Month: November 2014

Cassie Gibbs News Editor A newly recognized organization at Troy University is making its mission to lead girls to a better future through mentorship. The Sparkle Mentoring Club held its first meeting Saturday. There, students met with girls from grades six through 12 whom they would soon mentor. Brianna McDougle, a junior broadcast journalism major from Tuscaloosa and mentor with Sparkle, said that she wants to help girls prosper in the community. “What I want is for the girls to be themselves and not let society fold them,” McDougle said.…

Destiny Hosmer Staff Writer Troy University at Montgomery history professor Dan Puckett will be discussing his book “In the Shadow of Hitler: Alabama’s Jews, the Second World War, and the Holocaust” this Thursday. Puckett became an associate professor of history at the Montgomery campus in 2005. He teaches modern European history and his research interests are in the Holocaust and Jewish history. “In the Shadow of Hitler” describes how Jews in Alabama responded to the horrors of the Holocaust. In an effort to save Jewish lives overseas, Alabama’s Jews bridged…