandy D'Alemberte, in a message Oct. 4 to the
faculty Senate, laid out his vision of the future of the university,
based on his own thinking during seven years in the office and
on recommendations of two Commissions on the Future.
He made these predictions: