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Drugs, violence wear down order in Mexico

By Matthew Boyle | mboyle@flagler.edu
Photos by Matthew Boyle

PHOTO CAPTION: Alfredo Corchado speaks at Flagler’s Communication Week. Angela Kocherga, Border Bureau Chief of television network Belo, stands with him.

Dallas Morning News Foreign Correspondent Alfredo Corchado thinks Americans need to invest more interest in helping Mexico battle drug cartels.

Only a few days before Corchado’s scheduled Monday speech at Flagler College’s Communication Week, a group of high-profile federal officials led by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced a trip to Mexico City to pledge more U.S. support in the fight against drug cartels.







Saints continue Cinderella season

By Matthew Osterhouse | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photo by Mike Slade

PHOTO CAPTION: Flagler College’s Meg Weathersby blocks against Armstrong Atlantic’s Kathrin Standhardinger en route to the regional championship game. The Saints won the regional championship against Wingate and are headed to the national tournament.

The No. 2 Flagler College Saints won the Division II Southeast Regionals with a convincing 3-1 win over No. 1 Wingate University.


Loving LA, but ready to go home

There’s nothing like home. There’s nothing like home. There’s nothing like home. My black platform heels aren’t doing the job that those Dorothy red, sequined shoes do – which is to send me home to St. Augustine. Los Angeles is great, don’t get me wrong but St. Aug has a hook into my heart.


Lessons from the red carpet

Something about going to exclusive events makes me feel like a celebrity, even though no one knows who I am except the other interns who go with me. But as long as I can get dressed up and take pictures, I’m happy.


By Michael O’Donnell Imagine this — what if someone could go on the Internet anywhere and hit some banner, or ad, and buy a degree and a resume for a few hundred dollars? The person never did any of the work, never pulled an “all-nighter,”…