Story and photo by Eric Albury | gargoyle@flagler.edu
New year’s resolutions are never easy. Nor are they always followed through to the end. But for Elijah Hayes, backup point guard for the Flagler Saints, his first resolution is already coming to a successful close.
Hayes’ aim was to abstain from meat, dairy, refined sugar, starches and flour for 21 days. No easy task when he had practice six days a week and played 1 to 3 games a week. But Hayes said it was worth it.
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By Joshua Santos | gargoyle@flagler.edu
The Student Government Association meets every Tuesday at 9 PM in the Koger-Gamache Theater in the Ringhaver Student Center.
Club Considerations:
• The Chess Club, led by Junior Evan Gardiner, was unanimously approved after a short deliberation. The special interest club aims to teach beginners while providing a place for experienced players to enjoy a nice game of chess.
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The Flagler Review, the literary journal of Flagler College, is seeking submissions of high-quality poems, short stories, creative nonfiction, screenplays, plays and artwork for our Spring 2012 issue, which may be published in print or online formats.
By Phillip C Sunkel IV | gargoyle@flagler.edu
This new year, Slightly Stoopid will be taking over the Hard Rock Live in Orlando for a once in a lifetime celebration. The show will include special guests The Expendables and Horizon.
By Gena Anderson | ganderson@flagler.edu
It was only a few laps into the hobby feature. My brother was in the far right turn of the track and another car’s nose collided into him. The section our family sat in was entirely on their feet trying to see clearly through the dust of the red clay.
In later years the crowd would grow love him nearly as much as we did and would rise with us, but this was early in his racing career when we alone where his cheerleaders.
By Emily Hoover | gargoyle@flagler.edu
I’ve never been so bummed about getting an A.
This might sound strange, but as a graduating senior with big plans for graduate school, it frightens me to think a pesky little minus might get in my way. And I don’t mean math class. Luckily, I passed both of the mathematics requirements for an English major my freshman year.
By Kara Duffy | gargoyle@flagler.edu
The Internet has come to dominate the way people communicate and interact in today’s society. People use the Internet to get information easily and quickly to access anything online.
We take the Internet for granted like it is a necessity rather than a luxury, assuming that we can access and use the Internet whenever and for whatever we want.
By Joshua Santos | gargoyle@flagler.edu
I have been working out with a personal trainer every morning for the past week and a half. I am not much of a healthy person. Up until I started working out, I was a pack a day smoker, more than half of my liquid consumption came in the form of malt liquor, and the closest I had ever come to stretching was me trying to put my skinny jeans on in the morning.
By Tiffanie Reynolds | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Placing the last gift basket on the shelf, I took a few steps back and watch as two women behind me rushed and grabbed six each, completely emptying the middle shelf. Walking to the back room to open and empty yet another box, I slid past men and women on their cell phones relaying the items they saw as they rifled through bins and scan shelves. All this while “What a Wonderful World” played through the speakers above.
By Phil Grech | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Did you hear that? It sounded like the closing of a cave door collapsing into the ground from a cave occupied by a cave dweller. It sounded like a special effect from an Indiana Jones movie. Stick with me now. I’m going somewhere with this.
It sounded like someone was dragging a shovel over the cement. Remember the sound of shoveling snow? The shovel scraping against the driveway? It was like that, but slow it down. Yes, like that, a slow shovel scarily scraping.
By Kara Duffy | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Adobe plays an essential part in consumer, educational and professional technologies. As these technologies are changing, Adobe must stay as user-friendly as it has been in the past.
In 2007, Apple banned Adobe from its iPhone and from its iPad in 2010. As Apple began to expand its technologies, Adobe’s software became incompatible. Adobe Flash could not perform well on mobile devices, especially touch screen devices.
By Lauren DeGeorge | gargoyle@flagler.edu
The Habitat for Humanity of St. Johns County will be holding it’s annual Christmas Gala Fundraiser on December 8th , from 6pm until 10pm.
Tickets for the charity event are $55 per …
By Frank Mahoney | gargoyle@flagler.edu
The First Coast will be in the spotlight of the political world soon. CNN and the Republican Party of Florida will be hosting a republican primary debate on Jan. 26. The time and place for this event will be decided shortly by CNN.
By Amber James | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Passing or failing, friends and the next alcoholic beverage–these are some of the things most kids my age are thinking of. Don’t get me wrong, these are concerns that occupy my mind as well. But I also have some unique concerns, like how to deal with military deployments, managing financial accounts for two and what to make my husband for dinner. Yes, I said husband.
I might have jumped the gun, being married earlier than most, but one defining factor pushed us in that direction, the military.
By Frank Mahoney | gargoyle@flagler.edu
The Flagler College Model United Nations team attended its second Southern Regional Model United Nations (SRMUN) conference in Atlanta this month. This is also the second year that the Flagler team has been in existence.
Model United Nations (MUN) is an academic competition where students represent delegates from countries in the United Nations and organizations within the United Nations. These students research their assigned countries and organizations and work with other students to solve Geo-political problems.
By Jaime Greco | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Kyle Hickey, 20, found inspiration in death.
By Lauren Ely | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photo by Sarah Albino
After a low-scoring first half, the Saints came back in the second looking like a new team in their first win of the season Tuesday, Nov. 22, against Webber International University.
The first points of the game were not scored until almost two minutes into the game when Shelbi Lindsey, a forward for Flagler College, sank a 3-pointer. Lindsey led the team in scoring with 17 points.
By Ryan Buffa| gargoyle@flagler.edu
Former front man of Pedro the Lion, former alcoholic, former evangelical Christian and rooted lyricist. David Bazan, will be playing at the Original Cafe Eleven on November 29th for his “Strange Negotiations” tour.
By Gena Anderson | ganderson@flagler.edu
This past May, I drove six hours to go home to visit my friend for his twenty second birthday. Or rather, visit his grave.
Troy died on Oct. 13, 2008 in a motorcycle accident. On our way to his funeral, me and my best friend got lost. On our way to visit his grave, the same thing happened.
Everyone knows where Troy is buried, but none of us know how to get there. I cried on the way there to his funeral because I was afraid we were going to miss it. I wanted to cry on my way to visit, this time, because I felt that same sense of defeat.
Submitted by Emily Hoover | ehoover@flagler.edu
The following is a poem submitted to the Creative Section by Emily Hoover. The Gargoyle is currently accepting submissions of creative works including creative writing, fine art, graphic illustrations, multimedia and photography.
By Joshua Santos | gargoyle@flagler.edu
The city of St Augustine celebrated their 18th annual Night of Lights, Saturday, November 19th, 2011. City officials, citizens and tourist flooded the downtown area to witness the light up ceremony.
By Michael Newberger | gargoyle@flagler.edu
It seems every subsequent election year, most people say to themselves “There’s no way that this could get any more ridiculous,” and I realize four years from now I’ll probably being saying this again as political ads become somehow personalized by our facebook interests. “Hi Bob! I see you you like the Pittsburgh Steelers! I’m Rick Santorum and I love em’ too! I also think that gays are bringing down the moral fiber of our country! Check out my link!”
But so far this Republican primary race has been a spectacle that is both supremely entertaining, while also hinting at the dystopian landscape that politics is starting to turn into.
By Eric Albury | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photo by Eric Albury
Matt Clark led the way for Flagler on Saturday, Nov. 19, sinking six threes and scoring 24 of the 108 points over Trinity, who scored 78.
John Bianchi of Trinity also sank six of his threes and scored 24 points, but it was not enough to keep up with the Saints’ offense.
The Saints held their lead throughout the entire game, not giving the Tigers anything to work with.
By Joshua Santos | gargoyle@flagler.edu
The city of St Augustine celebrated their 18th annual Night of Lights, Saturday, November 19th, 2011. City officials, citizens and tourist flooded the downtown area to witness the light up ceremony.
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