Stories

Sea level rise endangers cultural resources

By Ariel Thomas| gargoyle@flagler.edu Climate change threatens the Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine and other national landmarks along the coast, but it’s not just seaside treasures that are at risk, experts say. “I’m really concerned that there’s been so much attention to coastal parks –…


When rural Ireland became trendy

By Sarah Glynn | gargoyle@flagler.edu While most people I knew were partying on a beach for Spring Break, I found myself in a small house in the Irish countryside, a two hour drive from the nearest big city of Galway in Conamara. Nineteen classmates and…


Muslim club fights intolerance

By Brianna Kurzynowski| gargoyle@flagler.edu Not everyone was happy when students at Flagler College decided to start a club aimed at educating people about Islam. Organizers had announced their plans on Yik Yak, a social media platform. The announcement came not long after the Nov. 13…


From euphoria to panic to post-graduation blues

By Nikki Ross | gargoyle@flagler.edu Five days a week Eric Rojas goes to work, turns on the lights and sits behind a counter and sells fandom merchandise to tourists. He’s glad he has a job at Fantasyland so he can pay the bills, but this…



At the end of Peninsula Avenue

By Deanna Silvey | gargoyle@flagler.edu It was such a great sacrifice, because the ocean was his love. In October of 2005 my father retired from the United States Coast Guard. He said goodbye to 24 years of his life and to his position as Senior…



Development director helps bring homeless Home Again

By Katie Garwood | gargoyle@flagler.edu Kassy Guy-Johanessen stood in a Daytona Beach Barnes and Noble three years ago when a well-dressed woman, toting a Vera Bradley bag, approached her. “Ms. Kassy, Ms. Kassy,” the woman called. At first, Guy-Johanessen didn’t recognize the woman who called…


Skin Deep: Homeopathic remedies for acne

By Dulce Ros | gargoyle@flagler.edu Before I came to college, I thought I was prepared for anything to come my way. Among my arsenal of agendas, laundry kits and zipblock bags, I brought mutiple bottles of the ProActive system. I had been using it regularly throughout high…


Saving animals from euthanasia

By Julie Householder | gargoyle@flagler.edu Lying on her bed, Mocha anticipates the next visitor to pass her large cage. With excited eyes full of hope, she jumps up, wildly thrashing her tail side to side as a volunteer opens her cage. Every year approximately 7.6…