Month: January 2018

Fob systems crash; student residents left out in the cold

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Tori Bedsole News Editor The key fob system across campus crashed on Friday, Jan. 19, leaving on-campus residents with limited access to dorms while an anticipated $250,000 upgrade takes place, according to officials in the key fob office. Daniel Wilson, coordinator of card access, said the system crashed because it is outdated. “Our fob system is older and, basically, it crashed over the (Christmas) break and we had to reprogram a lot of people, and the same thing happened last week (Friday),” Wilson said. The upgrade process will take place…

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Faculty take charge toward lowering textbook prices

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Rakshak Adhikari Staff Writer Bret Woods, an assistant professor of ethnomusicology, has used the library’s course reserve to provide textbook references for all his classes ever since he started teaching at Troy in 2012. When a textbook is put in reserve at the library, students can check it out for two hours to do their assignments. “I want to allow all students in my classes to have an equal platform for accessing the information in their reading assignments,” Woods said. “I don’t think that financial resources should play a role…

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SGA elections for senate vacancies and executive positions approaching

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Asem Abdelfattah Staff Writer After a series of activities to get the Student Government Association senators back on track and up to speed, the current SGA discussed vacancy elections and executive applications in the first meeting of the semester. Taylor Holt, a sophomore social science major from Huntsville and director of representation, said the vacancy elections this semester are already exciting. “As of (Jan. 23), we received more than 20 applications for the senate race,” Holt said. “That is significantly more than we usually expect. “The number of applications per…

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Jack Matlock, former U.S. ambassador to Soviet Union, will give diplomacy lecture today

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Abby Taylor Online Content Editor Jack Matlock, former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, will give students insight today on what is happening between the U.S. and Russia. “He (Matlock) served in the foreign service for years and became U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union as well as to Czechoslovakia,” said Doug Davis, an associate professor and director of the master of science in international relations (MSIR) academic division of the Troy department of political science. Matlock’s role was “a career diplomat who served on the front lines of…

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Pursuit: ‘Come as you are’

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Abby Taylor Online Content Editor Students have come together to start Pursuit Ministries, a campus ministry created for weekly Christian prayer and worship. Pursuit was created “by students, for students,” said Davis Johnston, a junior geomatics and surveying major from Eufaula. It meets every Thursday at 9:30 p.m. in Sorrell Chapel. Johnston helped start the organization in April 2017, and Pursuit has seen more than 80 people a night regularly for worship services. “We’re not affiliated with a church,” Johnston said. “It’s just another opportunity for students to come and…

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