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Opinion April 4, 2012

Reflecting on how Alzheimer’s turned a granddaughter into a caregiver

By Siyeda Mahmoud | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Looking into her eyes I could tell that she no longer had any recollection of who I was. I reached out to touch her hand as I had done many times before. I thought I was doing it to comfort her, but in reality I was probably trying to comfort myself. It’s almost a childlike gesture that we do when we are in need of some form of security; it’s the power of human touch.

The realization of knowing that it would never be the same again was a hard pill to swallow.

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Sports April 4, 2012

Karlsson leads women’s golf team at Ralph Hargett Memorial

By Adam Hunt | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photo by Dyann Busse

Flagler women’s golf posted a sixth-place finish in its final tournament outing before the Peach Belt Conference Championships.

The Saints, ranked 24th in the NCAA Division II national rankings, carded a 654 at the 17-team Ralph Hargett Memorial.

Flagler head coach Santiago Cavanagh was pleased with his team’s effort throughout the event.

“It was a tough course that played very differently to the courses we play in Florida but I was proud of the way the girls kept fighting,” he said.

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Sports April 4, 2012

Dahlenburg sets new school record in golf

By Adam Hunt | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photo by Dyann Busse

Joel Dahlenburg was in a record-breaking mood at the Bearcat Golf Classic in South Carolina.

The Flagler senior fired a seven-under 209 over 54 holes to clinch medalist honors and set a new school-record.

His former teammate Chris Bray previously held the record after his 210 at the Will Wilson Southeast Preview in 2009.

Dahlenburg took little time to find his form and raced into first place after the first round with a six-under 66 — the lowest score of the tournament.

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Features, News April 4, 2012

Farm cultivates new life for disabled veterans

By Emily Hoover | ehoover@flagler.edu
Photos by Robert H. Heinrich

Down a long dirt road on the border of Duval and Clay counties, where the open air is clean and the sun just begins to peek through the clouds, is a farm that houses organic fruits, vegetables, livestock, honeybees and other commodities.

But for Adam Burke, founder of Veterans Farm, this farm is far from ordinary. The disabled combat veterans who work the farm during a six-month fellowship are more valuable than the goods they produce.

“I am very selective in [the veterans] I choose,” Burke, a U.S. Army veteran, said. “This is not about a paycheck. It’s about tranquility, peace in life, people who are looking for a change, to grow in their lives.”

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Blogs April 2, 2012

SGA Announcements

Student Government Association meets every Tuesday evening at 9 p.m. in the Koger-Gamache Theater. Students are encouraged to participate and gain voting rights after attending three consecutive meetings.

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Sports April 1, 2012

Injured soccer player discusses future

By Daniel Arbelaez | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Austin O’Connor, a sophmore, has had a hard time with injuries since he started playing for the Flagler College men’s soccer team. First, he was injured just before the 2011-2012 season began. He was not able to play a single game during one of Flagler’s best seasons. The Saints finished their 2011-2012 season with a 17-3-3 record and won their second Peach Belt Conference regular season title. By the time O’Connor got better from his injures, the season was already done. He then began to play and started practicing with the team. But before the team started to play some friendly games, O’Connor got injured again during practice. He now has a torn ACL, torn Medial and Lateral Meniscus.

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Video March 31, 2012

A man, a laser and a dream

Senior Scan Technician for Activision, Chris Ellis, stopped by downtown St. Augustine to scan the Constitution monument for three replicas that will be created from the laser image.

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Arts & Entertainment March 29, 2012

MOVIE REVIEW: “The Hunger Games”

By Megan Bradt | gargoyle@flagler.edu

“The Hunger Games” is a movie that was created from a novel by Suzanne Collins. It begins during a time where desperate times call for desperate measures.

Children from ages 12 to 18 are selected at random to represent the district in which they live. One male and one female are chosen in a lottery drawing to fight not only one another, but also 11 additional districts that surround what is called the Capitol. Once these representatives are chosen, they are wined and dined in the Capitol while they train for battle. Only one person is allowed to survive, as they not only fight to the death against each other, but also against weather elements.