By MORGAN KING – STAFF WRITER It is a struggle that Centre students have faced since the moment they have moved into their first dorm room. At Centre, and many other colleges across the nation, the students’ first year is not marked by the typical term “freshman” but instead embrace the more general name of “first-year.” […]
Category: Opinions
Will Work for Experience: Woes of Desperate Interns
BY SARAH CORNETT – EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Each year, students across the nation begin the crucial and chaotic hunt for the perfect internship. If they’re smart, the search begins in the early fall. Several hours are spent scouring through internship directories and databases, organization’s websites, and emails to find a few hundred possibilities. By the winter break they’ve […]
The Gray Area: The Final Shade of Gray
BY GRAY WHITSETT – COLUMNIST We critique, I believe, because we feel. If there is no connection, no emotional investment, there stands no motivation to lift a finger, whether to help or to hurt. Those who don’t bother to care don’t bother to do much of anything. But I also believe we must consistently doubt it. Framed […]
Combating the Censorship of Journalism
By RACHEL WEST – MANAGING EDITOR In a twenty-first century world, it can seem like access to information is immediate. When a starlet causes a scandal, it’s on the Internet in seconds. When a breaking news story comes in, you get an alert on your iPhone telling you all about it. Information, and thus the media, […]
Some transparency needed in regard to Centre’s private investments
BY ALEC HUDSON – STAFF WRITER One of the negative aspects of going to a private liberal arts college is that the school’s endowment is not transparent. Though students and staff are allowed to meet and discuss the endowment with members of the Board of Trustees, the official documents and investments of the endowment are kept […]
Serving Self-Interest: Using skills to create an impact
BY JUSTIN ALLARD – OPINIONS SECTION EDITOR After a very formative Alternative Spring Break experience, I have been thinking about service. I spent a week working with other Centre students in Chicago. We lived in the Darst Center, an organization that serves as a hub for service groups coming to learn about urban poverty. The goal […]
Centre Should Take a Stand for the Rights of Poor Workers
By ALEC HUDSON – STAFF WRITER Centre College has power few even realized it had. While it is an academic power as an educational institution, it is also an economic power as a purchaser of school apparel for the bookstore and for other functions. This apparel is not made here in America; it is made by […]
The Gray Area: Dancing around the Centre grind
By GRAY WHITSETT – COLUMNIST I’d be willing to wager that upward of 95 percent of Centre students have, at one point or another, frequented the institutions we collectively and affectionately refer to as “the Houses.” Nearly every new student during the opening weeks of their Centre career at least samples them, and a healthy amount […]
Take a Hike: the Best Trails and Parks Kentucky Has to Offer
By ADAM FALLUJI – STAFF WRITER This past winter seemed as though it would never end. One of Danville’s worst winters in recent history, there were a number of times where it appeared as though the weather was finally picking up, only to drop right back down within 24 hours. Although Kentucky’s weather is notoriously temperamental, […]
Letter to the Editor: “It’s all about respect”
By MATT GILBERT – CENTRE STUDENT Editor’s Note: This letter is in response to this article published in the March 20, 2014 issue of the Cento. As the recent Cento article “SGA Raises Questions Over Centre’s Smoking Policy” stated, Centre College is one of the few college campuses in Kentucky to have relaxed tobacco policies. Our policy, […]