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BY LAURA HUMBLE – ARTS & LEISURE EDITOR Earlier this year, DramaCentre announced they will produce Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins as the spring term musical. Assassins depicts the group of men and women who have either successfully assassinated or unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate former presidents of the United States. The show opened off Broadway in 1990,
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BY CATHERINE HINES – STAFF WRITER This year, Centre College has welcomed back several alums as fellows, where they will continue their professional development as working members of several of the College’s offices. Throughout the upcoming weeks, The Cento will chat with each of the new fellows about their new positions and how it feels
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BY RACHAEL BLANDAU – STAFF WRITER This year, Centre was given its branch of The Odyssey, an online publication created by the students, for the students. Thus started our “Odyssey” into college students’ and millennials’ new favorite Buzzfeed-esque website. While their stories are relatable, they are not intended to be much more than a commentary
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BY SHRUTI RAM – STAFF WRITER Looking to learn a new sport? Have no fear! A hot new sport is right under our noses, and its name is rugby. Inspired by ball games from Ancient Greece, rugby was a style of football developed in the city of Rugby, Warwickshire, in England. A little known fact
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BY SARAH HOLLOWAY – STAFF WRITER Imagine an idyllic cottage café, cozy and brightened with flowers on every table, with blackboards highlighting a daily menu of locally sourced and often organic meals. An enticing aroma will pull you through the door, and you’ll notice only one thing missing from the charming restaurant—prices. In their place,
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BY BROOKS HOLTON – SPORTS EDITOR September 4, Marietta, Ohio. The Centre College Volleyball team has just dropped the opening game of the season in five sets to Union College (Ky.). It is a disappointing moment – no team wants to start the year 0-1 – but a moment the Colonels could look back on
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BY CHANDLER GARLAND – STAFF WRITER For this fall’s family weekend play, the DramaCentre selected an adaptation of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick written and directed by Centre alumnus Ian Frank. Frank graduated from Centre College in 2004 with a degree in Dramatic Arts and then went on to receive an M.F.A. in Directing from the
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BY GRAY WHITSETT – OPINIONS EDITOR The beginning of the school year is always an emotional time for students of Centre College, a small liberal arts institution in Danville, Kentucky. A time of reunion, regrouping, and reinvigoration, August at Centre also sees the induction of a new class, and every year that class is treated
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BY BEN DUNNING – STAFF WRITER Last season, Centre Football boasted arguably the greatest team in program history consistently dominating their competition en route to an undefeated 10-0 regular season record and a coveted NCAA Tournament bid. Records were broken, accolades were collected and many a play was celebrated on a weekly basis. One question
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BY HAYLEY HOFFMAN – EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Students often recognize how important faculty members, who they interact with during classes, are to their day-to-day lives at Centre. But what about the other staff members who keep the College up and running, and make all aspects of the challenging yet rewarding Centre Experience one worth pursuing? Throughout the