Opinion

Looking at legalization of marijuana in California

By Elizabeth McElhinny | gargoyle@flagler.edu

A decision at the ballot in California on Nov. 2 could potentially legalize recreational marijuana throughout that state.

Proposition 19, otherwise known as the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010, is a California ballot proposition that seeks to legalize marijuana in the state. It requires a simple majority in order to pass.



New Leaf: World Vegetarian Day

By Lauren Belcher | cbelcher@flagler.edu
Photos by Gorge Gallardo

This Friday, the Flagler College Dining Hall is going greener than ever. It is hosting its first World Vegetarian Day.

According to Executive Chef of the Dining Hall Keith Atkins, the dining hall will be hosting monthly themes. Thanks to a growing trend and popularity with the new vegetarian station, Oct. 1 will be WVD.

He said the two mobile stations will go “totally all vegetarian.”


Facebook OCD

By Christina Arzapalo | carzapalo@flagler.edu

Every night after work and before I go to bed, I find myself checking my Facebook and Twitter for one last time. And most of the time, ‘one last time’ means probably about half an hour of browsing my friends’ pages and seeing what they’re doing.


College homesick blues

Gena Anderson | ganderson@flagler.edu

My first day alone at Flagler I stayed up the entire night on the West Lawn with some other students I had met only hours before. It was one of the most invigorating feelings I had ever known.

There is a certain novelty in the newly discovered freedom that comes with leaving home for the first time. For a lot of people, including me, that means going away to college.



St. Augustine 101

5 Things To Know as a College Student
Compiled by Phillip C. Sunkel IV | psunkel@flagler.edu
Photos by Phillip C. Sunkel IV

Most people who come to Flagler College have been to the school maybe once or twice before they attend classes in St. Augustine.

This leaves many incoming freshmen and transfer students with a lot of unanswered questions.


Dad, Baseball and Me

By Ant Perrucci | gargoyle@flagler.edu When my sister and I were little, our parents were both working, and had their work schedules arranged so that they traded off on who was working late and who was watching us at home.


Raw food is healthy, delicious, expensive

By Chrissy Makris | gargoyle@flagler.edu “This is insane,” I thought, as I stared blankly at $170 of fruit, vegetables, nuts and hemp milk sprawled across my kitchen counter. I didn’t even know you could make milk from hemp. And really, what was I going to…