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By Gian Louis Thompson | gthompson@flagler.edu
Photo courtesy Gary Corbitt

Gary Corbitt has led a long and illustrious career in the field of Communications. However, prior to his journey with communications, Corbitt was unsure of where his life would take him.

Corbitt called New York City his home for many of his early years. He lived in the Bronx as an only child. His mother worked as a nurse and his father, a physical therapist. During his high school years, Corbitt competed in track and field. Like many high school students, Corbitt knew not what he wanted to pursue for higher learning.

By Andrew Sherwood | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Bonjour, hallo, ciao, konnichiwa, hola! Diversity week on campus brought in the international and domestic students together at Flagler College.

Flagler College diversity week program was designed to create international awareness ranging from community outreach program to film screening at Gamache-Koger theatre.

By Emily Hoover | gargoyle@flagler.edu

For college students in a struggling economy, it is important to find what is needed for cheap. Who has the money to go to the Avenues Mall in Jacksonville every weekend, anyway?

On Saturday, Feb. 28, to combat monetary ills, the community of Water Street, in downtown St. Augustine, will come together to hold multiple garage sales from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Students worry about future finances as loans become harder to find

By Erica Eding | eeding@flagler.edu

Photo Illustration by
Hahau Yisraeli

The economic stimulus bill contains about $15 billion in aid for college students.

This comes at a time when more Flagler students are seeking loans than ever before.

“We’ve had a boom here because of the economy,” said Christopher Haffner, director of Financial Aid at Flagler College.

By Maria Scheufler | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Photo by Mary Elizabeth Fair

Traffic fines have increased in the state of Florida due to concerns about the state’s budget.

According to the St. Petersburg Times, Florida legislators don’t want to force more taxes on the working people, so their attention is on traffic fines, as well as taxes on cigarettes and education.

By Gargoyle Staff | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Motivational speaker Chuck Tompkins will present a speech based on his book, “Whale Done! The Power of Positive Relationships.” The event will be held Thursday, Feb. 19, in the Flagler Auditorium at 6 p.m.
Tompkins will speak about how his 25 years of experience training Orca whales relates to techniques used to help motivate people. Specifically, he will discuss elements such as “how to build trust” and “how to build positive relationships at home and in the workplace.” Tompkins is currently Vice President of animal training at SeaWorld in Orlando.

By Haley M. Walker | hwalker@flagler.edu

Every week, Melissa Kafel pushes a wheelbarrow through the Flagler College campus.

In the rain, Kafel can be found wearing the hood of her windbreaker, rolling the unwieldy cart full of scraps of cardboard boxes and paper down the sidewalks, stopping at each building.

Kafel is the president and founder of the Flagler Outdoors Club, an organization that seeks to bring environmental awareness and outdoor activities to the student body. One of its largest and most recent projects is a campus wide recycling program.

Initiative seeks to provide affordable cab transportation for Flagler community

By Lauren Belcher | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Sophomore accounting major, Emma Loss said if she were ever in an unsafe situation or environment, she hopes she could call someone to get her out of it.

Loss explained that she, like most students, does not carry enough money to pay the fare for a taxicab if the situation presented itself.

By Rachel Kuhl| gargoyle@flagler.edu

On Jan. 18, Anne Shreve, Ph.D., former chair of the Education Department, died at the age of 81 in her home on St. Augustine Beach.

Shreve was the mother of three boys, a grandmother of two girls and a great-grandmother of three boys. She had recently turned 81 in December and had spent many years working for the college. She was head of Flagler’s education department for 18 years and stepped down from the position in 1993. She later retired in 1996.

By Andrew Sherwood | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Mark Murray, deputy political director at NBC news was under the spotlight at Flagler College auditorium forum series on Jan. 27. Murray spoke about the future of the Republican Party after their defeat in the Nov. 2008 presidential election.

Murray graduated from University of Texas at Austin in 1996 and has since embarked on a successful career as reporter for political magazines and newspapers in Washington, D.C. Murray also wrote for MSNBC.com’s political blog and appears frequently on national television channels as an on-air political analyst.