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I ~ i • NON PROFIT RATE U.S. Postage PAID St. Augustine, FL F L A· G L E R COLLEGE Permit No. 64 Address Correction Requested Gargoy le web site: www.oldcity.com/ gargoyle VOL. XXVI, NO. 9 S A I N T A U G U_S T I N E , F L O R I D A March s, 1997 Mid-terms ready to become a thing of the past • Senioritis affficts e 2 • Fire alarm letter :,i099 3 faculty meeting. Of those who responded, parents, but due to the dozens of surveys • Yellow lines mystify JS on by laura neal 26 percent voted to eliminate mid-term needed for the reaccreditation process, page4 Through the halls of Flagler, voices are grades altogether, and the largest percent, Abare said, "we're surveyed out." • Studerib speak on P.!199 5 61 percent, were in favor of the registrar Still, professors (and students) can • laurie Rice chet!rs cjri, page 7 crying out, "Down with mid-terms!" Surpris­ • Who's Who series allitinues ingly, the cries are not coming from Johnny­ and/ or the faculty members notifying stu­ dream about a mid-term-free world. And onpogeS student who fears for his Visa privileges if dents of any grades below a C, according to Abare is in full support of that magical place. • Gallery is "Peored• CHI page Mom finds out he is failing Intro to Golf. Abare. However, it is unlikely the change will He said mid-term girades are not really serv­ 9 • Offspring and live page Instead, it is the faculty who has become dis­ take effect until the fall of 1998.. · ing a purpose. "I doubt the accuracy of most 10 enchanted-with the process of compiling Flagler is in the process of seeking reac­ mid-term grades," he said. By the time grades • Boskelboll ends on A~ 13 mid-term grades every semester. creditation from The Commission on Col­ are averaged, turned in, entered into the • BoseboD & golf ,esu ts on leges of the Southern Association of Colleges registrar's computer, printed and distributed page 14 According to William T. Abare, execu­ 1( •·Rain drowns tenois om page tive vice-president and dean of academic af­ and Schools (SACS) . Before eliminating to students and parents, most students' 15 fairs, only 7 percent of faculty voted in favor mid-terms, he said the administration would grades have changed. • Jason & the dance om on of keeping the mid-term dragon at the last like to get input from the students and the see MIDTERMS, page 3 page 16 Miscellany -Prank web J OBINFO: Aeroteck will conduct an info, session for prospective job applicants M~ 17, site closed 6 to 7 p.m., followed by interview March 18 on campus. Contact Helen :Amato, by barrett smith Career Planning, for sign-up. Ajob fair will be held Marclit 20 and Students checking their Flagler e-mail 21 from noon to 5 p.m. at the Holi~ Feb. 13 were greeted by a message from the Ion Sunspree, Daytona Beach, or stu­ Hate Flagler Society dents looking for jobs and inte,rnsbips "Hello Flagler Students, Faculty and with Fortune 500 companies. SeOilors will Administration, If you have not already done have on-the-spot interviews, anil all at­ so, please check out the Hate Flagler Soci­ tendees will get their resumes ntered ety Web Site at the following address: http:/ into a database. More inform: tion is / www.geocities.com / CollegePark/ Quad/ available from Scott Grove at (2!03) 234- 5297/." 7819. That same day, Geocities, an internet company providing free internet home­ RIVEIJ. CLEAN-UP: pages, removed the page from their server. Dr. Peter Lardner is signing up vol­ The existence of the page came to the unteers for a Flagler College 1team to attention of Deborah Squires, director of help at the St. Johns River Ceit:bration public information, when a student came to on ·s aturday, March 22, from 8 a.m. to Dean of Students Daniel Stewart, concerned Your chocolate or your life. noon. The project involved sE1oreline about the content of the Hate Flagler Soci­ ety web page. Stewart referred the student Philip Emeott as Captain Bluntschli threatens Raina ijennifer Thompson) in a scene from clean-up; but those who have ~,oats or Arms and the Man. Never fear! He uses only chocolate bullets. Balmir weather, the opening to Squires, who investigated the page. canoes can help with water clean-up. night of George Bernard Shaw's popular comedy on the Flagler ge, and Pili Pili on the Lardner bas a list of what to brhm, what "I don't think it was a malicious page. It west lawn were just a few of the choices for students and gradua for Luau and Alumni to weear and what will be provided. w.as a fairly good example of sophomoric Weekend. See page- 7 for more pictures, and page 9 for a brief c mentary on the play, humor," Squires said. "That sort of humor, which runs March 6-8 at 8 p.m. and March 9 at 2 p.m. SCHOLARSHIPS: however, is often misunderstood, and offen­ Memorial Scholarship applications sive to many." are available in the academic affairs of­ College President William Proctor did Skate facility sought by local assc>ciation fice, Ponce Hall, for rising juniors and consider the content potentially harmful, as At a town meeting Tuesday, Feb the seniors who meet the criteria stated in did several other members of the college by laura meaney 4, community, including the student who first local chapter of the YMCA offered a portion · the college catalog. These are ilie Bruce Petitions circulating in St. Augustine are reported the page. of their faciliry to se1rve as a designated skate Appel, Rodney Bell, Jonathan Heath, attempting to resolve the skateboarding and "I think it's rather sad that we have stu­ facility. But St. Augustine High School Dorothy Konrad, Sophie S. I.avail, Henry rollerblading restrictions. The two activities dents enrolled who would deliberately at­ teacher, John Blackford, recommends a F. Uoyd, Samue!M. Proctor, Hui~ Shaw have been considered law-breaking locally tempt to damage their institution," Proctor more central location. "The YMCA is a good and Evelyne R. Waterhouse M!~morial since 1964. However, the St. Augustine High Scholarships. Deadline is Marcli1 14. said. "It would be far better for them to have start, but the kids need a facility that is ac­ the character to withdraw and enroll in an School Board Riders Association has suggested a solution: it has petitioned the city to orga­ cessible and not expensive or exclusive," The Educational Communiications institution that they can enthusiastically sup­ Blackford said. "A downtown location would port." nize a publicly-funded skate facility. · Scholarship Foundation is Q~feritag be good because iit is the prime meeting While not upset about the content of the Penalties for skating on public property $100.0 scholarships. Deadline to uest range from $5 to $15. According to Joe place for young people." page, Squires was bothered by the title of the applications is April 11 from P. O. Box City officials have agreed to look into the page and an unauthorized link to the page Brown of the St. Augustine Police Depart­ 5012, Lake Forest, IL 60045, oi; ,email at ment, the city ordinance exists due to "im­ situation further, an.d more meetings will be schoTm<iJecilf.ann. see WEB SITE, page 3 peding the flow of trafficin town." scheduled to resolve the issue. E -c_l itt')R id l Qpinjt,)11 Senioritis wreaks ,havoc throughout by shane runyon closer . Other changes one notices it means six hours in front of a computer laying out the 6'1agoy1e With iess than two include not complaining about the parking situation . (at this point, Gargoyle. In short, this is becom­ months until gradua­ experience has taught me better), ing quite a problem. Actually, it tion it is safe to has gotten so bad I can't even say that the nearly a laxada~5akal 1ackadaisical atti­ tude towards grades and a general finish this and I deadly infliction sense of apathy has taken hold don't ... known as seniorit.is is beginning to over all academic thought. For the most part, this illness has caused spread. It primarily by the way, . if you think Ive got affects(?) ef- me to spend the last few months thinking of two things, Summer it bad our graphic designer has it fects(?) those of the apatheticus worse, studentiwn species. This ailment, vacation and ways in which I can he symptoms of which appear up to put off the real world. Of course just thr ee years prior to graduation, some teachers have suggested that can become severe if coupled with I spend a little more time think­ doesn't Spring Fever. Currently there is ing of school work . February, in particul ar has been no known treatment . Those infected care a difficult month. Each day I rush with senioritis must let it run . anym.ore . its course Which will inevitably . home looking for an acceptance end April lg_ ·1etter from any of the graduate Schools to which I've applied. My particular bout with senioritis began somewhere in the It's now gotten to the point where I'dJeven take a rejection letter, first week of September, 1993, or any letter really, if they would G11rgoyle the first week of my freshman just let me know that they 're year. No, really this is nothing Shane A. Runyon aware I'm out here.

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