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Bees provide more than honey

By Mallory Hopkins | gargoyle@flagler.edu Bo Sterk is a local beekeeper and president of the St. Johns County Beekeeping Association. He is also involved in Bees Beyond Borders, an organization that teaches beekeeping in the Caribbean. Sterk has been keeping honeybees for 25 years and…


Joyner inaugurated as college’s fourth president

By Katie Garwood | gargoyle@flagler.edu Surrounded by dignitaries, trustees, faculty, students and alumni, Joseph Joyner was officially inaugurated as the fourth president of Flagler College Saturday morning. The inauguration ceremony held in Lewis Auditorium, was the first of its kind in the college’s 50-year history. Joyner…


Dealing with anxiety while at college

By Michaela Parks | gargoyle@flagler.edu Colleges tend to advertise their campuses as places filled with smiling students with coffee in one hand and textbooks in the other. But what the glossy brochures don’t show are what many college students are feeling on the inside–anxiety. As…


Flagler prepares for inauguration of fourth president

By Emma Anderson| gargoyle@flagler.edu Flagler College is making history as officials prepare to inaugurate the fourth president of the college. Dr. Joseph Joyner officially took office as president of Flagler College in July after former President Dr. William Abare retired with 45 years under his…


Immigrating north: Sonia Leones’ story

By Adriana Cabezas | gargoyle@flagler.edu Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel drove Flagler College’s custodial worker, Sonia Leones, 66, out of Colombia and into the United States. Like many other Colombians, fleeing was the only way to escape the danger of the narcotraffic mafia taking over the…



SGA pushes for change to interhall rules

By Katie Garwood | gargoyle@flagler.edu For the past several years, there’s one issue the Student Government Association has heard more from students about than any other on campus. And last week, SGA unveiled their plans to address that issue–interhall visitation. More than 100 students came…


Hot and cold: Trying to talk climate change

By Mallory Hopkins | gargoyle@flagler.edu I like to separate climate change stances into three categories: ‘Believers’ (which is ironic to refer to someone who acknowledges scientific fact, as a believer), ‘Skeptics’ and ‘Deniers.’ The other day at work I asked a few of my co-workers what…



Nassar’s case hits close to home for Flagler senior

By Hasani Malone | gargoyle@flagler.edu On Jan. 24, Larry Nassar, the national team doctor of USA Gymnastics, was convicted and sentenced to 175 years in prison. Nassar was accused by over 165 women and girls of sexual abuse over the past two decades and pled…