Articles by Gargoyle
Sept. 11, 2001: Looking back on a generation’s loss of certainty
By Michael Newberger | mnewberger@flagler.edu
My day started like any goofy middle schooler. I put on my jean shorts, applied a liberal amount of hair gel to perfect the “spiked flip” look, and got in my mother’s mini-van to go to school. It was Sept. 11, 2001, and I was 11 years old.
The first sign anything was amiss came at my locker. Some kid came up and said a plane had struck the World Trade Center. No one believed him. We thought maybe a small Cessna could have crashed into the towers.
Governor visits Flagler College and talks about education, jobs and lowering taxes
By Michael Newberger | mnewberger@flagler.edu Photographs by Phil Sunkel Governor Rick Scott spoke at Flagler College Aug. 29 about the main tenants of his political platform: job creation, lowering taxes and education reform. One of the largest sources of criticism for the current administration…
Freshmen Move-In Day: Class of 2015
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: