Opinion

By Danielle Marsh

Birds flock to the south for winter, fish migrate upstream to procreate, and tourists flock to St. Augustine to annoy students. I’ve only been at Flagler for a year and I’m already fed up with tourists.

What spurred this dislike are the many unpleasant encounters I’ve had with tourists. Just the other day I was coming back from my car, carrying several heavy bags from my most recent shopping trip. A tourist stopped me and started asking me questions about where the gift shop was. She could clearly see my hands were full and I was struggling to hold everything, yet she insisted on asking me several questions about the campus. When I couldn’t answer a couple of questions she got really rude with me and walked away.

By Andrea Huls

You have to be kidding me. After reading what President Bush said about visiting Latin America this week, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. It seems that now Bush is a revolutionary who is going to combat injustice and poverty.

According to a Washington Post article, Bush said, “The millions across our hemisphere who everyday suffer the degradations of poverty and hunger have the right to be impatient.” If I am not wrong, there still are thousands of people that survived Hurricane Katrina who are struggling every day. American people have the right to be impatient too, Mr. President. What are you doing about it?

Julia Redemske, Staff Writer By Julia Redemske On the day I popped out of my mother, I was 2 feet tall. Try squeezing that out between your legs. Now at 6 foot 3 inches, I have spent a lifetime towering over my peers. And no,…

Kelsey May, Senior Writer By Kelsey May My conscience is done with homeless people. I wish it weren’t true! I really do, but in my old age of 22 I’ve become too skeptical to give my spare change away anymore. The last time I helped…

By Katie Shrum

I was Bulimic by age 10, Anorexic at 13, went into cardiac arrest at 16, entered rehab at 18, relapsed at 19 and I lost my first friend to her eating disorder this past summer at 20.

It has only been seven months since I got word that Leighsa had succumbed to her disease, and two weeks ago I got another call letting me know that I lost my friend Amy as well. Leighsa was 19 when she died, and Amy was 21. Both girls died in their sleep.

Nick Massie, A&E Editor The Internet is becoming a bigger and bigger part of the college lifestyle. But has anyone realized the new trend? Online breakups have become pretty hot apparently. I have seen many relationships come and go, all ending in different ways. The…

Kelsey May, Senior Writer So I’m taking my first photography class this semester. The initial attempts at accomplishing anything with artistic grace were pitiful. My previous camera experience: Kodak disposable, Kodak underwater disposable and Polaroid. Over Christmas break I bought a used Canon AE31, circa…

Bill Weedmark, Co-Editor Have you ever caught the 10 o’clock local news on Fox after “American Idol?” If so, maybe you noticed something that’s been driving me insane. See, Fox has this bad habit of running “news stories” after “American Idol” that focus on, would…

By Ryan Brower

There are lots of addictions out there; heroine, cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes just to name a few. But there are also a lot of addictions that people really don’t consider addictions, and sometimes these can be the most dangerous, mainly because there are so few ways to help those afflicted.

In our “grand” society we like to call America, people are addicted to people. Look at the way our society is set up: reality television shows are making more and more people “famous,” cell phones that have GPS to let you know exactly where your friends are, and the Internet craze of MySpace and Facebook lets you know exactly what’s going on in everyone’s lives and who they talk to.