By Emily Hoover | gargoyle@flagler.edu
“Slumdog Millionaire” doesn’t seem like a typical Best Picture winner on the surface. It follows a young, illiterate Indian “slumdog” who luckily wins the grand prize on the world-famous game show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire.” However, the movie is so much more than that. It is a violent, heartbreaking tragedy and a hopeful, captivating love story all at the same time.
By Taylor Toothman | ttoothman@flagler.edu
Imagine you are sitting in a window seat on a red-eye flight. As you coast toward the runway to take off, the blue lights of the lane markers come into view. They’re individual dots at first, but then as the plane picks up speed, the little lights blur into one waving, neon streak that acts as a buffer between you and the world that baffles that a 100-ton metal bird can defy gravity. The music you hear in the distance that gets louder and louder above the roar of the engine as you take off? That’s Bell X1.
By Clayton Coffman | cccoffman@flagler.edu
Photo courtesy Gregory Hotchkiss, Pittsburgh Athletic Department
PHOTO CAPTION: Pittsburgh forward DeJuan Blair (center) has averaged 16 points and 12 rebounds this season.
Do you see the days of March flying by? That can only mean one thing: the NCAA Tournament is approaching. The greatest post-season tournament ever created, and that includes the NFL Playoffs, is just days away from starting.
“It’s such a unique event in sports,” Orlando Sentinel writer Andrew Carter said. “You just don’t get that kind of excitement for any other sporting event. It’s great drama. People love drama.”
By Kenny Ray | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photo courtesy John Jordan
PHOTO CAPTION: The softball team has posted a 12-15 record this year.
With a lot of individual talent, Flagler’s softball team is looking to put it all together and turn around a season that has fallen short of their expectations.
“You can always work harder, you can never be satisfied, and there is always room for improvement,” head coach Kristen Overton said.
By Clayton Coffman | ccoffman@flagler.edu
Flagler volleyball player Justine Burkhardt has a ton of athletic ability. She’s one of the Saints’ best players; however, she doesn’t take any of the credit. “My faith in God has gotten me to be the person I am now,” she said.
“I can’t take any of the credit. It’s the people around me that makes me strive to be better,” Burkhardt said.
By Kathy Novak | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Coach Sherri Abbey-Nowatzki had some hard decisions to make this year. “There will be harder choices to face and more difficult decisions to make,” said the woman’s basketball coach after the team’s season had come to an end.
“But there’s light at the end of the tunnel – the future for this team is there. We have played to the level.”
With a final record of 5-24 after the toughest schedule in the history of women’s basketball at Flagler, the Saints certainly had their work out for them this year thanks to games against teams like Florida Tech and Jacksonville University.
By Kristina Haumschild | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Ben De la Cruz has said his final goodbyes to Flagler College basketball after a heart-breaking, over-time loss at Alabama Huntsville.
“I felt [the OT loss] was fitting. We had a heart-breaker of a season. The ball didn’t bounce our way in the last two minutes the way it did last year, but that’s part of the game,” De la Cruz said.
By Clayton Coffman | ccoffman@flagler.edu
Jerry Jones does have some brains after all. The locker room cancer that was Terrell Owens had to go. If Vito Corleone had been around, T.O. could have expected a visit from Luca Brasi to make him an offer he couldn’t refuse.
Over the last three years, Team Obliterator, as some have called him, continued to showcase his skills as the worst teammate in the history of sports. He was the leader of the Cowboys’ locker room and it ruined this team.
By Maria Scheufler | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photo by Mary Elizabeth Fair
PHOTO CAPTION: Bike racks stay packed throughout the day as more students ride their bikes to school, and the college begins to fine students for parking their bikes in unauthorized areas.
Flagler College administration is attempting to prevent bicycle blockades around campus.
Tickets and fines are now being instituted to bicycles parked in specific, restricted areas. Students are not permitted to chain their bicycles to trees, sign poles or any handicap ramps throughout the campus.
“The problem is that students who use wheelchairs cannot get into the class if a student carelessly throws their bike onto a ramp and locks it in place,” Director of Special Programs Deborah Kamm-Larew said. “They are prevented from accessing the classes they need, the library, their dorm rooms, etc.”
By Gian Louis Thompson | gthompson@flagler.edu
Photo courtesy Gary Corbitt
Gary Corbitt has led a long and illustrious career in the field of Communications. However, prior to his journey with communications, Corbitt was unsure of where his life would take him.
Corbitt called New York City his home for many of his early years. He lived in the Bronx as an only child. His mother worked as a nurse and his father, a physical therapist. During his high school years, Corbitt competed in track and field. Like many high school students, Corbitt knew not what he wanted to pursue for higher learning.