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17 receive scholarships honoring late student

Trojan Living

Tu To Staff Writer Seventeen students were awarded the Lance Robert McLendon Scholarship for the academic year 2018-2019. Lance McLendon was a Troy accounting graduate from Birmingham in the class of 1995. He passed away in 2001 due to Crohn’s disease. According to his mother, Joan McLendon, his family decided to fund different projects including a classroom in Bibb Graves Hall and the McLendon scholarship to honor Lance McLendon  and express his love for Troy. “We first established this scholarship in the fall semester of 2006,” said Joan McLendon. “The…

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SPLC club coming out to campus

Trojan Living

Tu To Staff Writer The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is bringing a collegiate club to Troy’s campus next fall. On its webpage, SPLC said the center is dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of society. “Using litigation, education and other forms of advocacy, the SPLC works toward the day when the ideals of equal justice and equal opportunity will be a reality,” the website reads. Kourtney Frye, a junior history major from Monroeville and one of the first students to…

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Students say ‘lampshading’ comfortable but some find it controversial

Trojan Living

Tu To Staff Writer Walking around campus with summer approaching, you will notice students wearing colorful, baggy T-shirts and sport shorts. This predominant fashion trend among female college students has been named “lampshading.” According to Urbandictionary.com, “lampshading” is wearing an oversized T-shirt and short athletic shorts that are hidden by the shirt, which “gives the girl a silhouette similar to that of a lampshade.” Some international students say “lampshading” is one of the biggest culture shocks to them when they first arrive at Troy. “When I first saw the girls…

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Slight decrease in parking tickets since new lot opened, police say

Opinion

Tu To Staff Writer There has been a slight decrease in parking tickets given since the Trojan Center parking lot opened at the start of this semester, considering the drop of enrollment of Troy campus students. In an email sent to all students before spring semester started, Herbert Reeves, the dean of student services, said there was a net gain of 300 parking spaces on campus with the completion of the new lot beside Trojan Center (TC) and closure of the Sartain Hall lot. According to the Troy University police…

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Sexual assault film sparks discussion

Trojan Living

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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