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Month: October 2018
Malaysia campus hosts Troy faculty, students
Virginia Tilley Contributor Five professors and 12 students returned this weekend from a trip to Malaysia, where they had the opportunity to teach and interact with students abroad. In addition to sending students to study abroad each semester, Troy uses its international presence to send teachers to other countries and universities as well. Steve Stewart, an assistant professor of journalism, taught multimedia law while in Malaysia. “I’d say it was delightful and enlightening,” Stewart said of his experience. Malaysian press freedom is evolving due to leadership changes, Stewart noted. Although…
Read MoreIsner is offering best policies for Alabama
Bailey Wood Contributor On Nov. 6, voters in the 2nd Congressional District can choose between the eight-year incumbent Republican congresswoman Martha Roby or Tabitha Isner, the newcomer to the scene of Alabama politics. Isner is not the typical Democrat you’ll see portrayed on Fox News; she seeks solutions, not sides, and she’ll work with either party to get them. She is an ordained minister and wife of a pastor. Isner is a foster-adoptive mom and an expert in the field of early childhood education. These two candidates are vastly…
Read MoreLiving in a disaster area after Hurricane Michael
Steven Sain Contributor When you see a disaster on TV, it’s displaced from you. When you see it in a place you’ve known your entire life, it shakes you to your core. As I headed south on Highway 77 into Bay County with a truck full of toilet paper and canned ravioli, I didn’t know what to expect. I didn’t even know if I could get into town because of the debris on the roads, waves of emergency vehicles and the prospect of looters; all the possible roadblocks made travel…
Read More‘Venom’: a unique perspective on Spider-Man’s alien enemy
Olivia Nobles Staff Writer “Venom,” released on Oct. 5, gives Marvel Comics fans a new perspective on the horrifying union between Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and a tar-like alien life form called a Symbiote. “Venom” has accumulating a worldwide gross of over $463 million and remaining in the top three at the box office since its release (according to boxofficemojo.com). The film has sparked conversation within the Marvel community about the artistic liberty which director Ruben Fleischer has taken in deviating from the supervillain’s comic book origins. Fleischer, in conjunction…
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