Romney to bring campaign to Flagler College
Flagler College will be one of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s campaign stops Monday, Aug. 13, as the candidate begins a bus tour of the state.
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Music on the Mountaintop Festival
By Ashley Goodman | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Anyone looking for a last music festival roadtrip before school starts might want to check out this year’s Music On The Mountaintop Festival in Foscoe, N.C. For its fifth consecutive year, the festival brings some of the most underrated names in Folk, Americana and Bluegrass together for three days of dance and jubilation.
A somber reminder of beauty in the face of death
By Phil Grech | gargoyle@flagler.edu
As soon as I touched her wrist I felt ice. It is a feeling that you don’t expect. Touch the desk in your room and it’s room temperature. Touch a dead body and quickly discover just how cold it is after heat and life have evaporated. The chills down your spine don’t compare.
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Does chivalry still exist?
By Phil Grech | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Everything has an expiration date, no matter how filled with preservatives. Milk. Veggie burgers. Canned goods. Pasta in a box accompanied by questionable powder mix. And apparently even chivalry.
A difference between faiths: politically irrelevant
It’s 7 a.m. on a Sunday. Why is my alarm going off? I reach over to hit snooze when I remember that I have to go to church this morning, and my stomach starts to knot like it does before I give a speech in front of a class.
A look into the world of local TV news
By Adam Hunt | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Growing up in England, local TV news was never on my radar. As Britain would comfortably fit inside Florida, there just isn’t a market for it in a country so small.
Instead, I was served national news on a daily basis by the BBC or Sky. Prim and polished anchors with non-regional accents were commonplace and hardly a Doppler radar could be seen.
Charles Murray’s ‘Coming Apart’ doesn’t hold together
Ah, the ’50s. Squeaky-clean, patriotic American men came home to find their pipe and slippers set out by their dutiful and doting wives. Their 2.5 children would be in the “parlor” working hard on today’s batch of homework and making themselves some Ovaltine, labels out. Monday morning brought the grind and Sunday morning brought church. We were, in short, a country made up of Cleavers.
Racism in St. Augustine: not just a thing of the past
By Zach Gray | gargoyle@flagler.edu
St. Augustine’s reputation as a sleepy tourist town has rarely been questioned.
Trolleys roll by with a calm and tranquility, telling stories of how Henry Flagler and his lucrative railroad industry spearheaded the community’s economic growth.
During the era of Jim Crow, things weren’t much different. A hushed little fishing town, hugging the beautiful Florida coastline, was a serene paradise.
Stand Your Ground legalizes murder
By Lauren Ely | gargoyle@flagler.edu
The state of Florida may legally allow murderers to walk the streets.
Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law has come under scrutiny in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting. The law says that when threatened, people do not have to retreat and may use deadly force in self-defense. However, in the Martin case, many believe the law is protecting a man who doesn’t deserve it.