Stories
Bermuda’s soccer talent arrives to Flagler
By Daniel Arbelaez | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Triston Hall is in his first year of college. He plays for the Flagler College soccer team. Although, he has a partner on the team, Marco Warren, who is also from Bermuda, the two have a variety of similarities and differences. Hall, number 18 on the team, is 6 feet 2 inches tall, while Warren, number 23, is 5 feet 4 inches tall. Hall plays as a defender and Warren plays as a forward. The two have been playing together since high school and helped lead their school, Montverde Academy, to being ranked No.
Men’s golf ties for first in Outback Steakhouse Intercollegiate
By Adam Hunt | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Flagler golfer Greg Mergel started the spring season with a bang.
The 22-year-old senior clinched a tie for third place at the Outback Steakhouse Intercollegiate in Panama City, Fla.
Gargoyle Anthology accepting entries from Flagler students
For the second year, The Gargoyle and DOW Advantage will publish Anthology, the best of journalism, public relations, opinion and photography at Flagler College.
Boys and Girls Club find more than animals at Alligator Farm
By Tiffanie Reynolds | gargoyle@flagler.edu
On Feb. 11, the Boys and Girls Club of St. Augustine worked with Flagler College Society of Professional Journalists for their annual Mission: Media event.
Mission: Media gives children of the Boys and Girls club a hands-on experience of a day in the life of a reporter, with the guidance of members from Flagler College Society of Professional Journalists. This year, the club went to the St. Augustine Alligator Farm, where everyone picked an animal as the subject of their newspaper article. Below are the completely pieces, categorized under the animal written about.
St. Augustine lovers attempt a world record
By Sarah Williamson | gargoyle@flagler.edu
600 couples gathered Sunday at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum for a world record attempt of the largest wedding vow renewal ceremony.
Former University of Wisconsin assistant coach named Flagler’s head volleyball coach
By {Jaycob Ammerman} | gargoyle@flagler.eduThe Flagler College athletic department announced the hiring of former Wisconsin University assistant coach Brian Heffernan to lead the women’s volleyball team.
Heffernan takes over for former head coach Taylor Mott, who relocated to Tennessee with her husband and two children after the fall 2011 season.
Is your house making you sick?
Aside from the occasional asthma, Flagler student Corey Christian, 22, is in perfectly good health. So it came as a surprise when he found it harder and harder to breathe, even in his own home.
“When I was just laying in my bed and I’d have the window open and like a fan on me, just trying to get some air and I was out of breath” he said “I couldn’t stop coughing, I would actually vomit from how much I was coughing.”
Fine Arts Guild set to host Dancing for Diabetes event
By Emily Hoover | ehoover@flagler.edu
Photo courtesy of Dancing for Diabetes Facebook page
For junior Kristen Matulewicz, becoming the president of the new Fine Arts Guild means bringing a little of her home to Flagler College.
Matulewicz, who was raised in Oviedo, Fla., said she has been involved with Seminole County’s Dancing for Diabetes for six years as a performer. She said she looks forward to bringing the event to Flagler’s auditorium on Sunday, Feb. 12.
Revamping communications: new academic building to replace communication facility
By Tiffanie Reynolds | gargoyle@flagler.edu
The corner of Cordova and Cuna will be getting a new look, but it will not only be for communication students.
Plans to demolish 31 Cordova, the current communications building, which is beside The Floridian restaurant, are already in motion, with a new two-story academic building replacing it. Still in the conceptual stages of planning, the vision for the academic building includes 12 classrooms, several faculty offices, a studio Mac lab and a screening room that will seat 108. The cost is estimated to be $5.5 million.