Stories

Women’s golf starts season

By Megan Kramer The Flagler women’s golf team opened their fall season Sept. 23-24 competing in the Lady Falcon Invitational in Ormond Beach, finishing 11th overall.


How much is that degree worth?

Graduates may feel a financial pinch without internships or experience

By Tom Iacuzio
Photo by Charlotte Cudd

For students focused solely on completing the required coursework for their degree, it might be a shock after graduation to find they’re making $10 an hour at Wal-Mart.

More and more, students are finding out that succeeding after college is not just about the piece of paper proving that you graduated. Recent studies are showing what might be more important are the experiences and opportunities available outside of the classroom.



CD Review: Lupe Fiasco

Hipity-hop and Don’t Stop: the Uprising of Lupe Fiasco

By Kristin Chambers

Fresh, new, and innovative, Lupe Fiasco is on his way to stardom. With the recent release of his first CD titled Food and Liquor, he has taken hip-hop to new places when the genre needed a serious vacation from old standards.


New vaccine prevents cancer-causing disease

By Julia Redemske If you have ever had sex, there’s a good chance that you belong to the majority of the United States population that have Human Papillomavirus. And you may not even know you have it.


Fall intramurals get underway

By Michael St. Germain This year’s intramurals have already kicked off to a great start. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings, co-ed softball is underway at the baseball fields on Riberia Street. Sand volleyball is Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at the sand court by the…


Student harassment raises security concerns

By Nicole Goyette

Flagler College security is looking into reports of a white male in his mid 20s driving a grey Buick around campus and making unwelcome advances toward female students.


Problem: How does a reporter cover himself?

By Glenn Judah

News becoming news. That just doesn’t make sense. Well, that’s what happened on Sept. 21.
That day professors, students and even a president would become figureheads for the different meanings of journalism. They would appear on the local television news to talk about censorship concerning an article in The Gargoyle, which caused the momentary disposal of its first issue this semester.



Respect where respect is due

Photo by Tom Spader
By Ryan Brower

PHOTO CAPTION: Just a little bit offshore. Winter in New Jersey.

Thirty degree water. Twenty-five degree air. Twenty mph offshore winds. Double overhead and tossing. Sounds perfect. Conditions like these are not out of the norm in a northeast winter. Winter up north is where a northeast surfer is tried and tested – great waves, freezing conditions, vacant lineups, and 6 mm of rubber from head to toe. But the winter is not the only time the north gets first-rate waves. Hurricanes provide their share as well. Fall is probably one of the best seasons on the east coast, and this fall has been no exception for the north. While a few hurricanes have passed the south by this fall, the north has benefited from this. In the past the northeast hasn’t always been among the top ranks in mainland U.S., but that is beginning to change.