Day: August 20, 2020

New exhibit now open at the JCA

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Coby Alexander  Staff Writer A new exhibit is now open at the Johnson Center for the Arts in Downtown Troy, featuring the work of Charles Adams and Guadalupe Lanning. Both artists come from different backgrounds. Adams is from Troy and works with glass and Lanning lives in Huntsville, Alabama, but is from Mexico City and creates quilts and pottery.  The JCA’s Executive Director Brenda Campbell said that now is a great time to visit the center because of the opportunity to see the artists, it provides local entertainment, and the…

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WHO RUNS THE WORLD

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Hanna Cooper Sports Editor   Former Troy track and field member, Alexis Garrett, has been named a nominee from the conference-level for the 2020 NCAA Woman of the Year award, the NCAA announced on Tuesday.  “Being selected as one of the NCAA Woman of the Year nominees is such an honor and blessing,” Garret said. “I am thankful for the opportunity to represent this university and the Sun Belt Conference.  “The women who have been selected in the past have done phenomenal things, and I’m grateful to be recognized and…

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Students and professors staying creative during COVID-19

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Andrea Hammack Trojan Living Editor Artists are always looking for new outlets and ways to express their emotions, but what if their studies and ways of creating are compromised? Troy University students and professors are trying not only to handle the current pandemic as carefully as possible, but also use it to their advantage when they can.  Taylor Lovelace, a senior art education major from Enterprise, Alabama, explained that with the extra precautions being put into place, she feels her already intimate classes are perfectly safe.  “I do notice a…

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McCartha Hall set to be demolished

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McCartha Hall is being demolished and replaced with an academic building, according to dean of Students Services, Herbert Reeves. The building is one of the oldest buildings on campus and once housed the Air Force ROTC, as well as the Human Services, Social Work and Rehabilitation and Assessment departments.  These departments have been moved to other buildings. Tropolitan Staff writer Tomiwa Akintode will continue to follow this story as it develops.

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Girl talk with MISS Elite

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Sarah Mountain Staff Writer The MISS Elite organization held a “girl talk” on Tuesday night as the group’s opening event for the fall 2020 semester at Troy.  The organization, centered around the service and excellence of its members, put together the event to “help girls get acquainted to a new setting, especially since most of the girls who came are freshmen, so it was very important to reach them, as well as the upperclassmen,” said Lexi Locke, a junior sociology and legal studies major from Andalusia, Alabama. Topics during the…

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