Stories

PROFILE: Comm. Week Guest Gary Corbitt

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.


SLIDESHOW: Diversity week and ‘Up With People’


By Andrew Sherwood | gargoyle@flagler.edu

Photos by Andrew Sherwood

Bonjour, hallo, ciao, konnichiwa, hola! Diversity week on campus brought in the international and domestic students together at Flagler College.

Flagler College diversity week program was designed to create international awareness ranging from community outreach program to film screening at Gamache-Koger theatre.


CD Review: The Decemberists

By Holly Elliott | gargoyle@flagler.edu

The Decemberists’ fifth full-length album, The Hazards of Love, is scheduled to hit the shelves March 24. The album features a new musical sound, with the band experimenting with a more folk-inspired approach. The instruments are more sparse, which may benefit this album because it allows listener to absorb the underlying narrative more easily.


Professor profile: Dr. Arthur Vanden Houten

By Sarah Vaccaro | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Photo by Brenna Antram

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

-Aristotle

Aristotle’s words represent the level of excellence Dr. Arthur Vanden Houten aims for.


‘Thanks, that was fun’

So I’m a little late in blogging about this, but you’ll have to forgive me. I’m in mourning. But now that I’m out of my state of shocked denial and have moved on to a slight melancholy, I am finally able to talk about it….



Water Street to hold multiple garage sales


By Emily Hoover | gargoyle@flagler.edu

For college students in a struggling economy, it is important to find what is needed for cheap. Who has the money to go to the Avenues Mall in Jacksonville every weekend, anyway?

On Saturday, Feb. 28, to combat monetary ills, the community of Water Street, in downtown St. Augustine, will come together to hold multiple garage sales from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.


Flagler mourns loss of Theatre Arts instructor


By Eli Nuzzi | gargoyle@flagler.edu

As the grand nephew of the famous playwright Sean O’Casey (of Dublin, Ireland), Sean Patrick O’Casey (born Dec. 14, 1944 and died Feb. 11, 2009) made a name for himself within the St. Augustine community and especially at Flagler College. As part of the Theatre Arts Department for the past 10 years, O’Casey was a teacher, costumer and a dear friend to all.



Black athletes appreciate historic background


By Clayton Coffman | ccoffman@flagler.edu

Brandon Johnson and Chanti Beckett are just two of the African-American athletes that participate in Flagler athletics. They have both had the amazing opportunity to play collegiate sports. But it didn’t come with hard work just on the court.

“I realized how important school and character were going to be. It was more than being good [on the court] and a hard worker. They want to know what kind of person you are,” Johnson said.