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Opinion September 3, 2011

Sept. 11, 2001: Looking back on a generation’s loss of certainty

By Michael Newberger | mnewberger@flagler.edu

My day started like any goofy middle schooler. I put on my jean shorts, applied a liberal amount of hair gel to perfect the “spiked flip” look, and got in my mother’s mini-van to go to school. It was Sept. 11, 2001, and I was 11 years old.

The first sign anything was amiss came at my locker. Some kid came up and said a plane had struck the World Trade Center. No one believed him. We thought maybe a small Cessna could have crashed into the towers.

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Blogs September 2, 2011

9/11 from under my desk

By Gena Anderson | gargoyle@flagler.edu

For two weeks after 9/11 I slept under my small wooden desk. I was 10 years old wrapped up in a Lion King sleeping bag, listening to a conservative news radio show on my blue boom box.

We all remember where we were when we found out, some more vividly than others. I was in my fifth grade gifted classroom. But the most vivid thing in my mind is sleeping on the floor with my radio.

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News September 2, 2011

Johnny Cheeseburger

By Eliza Jordan | gargoyle@flagler.edu

My foot was heavy on the gas pedal as I complained about the cost of heart-worm medicine. Why though? So stupid and selfish — this medicine allows my dog to live.

I thumped my fingers one by one to the beat of the melodies blaring from my car. I drifted back onto US1 as the craving of caffeine crept up on me. Coffee coffee coffee.

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Features, News September 2, 2011

Locals remember 9/11 as anniversary approaches

For Richard Glover, who worked as a firefighter in New York City for 26 years, anniversaries are bittersweet.

Even though Glover and his wife, Janet, retired to Palm Coast, Fla., five or six years ago, the wounds of Sept. 11, 2001, have not yet healed.

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Blogs September 2, 2011

To the incoming freshmen

By Gena Anderson | ganderson@flagler.edu

No one will believe for a second that your bong is a vase, so don’t even try pulling that one.

Every year new freshman come in and have to deal with the adjustment from high school to college. The following is a list I’ve complied to hopefully make the transition easier as well as help you avoid some common mistakes:

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Sports September 2, 2011

Volleyball eyes another Peach Belt Crown

By Mari Pothier | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Winning and losing are not the only things Head Coach Taylor Mott wants her volleyball team to focus on this season, but to have an overall great experience on and off the court.

After being chosen for the second year in a row as the preseason favorites in the Peach Belt Conference Coaches Poll, Mott is honored but knows there is a long season ahead.