Month: January 2021

Troy to receive vaccine as early as next week, ADPH investigates Auburn

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By Sarah Mountain and Brady Talbert Troy University will begin receiving doses of the COVID-19 vaccine as early as next week, according to an email sent to Troy faculty and staff Thursday afternoon. Dean of Student Services Herb Reeves said the university does not yet know how many doses it will receive, but the campus health center will be ready to begin distribution within 24 hours of receiving the vaccine. While Wednesday the Tropolitan spoke with Dr. Lance Tatum, Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and chair of Troy’s Coronavirus…

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Auburn Vaccinates, Troy Has to Wait

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Brady Talbert Staff Writer  The state says Troy University – in rural Pike County, Alabama – can expect COVID-19 vaccines in April, despite Alabama’s SEC schools receiving doses the first week in January, with one of those schools confirming it is already vaccinating its own staff and students despite the elderly population across the state unable to receive the potentially lifesaving shots. Auburn University and the University of Alabama were some of the first colleges in line to receive vaccines from the state. Auburn has received 7,000 doses, according to…

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Biden’s Faith

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Sam Stroud Opinion Editor It has actually been a quite bizarre phenomena that America, as religious as it still is, despite how secular it has become, has had leaders in recent history who are not incredibly religiously inclined.   Barack Obama was a not a regular church goer, and Donald Trump’s imitation of “faith” was almost a mockery of Christianity. A small example of this being the former President’s spiritual advisor, a part time mega-church pastor and a full-time quack who teaches the prosperity gospel, one of the best pranks…

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Our Government Must Reflect Us

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Marcellus Martin Contributor With over 81 million votes cast for Joe Biden, he has received the most votes cast in any U.S. election. But Kamala Harris, who was also on the ballot with Biden, received those votes, also. Outside of the 2020 election, the 2008 and the 2012 presidential elections broke election records, and those votes went to the first and only Black president in U.S. history, Barack Obama.  We always hear that there could be a wave of red or blue coming, but I can’t entirely agree. There is…

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Program encourages sexual health

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PJ Heath Staff Writer Coming up this February, Trojan Outreach’s latest project, Bedside Bags, is set to promote sexual health and hygiene among Troy students. This project brings light to the e issue of  sexual health while also giving students the opportunity to obtain items for safer intercourse and personal hygiene that otherwise might not be available to them. The items in these bags include, but are not limited to, condoms, lubricant, tampons, pads and other contraceptives.  Joel Miller, a sophomore human resource management major from Eufaula, Alabama, is a…

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