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Sports April 15, 2008

Salvation on the hardwood:

Assistant basketball coach James Link turns grief into inspiration

By Michael O’Donnell | gargoyle@flagler.edu

It’s the opening game of the Flagler College men’s basketball season. The booster club has decked the gym in the college’s red and gold colors. The gym is packed. But to Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach James Link, the seat his mother used to occupy at every home game, cheering on the team as the Saints came out in their red warm-ups, remains empty.

Link turned to the game of basketball, the game that he loves so dearly, after his mother, Tina Link, died in 2007, losing her life to bone cancer and leukemia.

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Sports April 15, 2008

Cadillacs cruise to third straight championship as senior players say goodbye to intramural league

By Brandon Volbrecht | gargoyle@flagler.edu

The intramural flag football season has come to a close. After a long season of sweat and mud, the men of Flagler have put away the cleats until next season.

Teeth were chipped and stitches were again necessary, but it wouldn’t be intramurals without it.

The Cadillacs claimed their third consecutive championship in 2008, which will arguably go down in Flagler history as one of the most successful group of players yet.

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Sports April 15, 2008

Another Clark joins Saints

From Staff | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Men’s basketball coach Bo Clark has announced that David Clark has signed a letter of admission to attend and play basketball at Flagler College in an announcement April 9.

Clark, a 6-foot, 3-inch guard, is the second of three sons in Clark’s family and joins older brother J.P. on the Saints team. He was a three-year starter at St. Augustine’s Pedro Menendez High School for head coach Steve Melgard. Clark averaged 20.3 points per game and helped the Falcons to a 14-13 record and a trip to the district semifinals.

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April 15, 2008

CD Review: R.E.M.

Accelerate

By Taylor Toothman | ttoothman@flagler.edu

What do R.E.M. and breathing have in common?

There is nothing like a good beat, perfectly-woven melodies, and meaningful lyrics to prepare me to take on a 12-page paper or a particularly dull five-hour shift at a job a 3-year-old could do.

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April 15, 2008

Unrepresented but not unheard

Flagler College Surf Team takes first at easterns, sets sights on nationals

By Dan Greene | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Well, not exactly. With the help of some unlikely financial sources offering support, the Flagler surf team was able to take down the likes of the University of Central Florida, University of Florida, University of North Florida, and Southeast/North division rival Daytona Beach Community College on March 28 and 29 in small but contestable conditions at Sebastian Inlet.

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April 15, 2008

A session with Jason Picallos

Jason is one of the coolest people on the planet. You can surf with him, work out, talk about low-budget films and hit up a dance club all in one day! Jason surfs very well, and is all about style. He is not hard to…

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Arts & Entertainment April 15, 2008

Students’ art displays creativity

Photo by Danielle Marsh
Flagler’s student art show featured several works. The first-place winner was a painting by Sierra Strasburger.

Flagler College’s students show off their works at new campus museum

By Marella Flynn | gargoyle@flagler.edu

From March 7 to April 11, students from all areas of study were invited to present their works of art in the first juried student art exhibition in the new Crisp-Ellert Art Museum.

Assistant Art professor Laura Mongiovi was a key player in orchestrating the event. She has had the desire to put on a showcase of this caliber, but the space was never available.

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Arts & Entertainment April 15, 2008

Movie Review: ’21’

By Amy Gray | gargoyle@flagler.edu

When Ben Campbell, a graduating M.I.T. student, is accepted to Harvard’s graduate school, one of the most prestigious and expensive programs in the country—at the price of $300,000—he hopes that there is a better way to find funds than having to borrow mother’s life savings or work part-time in a local menswear store.

For Campbell (Jim Sturgess), the answer to this dilemma is to use his brilliant mind, superior math skills, and a plane ticket to Las Vegas.

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On Campus April 15, 2008

The Honeymooners

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the Peace Corps and some dysentery? For two Flagler College seniors, that’s the plan

By Jennifer Swift | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Flagler College senior Rachel Manring has never left the United States, yet this summer she and her husband, senior Tristan Estes, will depart to Africa for two years as Peace Corps volunteers.

Inspired to see the world, the two decided joining the Peace Corps would be a good start. Manring has wanted to join the Peace Corps since a speaker for the program visited Flagler her sophomore year.