Stories



Thinking pink: Women’s basketball helps raise breast cancer awareness

By Matthew Pagels | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Pink is here to stay! Flagler College women’s basketball gives a helping hand in raising breast cancer awareness by hosting the Think Pink Event.

The Think Pink Event was created to raise awareness for breast cancer and to receive donations for those who are diagnosed with the disease. This year, all the money raised will be given to Unity Outreach Inc., a local organization in St. Augustine, Fla., that helps families through the process of a breast cancer diagnosis.



Flagler artist blends love of literature with painting

By Kristyn Pankiw | gargoyle@flagler.edu

In less than a year, Brianna Angelakis has gone from amateur art student to a rising name in the art world. A senior English and fine arts double major with a minor in illustration at Flagler College, Angelakis has recently landed exhibits nationwide.
That’s pretty impressive for someone who only began experimenting with oil painting in September 2011 — a medium she had never tried before and knew nothing about.



I’ve got it: Let’s give everyone guns and get rid of the police

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.



The show must go on: Ringling Bros. Circus protested in Jacksonville

By Sarah Williamson | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photos by Sarah Williamson

Nearly 50 animal rights activists greeted circus goers this past weekend in protest of the Ringling Brothers arrival at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena.

Students, local activists and law professors lined the sidewalk silently, allowing their signs to gain people’s attention: photos of elephants locked in moving trailers, bulls being dragged and beaten by “bull hooks” and tigers behind bars.


Flagler’s Hugh Marlowe pays tribute to movie star father at St. Augustine Film Festival

By Ashley Goodman | gargoyle@flagler.edu

The St. Augustine Film Festival will pay special tribute to actor Hugh Marlowe on Jan. 18. And who better to to do it than his son, Hugh Marlowe II, who is also an associate professor of philosophy at Flagler College. Marlowe will share stories of his father, and there will be a showing of one of Marlowe’s most recognized films, “The Day The Earth Stood Still.”