{"id":8537,"date":"2024-12-15T15:12:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T20:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/?p=8537"},"modified":"2024-12-15T15:12:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T20:12:35","slug":"a-trip-down-memory-lane-the-cento-on-past-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cento.centre.edu\/index.php\/2024\/12\/15\/a-trip-down-memory-lane-the-cento-on-past-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"A Trip Down Memory Lane: The Cento on Past Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Connor Parks
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Well all, election season is now past us. With a new issue on the horizon, I decided to finally answer a question I\u2019d had for quite some time: how had Centre\u2019s student body reacted to previous presidential elections, as seen in past editions of The Cento?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I turned my eyes to the invaluable Centre College Institutional Repository Collection (CCIRC) and basically had a field day. Just a shameless plug for this database: if you\u2019re ever seeking anything in particular from Centre\u2019s history from 1950 to 2000, this is your place, not to mention all the wild and unbelievable articles I found during my research. It\u2019s worth spending some time in. One of the first things I noted was that earlier issues, as info-rich as they were, hardly discussed elections between 1952 and 1964, with the first real evidence of the Cento\u2019s political side emerging in the late 60s and early 1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Clearly, Centre was feeling some kinda way about the country\u2019s next four years. I\u2019m guessing Vietnam might\u2019ve had something to do with it.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 1972 election between Richard Nixon and George McGovern, meanwhile, exploded in coverage. Editions before and after the election included numerous student opinions, and even the results of a mock election held on campus between the candidates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Pete Tamborski, now a Cincinnati-area attorney, with an unabashed take on the 1972 election).We went from no politics at all to no-holds-barred!)<\/em>
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Commentary on the 1976 and 1984 elections was surprisingly absent, aside from a few period-appropriate cartoons. I find the \u201884 one eerily relevant:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Interestingly enough, the 1980 election was apparently important enough to warrant an entire Cento edition devoted to it. There was school-related material as well, but most of the issue was election-centric, including man-on-the-street answers to the question on everyone\u2019s mind:
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Finally, with no issues covering the 1988 or 1992 elections available online, the 1996 election brought with it some reasonable, non-controversial post-election discussion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Who\u2019s to say? Perhaps in 30 years\u2019 time our own coverage pieces will be stumbled upon by future Cento readers and editors, and the cycle will only continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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