By Samantha Price | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photo Illustrations by Samantha Price
Longtime professor of Journalism, Rob Armstrong, will be stepping down from his position at Flagler College at the end of this semester.
Though Armstrong claims you don’t learn life lessons necessarily from journalism, it’s obvious that his students have a different opinion.
By Samantha Price | gargoyle@flagler.edu
“One of the most devastating natural disasters in history is to blame for what’s going on in Fukushima, not the only plausible generator of electricity that’s available,” said Flagler College Junior Kathleen Fitzpatrick.
The USA Today gallop poll, released a few weeks ago, said Americans’ support in building new nuclear power plants has dropped significantly. A CBS news poll released in July 2008 showed more than half of U.S. citizens supported them.
By Tiffanie Reynolds gargoyle@flagler.edu
Working 40 hours a week with no pay, John Hurt still says the teaching experience is worth it.
The senior education major is an associate fourth grade teacher at Ketterlinus Elementary. The internship, provided by the education department, is part of the senior seminar class and a requirement for his major.
By Caroline Young gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photographs by Phillip C. Sunkel IV
Hot pink leopard curtains hang in one window and bohemian green fixtures dress the other. Bright paintings filled with vibrant color, flowers, human faces, snakes, skulls and female genitalia surround the perimeter of the room. One after the other, each is completely unique from its neighbor. They all have a story, a meaning. And each painting is determined to evoke some kind of emotion hidden beneath human layers.
By Cal Colgan | jcolgan@flagler.edu
The eggheads are at it again.
The New York Times recently review a book published by two professors called, “Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses.” In it, the authors found 45 percent of current college students show no gains in critical thinking during their first two years at college. According to the Times article, the study also found that 32 percent of students surveyed did not take any courses with a significant amount of reading per week, and half of them did not take any courses with more than 20 pages of writing per semester.
In other words, the students want a degree, not an education.
By Anthony Norwood | gargoyle@flagler.edu
In the recent Student Government Association election, the political guild at Flagler did entrance and exit polls as part of a project to watch the voting process as it was going on.
In their entrance polls, students were asked questions like “Who is the current SGA president?” and “Who will you be voting for?”
By Nora Breedlove | gargoyle@flagler.edu
The Flagler College surf team competed in the National Scholastic Surf Association East Coast Championships this past weekend.
The team placed in third place and is not advancing to the rounds in California.
By Kelly Gibbs gargoyle@flagler.edu
Jeff Morrell of Fort Collins, CO had exciting news to share with the St. Augustine City Commission on Monday, March 14.
The idea: a bike library where people can check out bikes free of charge and return them within the week.
Morrell started a bike library in Fort Collins recently and has had huge success. “We opened the library with 25 bikes and they were gone within five minutes,” Morrell said at the bi-weekly meeting, “So now we’ve upgraded to 200.”
By Mari Pothier | gargoyle@flagler.edu
The Lionheart Relay not only raised money for charities but helped the men’s and women’s cross country teams bond together as one.
Alex Bonus, a junior on the men’s cross country team, said at the beginning of the semester head coach Dave Williams of the men’s cross country team, took over both the men’s and women’s teams.
By Victoria Hardina | gargoyle@flagler.edu
In one week I will be a senior at Flagler College. To be specific, I will be 18 and a senior at Flagler College. Usually I get mixed reactions when I tell people this. Most are surprised, many are in awe, but lately the response I get the most is ‘you are crazy!’
I’m starting to think they’re right.