Month: March 2015

Relay for Life exceeds goal

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Josh Richards Staff Writer Colleges Against Cancer, a college-level affiliate of the American Cancer Society, surpassed it’s goal at its annual Relay for Life event on Saturday, March 21. The group’s goal was $16,500. By around 1 a.m. the group had passed its by around $100. Cassie Gibbs, a senior English major from Sweet Water and co-chair for Relay for Life, said that she was surprised and happy to have met the group’s goal. “It was definitely a shock,” Gibbs said. “I was never expecting that to happen, but it did.…

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Second Chance Prom

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Alyse Nelson Features Editor Hosted by Troy University’s Spectrum Alliance, Second Chance Prom gives college students an opportunity to improve upon their high school memories. “If you didn’t like your prom, or you never experienced prom, or maybe you weren’t allowed to bring your date because they are of the same gender,” Jana Wieser, a international relations graduate student from Bremen, Germany, and president of the Spectrum Alliance, said of reasons why students might be interested in attending. “Everyone is welcome!” Weiser said. “If old or young, Troy student, or…

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Post-Spring Break: Getting back to the study wheel is not easy but possible with good time management

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Each semester, students return from either spring or fall break with the same false expectations of starting strong and finishing strong. Instead of easing into our studies, we sprint the first mile and then realize we blew out our backs and knees, and now have begun to crawl to the finish. The problem with the spring semester is that after spring break, most of us choose to just shut down and try to do just enough to squeak by. College students are in an environment with so many distractions. Every…

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