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.
Stories
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.
Venezuelan striker brings Latino flavor to Flagler soccer
By Daniel Arbelaez | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photo by Dyann Busse
Flagler’s freshman striker Marco Padilla promises a lot of success for the next four years. His experience of playing in many teams is so rich, that in just six months he has shown all of his capacity.
In the 2011 fall season he scored 4 goals. Two of them were overtime goals in two of the most important games of the season. His two cousins, Frank and Rolf Fletcher, play for the Venezuelan National Team. Today, they are two of the greatest soccer players in Venezuela. Both of them play in Switzerland and in Italy, respectively. Padilla is not far from being the same as his cousins. His performance and determination show how much he can contribute to the success of the Flagler men’s soccer team.
Tennis student assistant coach discusses transition from Russia
By Santiago Martinez-Caro | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photo by Dyann Busse
For Flagler junior Yegor Romashov, playing tennis internationally has resulted in more than passport stamps. Romashov is now the student assistant coach of the men’s tennis team.
Romashov, a 20-year-old from Ekaterinburg, Russia, said he was advised by his principal in Barcelona, Spain to go to college in the southern region of the United States.
“I liked two schools, Georgia Southern and Flagler College,” Romashov, a sports management major, said. “My first year I went to Georgia Southern, and I didn’t really like it so I decided to transfer to Flagler College.”
Men’s basketball continues Clark legacy this season
They always say like father, like son. Sons often aspire to be just like their fathers, mimicking what they say, how they dress and even how they act.
For Flagler men’s basketball coach Bo Clark, he is literally following right in his father’s footsteps–in more ways than one. Clark played for his father, Eugene “Torchy” Clark, on the UCF Men’s Basketball team, and now he coaches his own son, Matt Clark, on the Flagler team.