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Maid and queen court candidates announced

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Kat Rogers Staff Writer The Student Government Association voted to change the Homecoming election process by implementing a junior maid court in addition to the senior queen court to allow more women to be represented. At a Troy volleyball game on Wednesday, Oct. 5, the five queen candidates and three maid candidates were announced. The maid court includes Meredith Durden, Amy Russo and Sierra Clark. The queen court includes Broghan Freeland, Callie Bennett, Destiny Oliver, Jordyn Elston and Symone Shaw. SGA President Olivia Melton explained the changes in the court…

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Free fall festivities on the Square in full swing

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Kat Rogers Staff Writer Sumaiya Afroze Contributor Neha Sharma Contributor This fall, the city of Troy will be holding several events on the downtown Square, including free concerts, Troy football watch parties and a Halloween night for children. “We host the downtown fall parties to offer the community some fun, entertaining activities that they can attend and participate in,” said Leigh Ann Windham, coordinator for fall events with the city of Troy. “We also want to introduce people to downtown Troy and all it has to offer.” Events and activities…

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Former Troy students convicted

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Kat Rogers Staff Writer Ryan Austin Calhoun, 22, and Delonte Martistee, 22, both former Troy students, will be sentenced on Oct. 21 after being convicted last week of sexual battery committed at Panama City Beach, Florida. The crime took place behind clubs Spinnaker and La Vela, during spring break 2015. “Probably one of the most disgusting, repulsive, sickening things that I have seen this year on Panama City Beach,” Frank McKeithen, Bay County sheriff, said in response to the incident in spring of 2015. This case is one of two…

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Tau Beta Sigma raise funds for band

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Kat Rogers Staff Writer The sisters of Tau Beta Sigma hosted a water balloon fight on Wednesday, Sept. 7, to fundraise money to support the Sound of the South and its alumni. Julia Orcutt, a senior biomedical sciences major from Helena and treasurer of Tau Beta Sigma, said the goal of the organization is to serve. “Our goal while we are in Troy is to serve the Sound of the South. We do food, we do ponchos, we do all sorts of stuff for game days and for other things.…

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Making fast friends

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Kat Rogers Staff Writer Trojan Outreach held its second “speed-friending event,” allowing students to mingle and meet others on Tuesday in the Trojan Center lounge at 6 p.m. Riley Jacks, a junior human services major from Oxford, works with Trojan Outreach. “Trojan Outreach is a peer education program that essentially bases all of our programs on what isn’t really coming in through the classroom: sexual health, drug and alcohol education, sexual assault, and bystander intervention,” Jacks said. “Really anything you could think of that affects us as college students that…

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