2011
Are you prepared for hurricane season?
By Gargoyle Staff | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Hurricane season is in full swing as this semester starts. Luckily we were spared from this season’s first major hurricane, Irene. However that doesn’t mean the threat is gone.
9/11 from under my desk
By Gena Anderson | gargoyle@flagler.edu
For two weeks after 9/11 I slept under my small wooden desk. I was 10 years old wrapped up in a Lion King sleeping bag, listening to a conservative news radio show on my blue boom box.
We all remember where we were when we found out, some more vividly than others. I was in my fifth grade gifted classroom. But the most vivid thing in my mind is sleeping on the floor with my radio.
Matisyahu comes to Ponte Vedra, rocks local crowd
By Phillip C. Sunkel IV | psunkel@flagler.edu
Johnny Cheeseburger
By Eliza Jordan | gargoyle@flagler.edu
My foot was heavy on the gas pedal as I complained about the cost of heart-worm medicine. Why though? So stupid and selfish — this medicine allows my dog to live.
I thumped my fingers one by one to the beat of the melodies blaring from my car. I drifted back onto US1 as the craving of caffeine crept up on me. Coffee coffee coffee.
Locals remember 9/11 as anniversary approaches
For Richard Glover, who worked as a firefighter in New York City for 26 years, anniversaries are bittersweet.
Even though Glover and his wife, Janet, retired to Palm Coast, Fla., five or six years ago, the wounds of Sept. 11, 2001, have not yet healed.
To the incoming freshmen
By Gena Anderson | ganderson@flagler.edu
No one will believe for a second that your bong is a vase, so don’t even try pulling that one.
Every year new freshman come in and have to deal with the adjustment from high school to college. The following is a list I’ve complied to hopefully make the transition easier as well as help you avoid some common mistakes:
Volleyball eyes another Peach Belt Crown
By Mari Pothier | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Winning and losing are not the only things Head Coach Taylor Mott wants her volleyball team to focus on this season, but to have an overall great experience on and off the court.
After being chosen for the second year in a row as the preseason favorites in the Peach Belt Conference Coaches Poll, Mott is honored but knows there is a long season ahead.
Mosquitoes bring fears of West Nile Virus
By Amber James | gargoyle@flagler.eduA black curtain. That is what Rachael Horn compares the mosquitoes in her yard in St Augustine to. Florida spends about $160 million on mosquito control, and mosquitoes in the state are a fact of life.
The fine arts major knows it. “I brave the mosquitoes to go outside,” Horn said.
Career Services plans for GRE workshops in future
By Tiffanie Reynolds | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Kristin Nelson, new director of Career Services, aims to make Ringhaver Student Center a Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) test site in the next couple years.
This year, Nelson is holding GRE test prep workshops, which will be available later in the fall.