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A centerpiece for Athletics: Moore By Jeffery Seay o Lab Editor in Chief t all it the final piece of the University Center puzzle. Four stories of Seminole spirit. Dressed out Center Cin red brick, it’s pure garnet and gold. It is the Coyle E. Moore Athletic Center, a steel, brick and mortar all-star of FSU Athletics. At more than 163,000 square feet, it is the centerpiece of Athletics’ Facilities Master Plan. Scheduled to be com- pleted in early February 2004, it will be the new home of the Department of Athletics and Seminole Reborn hele Edmunds/FSU Pho Productions, an auxiliary of the College of Communication. Mic “I’m just impressed with the total structure,” said Dave Hart, director of Athletics. “Top to bottom, it gives us a facility that serves all of our needs and one that will serve us well for many years to come.” Dave Hart The new building, which was primarily designed with the stu- dent-athlete in mind, provides November 2003 more than administrative office space. It will give student-athletes access to academic support servic- es, student development/ life skills (Continued on page 4) Campaign will urge lawmakers not to shortchange higher ed said. “We have been hit with adequate funding so they can be budget cuts at a time when many educated in a quality environ- of our universities are experienc- ment,” Wetherell said. “We know ing record high enrollments. In that the Legislature has funds put short, we have been asked to do away for a rainy day. Our cam- o Lab more with less. As tuition increas- puses are now experiencing their t es and general revenue decreases, share of rainy days, and the we are equally concerned that state’s continuing failure to fund students also are paying more higher education means worse and getting less.” storms are brewing.” The “Q&A” campaign is The cuts mean larger class hele Edmunds/FSU Pho designed to raise awareness sizes, fewer course offerings and Mic about the economic hardships fewer faculty and staff available facing the universities. Last to serve students. Adequate fund- Officials at the Q&A campaign launch were, from left: Patrick Sullivan, president of both the FSU student body and the spring, the Legislature cut fund- ing will help Florida retain its best Florida Student Association; Debra Austin, chancellor of the State University System; Carolyn Roberts, chair of the Florida ing for the 11 state universities by and brightest students instead of Board of Governors; T.K. Wetherell, president of FSU; John Hitt, president of University of Central Florida; William Merwin, $40 million and failed to provide losing them to out-of-state president of Florida Gulf Coast University; and Fred Gainous, president of Florida A&M University. any funding for new students. schools. About 16,400 students in the uni- As part of the campaign, uni- he presidents of University of Central Florida and Florida A&M University versity system remain unfunded. versity presidents are urging Florida’s public univer- chairman of the State University President Fred Gainous, Florida The funding per student for those who support higher educa- T sities have joined forces Presidents Association, launched Gulf Coast University President 2003-04 is 16 percent lower than it tion to talk to their legislators and to launch a campaign the campaign, “Quality and William Merwin and other uni- was four years ago. The cuts to mobilize networks of support- urging the state Legislature to Access For Florida’s Public versity officials. could affect both the quality of ers to help raise awareness about adequately fund higher educa- Universities,” at a news confer- “Declining state funding has education students receive and the value of Florida’s public uni- tion. ence Oct. 13. He was joined by placed an unfair burden on their access to state universities. versities to the state’s economy. John Hitt, president of the FSU President T.K. Wetherell, Florida’s public universities,” Hitt “Florida’s students deserve (Continued on page 14) T 1600 Red Barber Plaza Suite 104 allahassee, FL Public servants and a prof are ‘Grads Made Good’ By Jeffery Seay House Office of Faith-Based and home ownership opportunities to Catholic humanitarian effort called Editor in Chief Community Initiatives. more Americans—particularly Operation Pedro Pan that eventual- 32310-6068 I Mel Martinez is the nation’s minority and low-income fami- ly brought 14,000 children to this wo high-ranking officials of 12th secretary of HUD, the federal lies—through budget initiatives country. Catholic charitable groups Tthe administration of President agency that oversees the nation’s and partnerships with community- provided Martinez, who was alone George W. Bush and one professor affordable housing and provides based housing providers. and spoke little English, a tempo- of English who is an internationally housing assistance for low-income Born Oct. 23, 1946, in Sagua La rary home at two youth facilities. known political commentator are people. Unanimously confirmed Grande, Cuba, Martinez came to He subsequently lived with two proof-positive of the high caliber of by the United States Senate, he was America in 1962 as part of a (Continued on page 16) graduates that FSU produces. sworn into office on Jan. 24, 2001. The three alumni will return to “Since leaving his Cuban campus during this year’s homeland as a boy, Mel Martinez Homecoming, Nov. 14 to 16, as has been the embodiment of the Omicron Delta Kappa’s “Grads American dream and has had great Made Good.” They are: Mel success in helping the people of his Martinez, U.S. secretary of Housing community obtain affordable and Urban Development; Diane housing and urban services,” said Roberts, professor of English at the President Bush in nominating T Per P U.S. Postage Or Non-Profit allahassee, FL University of Alabama; and Jim AID ganization Martinez. mit #296 Towey, deputy assistant to the pres- Under the leadership of ident and director of the White Martinez, HUD has expanded Mel Martinez Diane Roberts Jim Towey 2 / November 2003 November 2003 / 3 Greenbaum studies the surprising versatility of RNA Physicist Fisk named the latest Francis Eppes Professor By Jeffery Seay that stores a cell’s genetic infor- example, we now know that the inducted into the National By Jill Elish Editor in Chief mation. Like DNA, a string of ribosome itself is a ribozyme— Assistant Director, Media Relations Academy of Sciences, a society of RNA is made of four types of sub- like the spliceosome, the ribo- distinguished scholars. Election to For anyone who still thinks units, the order of which specifies some contains both RNA and FSU’s newest Francis Eppes the academy is considered one of that RNA is only DNA’s messen- genetic and structural informa- protein components, but it is the Professor is one of the foremost the highest honors bestowed upon ger service, think again. Deliver- tion. Single-stranded RNA mole- RNA part that synthesizes the condensed matter physicists in the a scientist or engineer. He also is a ing the genetic blueprints to a cules are copied as complements new proteins, while the job of the world. fellow of the American Physical cell’s ribosome for proteins to be of one strand of DNA. Every pro- protein components appears to be Zachary Fisk, the Paul A.M. Society and was awarded the soci- made isn’t RNA’s only job, tein gene contains a specific DNA to bring the RNA components Dirac Professor of Physics, joined ety’s International Prize for New according to FSU chemistry and sequence, its recipe for synthesiz- together. As another example of the FSU faculty and the National Materials in 1990. biochemistry Professor Nancy ing that protein. Once the mes- its biological versatility, RNA is High Magnetic Field Laboratory In 1992, he received the E.O. Greenbaum. Some of the genes in sage is copied from DNA to RNA, responsible for genetic coding in o Lab in 1994. Now as an Eppes Lawrence Award from the U.S. a cell’s genome contain the the DNA sequences that actually certain viruses, in the place of t Professor, Fisk joins the ranks of Department of Energy. He is a sequence that spells out the code code for protein, known as exons, DNA. The study of how RNA Pho the university’s most eminent Distinguished Fellow of the Los for RNA molecules which carry must be strung together in one molecules are able to accomplish scholars. Alamos National Laboratory and out active and essential roles in a continuous message, and seg- all these functions is an active ord/FSU An internationally recognized a recipient of the lab’s cell. ments that aren’t coded, called frontier of biochemical research. experimentalist in condensed mat- Distinguished Service Award. In other words, RNA isn’t just introns, must be removed before More specifically, Green- Bill Langf ter research, Fisk explores the elec- Fisk came to FSU from the a go-between in the making of the protein can be synthesized by baum’s laboratory is trying to tronic properties of magnetic and University of California, San protein. It actually performs some the ribosome. This splicing determine exactly how the RNA Nancy Greenbaum superconducting materials. His Diego, and the Los Alamos lab. He of the tasks traditionally attrib- process—much like film splic- components of the spliceosome tional studies of the spliceosome. nuclear magnetic resonance to work shows promise of establish- earned his bachelor’s degree in uted to proteins and is the active ing—is carried out by a cellular assemble to carry out the splicing “Understanding the structur- obtain structural information d ar physics from Harvard University ing whole new classes of electron- y chemical agent in some cellular machine called the spliceosome.

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