By Sarah Nipper, Staff Writer and Social Media Editor There has been much buzz about the new athletic building Centre will be unveiling this academic year. Despite seeing and hearing the massive construction site almost every day, I realized that I didn’t actually know much about it. There has been heavy discourse amongst students about […]
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Boyle County Bans Books
by Linley Mueller, Staff Writer On October 19th, schools in Boyle County, Kentucky decided to ban 100 books. When Senate Bill 150 was passed, there were intense restrictions put on talk about sexual and gender identity in classrooms. As of March 2023, the book ban has spread to many schools. School libraries removed books that […]
Centre United… and Divided
by Olivia Barker, Arts & Leisure Editor and Staff Writer Currently, there are 575 students working on Centre’s campus. By the end of the year, this number will be near 700. With such a large margin of Centre’s students employed on campus, work-study has an incredible impact on Centre’s culture, seen by many students as […]
VOTE!
By Hallie Gleeson, Opinion Editor and Staff Writer Do you remember the School House Rock song we all watched in fifth grade about voting? Excellent news: now you’re finally allowed to exercise your civic duty (aka one of the best parts about being an American citizen!) On September 19th, tens of thousands of new voters […]
A Fabulous Family Weekend
“We’ve been to every single one. Always good memories, but I have to say, I think today’s been our best.” By Sarah Nipper On the weekend of September 22nd to 24th, Centre hosted its annual Family Weekend, and the campus was filled with students showing their families around campus and participating in some of the […]
Midterm Election 2022: What You Need to Know
By Duffey Oakley, staff writer. Election season is upon us again. Although this is a midterm year with less media hype than a presidential election year, there are many important statewide and local candidates and referendum questions on the ballot.
The Battle over Louisville’s Fairness Ordinance
By Duffey Oakley, staff writer. On August 30th, a U.S. district court judge ruled that Louisville’s “Fairness Ordinance”—city legislation passed in 1999 that prevents discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, violated the free speech and religious freedom of a wedding photographer. This clash is part of a national battle between religious freedom and anti-discrimination laws, with LGBTQ+ rights hanging in the balance.
Cyber Security and You, by Andy Blair, Ethan Banzon, Vedant Bhong, Muchiri Kahwai
Cyber security is something that not many people think about that often, but impacts our lives on a daily basis. With the increasing presence of technology in our society people are putting more and more personal information online, putting them at risk for scams and identity fraud. Cyber Security refers to a system of technological […]
Centre College’s Idris Irihayme of ‘23 is awarded the Kentucky Academy of Science Award, Maddie Thompson
Current Centre College class of ‘23 member Idris Irihayme recently was awarded first place in the Kentucky Academy of Science (KAS) 2021 Annual Meeting for their research project entitled “Morphological Plasticity of Green Frogs (Lithobates clamitans) and Wood Frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus) as Indicators of Eutrophication Levels. The meeting was held virtually this past November, 2021. […]
Reveal of Centre College’s January tenure and promotions, by Maddie Thompson
Centre College recently announced ten faculty members who will be awarded tenure and will receive promotions to an associate professorship in effect September 1, 2022. They are as follows: Thomas Allen (computer and data science), Amanda Falk (biology), Satty Flaherty-Echeverria (Spanish), Amy Frederick (art history), Megs Genreau (philosophy and environmental studies), Karin Gill (psychology, with […]