By Clayton Coffman and Mike McHugh | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Clayton Coffman and Mike McHugh talk about the NFL draft in the fourth and final part of this Sports Podcast.

By Clayton Coffman and Mike McHugh | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Clayton Coffman and Mike McHugh talk about the NFL draft. Part three of four part episode.

By Clayton Coffman and Mike McHugh | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Sports Editor Clayton Coffman and Mike McHugh talk about the NFL Draft. Part 2 of 4 segment episode.

St. Augustine resident copes with poverty, fighting disabilities and living life

By Ben McLeod | bmcleod@flagler.edu

On a rainy Thursday morning, I slammed on my brakes, almost causing the car behind me to smash into me. I was driving on West King Street, one of the poorest areas in St. Augustine, and I was looking for junk. It was for St. Augustine resident Jerome Richardson so that he could earn a few dollars to buy some food for the week.

The rain drops were flopping up the mud in front of Jerome’s shack, which is made up of four walls of plywood and sheet metal for a roof. He was nowhere to be seen and the lot was quiet. I began to worry, as surprising as it sounds, that this 47-year-old man was in danger somewhere. Why wasn’t he here? Jerome told me he would always be here.

I’m going to go out on a limb and use a phrase I don’t think I’ve ever used before, but I am so stoked on life right now!

And it’s all because next week I get to travel down to Kennedy Space Center to interview a Flagler alum for Flagler Magazine. He is doing some pretty cool things with NASA’s transition of the shuttle program to the new Ares rockets. And he is going to give us a tour of … wait for it … the launch pad with TWO shuttles on it (pictured).

By Clayton Coffman and Mike McHugh | gargoyle@flagler.edu

By Holly Elliott | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Illustration by Matthew Boyle

I regret the day I caved into family pressures on Facebook. It was just my stepmother and me, face to face, or should I say, profile picture to profile picture. A bizarre sense of curiosity from her friend request reached me from hundreds of miles away and made me disregard the potential problems that family and Facebook would most certainly cause me. I recklessly hit accept. In one single click, I opened a virtual nightmare on my social life.

By Matthew Boyle and Sarah Locke | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Co-hosts Matthew Boyle and Sarah Locke interview local band Only After Disaster, winner of the on campus Battle of the Bands on March 13.

By Katy Bass | gargoyle@flagler.edu
I made the mistake of letting my roommate pick out the movie for the evening. She had one thing – or should I say person – on her mind when deciding: …

By Gabrielle McCaffrey | gargoyle@flagler.edu
“I hope to use education to increase leverage of understanding in environmental issues, conservation and biodiversity.”
Six years ago, Professor Barbara Blonder found herself applying to a teaching job at Flagler College …

Baseball season is underway. And for those of you who don’t know me well, that means that my life now has been altered to accommodate the sport.

I’ve come to realize that baseball is more than a passion with me. It’s an addiction. From April to October, my days are spent glued to the TV watching baseball, obsessively tracking my fantasy baseball teams, attending baseball games, reading baseball news, buying baseball cards and playing MLB The Show on my Playstation. My cravings to hit the batting cages even arise more frequently.

Thoughts from a punk rocker
By Cal Colgan | gargoyle@flagler.edu
“Creep into town and it’s not long before I start to roam.
Seek out the patches on the punks—maybe a band I know.
I betcha in five minutes time …

A great pair of rain boots can ensure that a rainstorm will not put a damper on your style. Since we live in Florida, this is a fashion must.

Rain boots have always been a staple in women’s wardrobes. The new styles are meant to be bright, bold, funky and fun, so don’t take yourself too seriously when wearing them. Go splash around a little.

By Matthew Boyle and Cal Colgan | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Online Editor Matthew Boyle and Opinion Writer Cal Colgan discuss the United States military’s use of torture during the ongoing “War on Terror.”

Photo by Matthew Boyle

By Michael Mandaro | gargoyle@flagler.edu

CHECK THE VIDEO OUT here.

Junior Communication major Bailey Latham won the $450 dollar plane ticket after completing the President’s Survey.

Latham was selected randomly from a pool of 973 Flagler College students who had completed either the National Survey of Student Engagement or the Student Satisfaction Inventory.

By Matthew Boyle and Michael Mandaro | gargoyle@flagler.edu
For the full story, click here.