Mar. 11, 2004 Letters to the editor Attack on chiropractic college was unwarranted In her Tuesday commentary, My View writer Jann Bellamy questions "But who needs the facts?" relating to the Florida Legislature's decision to fund a new public college of chiropractic at Florida State University. I respectfully suggest that it is Bellamy who needs to study the facts. Her mean-spirited essay, in which she would have you believe that she is speaking for FSU, not only completely misrepresents the facts, but wholly misses the point. Florida is forcing from 700 to 900 of its students to unfairly leave the state each year to pursue a professional health-care education at private, more expensive chiropractic colleges. Bellamy also neglects to point out that chiropractic is the fastest-growing of all the major health-care disciplines, regulated and licensed in all 50 states and in most foreign countries and recognized by Medicare, Medicaid and virtually all private insurance programs. Her suggestion that the debate relating to the new school is something that "just sailed through, or rather over, the committee process" further reveals Bellamy's ignorance of the truth. Since 1999, Florida's Legislature has discussed the need, debated the issue, directed government studies and provided funding for independent plans relating to the chiropractic issue - a topic that has received more thorough discussion than the creation of the state's two newest law schools. SEN. DENNIS JONES Majority Leader Florida Senate