Stories

New Leaf: Save a store while you shop

By Lauren Belcher | CBelcher@flagler.edu

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During the holidays, it’s no secret that people tend to spend more money.

Even us poor college kids find ourselves buying gifts for loved ones. This holiday, while you’re spending the money, think about where it’s going – or better, who it could be helping.


Students to plant vermicompost bin on-campus

By Caroline Young | cyoung1@flagler.edu
Photo by Matthew Boyle

PHOTO CAPTION: Students are working on a system that will turn waste from Bugg’s Bistro into a soil amendment.

Ideas and projects are sprouting up all over campus, with one common goal: make Flagler “greener.” Student Government Association recently approved four environmental science students’ final class project, which is a fully functioning on-campus vermicomposting system.




Wiley Hall repair schedule depends on ‘historic status’

By Matthew Boyle | mboyle@flagler.edu
Photo by Matthew Boyle

PHOTO CAPTION: A.D. Davis workers install temporary wooden beams in place of Wiley Hall’s damaged columns.

The costs and methods of repair for Wiley Hall’s damage depend on two things: whether the building is considered “historical” and whether the damage affected the building’s structure.


Student car accident damages Wiley Hall

By Matthew Boyle | mboyle@flagler.edu
Photo by Matthew Boyle

A female student drove her car through the columns in front of Wiley Hall this morning at about 9:15.

The Flagler College maintenance department will replace the destroyed columns with wooden beams until they can be repaired.


MOVIE REVIEW: 2012

By Lawrence Griffin | gargoyle@flagler.edu

2012 features huge explosions of the earth as it falls apart. Roland Emmerich has pretty much created the be-all-end-all disaster film. Anything else he does will just seem like a regression now, because the scope of this film is just too huge for it to be topped again.


VIDEO: Cops and firefighters face off for cause

By Caroline Young | cyoung1@flagler.edu
Photo courtesy Jennifer Wells
Video by Caroline Young and Michael Newberger
Music contributed by Waiting on Brian

PHOTO CAPTION: Ralph and Malik Hicks and Destiny Brooks stand with members of the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office.

Boys and Girls Club board member Allen Bohl is one the masterminds behind the first “Local Heroes Basketball Battle.”
Members of St. Johns County Fire Rescue and the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office went head to head on Nov. 14 in a basketball game at the Flagler Gymnasium to raise money for the Boys and Girls Club.


Saints continue Cinderella season

By Matthew Osterhouse | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photo by Mike Slade

PHOTO CAPTION: Flagler College’s Meg Weathersby blocks against Armstrong Atlantic’s Kathrin Standhardinger en route to the regional championship game. The Saints won the regional championship against Wingate and are headed to the national tournament.

The No. 2 Flagler College Saints won the Division II Southeast Regionals with a convincing 3-1 win over No. 1 Wingate University.