Month: March 2019

Circle K brings home awards from convention

News

Ora Nelson Staff Writer Troy University’s Circle K has won 10 awards and its two members elected at their district convention for improvement, community service hours and growth in Alabama. Circle K is a community service club affiliated with Kiwanis and Key Club. It focuses and promotes leadership, fellowship and service in its members. The annual Circle K district convention, attended by more than ten Alabama chapters, was held on March 8-10 in Mobile. “I joined (Circle K) because I was in key club in high school,” said Jessica Stein,…

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Professor talks anti-Islamic sentiments in U.S. for TEDxTroyUniversity

Trojan Living

Anushka K.C. Staff Writer On Nov. 5, 2017, TEDxTroyUniversity featured speakers from different backgrounds who gave thought-provoking speeches. The speeches have now been published on TEDx’s official YouTube page, which has more than 17 million subscribers. Among them was Dr. Luke Ritter’s TEDx talk on Islam and the immigration crisis in the United States.  Speaking through the lens of history, Ritter, a lecturer of history, draws comparisons between anti-immigrant sentiments in the 19th century against Catholics and present-day anti-Islamic sentiments. “Most Americans at the time were Protestant Christians, and they…

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Who is Scott Cross?

Sports

Scott Shelton Staff Writer On Tuesday, the men’s basketball team took a step forward in hiring a new head coach, Scott Cross. Cross’ hiring was announced by Senior Vice Chancellor for Athletics Jeremy McClain. Cross comes from Texas Christian University (TCU), where he was an assistant coach. After a year in the Big 12, he’s ready to get back in the Sun Belt Conference. “I am absolutely thrilled to be the next head men’s basketball coach at Troy University,” Cross said. “I have always felt like Troy was a sleeping…

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Review: ‘Captain Marvel’ is good, but not worth the ‘cultural battle’

Trojan Living

Sam Stroud Staff Writer Ever since the “Captain Marvel” movie was announced and Marvel Studios began to indicate that this character would become the face of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there has been a of cultural battle between two opposing camps of Marvel fans.   The first group are people want this movie to be the greatest thing since sliced bread. The second group wants it to sink faster than the Titanic — the ship, not the film.  Some see “Captain Marvel” as a cultural landmark for women and female…

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Opinion:Drink socially not harmfully

Opinion

Anushka K.C. Contributor Humans have had a long history with taking mind-altering substances. Peyote is one of the most famous and oldest known drugs used by the Aztecs and Native Americans.  Similarly, there is heroin which was used as a medicine until the early 1920s; LSD was popularly used as a recreational drug in the ’60s, marijuana in the ’70s and then came the cocaine epidemic of the ’80s.  In all this, alcohol and tobacco are the two drugs that are legal for use. However, the issue here is not…

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