April 2006

Students to compete for Miss Florida

Minch and Leaf prove there’s more to pageants than beauty By Kimberly Hosey Photo Contributed PHOTO CAPTION: Jessica Minch, the reigning Miss River City Jacksonville, will compete along side senior Sherri Leaf in the Miss Florida this July. When some people think of a “beauty…


Wilson resigning to return to health care administration

By Adam Ehrenberg Photo by Charlotte Cudd Dr. Max Wilson, the department chair of Social and Behavioral Sciences and a popular sociology professor, will be leaving at the end of this semester after 9 years at Flagler — four of those as department chair. Because…


Johnson taking sabbatical to finish research on books

Dr. Timothy Johnson Dr. Timothy Johnson, associate professor of Religion and chairman of the Liberal Studies Department at Flagler College, will be taking a sabbatical at the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University for the fall semester.



Vanden Houten to research the Holocaust

By Adam Brod Flagler College professor Art Vanden Houten has been invited to take part in a seminar at the The National Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C., an intensive course designed to strengthen educators’ background in Holocaust history.


Pedal with purpose By Elizabeth Poore A big trend on campus lately has been bicycles. Whether it is recreational or “gang related,” more and more Flagler students are parking their cars and peddling their way through life.


Receiving a degree in procrastination

By Harbor Partin All my life I’ve heard from teachers, principles, parents, and clergymen that if you write your goals down you’re something like twice as likely to reach them. I still haven’t gotten around to doing that. That’s because I am a procrastinator. It…


Guess who’s coming to dinner now?

By Adrienne Sakyi In Florida this week, a proposed bill is stirring up controversy. You may ask yourself, “What is this controversy? Does it have to do with the War in Iraq (or on Terror or The Long War or whatever it is being called)?…


Just around the river bend

By Eric Waldron I’m always amazed at how unaware people are of others in the Kenan Hall elevator. I stand in the corner – arms crossed, opaque Gucci sunglasses uninviting any potential conversation – waiting for the time capsule of an elevator to slowly creep…


What’s really out there?

By Amy Lands Florida may soon become the first state to make students choose a career in high school. The Florida House passed a bill that would require freshman in high school to declare a major in subjects as “humanities, English, communication, math, science or…