By: MARY BURGER – STAFF WRITER Beginning this fall, Centre will have a new option for students who are interested in a study away option and want to experience life in Chicago. Although both involve internships, the Chicago program will be very different from the current Centre study -away program in Washington, D.C. Each student…
By: LAURA HUMBLE – STAFF WRITER This past CentreTerm, several students designed and created a website, Commonwealth Duel, as part of visiting professor and host of KET’s “Kentucky Tonight” Bill Goodman’s class, “Politics and Journalism in the Age of Social Media.” The goal of the website is to cover the upcoming U.S. Senate race…
By: Derek Beaven – Staff writer It’s not easy being a college student. Between balancing the pressures of class, homework, part-time jobs, and social and familial duties, there isn’t much room for relaxation. Recent studies have shown that mental health among college students has become a pressing concern, and Centre is no exception. “We are…
By: John Wyatt – Section Editor The year of 2014 has already seen its share of unrest the past two months. Conflicts in countries like Ukraine and Syria have garnered worldwide coverage in the media. However, several other countries, such as Thailand and Venezuela, have seen similar conflicts and protests, yet have largely flown under…
By: John Wyatt – Section Editor Centre has always had a successful history of receiving gifts from various donors and foundations. Last year, Centre received two new grants, one from the Mellon Foundation and the other from the James Graham Brown Foundation, and is now in the process of implementing funding from these new grants….
By: Alec Hudson – Staff Writer Brazil is on the move. With the first match of the 2014 International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) World Cup coming in less than four months, the nation is scrambling to ensure that the facilities are prepared and that the infrastructure is working. At the same time, they are…
By: CJ Donald – Columnist This semester, I am one of twenty-one students enrolled in Dr. Rick Axtell’s Religion 340 course entitled “Studies in Ethics: Poverty and Homelessness.” The course challenges stereotypes and strengthens social conscience in a variety of ways, the most striking of which includes an overnight stay in a homeless shelter. In…
By: Alex Mulhall – CENTO WRITER The Centre Women’s Lacrosse team is geared up and ready to take a big step forward in 2014. The team, which had its first season only three short years ago in 2011, reached the finals of the inaugural Southern Athletic Association (SAA) tournament last year, losing in a heartbreaker to…
By: CJ Donald – Columnist After a 23-win season that brought the Centre College Colonels (23-4; 13-1 SAA) a Southern Athletic Association Tournament Championship, Centre Men’s Basketball earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Division III Tournament. On Thurs., March 6 at 7 p.m., the Colonels host the LaGrange (Ga.) Panthers in Alumni Gymnasium for Round…
By RACHEL WEST – MANAGING EDITOR In the end, it wasn’t the season that the Centre College Women’s Basketball team had envisioned, but it was a good one all the same. The team’s season ended on Sun., March 2, when they fell 79-60 to Rhodes College in a hard-fought final game of the Southern Athletic Association (SAA)…