NON PROFIT RATE U.S. Postage PAID St. Augustine, FL FLAGLER COLLEGE Permit No. 64 Address Correction Requested Gargoyle web site: www.oidcity.com/ gargoyle :. VOL. XXVI, NO. 2 SAINT A.U GUST IN E, FLORIDA September 18, 1996 Flagler ma~es U.S. News list 0 • c.oniestsolfw ...-,s , io_,.,--,onpage,4. Lt2f d !~i~a~?s!!., Col Find outJ.w11>help.11 ~ lege has made U.S. News and World Reports, ...._,. ...... list of colleges th at offer the best value top page 5. niulliple.....,._ quality education at a reasonable cost. • Rm, Q look at the club. GIi page 7. Flagler moved up a notch on the 1997 list to third in the best value for regional lib­ • Get.Iha IGlast on the art - t111page8. eral arts colleges in the South, according to • Gei 11,e "'5Ults of 1hu~ the magazine's 1997 national college ondvoR.yboll-llarlson JO. rankings. The Sept. 23 issue, on newsstands Sept. 16, ranks institutions of higher ~duca, tion for academi~ quality and for value. U.S. News devised t h e "best value" Writing Center opens rankings in an effort to provide families with The Writing Center opened 'J'ueaday, a "realistic m easure of value by relating the Sept. l '1, in its new location of1'-Sft. Its cost of attending an institution to the qual, hours are Tuesday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; ity of education," according to the publica, Wednesday 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 2 to 5 tion. Only the top 25 percent of regional p.m.; ~,M.a.m. - ---~ sehools in U.S. News' ratings for quality, at 1 to 3 p.m, It is open to all students who any cost were considered as potential best would like to consult experienced writ­ values. ers about writing for course work, Other area schools that made the top tier CI.AST and research. of the rankings are the University of North ' It's pidure lime again Florida, (10th best value among Southern When retumlng students arrived on campus Sept. 2 and saw the west lawn cordoned off regional universities), University of Florida ~ with construction fencing, the question arose: Where wHI we play frlsbee and football? The 1996-97 Towers, scheduled for (fifth best value among national tmiversities) But the college president, Dr. Wilriam Proctor, had antidpated that question. With the delivery in April, can be ordered through and Florida State University (eighth among decision to build a memorial gazebo for Lawrence Lewis, Jr., on the west lawn, he directed the Public Information Office at ext. 201 national universities). the college administration make arrangemenb for students to use the area south and 1D1til Nov. 1 for $30. It also will be on "The ranking reflects long,standing poli, west of the swimming pool for '!sandlot'' games. A large oak tree that was dying was sale when the portrait photographer is cies of the college: providing a quality edu, removed to dear an area big enough for a playing field. In the meantime, the Flagler College community has been watching the gazebo take shape. Slated f,or completion In on campus next week in the rotunda. cation at a reasonable cost," Dr. William L. Jostens phqtograpbers will be taking por­ October, the gazebo will span 35 feet and be the central hub for a network of angled Proctor, president of Flagler College, said. walkways that will connect it to all points of the campus. trait photographs ofstudents, faculaf and · Flagler ranked third behind Mississippi administrators Tueaday and.Wednesday, University for Women and Mississippi Val, Sept. 24 and 25, from 9 aJD. to 5 p.m., ley State University. and Thursday, Sept. 26, from noon to 8 p.m. Clubs also can have their group photographs taken by the Jostens staff during these sessions. There is no sitting J fee. Convocation moved to October students are not the college. Rather, we are b y k er i c O n n er & a pr i l n O rt hr O p library, which is the major academic facil, Post Office complains · . ity," said Deborah Squires, director of pub- the college. It is the only time that Dr. Prqc, Accordig to the college's mailroom. According to Webster's Dictionary, con, lie information. "It [the library] is the cen, tor speaks to the entire academic commu, supeniso:t,:J:~Bennett, the St. Augus­ vocation means a formal assembly at a col, tral building for a college." nity." tine Post.Office bas been marking mail lege or university, especially for a graduation · Faculty and graduation candidates This ceremony is a traditional. way to for Flagler College students as "'wrong ceremony. At Flagler, convocation is a time march in their full academic regalia to lis, bring the faculty and students together to format." Bennett said all students need for faculty, prospective graduating seniors ten to remarks by Proctor and other hon, recognize the achievements they h,i,ve made. to use the correct return address for the and the college community to gather and ored guest speakers. "Seniors do need to It is mandatory for prosp~ctive gradu, type of .carrier delivering the mail or welcome in the new sch ool year. -Jt is the :of, understand," Squires said, "that this is just a ·. ates, in part because convocation "recognizes package inv~ For mail coming from ficial opening of the college year. _ dry rnn for graduation- there is no diploma you, the students, as a part of a college," the US Postal Senice, smclents need to In the past, convocation has been a part at this' ceremony." Squires said. "It would not be the same with, givetheiraddressasJoeStudent,.Student of special recognition ceremonies for eve~ts This year's convocation will be larger out you there." . Box #, Flagler College, P. O. Box 1027, on campus. In 1994, the fall convocatiol!.was than normal, since so many people have The cer.emony will begin at 10 a:m, on St. Augustine, FL 52085. held to break ground for the new library. made this new building possible, including the west lawn. Seniors and full,time faculty Packages and .mail coming through This year's ceremony is being held Oct. 25 the board_of trnst-ees, the Lewis family and are required to attend. any other mail service, suc:h as Federal in order to coincide with the official dedica, other prominent members of the commu, · Senio=..pick up th€ir caps and gowns Express or UPS, need to have the lion of the Proctor Library, named after Dr. nity, Squires said. from the Office of Academic Affairs up to college's street address, !74 King Street, William L. Proctor, Flagler's longstanding "[Convocation] involves all members of on e week prior to the ceremony. More in, 1 in place of its P. 0 . box number and the president. the academic community," Squires ex, formation will be announced in the next is, zip code 32084. 'This is an appropriate way to dedicate a plained. "The faculty is not the college. The sue of the Gargoyl.e. Page -2 argoyle EDITORIAL September 18, 1996 E-dit",R i ~1 l Qpinjt) I1 $@o/o# the alarm clock, full steam aheazzz~ by eric bur roughs minutes of the alarm going off, I would give myself a nice of backfired. I guess those things should be left to p~ little piece of cheese. I figured that since that's what the sionals. To compensate for my failure, I have opted· instead The process continues. Each year scientists were doing with the mice in my textbook, and that to place my alarm clear on the other side of the room and it's the same old thing. I have finally it was working so amazingly well, then it had to work for me, set the volume level to the red zone where reads a disclaimer: come to the personal realization that too. For punishment, I decided that the most appropriate WARNING! MAY 1NCITE DOGS, CATS, AND OTHER_ I am just too darn lazy and lack the ,measure would be something on the order of a handsomely SMALL ANIMALS IN TEMPORARY PERIODS OF HYSTE­ discipline necessary to tear myself grilled fil et mignon with sauteed mushrooms, a field rice, RIA AND UNCONTROLLED BEHAVIOR This new method from the grips of the comfortable some sourdough bread, definitely a vintage red wine, and seems to be working quite well, although I think that dis­ covers. that lock me in bed each for dessert a chocolate mousse. See, even though it might claimer isn't just there to be funny because the neighbor's morning. Sure, I've tried like h eck taste really good; and I might like it a lot, I figured between pets seem to act a little silly each morning around the time to be a good boy before. But despite the expense of the meal and the severity of the cholesterol I I wake up. my constant efforts ( OK, maybe at best, occasional efforts), would be ingesting, I would seriously think twice about sleep- But I do realize the sober fact that before too long, I will I just cannot make getting out of my bed at that very first ing in anymore. resort to my previous ways. ·1 almost feel like a sinner e_ach blast from the tiny machine situated.in close proximity to Well, I have no earthly idea why, but this plan just flat time I look and see those glowing, red digital numbers that my deft fingers part of rpy daily behavioral repertoire.