By Alex Bonus | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Senior Kia Miller suffered the basic college nightmare last year — a boring professor, a semester-long class and a daily reason to refuse rolling out of bed.
When it came time to fill out IDEA surveys, the forms students complete at the end of every semester to rate their classes and teachers, Miller hoped some bad reviews would make it so future students wouldn’t endure her same experience.
By Eugenia Tavarez | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Flagler College junior Keila Davisson recently started shopping online and has been noticing an odd trend in the advertisements she has seen ever since. On her blog, Google searches and other websites visited, Davisson’s advertisements have all curiously featured exactly her favorite bands, brands, and even events going on in her hometown.
By Frank Mahoney | gargoyle@flagler.edu
The Republican primary is heating up. The first major test will be the Iowa Caucus which will take place Feb. 6. Here all the candidates will get their first test of the election year. This includes Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, John Huntsman, and Rick Santorum. The question that is on everyone’s mind is who is looking like they can win?
By Joshua Santos | gargoyle@flagler.edu Hundreds gathered at Hemming Park in downtown Jacksonville FL, sporting handmade signs, costumes, and a message to Wall Street.
By Ryan Buffa | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Mister Heavenly will be playing at Café 11 on Nov. 8 on their tour for their new album, “Out of love.”
By Emily Hoover| ehoover@flagler.edu
For Phil Kellerman, president of the Gainesville-based Harvest of Hope Foundation, philanthropy runs in the family.
After his grandmother Helen Zand, a professor and social worker, mentioned she would be leaving an inheritance to her grandchildren, Kellerman said he was going to put the money to good use.
“[My grandmother and I] used to talk about the issues involving poverty,” he said. “She was really smart and really ahead of her time. This was right around the time I was thinking of setting up a foundation for migrant workers and I told her I was going to set up a foundation in her honor.”
By Michael Newberger | gargoyle@flagler.edu Earlier this year, the remains of Christopher Wood were finally identified, three years after their discovery in the woods off State Road 312. People searching for cans came across his body, which was so decomposed that his identity and even cause…
By Phil Grech | gargoyle@flagler.edu
When I was still tattooing in south Florida, people were getting carpe diem tattoos like people buy tacos from Taco Bell. That analogy is bad because it implies we specialized in carpe diem tattoos, but you get the idea: lots of carpe diem tattoos getting pumped out on a regular basis.
That brings me into a thought I’ve had recently: we all want to know how to live our lives and sadly, we spend so much of our lives trying to figure that out.
By Jaime Greco | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Google has stepped up the competition for the No. 1 social networking site, Facebook, by creating its own called Google+. The site aims to, “fix the awkward human way of online sharing,” the Official Google Blog said.
Google+ has been in trial for just about 100 days. Google has taken the suggestions and recommendations of its users and has already made nearly 100 improvements.
Eighty five percent of college students use Facebook, but the recent changes made by Facebook may have students of Flagler College leaning toward the fresh, new social networking site, Google+, and all the features it has to offer.
By Kylynn Pelkey | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Flagler College seniors, Seth Teston and Kathleen Fitzpatrick, shared the same response after learning that most major banks will start charging a monthly fee for debit card use: they think it’s crap.
Bank of America, the largest bank in the U.S. measured by deposits, plans to charge a $5 fee every month a customer swipes their debit card. However, the bank will not charge for a customer to use their debit card at an ATM.
Wells Fargo is currently testing a $3 charge per month for debit card use in specific states. The banks plan to enact the fee starting next year.