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Features, News April 7, 2010

Health Care 101: What you may not know about Health Care Reform

By Gargoyle Staff | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photo Illustration by Gena Anderson

With the Health Care Reform circus going on in Washington, we decided to find what matters to Flagler College students and the greater St. Augustine community.

The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 was passed by Congress and signed by the President. Like it or not, the bill will effect you and you need to know about it’s components.

We delved into the rumors and determined what’s true and what’s false. This is Health Care 101: What you may not know about Health Care Reform.

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News, Top Stories April 7, 2010

The Top 5 Things to Know About the Health Care Reform

By Lauren Belcher | cbelcher@flagler.edu
Graphic by Katie Davis

The number one thing that anyone – not just students – should know about the Health Care Reform bill is that it will affect them now, in September and then permanently in 2014.

Another important note: everyone will be affected differently. The bill affects a college student differently than an elderly man on Medicare or a sick child.

These are the top five things that an 18 to 26-year-old should know:

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News, Top Stories April 6, 2010

Tea Party organizers struggle with faith

By Matthew Boyle | mboyle@flagler.edu
Illustration by Ellen Gambrell

St. Johns River Community College freshman and self-described conservative and agnostic Canyon Molitor finds it difficult to be involved with the local Tea Party movement because he isn’t religious.

Molitor, 18, said other conservatives don’t make him feel welcome among their ranks. He backs conservative and Tea Party views on health care and taxation, but other faith-based conservative issues turn him off.

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News April 6, 2010

Career services, professor hold womens rights discussion

By Erica England | gargoyle@flagler.edu

To close out Women’s History Month, Flagler College Career Services, along with Assistant Professor Dr. Casey Welch, and Academic Affairs presented a two hour long screening and discussion on film clips that focused on the struggles women face as they fight for equal rights.

The Portrayals of Women in Film screening and discussion was even more prevalent due to the fact that March marked the 90th anniversary of the signing of the 19th Amendment, which gave women in the United States the right to vote.

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News April 2, 2010

St. Augustine goes barefoot with rest of nation

By Caroline Young
Photo by David Castagno

One Flagler student thinks that walking around St. Augustine without shoes for a day will give her ringworms.

Sophomore Josh Weaver, a TOM’s Shoes campus representative, said this is exactly what A Day Without Shoes is about.

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Features, News, Top Stories March 26, 2010

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.

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News, Top Stories March 24, 2010

Carving up the college culinary competition

By Max Roux | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photo by David Castagno

Executive Chef Keith Atkins serves up some cuisine conversation when asked about his participation in the Fourth Annual ARAMARK ACE Campus Dining Challenge.

“The competition is a Top Chef Style cooking tournament involving University and College Chefs from the region,” explains Atkins, who is also known as Chef Keith.