Month: September 2017

Seniors prepare for careers, grad school

Trojan Living

Lirona Joshi Staff Writer Seniors, after living the routine life of familiar classes for nearly four years, will soon find themselves thrown out to the real world. Their concerns in the final year are not restricted to showing up to classes on time and maintaining a good grade-point average, but also preparing for life after graduation. Jazmine Shelton, a senior rehabilitation counseling major from Greensboro, said she is searching for jobs. “Right now, I am concerned with taking the certification exam to become an official rehabilitation counselor,” Shelton said. “And,…

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Editorial: The Trop’s purpose

Opinion

  20 years later, we are still not a PR tool In 1997, Jim Egan, a sports reporter at the time, wrote a column on the Opinion page titled “The Tropolitan is not a public relations tool.” Twenty years later, the Tropolitan editorial board would like to share those same sentiments to respond to recent criticism of our staff’s news stories. First of all, we’d like to say that the Tropolitan staff works tirelessly to make sure you, the students, stay informed of what is happening on our campus. While…

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Reading revived by ‘Cover to Cover’

Trojan Living

Madina Seytmuradova Staff Writer After the termination of the Common Reading Initiative (CRI) last year, “Cover to Cover,” a new reading group, sprung up this semester to pick up the task of fostering a culture of reading on campus. “So (JohnReid McGlamory and I) were working on something else this summer, and we decided that we wanted to have a book club,” said Patricia Harris, the director of the Writing Center and one of the founders of the group. “We wanted to offer students an opportunity to read serious work…

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Special election to decide Sunday alcohol sales

News

Lilly Casolaro News Editor The city of Troy will hold a special election Tuesday, Oct. 10, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., allowing Troy residents to vote on Sunday alcohol sales. There is currently an established law that does not permit the sale of alcohol in Troy on Sundays, but if the legislation is approved, it will permit alcohol to be sold after noon on Sunday, according to the plan proposed by the Troy City Council. The only item on the ballot will be a “yes” or “no” vote decision.…

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Then and now: Military commitment

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Tori Bedsole Features Editor Troy honored its commitment to the military during the game against Akron this past weekend with a flyover by two F-16 fighter jets from the 187th Fighter Wing of the Alabama Air National Guard and a flag that covered the entire field. The university has two active ROTC programs, Air Force ROTC and Army ROTC. The Air Force ROTC program was established in 1971. This organization recently celebrated the Air Force’s 70th birthday with festivities on campus. The Army ROTC was brought to Troy in 1987.…

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