By Lauren Schroeder | gargoyle@flagler.edu For Ryan Rish, growing up consisted of pretending to be someone he was not. That was until he decided to accept and express who he really was. Ryan Rish, a sophomore at Flagler College came out as transexual at the…
By Mallory Hopkins | gargoyle@flagler.edu People of all sizes will be attending the second annual Florida Tiny House Festival this weekend in Elkton, Florida. The festival begins on Friday, Nov. 17 at the St. Johns County Fairgrounds, and continues through Sunday. Last year the United…
By Katherine Lewin | gargoyle@flagler.edu Before firing a bullet into a group of people at a bus stop in Gainesville, Fla. on Oct. 19, Tyler Tenbrink was verbally and physically harassed by counter protestors of Richard Spencer. Tenbrink was exiting Spencer’s controversial speech at…
By Katie Garwood | gargoyle@flagler.edu After going through Hurricane Matthew less than a year ago, Beverly Wolfe watched with anxiety as Hurricane Harvey swept through Texas in August. She couldn’t imagine being in their place, or if a similar storm came to St. Augustine, so…
By Katherine Lewin | gargoyle@flagler.edu The Obama administration ended the so-called “wet foot, dry foot” policy in January 2017. This part of the Cuban Adjustment Act allowed Cubans without visas to stay in the United States and begin the citizenship process once their feet touched…
By Courtney Cox | gargoyle@flagler.edu The bustling St. George Street, spanning far and wide through downtown St. Augustine, Florida, has just about anything a shopaholic can dream of. It was missing just one thing though when Daryl Drown first stepped foot onto…
By Katherine Lewin | gargoyle@flagler.edu Read below or listen: St. Augustine, Florida, America’s oldest city, was once a battleground for civil rights. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his supporters were harassed, beaten and jailed when they tried to enter segregated downtown restaurants and swim…
By Colton Andre | candre129@flagler.edu This year I attended Overland Expo East in Asheville North Carolina. The first thing most people ask when I talk about this year’s Overland Expo is, what is the event about and what is overlanding itself? Overlanding is generally considered to…
“Approaching or remaining within 500 yards of a right whale is against federal law,” said Cheryl Munday, NOAA Fisheries marine mammal outreach specialist. “Violations can result in civil or criminal penalties with fines up to $100,000. This applies to operators of all types of…
By Katherine Hamilton | gargoyle@flagler.edu Ben Taub, staff writer at The New Yorker and recipient of the ASME Next Award for Journalists Under 30, has traveled all over the globe following leads and exposing corruption. His projects include covering Jihadi recruitment in Europe, battlefield medicine, war crimes…