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Sexual assault film sparks discussion

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Tu To Staff Writer In hopes of educating students on sexual assault, Trojan Outreach (TO) hosted a movie screening and discussion of “The Hunting Ground,” a documentary featuring real college students from universities across the United States with their personal sexual assault stories. According to the The Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll (2015), 1 in 5 women are sexually assaulted while in college. According to Riley Jacks, a graduate counseling major and the coordinator for Trojan Outreach, the organization is an education program on campus working with the Student Services…

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Chancellor’s Fellows discuss leadership goals for 2018

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Taylor Walding Features Editor Lirona Joshi Staff Writer Tu To Staff Writer Five faculty members were chosen by Jack Hawkins, the chancellor of Troy University, to participate in the 2018 Chancellor’s Fellows Program. This year’s program will focus on leadership across the curriculum, according to John Kline, director of the Institute for Leadership Development. “It will focus on how students can be made into servant leaders — ones that help others,” Kline said. “The appointed fellows are from different disciplines and will be working in infusing leadership core into all…

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Faculty take charge toward lowering textbook prices

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Rakshak Adhikari Staff Writer Bret Woods, an assistant professor of ethnomusicology, has used the library’s course reserve to provide textbook references for all his classes ever since he started teaching at Troy in 2012. When a textbook is put in reserve at the library, students can check it out for two hours to do their assignments. “I want to allow all students in my classes to have an equal platform for accessing the information in their reading assignments,” Woods said. “I don’t think that financial resources should play a role…

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