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…
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…
By Mallory Hopkins | gargoyle@flagler.edu Mallory Moyer is a Floridian musician. She lives in the Tampa Bay area some of the time and the St. Augustine area some of the time. She can be found singing and playing guitar at local venues in those areas…
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…
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…
By Jared Olson, photos by Katherine Lewin | gargoyle@flagler.edu A little past 3 p.m., in the midst of a coppery gold, cloudless North Florida winter afternoon on Jan. 15, 2018, protesters gathered on the rural road facing the remote Lake Butler Correctional Facility. They came…
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…
By Jared Olson, photos by Katherine Lewin | gargoyle@flagler.edu Under the cold bluebird skies of Jan. 15, 2018, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, St. Augustine demonstrators gathered in front of the squat brick walls of St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal church. The purpose: to celebrate…
By Katherine Lewin | gargoyle@flagler.edu Luis Villatoro had just finished serving his two-year sentence in the Washington State Penitentiary for an incident involving his mistress. His time there left him traumatized after being sexually assaulted in his bunk. But he also became a Christian and…
By Sarah Smith | gargoyle@flagler.edu Adam Morley isn’t your typical politician. In a shipping container on the outskirts of St. Augustine, Morley lives with his wife, Janine and their 1-year-old son Elon. He tries to incorporate sustainability into his life, constantly working to become more…