Articles by Gargoyle

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Arts & Entertainment March 21, 2013

Movie Review: Oz: The Great and Powerful

By Diana Eales | gargoyle@flagler.edu

I expected Oz: The Great and Powerful to be an entertaining prequel to the original 1939 The Wizard of Oz, but despite impressive graphics I was disappointed in the characters’ lack of, well, character.Oz (James Franco) himself is a lying, cheating and arrogant charmer. What a poor example for a child of a worthwhile suitor. It’s like saying, “Ok, kid, lying is okay if it helps you succeed, and if you make sure your pride is overflowing you can have anything.” Right. Oz is assumed to be the Wizard and takes on that role knowing that his “great and powerful” is just a flashy carnival act. I guess it all works out in the end and good wins. But good wins at what cost? Dishonesty? Faking it until making it?

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Opinion March 21, 2013

On the other side of the weight-loss bun

By Katy Stang | gargoyle@flagler.edu

I remember the day my mother came home furious, with my sister in tow. I had never seen her that mad, and after sending both my sister and me to our room, I found out why. My sister had been caught shoplifting. The manager at the supermarket had told my mom that if she had not been with my sister, she would have been arrested.

However, what piqued my interest was what she was caught trying to steal: ex-lax.

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Arts & Entertainment, Blogs March 19, 2013

Don’t freak out: coping with stress in college

What do you do when you’re stressing about school?

Do you chug obscene amounts of caffeine and stay up all night trying to finish everything at once? Do you order a pizza and eat it cold and chewy piece-by-piece for breakfast, lunch and dinner because you have no time to go to the grocery store?

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Opinion March 19, 2013

Com Week or stress week?

em>By Kathleen Quillian | gargoyle@flagler.edu

For an average communication student, “Com Week” can be seen as a blessing. It is an entire week where informative lectures about the real communication world take the place of boring note taking in regular classes.

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Music March 19, 2013

Drunk driving: No one is safe

By Catherine Pinyot | gargoyle@flagler.edu

There’s a truck in the lobby.

That’s what was running through Michael Lyons’ mind as he looked up from the cash register of the nation’s most famous fast food joint, he told the St. Augustine Record.