Stories

Dealing with anxiety while at college

By Michaela Parks | gargoyle@flagler.edu Colleges tend to advertise their campuses as places filled with smiling students with coffee in one hand and textbooks in the other. But what the glossy brochures don’t show are what many college students are feeling on the inside–anxiety. As…


Flagler prepares for inauguration of fourth president

By Emma Anderson| gargoyle@flagler.edu Flagler College is making history as officials prepare to inaugurate the fourth president of the college. Dr. Joseph Joyner officially took office as president of Flagler College in July after former President Dr. William Abare retired with 45 years under his…



St. Augustine says ARGH to pirate role play

By Katherine Hamilton | gargoyle@flagler.edu A 40-foot pirate ship set sail through the cobblestone streets of St. Augustine, headed by no other than a man who goes by Captain Tiny. Adrian St. Cyr, or “Captain Tiny,” moved all around the state of Florida before landing…


Immigrating north: Sonia Leones’ story

By Adriana Cabezas | gargoyle@flagler.edu Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel drove Flagler College’s custodial worker, Sonia Leones, 66, out of Colombia and into the United States. Like many other Colombians, fleeing was the only way to escape the danger of the narcotraffic mafia taking over the…




SGA pushes for change to interhall rules

By Katie Garwood | gargoyle@flagler.edu For the past several years, there’s one issue the Student Government Association has heard more from students about than any other on campus. And last week, SGA unveiled their plans to address that issue–interhall visitation. More than 100 students came…


Hot and cold: Trying to talk climate change

By Mallory Hopkins | gargoyle@flagler.edu I like to separate climate change stances into three categories: ‘Believers’ (which is ironic to refer to someone who acknowledges scientific fact, as a believer), ‘Skeptics’ and ‘Deniers.’ The other day at work I asked a few of my co-workers what…