Month: April 2019

Greeks control Troy SGA, seats remain

Trojan Living

Asem Abdelfattah Assistant News Editor In the 2019-2020 SGA Senate, 82% (32 out of 39) of senators are in Greek organizations, causing senators to urge independent students to consider running for SGA positions. According to publicly available information about the 2019-2020 SGA senators, 90% of the At-Large Senators, 100% of College Senators and 51.7% of Residence Hall Senators are members of a Greek organization. None of the International Senators are members of a Greek organization. There are eight vacant seats in the senate that will still be up for grabs…

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Trojan Heart winner announced

Trojan Living

Taylor Walding Variety Editor While 36 nominations were submitted this year for the Troy Trojan Heart Award to honor individuals or groups for their service to the community, there were only four finalists and one winner selected. Jasmine Denson, a senior sociology major from Birmingham, won the overall Troy Trojan Heart Award for her work as an educator for incarcerated women at Julia Tutwiler Prison in Wetumpka. She chose the Adullam House as the nonprofit beneficiary of the $1,000 Trojan Heart award. The Adullam House serves and cares for the…

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A Question of Unification: from atoms to galaxies

Trojan Living

Rakshak Adhikari Staff Writer Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday physics students at Troy take two very peculiar physics classes: General Relativity in the morning and Quantum Mechanics in the afternoon. General Relativity, Einstein’s magnum opus, deals mostly with large scale structures in the universe. The deviation of planetary orbits from Newtonian laws, the slowing down of time near massive objects, the existence of certain exotic objects called black holes and the recently discovered gravitational waves are all consequences of general relativity. Quantum Mechanics, on the other hand, was developed by…

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Troy downs App. St. for fourth straight SBC series win

Sports

Asem Abdelfattah photo Junior infielder Drew Frederic makes a grab behind second base during Friday night’s matchup against App. St. Troy won the game 9-1 behind a hit by Frederic and three stolen bases.   Scott Shelton Staff Writer The Troy baseball team used 24 runs in three games and dominant pitching against Appalachian State at Riddle-Pace Field last weekend to take its fourth-straight Sun Belt Conference series victory. With the wins, the Trojans move to 21-19 overall and 9-9 in Sun Belt Conference play. In game one of the…

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Softball has 5 straight

Sports

Senior catcher Kaylee Hussey posted several hits in the series against Appalachain State. Hussey drove in one run in game two, connecting on a double to left center. Hussey also posted a hit in the 2-1 loss in game three.   Hanna Cooper Staff Writer Troy took its fifth consecutive series for the first time in program history, but fell in the finale, 2-1, to Appalachian State Saturday afternoon at the Troy Softball Complex. The series started off with a doubleheader on Friday night in which Katie Webb hit a…

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