Tag: Taylor Walding

Faith compels me

Opinion

Taylor Walding Variety Editor Throughout my three-year run with the Trop, I have avoided opinion writing like the plague. In person, I enjoy controversy and debate but stirring it up with an unknown audience behind computer screens seems far more daunting to me than a face-to-face discussion. Online debates further perpetuate an already polarized culture, leaving persons feeling as though they need to walk on eggshells around colleagues, classmates and strangers. When writing for sports, news, features or other sections, there’s less ownership of the content produced because you’re not…

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‘Everybody loves T-Roy’

Sports

  Taylor Walding Variety Editor  Steven Porter Contributor There are many people who represent Troy University, but one of its most famous symbols is the mascot, T-Roy.  T-Roy has been making the Troy University community smile since the mid-1980s, but with constant public appearances, what is it like to be T-Roy himself? “It’s a ton of fun,” T-Roy said in his rarely heard voice. “I get to interact with all kinds of people from all different backgrounds and I can pretty much make somebody’s day 100 times better and that’s…

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Cardinal Creeper’s identity unveiled

Sports

Taylor Walding Variety Editor This year’s senior class may recall in the fall of 2015 — their freshman year — a mysterious entity widely known as the Cardinal Creeper. It was a person cloaked in a red blanket and skull makeup who stalked various areas around campus and received a semi-obsessive following on Yik Yak, an anonymous messaging app for college students. While many speculated about its identity, Ivey Vinson, a senior fine arts major from Clanton, managed to keep it secret. That is, until now. “It was an accident,”…

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Dining Hall helps students to avoid the freshman 15

Trojan Living

Pradyot Sharma Opinion Editor Taylor Walding Variety Editor The Trojan Dining Hall is helping students avoid the freshman 15 by using innovative weight loss strategies that incorporate hiding cutlery and closing early on weekends. It is not unusual for students to have to walk the entire dining hall three times before they find a fork. “I literally checked every silverware station before eventually asking an employee who told me,” said Nicole Whittaker, a freshman pre-health major from Gulf Shores. “I was redirected and then sent to beg at the dish…

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Review: SPIN bikes may not be worth it

News

  Taylor Walding Variety Editor You may notice the recent influx of bright orange bikes and scooters scattered about campus, but you’ll want to weigh the cost. SPIN rents out its bicycles for 50 cents per half-hour and motorized scooters for $1 plus 15 cents for each minute.  It also offers a monthly membership fee for $29 that allows unlimited 30-minute rides, meaning you really get a deal only if you ride the bikes every single day. Provided you have good internet connection and have downloaded the correct app —…

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