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Breaking: Flagler says data on students ‘misreported’

Flagler College released this statement on Monday, Feb. 17, about student data misreporting. More information to come: Flagler College has learned of misreported data of freshman entering classes from fall 2010 to fall 2013. As a result of our preliminary review, a senior admissions officer…


Life beyond the smartphone: Finding digital peace of mind

I am a child of Martin Cooper. If the name doesn’t ring a bell (pun very intended), Cooper was the inventor of the first commercially available cell phone, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x. The DynaTAC weighed in at nearly two pounds, making it a stretch to actually call the phone mobile. Even Cooper said “the battery lifetime was 20 minutes, but that wasn’t really a big problem because you couldn’t hold the phone up for that long.”





The facade of Olympic greatness

Although the tension between Russia and America supposedly dissolved after the end of the Cold War, the two countries have never reached a point of genuine friendship. Old tensions caught media attention when Russian President, Vladimir Putin, wrote a lovely op-ed for the New York Times, which encompassed his deep disdain for the American state.