BY KIT HAIST – STAFF WRITER What’s the first word you think of when you hear the term “classical music?” Boring? Esoteric? Snobbish? Or do you think first of names of composers like Beethoven and Bach? A discussion with junior Sebastian Duncan ’19, provides a new perspective on the genre. Duncan’s beginning in music immediately […]
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Faculty Recommended Reads: Dr. Fulfer Suggests Anne of Green Gables
BY KORE SEVERANCE – STAFF WRITER Dr. Kristen Fulfer, a new professor to the chemistry department, suggests reading Anne of Green Gables. “I’ve probably read it, like, 100 times!” Dr. Fulfer says the cover of her paperback copy is now gone and what remains is pages held together by glue and paperclips. She got her […]
Black Panther is a Triumph—and it’s Just the Beginning
BY EMMA PRESBERG – STAFF WRITER With a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and worldwide box office earnings of over one billion dollars, Black Panther and the Wakandan people have taken the world by storm and become an inspiration to people everywhere. As the next installation in the Avengers series, Marvel’s Black Panther is considered […]
Vantage Point Fields Submissions for its Spring Issue
BY OLIVIA MURRELL – STAFF WRITER Being published in Centre’s literary magazine, Vantage Point, can be a transformative experience. “I like to write as a way of processing and coping with things. Having work published gives me the opportunity to extend to an audience who I hope can have a similar helpful and gratifying experience […]
CentOnion: Master Plan Directors Announce Blueprints for Campus Parthenon
BY BRENNEN AMONETT – OPINIONS EDITOR The St. Louis-based architectural, planning and engineering firm, Hastings+Chivetta announced on Tuesday at a student forum the first campus improvement in the development of Centre College’s new master plan. A LEED Certified Parthenon will soon be an aesthetic fixture on campus with plans to complete the structure by the […]
Pulitzer-Prize Winning Novelist Colson Whitehead Speaks at Centre College
BY ROOP PATEL – STAFF WRITER Renowned author Colson Whitehead delivered a convocation on October 2nd to discuss his award-winning sixth novel, The Underground Railroad. This year the First-Year Book Committee, comprised of six Centre College faculty, chose The Underground Railroad for the New Student Book Discussion. The novel follows Cora—a young slave on a […]
Honesty in Comedy: DramaCentre Brings The Odd Couple: Female Version to Campus
BY KIT HAIST – STAFF WRITER Even if you aren’t familiar with Neil Simon’s oeuvre, you’ve still probably heard the phrase “Odd Couple.” It’s a fairly simple concept. “It’s two people living together who are complete opposites,” said Jonathan Hunt ’18, director of The Odd Couple: Female Version. Simon’s original play about “complete opposites” follows […]
Centre Hosts Myanmar Art Exhibit in JVAC Through October 21
BY CHLOE GAMES – STAFF WRITER It is early autumn in Danville; leaves and cool temperatures are beginning to fall about the gnat-infested walkways of Centre College. For many students at Centre, fall is a time to wholeheartedly jump back into college life. As students become involved in their academic and social communities, the world […]
A Conversation with Dr. Jennifer Goff, New Assistant Professor of Dramatic Arts
BY RACHEL BISCHOFF – STAFF WRITER Joining Centre’s faculty this fall is new Assistant Professor of Dramatic Arts, Dr. Jennifer Goff—or as her students like to call her (with her enthusiastic permission), Jen. Jen is the first new faculty member to the Dramatic Arts department in two decades, comprising a third of the department’s main […]
Kentucky Actor Harry Dean Stanton Honored in Annual Festival at Kentucky Theatre
BY JUSTIN KLINE – STAFF WRITER The night of September 28 would have seemed surreal to any regular, passing attendant of the Kentucky Theatre in downtown Lexington. Opened 95 years ago, the cinematic and cultural hub of Lexington has built its present following on its repertory of niche films. It showcases foreign arthouse, classic films, […]