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Guest AuthorJune 23, 2014

I am frequently asked, “why do you favor John Thrasher for president of FSU?” “Don’t you have your PhD?” “You are so involved in higher education, what makes you support him?” The questions never seem to end — but the answers are easy. I know John Thrasher well. He is focused, smart, driven to success, […]

Peter SchorschJune 9, 2014

J. Stanley Marshall, former president of Florida State University (1969-76) and founder of the James Madison Institute, died Sunday at 91. “Ol’ Stan Marshall puts his pants on one leg at time,” the barber said as he trimmed the back of my head, which may have been trembling too much for him to cut in […]

Guest AuthorApril 17, 2014

There might not have been any new bombshells in this week’s New York Times investigative piece on the Jameis Winston rape allegations, but when the pieces are put together in one coherent narrative, they make this entire episode even more disquieting than we first suspected. What comes across in The Times’ piece, written by Pulitzer […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 20, 2014

The departure of Florida State University President Eric Barron to join the Penn State University system was met with much surprise, as was the leaving of former State University System Chancellor Frank Brogan, also recently migrating to Pennsylvania, and before him the move of John Cavanaugh from the University of West Florida to this same […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 14, 2014

In 2010 USA Today reported that roughly 30 percent of college freshmen are the first in their family to attend college. Twenty-four percent of college freshmen are first generation and low income. Nationally, a shocking 89 percent of low-income first-generation college students leave school within six years without a degree. They leave for a variety […]

Martin DyckmanJanuary 12, 2014

A political cartoon some years ago depicted a couple of men looking out of the National Press Building at a mushroom cloud boiling up over Washington. “How will this affect the Iowa caucuses?” says one. The same sort of journalistic myopia has characterized much of the Jameis Winston saga. The sports pages obsessed with whether […]

Peter SchorschJanuary 12, 2014

A headline from The Onion spread via social media Thursday announced, “Florida State to Phase Out Academic Operations By 2010.” The piece, obviously in jest, continued: “Bowing to pressure from alumni, students, and a majority of teaching professors of Florida State University, athletic director Dave Hart Jr. announced yesterday that FSU would completely phase out all academic […]

Bob SparksJanuary 1, 2014

Days before Florida State plays Auburn on Monday night for the BCS national championship, the Seminoles and Coach Jimbo Fisher announced a five-year contract extension. The deal will keep Fisher in Tallahassee through the 2018 season. Or will it? As this unexpected run toward the summit of college football developed, FSU boosters and fans began […]

Guest AuthorNovember 25, 2013

In this football-mad state capital, Famous Jameis Winston is so much more important than Rick Scott, and what goes on at Doak Campbell Stadium is more relevant than happenings at the Capitol. There are probably more prayers being offered from pulpits for the Florida State quarterback than for the stricken people of the Philippines. Yes, […]

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Ed Moore: Thrasher is the perfect choice for FSU presidency

Peter Schorsch: On the death of J. Stanley Marshall: Florida has lost a giant

Andrew Skerritt: Details of Jameis Winston case even more troubling than first suspected

Ed Moore: Higher education in Florida, from paradise to Pennsylvania

Jeff Kottkamp: Raising tuition reduces access to higher education

Martin Dyckman: Authorities responded poorly in Jameis Winston case

Peter Schorsch: Completing college is as important as completing passes

Bob Sparks: FSU’s Jimbo should rule out a move to Texas

Andrew Skerritt: Football fanaticism skews our sense of right and wrong