Stories

Many students choose high tech gadgets over necessity items

Illustration by Dan McDonald

By Summer Bozeman

Do you have an iPod? A camera phone? A flatscreen TV? If you do, then you’re probably in the majority of Flagler students. But what did you sacrifice to buy them?

According to the National Retail Federation, college students spent $7.5 billion on electronics and computer equipment in 2004, separate from the $2.1 billion they spent on school supplies. The only thing the survey found students spent more on was textbooks — with $8.8 billion — and the numbers have only risen in the following years. The problem is that many students will spend their “bread money” on luxury items, forcing themselves to subsist on Spaghetti-Ohs and Cup ‘O Noodles.

Theatre Arts Department to stage musical version of children’s fairy tale

By Ericka McThenia

Children’s Theatre, an elective class offered within the theatre department, is working on giving an old classic a new twist.

By Carmen Richter

In 2003, Dr. Todd Lidh was organizing a summer abroad in London for a group of his literature students. As part of the trip, he wanted to show them the theaters that Shakespeare would have been involved with.

A local, 1970s-inspired R&B band strays from the mainstream sound

By Kristen Shea

Silver Lake Drive is a street in Palatka where four guys got together and started jamming, and eventually named their band after the starting point of their careers.

By Christina Magnusson

When Flagler College students are too ashamed to buy another tabloid to get the latest celebrity scandals, all they have to do is tune in to Nikki Leonardo’s Weekly Wrap-up on WFCF 88.5 FM.