Month: August 2015

Troy soccer wins two of first three

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Scott McLendon Staff Writer The Troy soccer team started another promising season with wins against Gardner-Webb and Alabama State, and a narrow loss on the road to Alabama. Junior forward Abby Reynolds scored twice to lead the Trojans (2-1, 0-0 Sun Belt) to a 2-0 victory against Gardner-Webb (0-2, 0-0 Big South) in front of a record crowd at the Troy Soccer Complex last Friday night. The win marked the team’s first victory of the regular season and their first shutout. The 863 fans in attendance was a new all-time…

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‘Nerdfighters’ club starts at Troy

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Scott McLendon Staff Writer “Nerdfighteria” is beginning to bud on the campus of Troy University. “Nerdfighters,” which make up the community of “Nerdfighteria,” are followers of John and Hank Green’s educational creations and began as a way to “increase awesome and decrease suck.” The “vlogbrothers” made Youtube videos explaining and teaching lessons on everyday school subjects such as physics and English. Education was their first method of increasing our Earth’s level of “awesome.” Green went on to write several famous novels such as “The Fault in Our Stars” and “Looking…

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Letter to the editor concerning “Parking mayhem upsets Trojans” article and the parking issue:

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Heath Barton SGA President Troy University has faced a problem for the past few years, one which has affected not only students, but also faculty and staff as well. This issue is one that deals with the amount of parking that is available on campus and the inability to find a parking spot by all Trojans. On behalf of the Student Government Association and the student body, I would like to inform everyone that this is an issue that I see and am working diligently to find any solutions to…

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Take note and vote

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Katie Miller Contributor Furman Taylor, a freshman political science major from New Orleans, filled me in on why voting and participating in various political events should be important for students, especially with the upcoming 2016 presidential election. “I want to have a say on what goes on in my country,” he said, adding that every registered voter should vote, as long as he or she has a valid opinion to bring to the table. “Even if it’s a little voice, it’s a voice.” Qualities Taylor said he is looking for…

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Straight outta Troy

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Alyse Nelson Features Editor While a dream career is, for most people, just that — a dream — Cornelius Jarrell Andrews, or CJ, is working to make his a reality. Andrews, a senior education major from Auburn, has been involved with music in some shape or form for the majority of his life. “It started when I was younger. It went from the church choir,” he said. From there he was involved on and off with different musical endeavors and choirs until reaching Troy. “In my life, I would always…

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