By Kiegee Proctor
Photo by Kiegee Proctor

Murray Middle School student Nicole Newton said she uses her cell phone to text messages to her friends in school every day.

Newton said that if she did not have electronic devices such as her phone she would go crazy.

By Erica Greene
Photo by Erica Greene

A St. Augustine father, Paul Schroeder, may never send his children or grandchildren to see a movie at Epic Theatres of Saint Augustine.

On Friday nights after 6, one movie in one theater is available for viewing by people 16-years-old and under who are not accompanied by an adult. Poorly behaved teens are the cause of this decision.

By Amie Dames
Photos by Amie Dames

Crookshank Elementary fifth-grader Amie Dames, 10, loves spending every day after school at the Boys & Girls Club. She is excited about the grand opening of the new facility this summer.

“There’s going to be a lot more space to play and learn,” Dames said.

By Malik Hicks
Photos by Malik Hicks

Malik Hicks and his family moved into their Habitat for Humanity home on Dec. 18.

Hicks’s mother, Michelle McNamara, volunteered 800 “sweat equity” hours over the past three years in order to finalize their home ownership. Sweat equity is a form of payment that allows people to work to pay for their homes instead of a down payment.

“This can’t be real,” was the thought that kept running in my mind as I lay on golden sand the consistency of flour in the middle of January. The big, curving palm trees shading the sand from the warm sun were bright green and full of lime green coconuts the size of soccer balls. The water was various colors of blue ranging from aqua and turquoise to ultramarine and cobalt and as it tossed around the seashells on shore, all I could do was soak in the beauty of the closest thing to paradise I’ve ever been.

By Gian Louis Thompson | gthompson@flagler.edu
Photo contributed by John Jordan

The Flagler College women’s basketball team is struggling with success as it looks to make a name for itself in the competitive Peach Belt Conference.

By Emily Hoover | ehoover@flagler.edu

The City of St. Augustine will join the rest of St. Johns County with its decision to extend liquor sales to 2 a.m., starting Feb. 5.

There is no better song than Jackson Browne’s, “Running on empty”, to describe senior year at Flagler college.

By Alicia Nierenstein | gargoyle@flagler.edu

When Flagler College’s Students in Free Enterprise team returned from Germany back in October with a loss in the first round of the World Cup, the team members didn’t keep their heads down. In fact, their spirits were sustained throughout the remainder of their trip because the experience as a whole was too exciting to let pass them by.

With cool temperatures lingering, tights are the perfect wardrobe piece to keep you and your legs warm!

The style dilemma that we all have during the winter months is showing our pasty legs, but tights are the perfect solution for looking cute and stylish while still being
practical.

By Lawrence Griffin | gargoyle@flagler.edu

The world is in ruins. Nothing is safe. Gary Oldman runs a city and limps around like he has a wooden leg, and who will save us now?

Denzel Washington, in the Hughes Brothers’ new post-apocalyptic thriller “The Book of Eli,” just might be the man for the job in his trek across the world to the mysterious West. Washington is in possession of the last Bible on Earth after nuclear disaster ruined the planet.

By Matthew Boyle | mboyle@flagler.edu
Photo of Tracey Eaton by David Castagno
All other photos by Matthew Boyle

Two weeks have passed since Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake but a Flagler College professor is doing his best to keep the issue fresh in students’ minds – or at least their noses.

Tracey Eaton, an assistant professor of communication, taught his classes on Monday and Tuesday barefoot.

Campus Activities Board announced Bands On The Lawn, a free outdoor concert scheduled for tonight at 6 p.m. on the West Lawn.

The concert is free, but event organizers will be collecting monetary donations for Haiti relief. The artists as well as CAB members agreed that all proceeds would go towards helping Haiti victims in their time of need. So come on out and enjoy the show by simply bringing lawn chairs or blankets and preparing to rock out!

By Lauren Belcher | cbelcher@flagler.edu

Once you make the decision to become vegetarian or vegan, you typically have to eliminate fast food from your diet. But, you don’t have to.

The fast-food chains are finally catching up to the times and providing more options. So whether you are a full-blown vegan, a softhearted vegetarian, a person who wants to reduce their meat intake or anything in between, you now have options. If the vegan or vegetarian lifestyle is not an option, you can at least reduce the amount of meat you consume.

Win an iPod Shuffle!

Here’s how:

• Step 1: Take a unique, artistic or funny photograph that has a copy of the Gargoyle in it somehow (any way you want, but keep it clean)
• Step 2: Submit this photograph to the contest e-mail address, gargoylephotocontest@flagler.edu
• Step 3: Go to gargoyle.flagler.edu and vote for your favorite picture from the final 5 selected by the Gargoyle staff.

Flagler College, with its four CSC classes and no computer engineering major, is not the most computer savvy campus. Today I am here to help set that straight. Here are some programs already built into windows that you can run to make your computer happier if not faster.