Month: April 2017

Draven Jackson Staff Writer Abby Taylor Staff Writer Troy online will be integrating free online resources into Term five classes beginning on May 30, 2017. OpenStax, a nonprofit organization at Rice University, has developed Open Educational Resources (OER) which provides free course resources to students. According to the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, “Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others. OER include full courses,…

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Pradyot Sharma Staff Writer After the Student Government Association executive runoff elections in March, a formal complaint was filed by one of the candidates but rejected in a private meeting by the SGA executive board. Zack Anglin, a junior risk management insurance major from Charlottesville, Virginia, and one of the candidates involved in the runoff for director of representation, filed a formal complaint alleging that Taylor Holt, a freshman social science major in the accelerate law program from Huntsville who successfully ran for the position, broke campaign rules on the…

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Tori Bedsole Editor-in-Chief New off-campus housing options are available for the fall semester to accommodate students due to Troy’s increasing enrollment. The District on Dozier and Troy Villages at Walnut Creek are the newest additions to the city’s student housing. According to Sara Jo Burks, assistant director of housing and residence life, the university has the capacity to house 2,348 students in its residence halls, including in the fraternity and sorority houses. As of April 20, the wait list for freshmen included 363 students who had not been assigned rooms.…

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Draven Jackson Staff Writer The College of Ilium hosted its “Spring has Sprung” festival, which showcased activities reminiscent of the Middle Ages and featured classes on jewelry making, dancing and illumination Saturday, April 22. Each member present was decked out in a period-appropriate costume on the Shackelford Quad. To begin, Madison Jordan, a freshman biology education major, gave a class on illumination, which is the type of script writing used to make the “Once Upon a Time” openings in fairy tale movies. Jordan explained that medieval writers used to cover…

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Tori Bedsole Editor-in-Chief According to administrators, upgrades and additions will need to be made to the Troy campus in areas such as dining, housing, parking, staffing and academics to accommodate an increase in enrollment. Chancellor Jack Hawkins and the Troy University Board of Trustees drafted and passed a proposal with the goal “to have the capacity to serve 10,000 students by fall 2020.” As of fall 2016, the Troy campus enrolled 7,864 students. “Consistent growth puts us in a position to be a strong institution,” said Herbert Reeves, dean of…

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