Stories


Scenes from the MLK Day Parade in Jacksonville

By Sarah Williamson | gargoyle@flagler.edu

On this day, Martin Luther King Jr. would have celebrated his 83rd birthday. The city of Jacksonville celebrated it as school groups and organizations lined the streets with performances, costumes and signs covered with King’s most monumental quotes. There was both emotion and excitement running through the crowd as his dream continues to spread. Jacksonville’s first African American Mayor, Alvin Brown, was amongst them.





Superman doesn’t have to be invincible

By Gena Anderson | ganderson@flagler.edu

It was only a few laps into the hobby feature. My brother was in the far right turn of the track and another car’s nose collided into him. The section our family sat in was entirely on their feet trying to see clearly through the dust of the red clay.

In later years the crowd would grow love him nearly as much as we did and would rise with us, but this was early in his racing career when we alone where his cheerleaders.


Not always a plus

By Emily Hoover | gargoyle@flagler.edu

I’ve never been so bummed about getting an A.

This might sound strange, but as a graduating senior with big plans for graduate school, it frightens me to think a pesky little minus might get in my way. And I don’t mean math class. Luckily, I passed both of the mathematics requirements for an English major my freshman year.


Internet censorship: Could it happen to us?

By Kara Duffy | gargoyle@flagler.edu

The Internet has come to dominate the way people communicate and interact in today’s society. People use the Internet to get information easily and quickly to access anything online.

We take the Internet for granted like it is a necessity rather than a luxury, assuming that we can access and use the Internet whenever and for whatever we want.


I got that body

By Joshua Santos | gargoyle@flagler.edu

I have been working out with a personal trainer every morning for the past week and a half. I am not much of a healthy person. Up until I started working out, I was a pack a day smoker, more than half of my liquid consumption came in the form of malt liquor, and the closest I had ever come to stretching was me trying to put my skinny jeans on in the morning.


Working the holiday rush

By Tiffanie Reynolds | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Placing the last gift basket on the shelf, I took a few steps back and watch as two women behind me rushed and grabbed six each, completely emptying the middle shelf. Walking to the back room to open and empty yet another box, I slid past men and women on their cell phones relaying the items they saw as they rifled through bins and scan shelves. All this while “What a Wonderful World” played through the speakers above.