Troy University comes under fire

  Faith Karwacki Perspectives Editor   Harvard graduate and former Vice President of Programs at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), Adam Kissel will be addressing free speech Wednesday, Nov. 6. This discussion will take place at 4 p.m. in Bibb Graves 129 and is hosted by Students for Liberty and the Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy. His speech, titled “Free Speech and Double Standards in Education,” will touch on the regulations placed on students in the college environment. This isn’t the first time Troy University…

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Local highschoolers create viral sensation

(PHOTO/Caleb Hicks)   Alyse Nelson Staff Writer   With millions of Vine followers, talent contracts and screaming teenage girls following them across the country for ‘supervines,’ the trio from Troy behind Dem White Boyz is currently enjoying plenty of attention. Vine is a smartphone app dedicated to users creating and uploading seven second videos on a variety of subjects. Over the past three months, the “Dem_White_Boyz” Vine profile run by Cole LaBrant, Baylor Barnes and John Stephen Grice, all highschoolers in the Troy area, has accumulated an astounding 2.4 million…

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ISCO plans November festival

(PHOTO/Visarut Pawawongsak)   Aigerim Toleukhanova Staff Writer   Food and entertainment from cultures around the world will be offered during Troy University’s annual ISCO Festival just before the Thanksgiving break. The sponsor is the International Student Cultural Organization, created in 1975 by faculty members Nolan Hatcher, James Sherry and Edward Merkel, according to Sherry, who is co-adviser of ISCO. Troy University’s main campus has 707 international students from 69 countries according to Ashley King, international student adviser. The 10 countries that give the university the most students, in descending order,…

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Student fights heart disease for family, future

  Megan Green Contributor   A Troy University student battled open-heart surgery and still found the strength and courage to return to school. At age 36, a then freshman and native of Montgomery, Shanetta Mahone decided to begin school and earn her degree in homeland security. According to Mahone, she was enrolled in four classes and just walking across campus to each class was difficult. She always found herself out of breath. “After walking just a few flights of stairs, I felt like I was going to pass out,” she…

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Nightwalk set for Nov. 12 after SGA

  Patrick Stephens Staff Writer   The Student Government Association welcomed guest speaker Brittany Clarke, leadership scholar in charge of the Student IT Committee, and discussed the upcoming Nightwalk at this Tuesday’s meeting. “What I am doing is working with the IT department to form a focus group that involves all students, not just ones in specific groups,” said Clarke, a sophomore information systems major from Broughton, “so that students could test products that might potentially be a part of campus, in order to give feedback before they are fully…

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