By Jaycob Ammerman | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Growing up in Sweden, Elin Karlsson lived right next to a beautiful golf course.
“My dad used to bring me to that great golf course, and that is where I found out that I really enjoyed playing the game,” Karlsson said.
By Caroline Young | cyoung1@flagler.edu
St. Augustine Chik-fil-A manager Janette Manning has no idea about last week’s controversy when a gay rights group lashed out about the fast-food chain’s support of an anti-homosexual organization in Pennsylvania.
“I haven’t heard anything about it,” Manning said. “No guests or anybody have said anything about that.”
But Flagler College junior Adam Krell is aware of the controversy. Krell, who is gay, will not be changing his tri-weekly trips to the St. Augustine Chik-Fil-A.
By Lindy Almony | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Planned Parenthood may soon be denied all government funding and Staci Fox, the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of North Florida, is distraught about the possibility. “At a time when more and more women and families are facing difficulties in accessing health care due to increasing costs and a struggling economy, it is disappointing that one of the first bills introduced in Congress would undermine women’s access to health care,” Fox said.
By Michael Potkay | gargoyle@flagler.edu
As a junior, Gino Ramirez of the men’s tennis team, feels at the top of his game
Born in Bogotá, Columbia, he began playing tennis at age 6. At the time, Ramirez was simply a recreational tennis player, as soccer was his bigger passion.
By Alex Carlo | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photo by Alex Carlo
Steve Palazzo, a Flagler College alumnus and local disc jockey, joined forces with his “Common Enimies” at Two Hundred Lounge on Thursday, Feb. 17.
Two DJs, four turntables and 12,000 watts of sound pumped through the crowd as the neon lights scanned the dance floor. Along with Palazzo, the event also featured DeeJay Natural and DJ HU of Classic Blends, a local production company.
By Phillip C. Sunkel IV | gargoyle@flagler.edu
With Iron & Wines latest album, Sam Beam delivers folk packed with electronic feeling.
By Lauren Belcher | cbelcher@flagler.edu
A proposed house bill that is meant to clear up language may indirectly affect tobacco smokers in Florida.
Walking down St. George Street you will see a sign that says it all: tobacco, cigars and cigarettes. One right turn, a walk down the hall and another left and you’ve arrived at the St. Augustine Tobacco Company. Inside, you’ll see another sign. This one is a flashing neon sign that reads: “Sign the petition to defeat new HB 211.”
By Gena Anderson | ganderson@flagler.edu
We both saw it at the same time. In that moment we froze trying to process this assault to our eyes.
The boy behind the counter looked unmistakably familiar.
By Emily Hoover
My roommate told me that he had friends over while I was gone. This much, I expected. I didn’t expect him to sweep or do dishes, which he didn’t. When I came back to Lincolnville, my world looked the same—swampy. My house looked the same—train wreck. I called my boyfriend to vent about my roommate’s lack of chivalry and hopped onto my bed. I felt tranquil for a moment, until I noticed a piece of chewing gum on my headboard. Shrieking, I rose, movements unearthing an open condom wrapper from unmade sheets. He would do those dishes, damn it!
By Emily Hoover
After ten years in the Navy, complete with ten hour days and even longer nights, Rob simply cannot wake up these days—he is a rock, dead and still. He slams his hands on the snooze alarm multiple times in one hour, grunts when he picks himself out of bed to urinate, lies down in the shower, and falls asleep again. Fifteen minutes before class, he checks his Facebook page and lights a cigarette, stinging my nostrils with an ashy wake-up call. We kiss, exchanging saliva and morning breath before he departs, leaving me to my dreams.