News Briefs Flock of cardinals found corrupt With the conclave gathering in Rome to vote on the new pope, scandals are being unveiled as well causing certain cardinals to decline from participating in the conclave. The conclave is the voting process where all the cardinals of the Catholic Church are locked in the Sistine Chapel and remain there until two-thirds plus one majority is reached. If a pope is not selected by 12 days, then the cardinals vote for the pope by simple majority. Lately, many cardinals are being accused…
Read MoreMonth: February 2013
Our Own Fantasy and Lights Show…Every Night?
by: Jane Morrell This week will be exploring a hot button issue among our student body: the football stadium and our new basketball arena lights staying on past 2 a.m. every night. After conducting a poll of around 50 students, asking for their opinions and what were their major concerns. Were they for the lights burning brightly throughout the night? Or were they tired of this light show? The students that were surveyed really took their time putting serious thought into their answers. Every student that was asked weighed the…
Read MoreWhy Marvel is objectively better than DC
By: Jonathan Bryant For many of us, the battle for superiority between DC Comics and Marvel Comics has waged since time immemorial. Feelings have been hurt. Friends have been lost. At some point, the Superman vs. Hulk argument gets thrown around. The end result is nearly always the same—forums and the like become a figurative battlefield littered with rage and nerd sweat. Lately, though, the tide has begun to turn in Marvel’s favor for several reasons. DC is a good deal older than Marvel (at least the Marvel incarnation we…
Read MoreIraq & America
by: Ahmed Brisam The last visit for Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki to Washington on Sunday, Dec. 11 was said by American president Barack Obama that it will begin a new situation of relations between two sovereign states. This visit came on the occasion near the end of the implementation of the security agreement signed between Iraq and the United States in 2008, in the era of former U.S. president George W. Bush, which ordered the complete withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Iraq. America kept their promise and…
Read MoreTrojan Student Officers
by: Karli Mauldin The Troy University police department and the criminal justice department have partnered together to let students become security officers for a semester. This job has entitled the student security officers to help be an extra set of eyes on campus, along with day to day work such as checking buildings to make sure they’re secure along with parking tickets. The campus police department and the criminal justice department interviewed 12 students for this position but only picked four. Chief John McCall plans to have the new security…
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