By Michael Newberger | mnewberger@flagler.edu
Nick Waters* is your typical college student. He hits the beach with friends, goes to parties, lives in a nice house he rents out with two friends, and begrudgingly goes to class. But Waters also struggles with something not a lot of others face: addiction to Oxycodone.
Setting it Straight is a radio talk show on Flagler College Radio WFCF, 88.5 FM Radio With a Reason. Every week, Communication major Kelly Gibbs brings in a St. Augustine local to discuss issues going on around the city. The show airs every Thursday morning…
Setting it Straight is a radio talk show on Flagler College Radio WFCF, 88.5 FM Radio With a Reason. Every week, Communication major Kelly Gibbs brings in a St. Augustine local to discuss issues going on around the city. The show airs every Thursday morning…
By Caroline Young gargoyle@flagler.edu
I looked up at my boyfriend’s face and then back down into my bowl where the dead bird was floating. It was day one of seven in my omnivorous experimentation after being a vegetarian since I was 12-years-old, which was ten years ago.
My first meal was organic chicken and dumplings. My boyfriend, who is a proud meat-eater and believes we are made to eat flesh, decided to order tofu. I am not sure if he was actually in the mood for the soy meat substitute that usually serves as one of my main sources of protein, or if this was some sick joke. Nonetheless, I had committed to eating this chicken, so I took my first bite.
By Tiffanie Reynolds gargoyle@flagler.edu
Just by looking at her, it’s hard to tell that Shannon Aument was in a life-threatening car accident.
On April 22, 2006, Aument slammed her head against the back of the passenger’s seat, disfiguring her face. After stitches, doctors used plastic surgery to rebuild her nose. The procedure took two years, but the results left her looking almost exactly as she did before the accident.
By Samantha Price | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photo Illustrations by Samantha Price
Longtime professor of Journalism, Rob Armstrong, will be stepping down from his position at Flagler College at the end of this semester.
Though Armstrong claims you don’t learn life lessons necessarily from journalism, it’s obvious that his students have a different opinion.
By Samantha Price | gargoyle@flagler.edu
“One of the most devastating natural disasters in history is to blame for what’s going on in Fukushima, not the only plausible generator of electricity that’s available,” said Flagler College Junior Kathleen Fitzpatrick.
The USA Today gallop poll, released a few weeks ago, said Americans’ support in building new nuclear power plants has dropped significantly. A CBS news poll released in July 2008 showed more than half of U.S. citizens supported them.
By Tiffanie Reynolds gargoyle@flagler.edu
Working 40 hours a week with no pay, John Hurt still says the teaching experience is worth it.
The senior education major is an associate fourth grade teacher at Ketterlinus Elementary. The internship, provided by the education department, is part of the senior seminar class and a requirement for his major.
By Anthony Norwood | gargoyle@flagler.edu
In the recent Student Government Association election, the political guild at Flagler did entrance and exit polls as part of a project to watch the voting process as it was going on.
In their entrance polls, students were asked questions like “Who is the current SGA president?” and “Who will you be voting for?”
By Kelly Gibbs gargoyle@flagler.edu
Jeff Morrell of Fort Collins, CO had exciting news to share with the St. Augustine City Commission on Monday, March 14.
The idea: a bike library where people can check out bikes free of charge and return them within the week.
Morrell started a bike library in Fort Collins recently and has had huge success. “We opened the library with 25 bikes and they were gone within five minutes,” Morrell said at the bi-weekly meeting, “So now we’ve upgraded to 200.”