By JOHN WYATT – STAFF WRITER Centre College students pride themselves on giving back to the Danville community. Organizations like CARE and Alpha Phi Omega, as well as the various Greek organizations, are constantly going out into the community and giving back through service. Centre’s After School Program has recently been recognized as an official campus […]
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New ENS Seminar Looks at Green Projects
By MARY BURGER – STAFF WRITER Environmental Studies was introduced as a major at Centre last year. The Environmental Studies (ENS) major begins and ends with an ENS specific course, but between ENS 210 (Introduction to Environmental Studies) and ENS 500 (Senior Seminar), students take a variety of interdisciplinary courses, such as history or philosophy. […]
Second Annual Crit Luallen Dinner Unites Students and Kentucky Politicians
By JEFFREY PODIS – CENTO WRITER On Friday, Oct. 4, the Centre Democrats hosted an event honoring a member of Centre’s Board of Trustees, Crit Luallen, a graduate of Centre and the former Auditor of the State of Kentucky. This is the second year such a dinner has been hosted and for both years, prominent […]
Centre Football Pursues Excellence in 2013
By AUDREY ASH – CENTO WRITER With a philosophy like “Pursue Excellence with a Vengeance,” it’s not surprising that Centre Football has started off the 2013 season with three straight wins. Centre delivered the opening weekend of the semester with a strong win over Bethany College. In the final minute of the game, the defense […]
Athletic Director Returns Home to Centre College
By HAYLEY HOFFMAN – STAFF WRITER One of the most identifiable parts of Centre College is the athletics program. This year, Centre gained a new Athletic Director, Brad Fields, who came to Centre from Eastern University, a Division III school in St. Davids, Pa. Fields grew up in Ashland, KY, and was a three-sport athlete […]
Soccer Colonels Looking to Build on Success
By ANDREW OLSON – CENTO WRITER The Colonels Men’s soccer team that posted a 15-4-3 record, finished tied for first place in the Southern Athletic Association (SAA), and defeated 2011 champions Ohio Wesleyan in the first round of the NCAA tournament last year plans to improve even further on these accomplishments this season. Already eight […]
Debate on DI Player Compensation Continues
By IRINI BROM – CENTO WRITER A half-game suspension—that was Johnny Manziel’s punishment for signing autographs that might possibly be sold for large amounts of money by a third party participant for which there was no proof that he would receive any payment. This has led sports casters, coaches and even players to voice their […]
The Summer of Steroids in Baseball Reaches a Climax
By HAYLEY SMITH – CENTO WRITER Early this past summer the names of almost 20 Major League Baseball (MLB) players were linked to a now closed anti-aging clinic, Biogenesis in Miami. This clinic was connected to Performance Enhancing Drugs (PED). Among these players were Milwaukee Brewer Ryan Braun and the highest paid player in the […]
The Play by Play: Writing About Winning
By CJ DONALD – COLUMNIST Does winning really matter? This summer, I had the opportunity to visit my younger siblings in NC. I happened to arrive in time for the middle school basketball playoffs and, as a sports fanatic, I attended as many competitions as was humanly possible. Fortunately, the Donald clan produced stellar-performances and […]
First-Year Book Author Temple Grandin
By HAYLEY HOFFMAN – STAFF WRITER On Thurs., Sept. 12, students and faculty gathered to listen to the first-year book author Temple Grandin speak about her autobiography Thinking in Pictures. Grandin is an autism activist and serves as a consultant to the livestock industry about animal behavior in slaughterhouses. She is a professor of Animal […]