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Photo by Scott Indermaur
Flagler College’s Students In Free Enterprise team has won first place at the SIFE USA National Competition in Philadelphia.
Executives from companies around the country judged 118 teams at the May 12 event. Competition included Carnegie Mellon University, University of Florida and two-time World Cup champions Drury University.
By Phillip Mansfield | gargoyle@flagler.edu Roberta Ballard was fighting back tears. “You would think that my job would’ve compensated me after being there for so long, but no,” Ballard said.
By Ben McLeod | bmcleod@flagler.edu
On a rainy Thursday morning, I slammed on my brakes, almost causing the car behind me to smash into me. I was driving on West King Street, one of the poorest areas in St. Augustine, and I was looking for junk. It was for St. Augustine resident Jerome Richardson so that he could earn a few dollars to buy some food for the week.
The rain drops were flopping up the mud in front of Jerome’s shack, which is made up of four walls of plywood and sheet metal for a roof. He was nowhere to be seen and the lot was quiet. I began to worry, as surprising as it sounds, that this 47-year-old man was in danger somewhere. Why wasn’t he here? Jerome told me he would always be here.
By Holly Elliott | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Illustration by Matthew Boyle
I regret the day I caved into family pressures on Facebook. It was just my stepmother and me, face to face, or should I say, profile picture to profile picture. A bizarre sense of curiosity from her friend request reached me from hundreds of miles away and made me disregard the potential problems that family and Facebook would most certainly cause me. I recklessly hit accept. In one single click, I opened a virtual nightmare on my social life.
By Michael Mandaro | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Junior Communication major Bailey Latham won the $450 dollar plane ticket after completing the President’s Survey.
Latham was selected randomly from a pool of 973 Flagler College students who had completed either the National Survey of Student Engagement or the Student Satisfaction Inventory.
By Haley M. Walker | hwalker@flagler.edu
Photo illustration by Hahau Yisrael
Student Mallory McCagg recently began cleaning locals’ houses in her spare time. She does it not only to earn money, but for the benefit of the world.
McCagg owns Squeaky Green Cleaning, a business specializing in the national trend of “green cleaning.” According to the Green Cleaning Network, the process can be defined as a way to clean by using natural alternatives to chemically based products and other sustainable supplies and equipment.
By Erica Eding | eeding@flagler.edu
Photo by Erica Eding
PHOTO CAPTION: The statue of Pedro Menendez, the founder of St. Augustine, stands outside the Lightner Museum downtown.
A party is rarely serious business. St. Augustine’s 450th anniversary, on the other hand, could bring millions of dollars in revenue to a city that is suffering from the decline in tourism.
The city is hoping to attract national and even international visitors to the event. But during an economic downturn, tourists will need an incentive to travel and spend money. For this reason, city officials have begun planning for a state of the art experience.
By Ben McLeod | bmcleod@flagler.edu
St. Augustine residents agree President Obama’s stimulus package will do very little to help the real estate market, especially foreclosures.
Eric Larson, St. Augustine resident and Flagler College graduate, was given 10 days notice to move out of his apartment and find a new place to live.
By Julie Hirshan | jhirshan@flagler.edu
The military currently accepts immigrants with student or work visas to join the service, but will now start actively recruiting those with medical, language or other specialized skills, offering them the opportunity to become naturalized citizens in as little as six months.
By Haley M. Walker | hwalker@flagler.edu
If Molly Jane Hammond hadn’t received a Pell Grant, she would probably be fighting in Iraq.
“The military is the only other real economic opportunity for poor kids,” Hammond said. “Higher education is just not guaranteed for poor people.”