By JUSTIN ALLARD – ARTS & LEISURE SECTION EDITOR During the summer of 2014, Christian Moody, a Creative Writing professor at Centre College, and a fellow professor at Lesley College, Margaret Kimball received a prestigious Writers-in-Residence in Kentucky’s most pristine national forest, Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest. A collaboration between Bernheim Forest and Sarabande Books, a […]
Category: Arts & Leisure
Centre Announces New Study Abroad: Centre-in-Gaza
By GRAY WHITSETT – OPINIONS SECTION EDITOR Centre College has long been a standard bearer in learning across the globe. As their website proudly states, Centre is “a national leader in international education.” Indeed, with an impressive 85 percent of students having studied abroad, the liberal arts college has a right to be proud of its […]
Smash Mouth rocks Newlin Hall Stage
By MORGAN KING – STAFF WRITER This past weekend, the Newlin stage hosted the illustrious all-star singing group, Smash Mouth. Their concert was a spirited, sometimes rowdy, experience and the group enenergized The Norton Center for the Arts for the night. Smash Mouth’s history speaks volumes for itself. The original quartet began in San Jose, Calif., […]
Centre Jazz revamps for another semester of Swing
By BECKY FULTON – CENTO WRITER Deep in the bowels of Grant Hall 113 practices a small but mighty group of musicians. The Centre Jazz Ensemble rehearses on Wednesday afternoons. Due to such a large number of musicians having graduated, the group only has seven members this semester. “It’s a rebuilding year,” Director of Centre Jazz […]
Take Two: Front and Centre Staging for a Big Return
By THOMAS SACCENTE – STAFF WRITER The sheer diversity of the Centre student body allows its clubs and organizations to vary wildly in nature and purpose, opening the door for countless possibilities for students to learn and grow in a healthy environment. However, out of all of these organizations, the sketch comedy group Front and Centre […]
Storytelling invigorated in Señora Tortuga
By LAURA HUMBLE – STAFF WRITER Sometimes we all need a little reminder of the power of imagination and storytelling. That is exactly what DramaCentre’s production of Roxanne Schroeder-Arce’s Señora Tortuga provided. Señora Tortuga follows the story of an impoverished family who lives in the United States on the Mexican border struggling to survive life’s day-to-day […]
Centre College Ranked #1 College in Boyle County
By GRAY WHITSETT – OPINIONS SECTION EDITOR “There’s a little college down in Kentucky which in 60 years has graduated more men who have acquired prominence and fame than has Princeton in her 150 years.” – Woodrow Wilson So goes the quote that has kept the “little college down in Kentucky” flaming for decades. Centre College, […]
Centre Alumna Kayla Higbee Returns to Costume Shop
By HAYLEY HOFFMAN – MANAGING EDITOR Centre alumna Kayla Higbee ‘14 is back on campus as DramaCentre’s new Costume Shop Manager. While Higbee found costuming by accident, she has always been interested in sewing. As a child, her mother made all of her Halloween costumes by hand and showed her daughter how to stitch them. “I […]
Working through the Stress: Exercising for Leisure
By LAURA HUMBLE – STAFF WRITER Without a doubt, Centre students are hard workers. At any given time of day, there is at least one person working away at a lab report in Young or a research paper in Crouse. Chances are that student only works his or her mind on a regular basis, but not […]
Eclectic Muddy Creek offers Paint Your Own Pottery
By THOMAS SACCENTE – STAFF WRITER Despite its small size, Danville is home to a wide variety of stores for its residents to patronize. Though some take the form of fast food restaurants, one only has to take a walk down West Main Street and the surrounding blocks in order to see the economic diversity that […]