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by Daniel Covington It’s no secret that many students at Centre College rely on Federal Work-Study jobs to help make ends meet. Over the past few years, a growing number of students have begun pushing for the college to raise student wages—arguing that the current pay doesn’t reflect either the cost of living or the…
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by Adam West I remember reading this book when I was younger titled “Too Many Toys” by David Shannon. The main character, David, has too many toys, which cover the floor and make it impossible to walk through the house. When his mom finally confronts David about the mess, he has a reason to keep…
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by Hadley O’Bryan I am a current senior. I was born in the summer of 2004, three years after 9/11 and three years before the release of the first iPhone. I was eight when the Sandy Hook shooting happened, and I hadn’t yet turned nine by the time I was watching the live manhunt for…
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by McKenzie Snellgrove and Linley Mueller Happy Halloween Colonels! If you are thinking about participating in that great modern college tradition of Halloweekend and wondering how to make it the best ever, you have come to the right place! Here at the Cento, we strive to help you make the best grades, cultivate great relationships…
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by Kayla Rogers Due to the immense amount of national news, this article will solely be on the news in the capitol. Please keep an eye out for an article on local, Kentucky news on the Cento website in the coming days. Before I get into politics, I want to address some concerns about bias…
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by Cole Hiller Cases of sexual assault and rape are unfortunately relevant on campus. Safety when going out is very important, and the general student population is aware of how to stay safe and recognize when someone else is in an unsafe situation. On an institutional level, there is the Title IX office which is…
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by Perry Nadreau On Tuesday, President Trump gave his first address to Congress since beginning his second term. While the address was more of a campaign rally than anything substantive, the highlight of the night for me was Al Green, a Democrat representative from Texas, standing up and protesting the removal of Medicare and…
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by Connor Parks 2022 Segway Ninebot Kickscooter F30 (owned by Kendrick Durham) I was only a first-year. It was a crisp fall morning with a robin’s egg sky back in 2023, and I was making my way to Crounse on a day like any other when abject horror struck. As I briskly walked, it came…
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by Abhishek “Abe” Basnet Zenophilia (Xenophilia), or love of the outsider. Also a core tenet of the Delta Chapter of Phi Kappa Tau here at Centre. So far into my time at Centre, I’ve had times when I felt like an outsider who simply didn’t belong. The American landscape can feel very daunting to navigate…
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by Hallie Gleeson What is the purpose of a liberal arts college education? That’s a question that your FYC class probably attempted to answer. (Maybe repeatedly.) Students arriving at Centre hail from many cities, many states, many countries. Each Colonel comes to Centre for a combination of reasons—perhaps to continue playing their favorite sport, to…
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Centre Theatre is working on a play called How to Save Ourselves. If you haven’t heard of it before, that’s because it is currently being created, through a collaboration Centre College has with a theater company up in New York. Dr. Goff is a theater professor at Centre and the director of this play. She…
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by Connor Parks February brought the unfortunate news that Centre Global Executive Director Adam Chen-Dedman would be stepping down from his post effective by the end of the month. By the time you’re reading this, we’ll already have lost a valuable member of our community, and the process of preparing a new director will be…
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by Hadley O’Bryan The Climate Clock counts down to the point where we reach irreversible damage. Five years remain. How can it get worse than this? You spend the morning of February 16th contacting loved ones to see if they and their homes survived the disaster. This has become commonplace for you. You did it…
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Dear Abe, how do I make friends if I didn’t rush? I feel left out! Don’t worry! I didn’t rush either. Running up a hill is kind of hard for an immobile metal statue like myself (if I was able to rush I would definitely have gone ΣΑΕ though). There are a few things to…