Issues of Legitimacy @ Florida State University

LaVey.

 

Sorry. Teach me for relying on my old, decrepit memory.

Thanks for the correction.

marilynd

 

http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2005/01/2005012802n.htm

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Florida's Board of Governors voted, 10 to 3, on Thursday to kill a proposed chiropractic college at Florida State University.

In part:

Raymond E. Bellamy, an orthopedic surgeon who teaches medical students part time at Florida State, said he was relieved by the vote.

"I was worried they might punt and avoid the heat and send it back to FSU for 18 months of foolishness," he said. "I feel great now -- the Champagne is coming."

He asserted that hundreds of Florida State professors, including at least 70 medical professors, had signed petitions opposing a chiropractic college, although that number has not been verified. Eight part-time medical professors had threatened to quit teaching at Florida State if the college opened.

Critics have argued that chiropractic medicine lacks an adequate basis in science, and that opening a chiropractic school would damage the reputation of the university and its four-year-old medical school. Supporters have countered that the school would improve the quality of chiropractic care in Florida and would make a chiropractic education more affordable for minority students. Florida has one private chiropractic school, a branch of Palmer College of Chiropractic, in Port Orange, Fla.