Rory Johnson Staff Writer Over the last year of quarantine, many international students had to decide if they would stay in Troy or return to their home countries due to the pandemic. Many international students who returned home had problems with time differences between Troy and their home countries when it came to assignment deadlines. “The Read More
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Troy students rack up ADDY awards
Codi Clemmons Staff Writer Troy University’s Art and Design Department won 16 Awards in the American Advertising Awards Competition this year. Troy University announced the students who were awarded during a ceremony last Thursday. This competition is held every year by the American Advertising Federation, which is the oldest national advertising trade association in the United Read More
Read MoreTroy student remembered
Ayanna Williams Staff Writer Troy’s students gathered together on Feb. 25 to celebrate the life of William Llyod Etheredge with a candlelight vigil. Etheredge exchanged his earthly life for his eternal life on January 15, 2021 in result of a tragic climbing accident. He was a 19-year-old native from Montgomery, Alabama and a music industry major Read More
Read MoreLook back: Troy’s vaccine struggle
Brady Talbert Staff Writer Troy University’s struggle to receive COVID-19 vaccines has been one months in the making; involving other colleges getting doses, unfulfilled expectations, questions left unanswered and conflicting statements made by the state. The Tropolitan learned in January the state had sent Auburn University and the University of Alabama a combined 10,500 coronavirus vaccines. Read More
Read MoreTroy Celebrates Black History
( Photo / Sparsh Shakya ) Martavious Ginyard reads “Walking with the Wind” by John Lewis. Jakiya Dudley Staff Writer Troy University is celebrating Black History Month by having literature read-ins held by Troy Council of Teachers of English, Sigma Tau Delta and the English department. The literature read-ins are events where participants can read a Read More
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