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SIFE helping residents like Lydia White work for a ‘better quality of life’ By Emily DeLoach

By Glenn Judah

Jim Roche, a political science major, feels certain opinions were missing from a class discussion on Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ghandi this semester because his classmates were all white.

Roche is not the only Flagler student who has experienced this. Last year the Princeton Review ranked Flagler as “most homogeneous.” This year Flagler didn’t make that list, but the college’s demographics haven’t changed much.

Photo by Andrea Huls

In 1964, Janie Price hosted Martin Luther King, Jr. in her Lincolnville home.

By Danielle Marsh

Lincolnville resident Janie Price remembers a lot about the civil rights struggle in St. Augustine.

“I had my car flipped over,” Price, 80, said. She says it was done out of spite because she was a participant in several sit-ins and marches here in St. Augustine. Price responded to this act by telling others that she was, “going to ride all over town and let them see it to let them know they didn’t frighten me.”

What options do Flagler students have for study abroad?

From Staff

There are five faculty-led study aboard trips planned for summer 2007, including Australia, Belize, California, Costa Rica and Italy. These trips cost anywhere from $2,000 to $4,000, in addition to Flagler College tuition costs, and depending on the amount of credit hours taken for the trip.

By Ted Regis

Monday Jan. 22, 2007
10:00 p.m.
So this marks the official start of my 24-hour “technology fast.” I ended my dependence on television with an episode of “Heroes,” which just ended. Starting this right before bed was a good idea. I’ll knock out eight hours or so of this technology independence in what feels like an instant. I’ll get a real feel for how this will go during the day tomorrow.

By Ericka McThenia

In a world with so many new gadgets being made everyday, we sometimes don’t even realize that we use technology constantly. I tried to go back to the old days before we had internet and MySpace and remember what life was like.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I have classes from eight in the morning till five in the evening. I choose one of these days to go without technology because there would be a decreased opportunity for me to be tempted because I would spend half of my day in school.

City passes new law prohibiting begging in parts of historic district

By Hannah Locke

Earlier this month, shopkeepers along St. George Street noticed cleaner walkways and more pleasant tourists. What was missing were the panhandlers who used to roam the streets and claim it as their territory.

Dawn, a saleswoman at the Columbia Gift Shop who declined to give her full name, was surprised to see none of the familiar faces of panhandlers outside her shop.
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Photo illustration by Glenn Judah & Ashley Sadeghy

By Danielle Marsh

I had been awake for only 30 minutes and already had failed.

It was Jan. 17 and my day started off at 8:30 a.m. with an assignment for The Gargoyle to go 24 hours without using modern digital technology. As I found out, it proved to be much more challenging than I thought, as even eating breakfast these days requires technology.

Student Center construction on track for fall and decision on FEC building usage still pending

By Rich Harris

While Flagler College is still discussing how the Florida East Coast office buildings will be used, a recent gift to the college has provided the expanding campus with another new building.

The gift, made by Robert and JoAnn Ellert, will provide for art gallery space. Their home at 48 Sevilla St., located between the Proctor Library and the new student center, will eventually become home to the college president, and an adjoining studio space already there will be expanded to become a college art gallery. The space may also be used for special functions and receptions.

Graphic by Ashley Sadeghy

Technology addiction cases are on the rise

By Julia Redemske

When the Internet goes down, a cell phone is lost or the cable is blitzed out, most people can continue on with their day without problems. But as technology becomes more prevalent in our lives, new troubling studies are showing that dependence on the Internet and other forms of technology is becoming a form of addiction.

According to a study on Internet use among college students conducted by Keith J. Anderson, a staff psychologist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, “approximately 10 percent of Internet-using students have used the Internet to the degree that their usage meets the criteria that are parallel to those of other forms of dependence.” In other words, one out of every ten college students might show the signs of addiction to the Internet.