Category: Features

17 receive scholarships honoring late student

Trojan Living

Tu To Staff Writer Seventeen students were awarded the Lance Robert McLendon Scholarship for the academic year 2018-2019. Lance McLendon was a Troy accounting graduate from Birmingham in the class of 1995. He passed away in 2001 due to Crohn’s disease. According to his mother, Joan McLendon, his family decided to fund different projects including a classroom in Bibb Graves Hall and the McLendon scholarship to honor Lance McLendon  and express his love for Troy. “We first established this scholarship in the fall semester of 2006,” said Joan McLendon. “The…

Read More

Studying in groups vs. studying alone

Trojan Living

Lirona Joshi Staff Writer With only two weeks of classes remaining for the semester, students are putting everything into giving that one final push to save their grades. As deadlines for research papers and the pressure of exams loom over them, students look to get the most of out the little time they have left: to either cram the course or maybe just get a little extra credit for their class, And in this last-ditch effort, study groups seem to serve as a viable and an effective option for many.…

Read More

Local lynching victims honored by history class

Trojan Living

Abhigya Ghimire Staff Writer In May 1895, an African-American man, Jerico Shivers, was thrown into Pea River in Coffee County with a sinker around his neck by a group of men for an un-tried allegation of rape. On Sunday, April 8, a few students from the class HIS 2225 African American Experience along with their lecturer, Kathryn Tucker, took part in a soil collection from Coffee County where Shivers was lynched. Shivers is one of the eight lynching victims in and around Pike County the class is studying this semester.…

Read More

SPLC club coming out to campus

Trojan Living

Tu To Staff Writer The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is bringing a collegiate club to Troy’s campus next fall. On its webpage, SPLC said the center is dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of society. “Using litigation, education and other forms of advocacy, the SPLC works toward the day when the ideals of equal justice and equal opportunity will be a reality,” the website reads. Kourtney Frye, a junior history major from Monroeville and one of the first students to…

Read More

Club brings Japanese culture to students

Trojan Living

Goodness Ohia Obioha Contributor The Japan Club explores, discusses and experiences various aspects of Japan and its culture. At meetings, members present information about Japan that they are interested in. They also help students from Nagasaki, Japan, coming to Troy University. The club goes to conventions and takes occasional trips, such as their upcoming trip to the Birmingham Botanical Gardens. “If you have an interest in anything Japanese-related, whether it’d be like history or even games or anime, I think Japan Club is, like, a really good place to go,”…

Read More