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Night walk illuminates Troy safety

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Aaron Dixon Contributor After the SGA meeting on Tuesday, eight SGA senators and ten Freshman Forum delegates took to the streets for the first night walk of the semester. “Night walk is an event orchestrated by the student welfare committee of the student government association,” said Malik Moore, a sophomore global business major from Demopolis. “Basically, the goal of night walk is to walk around campus and see if anything is wrong… Any areas that are not properly lit or any areas that may have potholes, or anything that we…

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Finding friends at college: a how-to guide

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Alex Villari photo Three Gardner Hall residents gather in the lobby for a game of “Super Smash Bros. Ultimate” in the spring. From left are Matthew Doyle, a freshman computer science major from Enterprise; Zachary Smith, a freshman computer science major from Dothan; and Sam Ganguly, a freshman physics major from India.   Alex Villari Lucas Sanabria was leaving a class on an average day in Troy when a classmate approached him. As an international student, she was interested in what’s popular in America and asked for Sanabria’s opinion.  “When…

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Greeks control Troy SGA, seats remain

Trojan Living

Asem Abdelfattah Assistant News Editor In the 2019-2020 SGA Senate, 82% (32 out of 39) of senators are in Greek organizations, causing senators to urge independent students to consider running for SGA positions. According to publicly available information about the 2019-2020 SGA senators, 90% of the At-Large Senators, 100% of College Senators and 51.7% of Residence Hall Senators are members of a Greek organization. None of the International Senators are members of a Greek organization. There are eight vacant seats in the senate that will still be up for grabs…

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New senators elected to SGA

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Madina Seytmuradova Staff Writer The Student Government Association held elections on Wednesday, Jan. 20, to fill seven vacant senator seats. Carly Smith was elected to represent the College of Communication and Fine Arts, and Rebekah Holk will represent Sorority Hill. Sofi Gelabert, Sagar Patel, Meagan Self, Claire Gunter and Taylor McKnight were elected as senators at large. SGA also passed a “Lighting in Smith Hall parking lot” resolution, during its meeting on Tuesday night, brought forward by SGA senator Laken Berry, a sophomore secondary education major from Athens. According to…

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SGA releases library survey results, discusses elections

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Destiny Hosmer Online Content Editor The Student Government Association kicked off the spring semester Tuesday night with discussions of the results of the library survey, upcoming vacancy elections and events for the rest of January. Last semester, SGA gave students a survey regarding hours of library operation. The results of the library survey were announced at Tuesday’s meeting. The majority of participants favored longer library hours. According to the results of the survey of 592 students, 58 percent said that they did use the library, with 45 percent saying that…

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