October 2011

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Features, Sports October 31, 2011

Women’s soccer finishes regular season strong, qualifies for conference tournament

By Lauren Ely | gargoyle@flagler.edu

The Flagler College women’s soccer team concluded its regular season with a win on senior night against conference opponent Georgia College last Saturday.

“The win Saturday was the best feeling all season,” Rebekah Stockowski, senior captain, said. “I have been the only person who has been on the team for four years, and we have never won a senior night since I have been here. Winning on mine was an awesome feeling.”

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Arts & Entertainment October 31, 2011

Quirky bay area band comes to St. Augustine

By Angela Biggs | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Shannon and the Clams is not a ‘run-of-the-mill’ band. They are out of this world, distinctive and gifted characters. Shannon Shaw works her magic on bass and vocals, Cody Blanchard gives us his all on guitar and vocals and Ian Amberson keeps the beat going on drums and back-up vocals.

This band from Oakland, Calif. wants their fans to be inspired to let go of trying to be cool and, as Blanchard said, “have as much stupid, wild and embarrassing fun as we do.”

Blanchard considers their genre to be mutant mummy oldies, while Shannon sees it as weird oldies and mischief music. Either way, this band rocks the house all over the country.

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Sports October 31, 2011

Flagler volleyball escapes near loss

By Jeffrey Howard | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photo by Dyann Busse

The Flagler College women’s volleyball team immediately fell behind in its match against Florida Southern College on Sunday losing its first two sets. The Saints then rallied to win the next three sets, winning the match 3-2. (17-25, 22-25, 25-20, 28-26, 15-10)

“We did not play our best game in those first two sets,” Olivia Snipes, senior setter, said. “In the first set, I don’t know if it was nerves or excitement but we were making careless errors that ultimately caused us the first loss. In the second set, we let Florida Southern go on too many big point runs. We actually started the second game ahead by 5 or 6 points and allowed them to slowly crawl back into the game.”

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Sports October 31, 2011

Men’s soccer looks forward to first round game

By Jeremy Petty | gargoyle@flagler.edu

The Flagler College men’s soccer team will look to continue their excellent season on Tuesday, Nov. 1st as they begin the Peachbelt Conference Tournament. As of last week, Flagler only knew that the challenger would be the team in the eighth playoff position. But after Saturday’s matches, the regular season concluded and USC Aiken emerged as Flagler’s opponent.

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Creative October 27, 2011

Hotel Room

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.

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Creative October 27, 2011

American Confessions

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.

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News, Top Stories October 27, 2011

Despite misconceptions, survey promotes class improvement

By Alex Bonus | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Senior Kia Miller suffered the basic college nightmare last year — a boring professor, a semester-long class and a daily reason to refuse rolling out of bed.

When it came time to fill out IDEA surveys, the forms students complete at the end of every semester to rate their classes and teachers, Miller hoped some bad reviews would make it so future students wouldn’t endure her same experience.

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Sports October 26, 2011

Concussions increasing for student athletes, recent study says

By Kara Duffy | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Traumatic brain injury, also know as the silent epidemic, is on the rise for children and student athletes, according to a study from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The number of student athletes diagnosed and treated for concussions have risen 60 percent between 2001 and 2009, the study said. The study was based off data from 66 hospitals that documented the amount of emergency room visits. It found that the rise in visits for a traumatic brain injury rose from 153,375 in 2001 to 248,418 in 2009.