Month: August 2019

New SOTS halftime show to debut during the first football game of the season

Trojan Living

(PHOTO/ Zenith Shrestha) The band has spent weeks preparing three different shows for this year’s football season. Andrea Hammack Staff Writer The Sound of the South (SOTS) is marching into the Vet this season with three separate shows at the ready.  “We are doing three shows this year,” said Mark Walker, director of bands. “For the first show, we are playing “Happy Together,” “Death of a Bachelor,” “Roaring 20s,” and “Jolene.” “The second show is the annual Salute to Veterans, and the third show will be a game show theme.”…

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Keys to top the Camels

Sports

Hanna Cooper Staff Writer The Troy University football team kicks off its season opener Saturday against Campbell University. With the absence of some key figures involved in the passing game, Troy’s strengths for this game could revolve around the wide receivers and the secondary.  The Trojans graduated a solid group of receivers, including Sidney Davis and Damion Willis, who is set to start this season for the Cincinnati Bengals. The two combined for 1213 yards and 12 touchdowns last season alone, 43% of Troy’s passing yardage and 49% of Troy’s…

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Open campus doesn’t give students security they desire

Opinion

Sarah Mountain Staff Writer   Having an open campus is a characteristic of most public universities in America. Open campuses give students many freedoms, which many of us appreciate. However, when it comes to security, an open campus is a liability. The idea of closing campus is one that should be considered when discussing making our campus a safer place. Being a public university, especially one that is so closely connected with the surrounding community, it would be near impossible to close off the campus with gates. A campus map…

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New Troy department prepares students for wide range of technical careers

News

Rakshak Adhikari Staff Writer Geospatial informatics launched this May under the College of Arts & Sciences, merging the preexisting surveying and geomatics science program in the math department with the faculty of geography from the department of social sciences. The department offers a surveying and geomatics sciences program along with minors in unmanned aerial systems (UAS), geographic information systems (GIS), surveying and geomatics sciences and geography. The UAS, GIS, geography and surveying and geomatics sciences minors can all be completed online. The department currently consists of five full-time faculty members,…

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Honors Program becomes experiential

Opinion

Hal Fulmer Dr. Hal Fulmer is the Associate Provost and Dean of Undergraduate and First Year Studies and the Director of John W. Schmidt Center for Student Success and Eldridge Hall. Every fall is a new beginning and the start of a fresh academic year. While most people ring in the New Year on January 1, at Troy University, we do so in mid-August. It’s decidedly warmer than the January event but no less important! This fall on the Troy Campus also marks the beginning of an exciting transition for…

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