By Devon Jeffreys Senior leadership is at the heart of a strong team. For many teams, it is their senior (or seniors) who lead them. For the Saints volleyball team this year, their lone senior was the one who set the table. The Saints graduate…
By Melissa Bear
The Flagler Saints men’s soccer team said goodbye to six seniors in the team’s season ending 3-1 loss at home against the University of North Florida on Nov. 4.
The Saints ended their season with a disappointing record of 9-10.
By Megan Kramer As a young Flagler College Tennis team prepares for its first NCAA season, Coach Walter Shinn thinks his team looks solid. “I have already seen a lot of improvement in the pre-season,” he said. This is a building year for a team…
By Andrea Huls
Kind. Loyal. Sincere. Unique. Passionate. Funny. A gentleman. This was Thomas Graber, a great guy, a true friend. Tears, but also laughter, filled the Flagler Room as his friends, professors and Flagler College remembered him on Oct. 8.
One by one, Graber’s friends walked up to the podium to share a fun experience or a memory that described who he really was.
Patrick Higgins, political science major, became friends with Graber in a research methods class a few semesters ago. According to Higgins, unlike most students on campus, Graber loved the dining hall food. Both had meal plans, and after class they would eat lunch together and have a good time.
By Bill Weedmark
After a three-year break, the Deftones are back. Saturday Night Wrist brings the band back to the sounds that made White Pony one of their best albums, while still feeling like a step forward rather than a cheap imitation of their older songs.
Unlike the self-titled Deftones, which was a much heavier, guitar-driven album, Saturday Night Wrist is a darker, more melancholy album that has an almost ethereal quality to it. The heavy guitar is still there, but it’s balanced with a more prominent bass and more sedate, melodic vocals.
Once Again By Lisa Dalrymple John Legend is certainly on his way to becoming a legend in the ever-evolving R&B genre — the key phrase being “on his way.” He uses a melting pot of classical, pop, and even disco sounds to create a well-rounded…
By Kim Hartman
College graduates moving back home after graduation — an escape from Alcatraz or return to Paradise? The once widely-considered symbol of failure has become increasingly more common among college students across the country.
By Megan Dassuncao
“Nude no more” is the motto for Threadless.com, and this inventive saying seems to be just like their T-shirts. Each shirt for sale has a strange picture or statement and is given a name that is printed where a tag would be on the back of the shirt. One of their most popular shirts, “The Communist Party,” has political figures such as Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin and Fidel Castro wearing party hats.
By Nicole Goyette
Flagler College provides all students taking six or more credits the option to buy two different health insurance plans: Plan I or Plan II, both from Bollinger Insurance Company. According to Christine Wages, assistant director of student accounts, advantages of these plans are, “it’s a low cost, low maintenance insurance plan.”
By Cari Holland
All passengers whose flights have just touched down at Jacksonville International Airport will take a walk through the terminal with their necks tilted back.
The sight that will keep their attention and their eyes close to the ceiling is a mural by Donald Martin, a Flagler College art professor of 25 years. Seven feet tall and 500 feet in length, it took two years to create. This massive painting beautifully depicts the history of northeast Florida and showcases our region’s ecological diversity.