Month: October 2017

Tori Bedsole Features Editor A new restaurant will be moving into the former Trojan Zone building on U.S. Highway 231, according to Mayor Jason Reeves. Cook Out, a North Carolina-based restaurant known for its burgers, barbecue, hot dogs and milkshakes, has purchased the building and is preparing to open there. The chain was founded in 1989 in Greensboro, North Carolina, and currently has locations in 10 states, including Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi. According to Cook Out’s official website, the restaurant’s motto is “To serve customers the highest quality food in…

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Lilly Casolaro News Editor Homecoming festivities are in full swing as the Trojans anticipate the football game on Saturday, Oct. 28, against Georgia Southern. Douglas Dick, a senior risk management insurance major from Panama City and vice president of campus activities for the Student Government Association, announced to students some updates to the Homecoming schedule via email. The pep rally will now be Thursday, Oct. 26, at 5:30 p.m. at Janice Hawkins Park Amphitheater with the theme “It’s Fall Y’all.” Attendees are encouraged to wear some flannel or fall festive…

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Lilly Casolaro News Editor Rachel Goodwin Staff Writer Dean of Student Services Herbert Reeves and the Alabama Department of Public Health have confirmed that an off-campus Troy University main campus student has contracted pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) and that other students, who may have come in contact with the student, could be at risk. A free screening and blood test took place on Tuesday, Oct. 24, in Trojan Center Room 224 from 9 a.m. to noon for those identified as being in proximity to the infected student. Marieka Strickland, a junior…

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