Going to second base: Exams key to preventing breast cancer
By Victoria Hardina | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Ladies, it’s time to take your tops off! Yes, you read right. Let’s protect your ta-ta’s and do a self check for breast cancer.
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Students weigh in on Facebook layout changes
By Kara Duffy | gargoyle@flagler.edu
After the release of Google Plus, the newest social media competitor, Facebook has made several changes, including renovations to the news feed and layout, to make its site more convenient and simple.
But the upgrades aren’t over.
Despite misconceptions, survey promotes class improvement
By Alex Bonus | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Senior Kia Miller suffered the basic college nightmare last year — a boring professor, a semester-long class and a daily reason to refuse rolling out of bed.
When it came time to fill out IDEA surveys, the forms students complete at the end of every semester to rate their classes and teachers, Miller hoped some bad reviews would make it so future students wouldn’t endure her same experience.
Targeted Facebook ads cause concern
By Eugenia Tavarez | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Flagler College junior Keila Davisson recently started shopping online and has been noticing an odd trend in the advertisements she has seen ever since. On her blog, Google searches and other websites visited, Davisson’s advertisements have all curiously featured exactly her favorite bands, brands, and even events going on in her hometown.
Republican Primary starts getting interesting
By Frank Mahoney | gargoyle@flagler.edu
The Republican primary is heating up. The first major test will be the Iowa Caucus which will take place Feb. 6. Here all the candidates will get their first test of the election year. This includes Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, John Huntsman, and Rick Santorum. The question that is on everyone’s mind is who is looking like they can win?
Occupy Jacksonville
By Joshua Santos | gargoyle@flagler.edu Hundreds gathered at Hemming Park in downtown Jacksonville FL, sporting handmade signs, costumes, and a message to Wall Street.
Mister Heavenly comes to St. Augustine Nov. 8
By Ryan Buffa | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Mister Heavenly will be playing at Café 11 on Nov. 8 on their tour for their new album, “Out of love.”
Harvest of Hope Foundation moving forward, president says
By Emily Hoover| ehoover@flagler.edu
For Phil Kellerman, president of the Gainesville-based Harvest of Hope Foundation, philanthropy runs in the family.
After his grandmother Helen Zand, a professor and social worker, mentioned she would be leaving an inheritance to her grandchildren, Kellerman said he was going to put the money to good use.
“[My grandmother and I] used to talk about the issues involving poverty,” he said. “She was really smart and really ahead of her time. This was right around the time I was thinking of setting up a foundation for migrant workers and I told her I was going to set up a foundation in her honor.”
For homeless, faceless even in death
By Michael Newberger | gargoyle@flagler.edu Earlier this year, the remains of Christopher Wood were finally identified, three years after their discovery in the woods off State Road 312. People searching for cans came across his body, which was so decomposed that his identity and even cause…
Live life for life, not for today
By Phil Grech | gargoyle@flagler.edu
When I was still tattooing in south Florida, people were getting carpe diem tattoos like people buy tacos from Taco Bell. That analogy is bad because it implies we specialized in carpe diem tattoos, but you get the idea: lots of carpe diem tattoos getting pumped out on a regular basis.
That brings me into a thought I’ve had recently: we all want to know how to live our lives and sadly, we spend so much of our lives trying to figure that out.