CLUB NIGHT ► 8 ,,,, · FLAMINGO FILMING ► 13 CROSS COUNTRY ► 18 / I I I I NON-PROFIT U.S. Postage PAID Permit No. 64 P. 0 . Box 1027 St. Augl/Stine, FL 32085 COLLEGE VOL. XXX, NO. 1 SAINT AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA September 27, 2000 •~1N1nifle ► UICKJAKES Buchanan: "We will rule ourselves again." by brian hamacher the stage at about 8:30 p.m., he Flagler College's Executive lightheartedly mentioned the Vice President and Dean of protestors. "I heard there were Academic Affairs William T. only three out there. I must be Abare, Jr., restarted Monday losing it when I can't get a better night's Buchanan Forum after a turnout than that." ·que items designed for the 90-minute bomb threat delay. In Buchanan's speech, "Right ollege. All students are invit­ Abare offered a quote from the from the Start," he discussed cul­ d to come down to 59 St. 1859 John Stuart Mill book On tural war, de-Christianization, eorge St. and take advantage Liberty: "If all mankind, minus abortion, sovereignty and "bleed­ one, were of one opinion, and ing American borders." On the only one person were of the issue of cultural war, Buchanan contrary • opinion, mankind said America "has a higher per­ Summer school stats would be no more justified in centage of foreigners than ever." Summer school attracted silencing that one person, than He believes immigration is lead­ he, if he had the power, would 3 77 students, which increased ing to cultural and heritage loss. be justified in silencing "The people don't rule in e enrollment by 31 students mankind." America any more," Buchanan ver the previous summer. Before the Forum and during said, "but if I am elected presi­ ose students earned 1,987 the hour-and-a-half wait for it to dent, we will rule ourselves redits taught by 17 full-time restart, three Green Party sup­ again." He compared the Ameri­ members. Lewis porters also took advantage of can government to the "tyranni­ Buchanan's audience and lodged cal" British government that ouse was home to 31 stu­ a passive protest outside the drove settlers to the new world. ents, and Molly's Place auditorium. "I'm here to show Although not on the presiden­ mained open with limited people that there's a third party tial ballot for Florida, he said, "I ours for the seven-week alternative that is pro-labor, pro­ believe I will succeed in Florida." ummer session. .environment and pro-bettering Buchanan hopes that attending its relations between people," the Forum will increase Reform David Thundershield-Queen, Party support in St. Augustine photo by Jaclyn holmes Usdin starts Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan spoke at Flagler College to a crowd Green Party supporter, said. and Jacksonville just by virtue of tomorrow of about 720 Monday night. When Buchanan finally took see BUCHANAN, page 4 Flagler's first Judeo Christ­ ·an lecture series begins to­ We're top tier in US News Flagler orrow night at 7 p .m. in the For the seventh consecutive each on up to 16 indicators of uditorium. Admission is free. year, Flagler College is ranked academic excellence. Each factor opens "Love, Justice or Neither among the top liberal arts col­ is assigned a weight that reflects IBtimate Reality - A Dialo- leges in the south in U.S. News & U.S. News' judgment about how branch e Between Jews, Christian World Reporfs rankings of 1,400 much each measure matters. by april franklin d Atheists" is the topic of public and private colleges. Finally, the colleges in each cate­ The purpose of ranking col­ gory are ranked against their Did you ever expect Flagler e first lecture. leges is "to help students and peers, based on their composite College to find room to expand? The lecture series has . their families get their money's weighted score . Well take a look toward een ~ade possible by a gen­ worth," according to U.S. News, U.S. News publishes the ranks Tallahassee Community College rous gift from Gene Usdin, which pre-released its rankings of the top schools; the others are where Flagler has recently estab­ .D., who has established an , to colleges Sept. 1. The annual grouped into tiers. lished a branch campus. ndowed fund at the college. America's Best Colleges 2001 The 162 "national liberal arts - Compared to previous years, issue was delivered to news­ colleges" focus almost exclusive­ arts colleges, an institution must there are" 40 percent more high stands Sept. 4. ly on undergraduate education. award at least 40 percent of its school graduates in Florida seek­ Each school's rank (within a They award at least. 40 percent degrees in liberal arts disciplines ing higher education," said category) is based on the same of their degrees in- the liberal . such as foreign language, life sci­ William Abare, Flagler's execu­ Oplnlon ........•...................2 set of quality measures. The arts.This year, to better serve stu­ ences, philosophy and psycholo­ tive vice president and dean of More news ...........................4 gy. These schools, ·like Flagler Campus Ufe .........................5 method U.S. News uses to rank dents interested · in these academic affairs. Florida legisla­ Arts & Entertalnment .........13 colleges and universities consists schools, U.S.-News chose to rank College, tend to · req~ higher tors determined that building Feature ................, ...•......•10 of three basic steps. The colleges 50 ·colleges instead of40, it said. college entrance test scores than additional universities would be Listen Up ............................15 are categorized by mission and To achieve a top:tier ranking those in the regional category. too costly. The effort it would Sports................... ..............17 region, and data is gathered from among the n~tion's "-162 liberal see NEWS, page 4 see BRANCH, page 4 2 Gargoyle EDITORIAL September 27, 2000 E DITQ:~IAL& _oPINION -· Summerti·me distractions too strong to ignore by brian hamacher June to July, the summertime distractions became too When Suruioor wasn't on, I could always count on strong to ignore. riverboai: C3Sinos_ How cheesy are these places? They're What were most 21-year-old Like many TV watching drones, Survivor: had me tun- like big floating Las Vegases, without the showy pe:rfor- college students doing this. sum- ing in from the start. I don't know why, but people eat- mances and Elvis impersonators. Everything is made out mer? Were they following the ing rats and bugs and trying to lie and cheat their way of either fake gold or flashing lights, inducting some of important presidential race that into money really fascinates Americans. Wait a second, the buffet food. The boats do manage to recreate the l<>&­ will dictate how ~he first four am I talking about the presidential race or Survivor? ing-money concept, quite effectively I must add. But if years of you have an extra 20 bucks. and the 21st ======================================= you want to see a good display of century will be politically run? " • _ • • human suffering, go to the rive-r- Perhaps they were busy prepar- Many students ... were. doing what I did this boat casinos. ing to enter the working world, • t h■ S ■ ■ t ■ b at ■ Fmally, Road Trip. 1he movie building their resumes with real summer. wa C 1ng urv,vor, going O raver O cast- speaks for itself. Tom Green job experience and researching nos and seeing Ro'ad Tri1'n for the th·1rd t·1me " chooses live _mice over bis future employers. Or they were I' • school's cafetena food. Sound &miliar? Anyway, worth the preparingstudying for for the graduate grueling school, GRE ======================================= three bucks to rentit's it. and LSAT tests that await them So while I didn't get every- this semester. Survivor was fun to watch, regardless of the social mind­ thing done that I w:mted to this summer, I've made sev~ Many students probably were doing these things, but dulling it did to so many of us. It taught us that any reg­ eral resolutions foe this semester that I will work on even more were more than likely doing what I did this ular Joe can win a million bucks on an exotic island. (Of noticing the wodd 3round me outside my television. rm summer: watching Survivor, going to riverboat casinos course, you could take your chances ·on the scratchers at going to try to pay more attention to the presidentw and seeing Road Trip for the third time. Earl's Gas and Grub on Long Island, but it's just not the race, and hope.fully rn buckle down on graduate school. That's not to say I didn't try to do the right things. I same.) Survivor also taught us that CBS is still in busi­ I hope Olhec F1agk:r swdents will, too. Otherwise, did an internship, looked at law schools and even studied ness. How has this network survived with Everybody Survivor H, the Anstt.aliao Outback, will be showing on a for the LSAT .:...somewhat. But as May turned to June, and Loves Raymond as its No. I show? television set near you next year. "Knight owes it to_the people he coaches to be a positiv~ role model." Do you agree with Jeff on this or any of his other interesting opinions in his sports editorial on page 20? Write to us!!! Letters to the ecltor should be no longer - two letter-sized pages. Al lettels must be signed and Include the writer's stu•a111: d111■ tfllon or faculty/staff ,o. tlon and campus box number so nanes ca be wdliad. Anonymous lett8IS - not be published, although names-may be will• al•..._ extenuating circumstweL Letters wlll not be retumed.