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SUPER SOAP WEEKEND • 11 FOOD, THE GOOD AND BAD • 8 cRoss couN ~v > 14 11 I I NON-PROFIT U.S. Post age PA ID Permit No. 64 St. Augustine. FL Address Correction Requested ER LLEGE Ga:rgoyle web site: www.oJddty.com/ga:r,goyk VOL. XXVI, NO. 5 SAINT AUGUST I N E, F LOR I D A November 19, 1997 , A~~~ ., S, , . • ,.,, Graduating? . - Tasks candidates must Geyer speaks ave a happy complete before walking get them from academic affairs be at Forum tonight hanksgiving! by ke ll y hicks The college will observe the tween Dec. 1 and Dec. 5. by samantha sinclair hanksgivi-ng holiday Thursday Twice a year something amaz • Although the Application for nd Friday, Nov. 27 and 28. All ing happens at Flagler College. Graduation form has been discon Georgie Anne Geyer will lasses and activities are sus Those who participate are either tinued, seniors must make sure speak about her book,A m(4ricans ended, and all offices except totally surprised it has actually they have paid all their fees and No More: The Death of Citizen ecurity are closed on these happened to them, or they are fines in th~ business office. ship, at the Forum,8 p.m. tonight days. Molly's will close at 2 p .m. relieved that the day has finally •Commencement rehearsal is in the auditorium. ednesday, Nov. 26, and will" re arrived. Friday, Dec. 12. Seniors need to be "Our educated young people pen Monday morning. The li- On Saturday, Dec. 13, ap at the auditorium by 4 p .m. to par are the ones who are going to rary will close at 5 p .m. proximately 100 seniors· ticipate in this have to decide what kinct' of coun ednesday and will reopen are schednled to walk mandatory try they want and what is the ith regular hours on Saturday. across the stage and event. message_of this country;' Geyer receive their di • Finally, all said in a telephone interview Baby Pictures plomas. Be graduates are to be with the Gargoyle. Georgie Anne Geyer SGA is collecting baby pic fore Dec~ 13, dressed and ready to "We've . become a country tures of seniors for a "Congratu- these 100 candi go by 8: 15 a.m. Saturday, with le-ss confidence in ourselves immigration problems. Because 1a tio ns Graduates!!" vitleo. dates must com Dec. 13, in the rotunda. and less faith in our original prin of the lack of education provided Debbie Barra ( Box 86) and Mary plete ·some very impor Besides the cap and gown, ciples. The concept says America to immigrants, she said, we as a Catuogno (Box 252) will need tant tasks. Here they men are to wear a white dress is great becauseA.merica is good. country are suffering in the qual all baby pictures by the semes are: shirt, tie, dark slacks ·and d_ark dress If America is not good, it will not ity of our citizenship. · ter break. The video will be •By Nov. _21, seniors need to shoes. Women are to wear a dress, be great. I believe that is our mes "We thought that citizenship shown at the Spring Reception. confirn:i with the registrar that or skirt a·nd blouse, and dress sage to th.e world. It is the mes was an old fogey concept, that it they actually will be graduating, shoes. sage of modernism , the message was something that we·just took ake care of mail and pick up their graduation tick All honor graduates must also of secularism and the message_of for granted, like your families, Mailroom supervisor Terry ets from Linda Boutin in the of wear an honor stole. Honor gradu equality-of liberty but also re your mother and your father.And ennett asks all students not to fice of academic affairs. Seniors ates will be named Friday, Dec. 12, sponsibility.And if this is our mes we think things are the same,and orget their mail, during school wanting extra tickets should see and honor stoles will be distrib sage to the modern wor;ld, then then we look unde r the surface r over the holidays. Bout.in in ·academic affairs be uted by Boutin at the rehearsal. we're not tel)ing it anymore." and we find it is not the same at Those who want to receive tween Nov. 24 and Dec. 12. On graduation day, the audito- Geyer first came up with the mail over the semester break, are • Any senior who does not al . idea for her book from America's see GEYER, page 4 raduating, or are leaving the ready have a cap and gown can see GRADUATING, page 4 chool permane ntly, need to fill ut a fo rwarding form in the 1ailroom. Those not returning Coca-Cola president to open visitor -program need to notify their correspon pany since 1974, serving in such tee,A.merican Red Cross; and the special to the Gargoyle lents. T he college fo rwards stu capacities as associate director of Society of International Business ents' mail for one year, then Donald R. Greene,president of corporate affairs, executive assis Fellows. Additionally,he serves on returns undeliverable mail to The Coca-Cola Foundation, will tant to the chairman of the board, the Contributions Council, The ender. present the inaugural address of and corporate secretary. As presi Conference Board; and the Inter Off-campus students are re the Flagler Distinguished Visitor dent ofThe Coca-Cola Foundation, national Committee, Council on inded to check their campus Program on Wednesday, Dec. 3, at he oversees tbe Atlanta-based Foundations. Past affiliations in mailboxes at least twice weekly. Flagler College. company's giving program, w ith clude Emory University (board of he mailroom has a list of mail- The college has established assets of $19 million, and the visitors), Mercer University (board this program with the intent of company's education initiative to of trustees) , the President's Advi bringing to the campus and the donate $100 million in the 1990s sory Commission on Ed ucational First Coast community the fore to further educational efforts at all Excellence for Hispanic Ameri- _ most leaders from major corpo levels. cans, and the United Negro Col rations and organizations through Greene serves on the boards lege Fund (advisory board). out the United States. In addition of directors of Americans for the "The Distinguished Visitor Pro to hearing his formal address at Donald R. Greene Arts (Washington, D.C.) and the gram will e nrich o ur academic 11 a.m. in the Flagler Room of National Foundation for Advance curriculum while providing a ser Ponce Hall, students and faculty of the twice-a-yearVisitor Program ment in the Arts. He is a member vice _to the First Coast area. We will have the opportunity to in is entitled "Business and Educa of the Georgia Partnership for are fortunate in having an execu teract with Greene in the class tion:The Emerging Partnership,"a Excellence in Education; Interna tive of Mr. Greene's status inaugu room and in smaller sessions subject on which he is uniquely tional Education Advisory Coun rate the program," said Flagler throughout the day. qualified to speak. Greene has cil, Georgia Department of Educa College president,William L. Proc Greene's address for the first been with The Coca-Cola Com- tion; Corporate Advisory Commit- tor, Ph.D. 2 Gargoyle EDITORIAL November 19, 1997 EDITORIAL PINION Hate brings out the envy in all of us we hate? by sa m ant11a si n c l a i r fo r them, they don't have to worry about <who, in a w ay, originated the idea fo r the I thought about the people I hate- work and they can afford things I can only class> are kinda right.We do envy some of I hate people who always get A's even· dream of having. I guess that means I envy those people we hate, even if that envy isn't By h is n o rma l w hen they don't study. They sicke~1 me. them, too. realized until much later down the road. teachin g proce First of all , how is that humanly possible? Finally, I hate people w ho think I have We need to evaluate our hates and find dures of projecting <see my editorial from last issue> Second, if easy.Nothing has been served to me even out if they are really necessary.Are our hates his voice,crouching w hy can't I do that? I would love to get al l on a bronze platter. I've had to work very simply acts of envy or actual hate? on the floor,p ound A's without having to work hard. It would hard to get w here I am today. I've been We all need to talk to the people we ing his fist on a table sure make my life much ·easier, especially working all my life to get th.is job as an edi hate and settle our differences. They are and using the door around mid-term and finals times. So, in tor and to be respected as a w riter. It's hard after all , people, not objects. If you hate as as a teaching aide, other words, I guess I envy smart people. for me to find another job because of my paragtJs, the re's no way you can talk to the Dr. Andrew Dillion I hate people who are annoying- you time commitments to the Gargoyle and the green spear and settle your differences.