Stories

Students worry about future finances as loans become harder to find

By Erica Eding | eeding@flagler.edu

Photo Illustration by
Hahau Yisraeli

The economic stimulus bill contains about $15 billion in aid for college students.

This comes at a time when more Flagler students are seeking loans than ever before.

“We’ve had a boom here because of the economy,” said Christopher Haffner, director of Financial Aid at Flagler College.

By Maria Scheufler | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Photo by Mary Elizabeth Fair

Traffic fines have increased in the state of Florida due to concerns about the state’s budget.

According to the St. Petersburg Times, Florida legislators don’t want to force more taxes on the working people, so their attention is on traffic fines, as well as taxes on cigarettes and education.

By Gargoyle Staff | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Motivational speaker Chuck Tompkins will present a speech based on his book, “Whale Done! The Power of Positive Relationships.” The event will be held Thursday, Feb. 19, in the Flagler Auditorium at 6 p.m.
Tompkins will speak about how his 25 years of experience training Orca whales relates to techniques used to help motivate people. Specifically, he will discuss elements such as “how to build trust” and “how to build positive relationships at home and in the workplace.” Tompkins is currently Vice President of animal training at SeaWorld in Orlando.

By Haley M. Walker | hwalker@flagler.edu

Every week, Melissa Kafel pushes a wheelbarrow through the Flagler College campus.

In the rain, Kafel can be found wearing the hood of her windbreaker, rolling the unwieldy cart full of scraps of cardboard boxes and paper down the sidewalks, stopping at each building.

Kafel is the president and founder of the Flagler Outdoors Club, an organization that seeks to bring environmental awareness and outdoor activities to the student body. One of its largest and most recent projects is a campus wide recycling program.

Initiative seeks to provide affordable cab transportation for Flagler community

By Lauren Belcher | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Sophomore accounting major, Emma Loss said if she were ever in an unsafe situation or environment, she hopes she could call someone to get her out of it.

Loss explained that she, like most students, does not carry enough money to pay the fare for a taxicab if the situation presented itself.

By Rachel Kuhl| gargoyle@flagler.edu

On Jan. 18, Anne Shreve, Ph.D., former chair of the Education Department, died at the age of 81 in her home on St. Augustine Beach.

Shreve was the mother of three boys, a grandmother of two girls and a great-grandmother of three boys. She had recently turned 81 in December and had spent many years working for the college. She was head of Flagler’s education department for 18 years and stepped down from the position in 1993. She later retired in 1996.