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Club brings Japanese culture to students

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Goodness Ohia Obioha Contributor The Japan Club explores, discusses and experiences various aspects of Japan and its culture. At meetings, members present information about Japan that they are interested in. They also help students from Nagasaki, Japan, coming to Troy University. The club goes to conventions and takes occasional trips, such as their upcoming trip to the Birmingham Botanical Gardens. “If you have an interest in anything Japanese-related, whether it’d be like history or even games or anime, I think Japan Club is, like, a really good place to go,”…

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Students evade high prices, swap textbooks using Facebook page

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Goodness Ohia Obioha Contributor The Facebook group “Troy University Textbooks” was created by students to lessen the financial burden of spending money on new textbooks. Members of the group advertise the books they don’t need anymore and students who are in need of those particular books will respond, agree on a certain price and schedule a meeting place for the transaction. “Actually, it was very good for me because I bought most of the books from there,” said Kushani Sathsarani, a freshman biomedical sciences major from Colombo, Sri Lanka. “I…

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Speaker encourages students to persevere through trials

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Goodness Ohia Obioha Contributor Daniella Anyabine Contributor Motivational speaker Inquoris “Inky” Johnson spoke to students at the Trojan Center about overcoming trials in life. Trojan Athletics organized the event in partnership with Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) on Tuesday, March 6. “My challenge to you while you’re at Troy University: don’t allow life, opposition, adversity and challenges to make you forget why you do what you do,” Johnson said. Johnson was a cornerback at the University of Tennessee, just eight days away from being a first-round draft pick in 2006,…

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