BY COLLEEN COYLE – STAFF WRITER Few of us consider that every day we sit beside art acquisitions experts, students who can tell you everything and anything about certain works of art, specifically the ones they carry permanently. Small and large, tattoos grace the skin of many students on Centre’s campus, telling stories, carrying symbols, […]
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The Pinto Bean: Marksbury Farm
BY JASON PINTO – STAFF WRITER AND FOOD CRITIC Many Americans seem to have lost the satisfaction of eating something straight from the earth. The near vicinity of Danville offers a wide selection of food, that, while maybe tasty, is a gross abstraction to what a purist defines as “food.” Commercial fast food, Cowan, and […]
Nominating DeVos: Choosing Stagnation over Education
BY LANEY TAYLOR — STAFF WRITER If you rely on financial aid to attend Centre, the confirmation of Betsy Devos should trouble you. If you are a survivor of sexual assault, Betsy DeVos should worry you. If you are a student in America, Betsy DeVos should terrify you. Betsy DeVos’ confirmation will go down in […]
DramaCentre Presents: Love 95 Times
BY EMILY INNES – ARTS AND LEISURE EDITOR DramaCentre’s most recent production, which took place this past weekend, is Love 95 Times, the program’s second FARM Theater collaboration project. The FARM theater company, located in New York, is designed to help early career (and usually female) playwrights get their shows on their feet. The playwright […]
Black History Month
BY ZAMIRAH HUSSAIN- ARTS AND LEISURE EDITOR In 1915, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, African-American historian, author, and journalist, founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). This organization later became the driving force behind the establishment of Black History Month. Originally “Negro History Week,” the leaders of the ASNLH chose the […]
Centre’s Colonel: Icon or Relic?
BY COLLEEN COYLE – STAFF WRITER The history of Centre College is long, and one that many students here at Centre are proud of. Centre remained open during the Civil War, with Old Centre serving as a hospital for both the Union and Confederate troops. The college managed to defeat Harvard at football (once) and […]
Continuing to Build: Previewing the Centre Men’s and Women’s Lacrosse Seasons
BY DEVIN BAKER – STAFF WRITER The 2017 Centre Men’s and Women’s Lacrosse campaigns begin this weekend. Both the Men and Women’s team seem to have the same goal in mind— to continue to build where they left off in the 2016 campaigns. The Centre Women’s Lacrosse team looks improve off last year’s successful campaign […]
Casualties of the Bowling Green Massacre
BY COLLEEN COYLE – STAFF WRITER Kellyanne Conway has a knack for performing interview gymnastics, twisting away from direct answers, spinning around tough questions, and sometimes improvising when she considers it necessary. Simply watch a video of Ms. Conway on any major cable news network and you can’t help but admire her verbal agility, as […]
Refugee Resettlement: Kentucky’s Stories
BY EMILY INNES – ARTS AND LEISURE EDITOR Last year, Centre College inaugurated the Creative Thinking Immersion Program (CTIP), a component of the Creative Centre initiative designed to have students create their own research projects with faculty mentorship and creative thinking and problem solving. Junior Emma Jackson and sophomore Hibah Siddiqui took an immediate interest […]
One Hot Program
BY BECKY FULTON – STAFF WRITER Centre is known for its study abroad programs, but its glass blowing program is prominent as well. After just over 30 years, there remains one constant figure behind Centre’s glass art, H.W. Stodghill, Jr. and Adele H. Stodghill Professor of Art Stephen Powell. Powell began the program in 1985 […]