Sam Granville Contributor As the novel coronavirus has shutdown schools across the country, many student athletes have seen their sports careers end before they anticipated. All spring sports, and some winter sports that were entering post season play, came to an unexpected close as cancelations stopped play for every sports level in America due to the world health crisis. At Troy, baseball and all spring sports saw their seasons abruptly end. However, future Troy students also experienced the pain of pandemic cancelations. Bryant Talbert, a high school senior from Alabaster,…
Read MoreMonth: April 2020
Farewell: Allison ‘Trop Mama’ Woodfin
Allison Woodfin Business Manager As the business manager for the Tropolitan, I have been blessed with a new family. Upon joining, I was immersed in the world of journalism. With that immersion, I quickly observed this dynamic team works together to produce a paper with prompt and well-rounded content every week. The effort and collaboration I have witnessed day in and day out warms my heart. I truly must credit this team for teaching me how to work in a consistent team setting. I also must credit this team for…
Read MoreFarewell: Scott Shelton
Scott Shelton Sports Editor Entering college at 18, I struggled with social anxiety. Human interaction, especially with strangers, was not my favorite hobby. But as a journalism major, I had to get over it – or at least better manage it. If I couldn’t, then journalism was not the career field for me. I took a leap of faith and went to my first Tropolitan meeting in the fall of my sophomore year. It only took me a few weeks to already have a regret. That regret was I didn’t…
Read MoreFarewell: Luke Brantley
Luke Brantley Variety Editor I started with the Tropolitan the fall semester of my junior year. Ironically enough, my first story for the newspaper was about TrojanVision’s new studio. I was terrified of starting out on that first story. I had done a few small articles as class assignments as I started getting into my major courses, but this was the first time I was writing a big article for an actual publication. I’m a somewhat awkward, introverted person, so I was terrified of going in to interview people for…
Read MoreFarewell: Pradyot Sharma
Pradyot Sharma Editor in Chief “If you knew this was your last day on earth, how would you want to spend it?” We have all asked ourselves this question or been asked the question at some point or another. But here is the brutal truth, even if we imagine a million ways we would spend our last day, we never really know when the day comes – so we almost never get to live it out the way we plan it. The end always catches you by surprise. The end…
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