By Kristyn Pankiw | gargoyle@flagler.edu
It’s nice having such a small campus as Flagler College. Everything is located within a block’s radius, which makes going to class, visiting the library and picking up food when you’re on campus convenient and easy. Whether you live in Lewis, Cedar, or Ponce, you’ve basically got it made.
By Katy Stang | gargoyle@flagler.edu
It was 11 p.m. on a Thursday night and I, a 20 year-old college junior, was sitting in the library sobbing uncontrollably while editing a class project. Now, I know what you are thinking and no, I am not an emotional fool. It was something else. I had hit my metaphorical wall. The wall that appears when you have reached the limit of stress and utter BS that you are drowning in, and boy was I drowning.
By August Carriuolo | gargoyle@flagler.edu
I make it no secret that I’m a huge James Bond. As a moviegoer, I simply love every facet of the character. That roguish demeanor, his witty humor, and his inextinguishable sense of confidence in the face of overwhelming odds; these are a mere few of the myriad of reasons the Bond character continues to delight myself and audiences worldwide to this day.
By Phil Grech | gargoyle@flagler.edu
You’re either in or you’re out: chosen or forsaken, saved or damned, the many or the few.
Some years ago I was in a Christian martial arts school. I wasn’t Christian, but it was a great school and it was confirmed every time I broke a rib or a foot or got a black eye. I liked it because it pushed me beyond my limits, further than I would have been able to go on my own.
By Ryan Buffa | gargoyle@flagler.edu
I’ve always wondered what was going through my mother’s mind that day. My biological father stepped into the cab headed for the airport, and it would be five years before she would see him again.
By Phil Grech | gargoyle@flagler.edu
I’m a sarcastic, skeptical English and philosophy double-major who rejects cheesy inspirational messages that tell people to “live, laugh, love” or “‘live every moment like it’s your last.”
YOLO has recently replaced Carpe Diem as my most hated inspirational catch phrase. Did anyone think that we lived more than once? Clearly some trite, cheap, superficial, and abhorrent advice like YOLO is insufficient to inspire meaning and engender change.
By Natalie Merante | gargoyle@flagler.edu
A year ago, I sat in a COM 101 public speaking class and listened to a girl give a speech on gay rights. She was gay and presented one the greatest arguments that I have ever heard. She asked us what we would think about people being discriminated against because of their hair color? Would that be fair?
By Joshua Santos| gargoyle@flagler.edu
Hello world, I’m here to ask you to stop this madness.
The recent tragic episodes of mass murders by violent people with violent weapons has got to stop. I have the solution.
I propose that instead of increasing the number of men and women in blue in our nation’s wondrous public school systems, or arming teachers and lunch ladies with a 9mm, we just arm everyone in America and teach them all how to use them at school.
By Marykate Usina | gargoyle@flagler.edu
It was 3 a.m., the cusp of a new day when my phone rang, flashing a six-digit military number across my screen. A number I loved and hated seeing because there are two voices that could be on the other end: Daniel, or his buddy Brandon. If it were the latter, Daniel wouldn’t be coming home.
By Lindsay Marks | gargoyle@flagler.edu
I was having an intimate conversation with the backside of a light blue phone case. I was competing for attention with someone who wasn’t even in the room. How am I supposed to compete with that? The phone has bright lights, emoticons, vibrant colors and the anticipation of a response. I’m just here, talking.