Enrollment at 1,586 Ragler As They Had in '95, Thinking the Beats B Y Kelly H I Ck S Number of Applicants Committing Imagine It
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BASKETBALL WINS • 9 PRESIDENT'S AND DEAN'S LIST • s I I BEST OF 1997 IN MUSIC • 7 NON-PROFIT U.S . Postage PAI D Permit No. 64 f St. Augustine, FL I Address Correction 't Request ed E Gargoyle web !;itc: www.oJdcity.com/gargoylc VOL. XXVI, NO. 8 SAI NT A U G U ST INE, FLORIDA - January 21, 1998 Enrollment at 1,586 Ragler as they had in '95, thinking the Beats b y kelly h i ck s number of applicants committing Imagine it. No lines to get into to early decision w ould be re Embry Groundhog Day the dining hall. No waiting to buy duced. Instead, the opposite hap- . Don't forget-Feb . 2 is books.And you literally know ev pened. "Knowing that, in '97 we Riddle Groundhog Day. If Punxsu ery one on campus. That's how it reduced our offers by 22 percent," tawney Phil, the official ground must have been in the fall of the Williar said, but the results were On Wednesday, Jan. 14, hog, sees his sp.adow, we w ill 1968-69 school year when enroll even more successfu l."So weover R agler beat rival Embry• Riddle 97-87. have six more weeks of winter. ment at Flagler College w as only enrolled the class," he.said. If he doesn't see his shadow, 177 full-time students. But now it's On top of that,Williar said, the At right, Eric Van Cott spring will soon be on its w ay. a lot different. early d·ecision application num makes a basket. Below, Punxsutawne y, Penn., is the According to the registrM, Dar bers also are increasing."From '96 Ragler fans cheer on their winning team. home of the nation's oldest w in White, enrollment for this se to '97 our early decision applica mester has reached 1,586 full-time tions increased about_40 percent, groundhog fe stival. A full report on the game students.Although this is up from and we're projecting they'll in can be found on page 9. Carnation Sales the 1,435 of the same time last crease another 40 percent this Circle K will be selling car year, it is slightly fewer than last year," he said. nations in the breezeway from semester's 1,614. ·"In each of the last two years;' 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. the week Since the school opened in Williar said, "we have vastly ex ofValentine's Day, Feb. 9 to 13. 1968, enrollment has' steadily in ceeded our new student enroll Purchasers will have two op creased desp ite the admission . ment goals, but this year, we are tions: They _can order the car office 's switch in 1996 to an early certain we will bring the class in nations at $1 each through decision plan. It requires appli within goal. Our target for the fall Thursday and their orders will cants who select 'Flagler as their is to have 425 new students," he be delivered to camp us mail first choice to agree that if ac said. boxes e arly Friday for Val cepted they will enroll. Director The long-term goal is to bring entine's Day. Or they can pur ofAdmiss ions Marc Williar said his enrollment back down to about :chase carnations on Friday for staff made the same number of 1,500."We'll be smaller next year, $1. 50 apiece and make the de offers in '96 under this new plan and even smaller the next,"he said. liveries themselves . Bob update: a fax Students rank parking and housing high. .~ "wants" He isn't back home yet, but A vision of how Flagler Col creditation occurs every 10 years. administrators used input from part of the equation. Bob The Big Woode·n Head, has lege might look a few years from The college is in the process of student surveys.Not surprisingly, There are not yet specific sent a fax. It asked "Wood you now is c oming to "life" on the compiling an extensive Self-Study housing and parking ranked high plans on what student housing, marry me?" of his intended, the drawing board of architect Chris Report in preparation for SACS' on the list of student wants. parking and food service facilities other big w ood~n head Hean. Tidwell. Most of those happy with campus visit in March. Proctor has asked Tidwell to would look like, or w here they The problem remains, however, the current face and feel of the "Section 6.4 .4. of the SACS cri plan for · campus housing for at would be. One possible solution that after Bob went awol from college should be pleased with teria says the institution must least 70 percent of the total en is a multi-use student center that his job as door guard at Panama what he's sketching, which will in maintain a current written physi rollment, or about 1,000. Cur might offer an infirmary, food Hatties to sow his last wild oats clude additional student housing cal campus facilities plan that pro-· rently, Flagler has residence rooms court, parking, m ail room, offices before marriage, Hean also dis and parking. vides for orderly development of for just und~r 700 students.That for student government, and areas appeared. Her note said she was Tidwell works for the architec the institution and relates it to meant, this yeai the college was for student activities, sai~ Proctor looking for Bob. S_ince then, tural planning firm of Nix, Mann, other institutional planning ef able to house Jess than 50 percent and Dean of Student .. Services Hean has been seen once: on a Perkins & Will, which has been forts ," Russom said. "That means if of enrolled students. Daniel Stewart, who is research boat fishing,locally. Despite this, -hired by the college to devise a we're going to grow, the facilities Proctor also asked that park ing student centers on other cam Panama Hatties continues with long-term campus plan. are going to do what? Parking is ing and food service for 1,0Q0 be puses. preparations for the Feb. 13 A long-range view of what the going to do what? That's the fo wedding. · college will need as far as renova cus of the thing." tions and new facilities is nothing The starting point is determin Work for foreign service new. What is new, according to ing what size the college will be. James Walsh, a minister coun ments included tours at the U. S. Ken Russom, director of business The answer, according to college selor in the U.S. Foreign Service, Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya; and services and campus planner, is a President William Proctor,~ 1,500 will be at Flagler College on Mon serving as director of the U.S. Dis• detailed document with maps. undergraduate students or about day, Jan. 26, to discuss the career patchAgency in San Francisco. He The campus plan is part of the 100 fewer than are currently en opportunities within the U.S. For has also served as a commerciai documentation required to com rolled. eign Service. attache at the U.S. Embassy in ply with the reaffirmation of ac I;Iaving determined that, the Walsh is a graduate of the Uni Mexico City. creditation by the Commission on planner looks first at whether the versity of Scranton and secured a While speaking at Flagler, Colleges of the Southern Associa college has sufficient academic master's degree· in public admin Walsh plans to explain the career tion of Colleges and Schools, or . space to handle the intended en istration from the Maxwell School options of a diplomat and the SACS as it is more commonly re rollment, then at other needs. at Syracuse University. · ferred to.The reaffirmation of ac- In directing the camp us plan, His foreign servi<:_e assign- see FOREIGN, page 4 2 Gargoyle EDITORIAL January21, 1998 EDITO PINION ( At the laundromat Forrest Guml)s can teach us all a lesson We figur.ed he was another one of t,he Another 45 minutes or so later, we Key West- it didn't matter how far he had b y s,amantha ·stncl:ai r .drunk bum s in towri who just happened · 1heard our own Forrest Gump's benevolent to travel or what hardships he ~d to face We d idn' t b e to get a hold of $10 to do his laundry. We v.oice .s:aying good-bye to us. He had he was going to get there. We all n eed that lieve 'him at .first.A started !I"Cferring to him as Forrest Gump. strapped on a back pack- not the Jansen kind of commitment in our.lives. We need man, while :asking About h.alf an hour later, he asked for you w ear around Flagler- a huge hiking to face challenges and conquer them, not me to exchan:ge his $5 in quarters.We :asked him where he was · backpack- complete with a sleeping bag. run in fear of them. $ lO with :a roll of heading. "Key West," he said, "to visit fam- At that moment we thought maybe he That man, whether he was our Forrest quarters , to ld us :ily." wasn'tdrunk.He -ce~y didn'tsmelllike Gump or just .a bum, should be an inspira that lie had 'hiked Behinrl the counter -we exchanged it. Maybe he was an actual real-life Forrest tion to us all. from W:ashin:gt,on looks.