by Linley Mueller On October 27th, Danville hosted its first ever Pride Festival at Pioneer Playhouse! This was a well attended event that had drag performances, local singers, merchandise booths, and a guest speaker. I decided to go with a group of my friends, and we were all so excited to be able to celebrate […]
Category: Features
Flipping the Script: A Brief Guide to Thanksgiving Diversions
by Connor Parks Aren’t you just SO EXCITED to go home for Thanksgiving this year? Those long-awaited “welcome backs,” hugs from grandparents and pets, rediscovering showering without shoes… and the inconsolable existential dread of political polarisation? If you’re anything like me, the anxiety of election aftermath may be seriously overshadowed by the unease of the […]
The Secret Life of Campus
by Anonymous Centre is home to nearly 100 publicly advertised clubs and organizations that can be easily joined by anyone on campus. However, unknown to most, there are many exclusive organizations that wouldn’t have a sign up sheet at a typical expo. What would it be like to be in one of Centre’s secret societies? […]
The Rumor Mill
by Hadley O’Bryan Centre College is officially classified as a small school, home to around 1,400 students most of whom live on campus full time. In a school small enough that all of us could fit in Newlin at one time and have seats still available, one can imagine how quickly rumors spread on this […]
A Badge of Honor: Centre Never Closes
by Hallie Gleeson The temperature has dropped, the leaves have (mostly) fallen, and the sun is getting slower to rise with each passing day. As for me, it’s harder and harder to leave the warmth of my cozy dorm to trudge across a frozen, icy campus to lecture. This is my second Kentucky winter. As […]
Getting Yakked About
by Caroline Seaford Yik Yak is a social media app founded in 2013, allowing users to post anonymously on forums based on a particular location or subject area. It soon became quite popular on college and university campuses for its ease of use, particularly the ability to “call out” or speak on subjects behind a […]
A Migrant’s Journey: Convocation with Javier Zamora
Kali Hernandez Fraire & Abhishek Basnet Renowned writer Javier Zamora visited Centre for the second time on October 2nd for a discussion, dinner, and convocation with students. Zamora put the focus onto his memoir, Solito, released in 2023, where he shared the account of his 11-week journey, migrating unaccompanied from El Salvador to the United […]
Dr. Gates: Worth the Wait
by Connor Parks This was it, the one we’d waited for since early last semester before being postponed had finally arrived! The ability to host Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. as this year’s instalment of the Press Distinguished Lecture Series was an incredible honour for the Centre community, and judging by the crowd size, perhaps […]
The Girls and Ghouls of Breck
by Hallie Gleeson and Aelwen Iredale Late last semester, as email inboxes filled with reminders to sign up for shuttles to the airport and rubrics for final projects, we received a particularly unfortunate notification: we had been placed into the last time slot for the housing lottery–both of us in our roommate pair shared the […]
Colonel’s Quarters: A Totally Trustworthy Guide to Centre’s Housing
by Anonymous Dear young colonel, Welcome to the fighting grounds where you’ll forge yourself into an academic weapon. Here, you’ll build yourself up, find allies, and climb the ranks from teeny-tiny first year to only-sorta-stressed senior. It’s somewhat disconcerting and frightening to arrive at a new place, meet new people, and learn new things. I […]