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? […]
Category: Features
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 […]
Did You Know? Darth Vader Visited Centre
by Adam West On the ninth of September, James Earl Jones passed away at the age of 93. James Earl Jones appeared in movies including The Sandlot, The Hunt for Red October, Field of Dreams, and Coming to America, although he is most known for voicing characters like the infinitely wise Mufasa in The Lion […]
The Year in Retrospective
by Daniel Covington and Abigail Rollins Looking back on another great but challenging year at Centre College, we are here to remember all of the academic year’s greatest moments! Champions Hall: Long-awaited and encompassing a 50-million-dollar budget, Champions Hall finally opened—and to much praise! The building’s opening is preceded by that of the clock tower […]