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news for the students, by the students VOL. LXXXVII No. IV

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Students attempted to set Guiness World Record Tips from the Student Senate

By MARY BURGER STAFF WRITER

While a round of tennis is a lot of fun, it is also exhausting. No one knows that better than sophomores Lucas Brooks, Logan Henize, junior Kate Tomey, and Head Coach of Tennis at Danville High School Mark Mojesky. On Oct. 24, the three Centre students and tennis coach sought to break the Guinness Book of World Records in the longest tennis doubles match.

The current record is held by four men from the Netherlands, Sipke de Hoop, Wichard Heidekamp, Andre Poel, and Rob Hamersma, whose match lasted 57 hours, 32 minutes, and 27 seconds.

Brooks, Henize, Tomey, and Mojesky played for 24 hours. While the recordbreaking attempt fell short, it was not without worthwhile efforts.

“It was a very trying but great experience. You really can’t prepare to play tennis that long while going to school. As part of the tennis team, I did play quite a bit, but it is just not possible to be able train for something like that properly,” Brooks said.

“We had to will ourselves to keep playing. The toughest thing for me was the three hour time period from about 4 a.m. to 7 a.m. [where] there was no crowd at all and it was cold. We had great support through the event and the crowd kept me going, but those three hours without anyone there were very difficult.”

Prior to this experience, the longest match Coach Mark Mojesky had participated in lasted around three and a half hours. In order to prepare for this challenge of 58 hours, he tried to hit tennis balls at least twice a week, sometimes with coaches from the University of Kentucky.

He also ran and cycled in order to build up endurance.

“The biggest challenge was focus, mentally more than physically. The elements were pretty challenging. It was cold, dark, and the lights went off at one point,” Coach Mojesky said.

The players also had challenges that went beyond the elements. The match began at 3 p.m., which meant that each player was already awake for several hours.

One student even had an exam on Friday.

Each had gone about their normal day, and then attempted to play tennis for two

By MARY BURGER STAFF WRITER

Young students enter college with a variety of notions about how to suceed. Each student at Centre College strives to do their best during their four years, however sometimes images of life at college get shatered upon arriving.

The amount of time and work required, living with a stranger, and making important life decisions are all something younger students struggle with.

The Student Senate is a studentelected body that serves as a forum for academic concern and a voice for students on committees of the College Council (the primary body in campus governance, comprised of faculty, staff, and student members).

Senators receive nominations from the Senate of the previous year, and are subject to election by the student body. Upon election, senators serve two years as senators starting their junior year.

The Senate seeks to provide students with academic tips and tools for success in their remaining time at Centre College, helping them avoid some of the pitfalls first-years tend to fall in to or to learn about aspects of PHOTO COURTESY OF CENTRE ATHLETICS Mental and physical fatigue, weather, and finding time to eat and use the restroom were all factors working against the players during their match. college that they may not know about. and a half straight days. Had they began playing soon after waking up for the day, it is possible that the match would have continued past 24 hours.

The players had a quick break between sets in which they could get water, energy bars, bananas, or other necessities to keep playing. They also had a ten minute break between matches, during which some players tried to capture a few minutes of sleep.

“For the first ten hours or so, we didn’t run into too much trouble, but as the night went on, the temperature continued to drop, our legs got tired, and it became harder and harder to keep playing. Energy came to each of us in random spurts. It was like riding a roller coaster, and each

hill had a steeper drop than the last. Fortunately, the sunrise picked up our spirits enough to keep going for a little while longer, but by twelve o’clock or so it was apparent that 58 hours was going to be an unreachable goal. After 24 hours of continuous play, we had pushed ourselves to limit both physically and mentally, and we mutually decided that it was time to stop,” Henize said.

While they may not have broken the record, it is possible that Brooks, Henize, Tomey, and Mojesky broke the record for the longest mixed genders doubles match since the current world record is held by all males. However, that information is not easily accessible. Both Brooks and Mojesky said they might consider attempting the

record again if they had better conditions.

“I would consider trying to break it, but only in the perfect circumstance, such as if the college ever got us real indoor tennis courts. It would have to be indoors where we could control the climate instead of it being very cool at one point during the event and then heating up to where we were struggling with the heat during the day,” Brooks said.

Brooks, Henize, Tomey, and Mojesky sought to do more than just break the world record, though. They also raised money and awareness for the Wilderness Trace Child Development Center. This was accomplished through corporate sponsors, donations, and t-shirt sales. The money raised totaled approximately $2,000.

An Investigation into where Citation Money goes

By JOHN WYATT

Research Opportunities: Coming into campus as a firstyear, I wish that I knew more about all of the research opportunities that Centre professors conduct. When I entered my major, I wish I had the opportunity to gain some experience applying the different information we learned through our courses.

I focused a lot of time and effort on trying to apply to Research Experience for Undergraduates (REUs) summer programs only to find that most of the programs wanted past experience or wanted a clearer definition of my study and career goals. During my junior year, I hunted for a professor willing to do research.

I found that most of the professors performing research preferred younger students to train since they are around for a longer period of time.

In the end, I did find a professor to take me on and we have now worked together for almost a year.

Doing research with Centre professors allows you to develop lab and communication skills and gives you real-world experience in a contained environment that will allow you to gain more clarity on a major and career path. – Grace Anne Martin, Division III Senior Representative

The concept of citations is one that each Centre student learns about during orientation week.

The College, typically through the Department of Public Safety (DPS), issues citations as a means to deter students from any behavior that might break college policy. Different citations come with different fees, depending upon what policy they broke.

There is confusion among students surrounding where money goes to, and how the College deteremines the monetary amounts behind various citations.

“All fines collected go back to the College’s general fund [officially an account called the Disciplinary Funds]. If vandalism occurs, for example, it’s the general fund that pays for the repairs. If a student is found responsible for vandalism, they pay for the damage and any associated fines/rewards (again, as set by the Student Government Association (SGA) and as described in the Student Handbook),” Vice President and Dean of Student Life (SLO) Randy Hays said.

“This money is used for general operations for the college as one of several miscellaneous acounts that all go towards funding the ‘bottom line.’ So far this semester, the Disciplinary Funds account totals $1,950, with fines ranging from $25 to $200,” Assistant Controller in the Finance Office Scott Ownes said.

“None of that money comes back to

DPS,” Department of Public Safety Officer Rubin Mosley said.

While the College set the monetary amounts for fines several years ago, occasional updates occur under the collaboration of Hays, the SLO, DPS, SGA, and/or Student Judiciary.

Usually, the College revists monetary amounts for citations if the fines don’t show any signs of detering students.

“If after a while we determine the fine has no impact, especially if it’s a major saftey issue and students are simply willing to pay the fine instead of complying with policy, then we will go and sit down with Student Life and SGA and come up with a new solution, in some cases that means raising the fine,” Director of Department of Public Safety Gary Bugg said.

One example Bugg gave of raising a fine occurred several years ago, before the current Campus Center was built.

“We had a big problem of students sneaking on to the roofs of buildings or breaking into buildings after hours.

There were a lot of students that would sneak up on to the roof of the old Cowan building, and in some cases even riding their bicycles around,” Bugg said. “So we approached SGA and asked they raise the fine to $500 [the current fine today] to provide a major deterent. We saw a dramatic decline in the number of citations for that issue.”

A more recent example is when SGA and the SLO were discussing the citation policy for dorm parties.

“That is a recent example of where we [DPS] had a lot of input in,” Bugg said.

“We did a lot of work around the old policy to make it fair to everyone involved, but to also put some pressure and responsibility on the hosts to deter them in the future. We try to remain concious of what’ fair to the student, but also to balance what is in the best interest of public saftey as well.”

While DPS has input on citations and fines, ultimately all changes must go through SGA and the SLO. The majority of fines (“in sheer number,” according to Bugg) typically come from original containers of alcoholic beverages.

“Typically there are three to four citations per party night,” Mosley said. “With the new citation policy for dorm parties, that one has become the largest in terms of money being paid,” Bugg said.

The citation system works as a deterrent against certain behaviors, but it is not the only thing that is used by the college, especially when it comes to issues involving alcohol.

The College utilizes alcohol education programs, alcohol assessments with a counselor, meetings with a professional staff member, and the occasional call home to parents.

“A few years ago, we worked with SGA on defining alcohol citations for students and what happens to them after they’ve been cited, and through that discussion we came up with the Good Samaritan and Medical Amnesty Policy,” Bugg said.

“In that case, the fine was actually decreased, or completely negated, since under the Medical Amnesty policy you don’t receive any fine. That’s just one way where we try to find solutions besides raising fines to deter students.”

These conversations are an ongoing process on the part of SGA, the SLO, and DPS in an effort to constantly assess the effectiveness of various fines and citations.

“Our biggest concern as of right now is the abuse of alcohol, so we are always talking about ways to combat that,” Bugg said. “At one point we talked about citing not only hosts for room parties, but any individuals in the rooms as well. But we found out that that created more issues than it solved: Officers had trouble controlling traffic in and out of the room, tensions would grow as students were asked to wait, and sometimes we even had students jumping out of windows to avoid getting cited. Obviously, we decided to scrap that plan.”

“I hope that the citation system provides a strong deterrent – in the sense that I hope folks have better things to spend $50 on than the privilege of walking around with an open can of beer (which I might add I can’t do as a 50-year old man in the town of Danville without risking being arrested.),” Hays said.

“From what I hear from other Deans at similar schools, we have fewer problems with vandalism/poor behavior at Centre than most. That said, one problem is one too many—‘cause we’re better than that.”

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CLUB EVENTS

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Pizza and Politics November 6, 11:30 a.m.

Crounse 301 Created Equal/Civil Rights Session Novemeber 6, 7 p.m.

Ewen Meeting Room

Russian State Symphony November 7, 8 p.m.

Newlin Hall What an English Major Did for Me Noevember 10, 7:30 p.m.

Grissom Reading Room

CARE Blood Drive November 10, 10:30 a.m.

Ewen Meeting Room

Musician Showcase November 9, 3 p.m.

Newlin Hall

Swimming and Diving November 7 Centre at Transylvania

United Way Favors Auction November 12, 8 a.m.

Nichols Dining Room

Witness to Inocence November 11, 7 p.m.

Young 113

Women’s Soccer November 7 Centre vs. Birmingham Southern

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Professor Relationships: At Centre, you can really get to know your professors on another level, and I wish that I had taken advantage of this opportunity sooner. I’m naturally a very shy person, and I was too nervous to drop by my professor’s office hours. What questions should I ask? What if I don’t have any questions; should I still visit them, and what do I even talk about?

Looking back now from my perspective as a senior, I should have visited my professors at least once every week or so. I now know how much Centre professors care. There’s so much more to your relationship with your professors than your paper conferences.

My professors have experienced college, higher education, and the job search. They help me to be a better scholar.

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Protests and riots in Hong Kong escalate as China exerts influence

By THOMAS SACCENTE STAFF WRITER

Pro-democracy movements are nothing new to China. Although the country has succeeded in becoming one of the top economic and political powers in the world, many of its citizens have taken to the streets over the years to protest the government’s harsh, and often inhumane, regulations. Starting in late September, a new series of protests arose in China, not on the mainland, but in Hong Kong, a tiny “Special Administrative Region” on China’s eastern coast.

These protests came about as a result of the Chinese government’s new proposal to limit Hong Kong’s voting practices for their leaders.

Starting in 2017, China will make them choose from a group of candidates chosen by a special pro-Beijing committee instead of their own candidates. Word of these protests, collectively called the Umbrella Rebellion, has taken the world by storm, and awareness of the movement has continued to grow since its inception.

When talking about the ongoing protests, it is important to understand that many of their underlying issues came about as a result of Hong Kong only being a part of China since near the end of the twentieth century.

From 1842 to 1997, Hong Kong was a colony of the British Empire as a trade port. This allowed Hong Kong and China to exist as two separate entities, with Hong Kong modeling its government and economy after that of Britain, and China developing a Communist regime.

However, this all came to an end when Britain handed Hong Kong back over to the Chinese as a Special Administrative Region in 1997.

This deal was made under the principle of “One Country, Two Systems,” meaning that the economic and political systems established in Hong Kong would carry on after the changeover and that China would not fundamentally change them once they got the country.

This is where the recent protests come into play. Hong Kong has elected its own government since the transition in 1997, and had no intention of surrendering that freedom prior to the Chinese government’s proposal for reform.

Chinese government saying that

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While thousands of people have flocked to protest, it is unclear whether China will back down and allow Hong Kong to choose its own candidates.

they would start choosing what candidates the Hong Kong citizen could vote for has struck many as a clear violation of both the terms of their inclusion into China and their democratic right to hold their own elections.

Some even fear that the government will use this as a stepping-stone to take away more of their rights in the future.

According to Assistant Professor of Politics and International Studies Dr. Dina Badie, much of the tension between the two sides stems from a complete contrast in political ideologies.

“A free and fair election means something completely different to individuals in Hong Kong than to individuals in mainland China, especially the Communist Party,” Dr. Badie said.

“There’s this gap in terms of how political culture is conceptualized in

each of these places and so that relationship is very tense on that front.”

Because of the Chinese government’s strict adherence to the complete domination of the populace, thousands of Hong Kong citizens have taken to the streets to protest the violation of their rights.

College students make up most of the protests, and are taking it upon themselves to spread civil disobedience in any way it can in order to show their disapproval. This includes blocking busy streets and causing chaos among local businesses.

Eventually, the protests came to include the Occupy Central movement, which is very similar to Umbrella Rebellion in both its ideology and methods of operation.

In total, according to the BBC News,

this is the biggest large-scale protest in Hong Kong in years, with at least nine thousand protesters involved since the beginning of September.

However, while the number of protesters is still growing, there is still much doubt on whether their efforts will produce palpable results.

Assistant Professor of Chinese Dr. Kyle Anderson is skeptical that the Chinese government will see to it that there will not be any lasting outcome to the rebellion despite the work the protestors have done so far, “If I know the Chinese government at all, it’s going to get its way one way or another, Dr. Anderson said.

“What I expect are very small concessions given to the occupiers. There will be some changes, there will be some movement a little bit that looks

like China is negotiating on the issue, but I see, a few years down the road, them stalling and not doing anything.

It’ll be just another way for the Chinese government to save face while not allowing for any substantive change to occur because they don’t want a selfgoverning city.”

Although the rebellion has found support among the general population, particularly with young people, there are still large numbers of people who do not support the rebellion.

Sometimes this has escalated to fighting between protestors and non-protestors.

According to Assistant Professor of History Dr. John Harney, the swarm of propaganda that the Chinese government has released into both the Chinese and Hong Kong media to disrupt the protests, as well as discouraging people in the mainland from starting their own rebellions is at fault.

“The Chinese government has been using words like ‘chaos’ to describe it [the rebellion], that they [the protestors] are responsible, that they are opponents of morality, that they are disruptive. All of that is exaggerated at best, but what the Chinese government is trying to do is depict the protestors as irresponsible and being harmful to society,” Dr. Harney said.

While this kind of propaganda may seem ridiculous to some, it is actually working to a degree. Many of the people in Hong Kong have bought in to this kind of portrayal, namely the elderly, more conservative citizens, but also large business owners and business types.

As a result, Hong Kong society has remained divided on the issue of the Umbrella Rebellion and whether their work will actually benefit Hong Kong as a whole. Chinese government’s has implementation of their more traditional methods of silencing dissent via the use of police brutality and Internet censorship has not helped matters.

It is uncertain at this point if the revolution will lead to any kind of lasting change but the people of Hong Kong have succeeded in making their voices heard, and their cries have reached the ears of people all over the world.

Perhaps not now, but eventually, this will inspire some demonstrable change in the area that will allow the Chinese and Hong Kong populations to come to an agreement.

The impacts of Test Anxiety on Students and how to handle it

By LAURA HUMBLE STAFF WRITER

When you sit down to take a test, do you experience nausea, sweating, trouble breathing, difficulty concentrating, or all of the above? If so, then you may suffer from text anxiety.

Test anxiety is a noted psychological condition in which an individual feels distressed before, during, or after taking a test, and often impacts how an individual performs on the test.

The causes of test anxiety are varied, including the individual’s fear of failure, a history of poor test performance and/or a lack of preparation that leaves the individual feeling overwhelmed.

Chances are either you or someone you know suffers from test anxiety.

This condition is all too common on college campuses, especially colleges with high-stress environments such as Centre College.

“Although we don’t have any survey data to show how prevalent test anxiety is on our campus, we certainly have it, and believe it is more prevalent in first-year students who are still learning to adjust to the academic rigors of college life,” Director of Coun-

seling Services at Parsons Health Center Kathy Miles said.

“There are good strategies to address test anxiety, and students can learn those and improve.”

It is not unusual for students to go to Parsons for counseling on their test anxiety.

“Students with test anxiety do come in to see a counselor in Counseling Services. We see a significant number each year who address this issue— sometimes they only come in for this issue, and sometimes they come in for other issues, such as generalized anxiety,” Miles said. “Our two counselors in Counseling Services in Parsons are experienced in working with students with test and performance anxiety.”

Sophomore Andrea Marchyn is one of the many sufferers of test anxiety on Centre’s campus.

“When I have test anxiety, I get jittery and can’t focus. It will last all morning and [I] find myself having difficulty sleeping the night before. I suffer from anxiety when I take tests dealing with math because there is usually only one right answer and that can be nerve-wracking,” Marchyn said.

How does the stress of tests at Cen-

tre College negatively affect its students?

“My test anxiety has definitely increased since coming to Centre. I never had test anxiety before, not even when taking an important test like the ACT,” Marchyn said.

“My test anxiety has definitely increased since coming to Centre. I never had test anxiety before, not even when taking an important test in high school like the ACT.” “I definitely think test anxiety is a problem on Centre’s campus. We are all under a lot of stress and held to a higher academic standard.”

When asked how to combat test anxiety, Miles gave several examples of what students can do.

“Prepare and study well for the test; get adequate sleep the night before; eat breakfast that morning; examine any negative [or] self-defeating think-

ing you have about your performance, such as catastrophizing, and change it to validating, encouraging and realistic thinking; check out your breathing as you go into a test—do abdominal breathing to lower anxiety; practice meditation and mindfulness regularly…; [and] review the entire test first,” Miles said.

“I try to prepare and make sure I have time to eat breakfast/lunch in a relaxed state before my test. I put away my notes five minutes before class to avoid the anxiety of trying to cram that last bit of knowledge in,” Marchyn said.

While students are the ones who suffer from test anxiety, professors see it in their classrooms every year.

“My first year of teaching, I had a student who sat in the front of the room, particpated actively in class, knew the material, and she completely bombed the test,” Professor of Chemistry Dr. Jennifer Muzyka said.

While test anxiety can create a sense of isolation among students, professors are aware of the issue and have helped students in the past who deal with it.

“My first piece of advice was I told her to quit studying up to the last min-

ute before the test. I told her to relax for an hour and watch The Price is Right. Sure enough, on the next test she went from a ‘D’ to a ‘B,’” Dr. Muzyka said.

According to Dr. Muzyka, test anxiety is a common problem among her students, especially in classes like Organic Chemsitry.

“Even people that don’t have test anxiety in other classes usually have it in my class,” Dr. Muzyka said.

“This class [Organic] is very important to their major, and I know that test anxiety can be crippling, even in a regular class.”

Like Miles, Dr. Muzyka suggests the basics: a good night’s sleep and time for the brain to unwind.

While faculty as a whole have not addressed the issue, it is something that the chemistry department has discussed.

“I’ve talked a lot with other chemists about the issue. It’s so common among already stressed-out, pre-medical students here at Centre College,” Dr. Muzyka said.

If you feel that you may suffer from test anxiety, practice any of the methods mentioned above, or visit a Parsons Counselor.

Cleaning Products and the Environmental Risk Student Senate

By LUCIE THURMAN CENTO WRITER

Centre College has a staff of workers who clean our campus daily in order to keep it sanitized and a comfortable living space.

But what exactly are the cleaning products they are using and how do such products effect the environments and the Centre community’s health?

After sitting in the bathroom of the Kappa Alpha Theta house for 45 minutes waiting for our house keeper to arrive for her morning shift, Nancy pushed her cart of cleaning products through the doors.

Nancy shared that, through her custodial training, she learned to break down the sanitization process into steps, separating the chemicals used to polish from those which decontaminate.

This is just one aspect of her job in which she makes adjustments for her own safety when dealing with chemicals and their potentially harmful fumes.

Nancy informed me that the product she uses most in our living space was the disinfectant Virex II 256.

After researching the ingredients present in Virex, I found that its environmental effects, such as reactivity, waste, or fire hazards, are low risk; however there are concerns of respiratory disorders resulting from exposure.

The company of the cleaning product suggests the use of a face shield or gloves for personal protection if good ventilation is not maintained or major spillage occurs.

Nancy claims she wears protective gloves when using the industrial disinfectant but that it is not necessary to wear the face mask because “our bathrooms have windows, are bigger and have good ventilation.”

This brings up an important point, that environment matters. When I lived in a tiny space, such as the dorms in old quad where there is very poor ventilation, the odors of the chemicals used to clean the bathroom were much stronger and potent where the ventilation might not be as good.

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There are many factors at play when analyzing our society’s perception of chemical use for sanitation: age, location, lifestyle, financial interest etc.

The bottom line is these products have harmful side effects but they serve an important purpose that many in society deems worth the hazards. Our culture is adapting in that the scent a Glade plug in produces is worth the possible health or environmental risks.

While parties with financial interest influence us to their advantage to a significant extent to prove there is no evidence of the sources being causal to the health effects, there is more to big picture. I know chemicals are bad for me, so then why do I not plan my life around avoiding this potential danger?

Depending on your age, location or lifestyle, people have different perceptions on what health is and how it should be valued.

It is to be recognized that a majority of our society are valuing their decisions based on pleasure and convenience rather their own health, which is significantly alarming.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Halloween parties at their houses, getting coffee together at Sandella’s, and the casual life-chat with my professors, show me that I have more than a mentor—I have a friend in each of my professors, which is what the Centre experience is all about.” – Kaitlin Parrish, Division II Junior Representative

makes money that we lose the ability to think critically about anything that isn’t organic chemistry or trigonometric integrals or Benji Compson.

Experimenting with as disparate fields as Physics and Art History affords an opportunity to use various cognitive functions to their fullest, employing one to think analytically, critically, creatively, and comprehensively.

That is to say, engaging in material that may be “out of your niche” forces one not only to think in new and refreshing ways, but also to alter and further develop one’s study methods, worldview, and conception of the self.

As a student who as a first-year would cheekily assert his unalterable plan to major in Behavioral Neuroscience and Mathematics, I implore you to consider experimenting—who knows where it may take you?” – Logan Pauley, President of the Student Senate

Being academically adventurous: “School is weird. It’s this thing that’s supposed to teach you how to think about things and do things and prepare for “real things” after an eon of schooling finally ends—almost as if being a student isn’t effectively a real experience, only another step in the climb towards the apogee that is being a person.

As such, so often do we as students Like us on Facebook and follow become caught in the stress and ineffable importance of being a doctor, @CentreSenate on Twitter. Contact lawyer, scientist, or anything that the Student Senate with any questions.

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We Canceled the Ghana Trip, and here’s why

By JARED THOMPSON STAFF WRITER

On Oct. 9, a decision was made to cancel the CentreTerm study abroad trip being led by Associate Professors of Education Sarah Murray and J.H. Atkins to Ghana.

The reasons provided to explain the cancellation were primarily concerns from students, parents, and administrators over safety in the wake of the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa. While certainly the deaths of thousands of Africans and aid workers isn’t something to be taken likely, it is in these times of crises that we must be most critical of our viewpoints, our preconceived notions, and out underlying motivations.

Why was this study abroad trip canceled?

What does this case tell us about the way we as a society see Africa?

What can we do to change this?

To begin, it is worth examining the decisions made by our administrators and faculty. According to Director of International Programs Dr. Milton Reigelman the decision to cancel the trip was made “when there were the most dramatic headlines about the one case in [the United States].”

Atkins confirmed that this media coverage, and more specifically the death of Thomas Eric Duncan in Dallas, “got things going” with regard to parental concern. With heightened pressure from parents, joint talks between Dr. Reigelman, Professors Murray and Atkins, Vice President for Academic Affairs Stephanie Fabritius, and President John Roush began to discuss the status and future of the trip.

These talks combined with, as Dr. Reigelman would put it, “media and political overkill,” ultimately resulted in the cancellation of the Ghana trip.

Again, Dr. Reigelman contends that college “erred on the side of safety” in order to “protect the long-term interests of Centre.” The College, in my opinion, made a fairly reasonable decision when it was faced with an extreme level of opposition.

When parents are leaning on administrators to cancel a trip to the degree that they were, a simple case of the flu in Ghana would have resulted in massive outrage. This could have jeopardized Centre’s legitimacy when planning future study abroad trips and cause a public relations fiasco, to say the least.

To Centre’s credit, an alternative trip was organized to Merida, Mexico, allowing students to get some similar hands-on teaching experience which they would have gotten in Ghana.

However, this isn’t to suggest that the college is blameless or free from critique concerning their decisions.

Centre, in the name of saving face, canceled a study abroad trip to a country with fewer diagnosed cases of the Ebola virus than the United States of America.

The College, in deciding to cancel the trip, risks confirming societal Ebola virus hysteria and validating widely-held stereotypes about the most impoverished areas of West Africa. In addition, one must call into question Centre’s consistency in canceling the trip. Other trips are taking place to locations that are arguably just as dangerous, such as Israel, which was a warzone as recently as Aug. 26 and is still experiencing fatal violence as recently as Oct. 22. Surely active deaths should be as much as cause for concern as a regional Ebola threat.

In addition, travel to Spain, a country that has not been declared Ebola free by the World Health Organization, is being allowed during CentreTerm trips and this fall by students in our European semester-long programs.

We have to acknowledge that there is risk to international travel regardless of the locale, but a consistent logic must be applied to equally protect all of our students from real danger—not the imagined menace of Ebola.

This isn’t to say that we have to cancel the aforementioned travels but that we must consistently base our decisions on a pragmatic evaluation of the risks present in each scenario and not allow ourselves to fall victim to sensationalism.

Centre, however, had to contend with this hysteria regardless of its rationality. Instead, Centre students should be asking why these administrators were unfairly put in the position of canceling the Ghana trip in the first place. We must ask why our parents, why pundits, and why our society is in a state that can be described as nothing less than a frenzy over the Ebola virus.

Our society created an environment in which we are willing to cancel a trip to an African nation with a widely implemented universal healthcare system—one that Bill Gates called the most successful on the continent. This should be alarming because of what

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One of the main critiques leveled at the United States is valuing “white lives” over “black lives” as the Ebola virsus ravages multiple African states.

is suggested about our underlying attitudes concerning Africa and the specific stereotypes that our society holds up as gospel.

A member of Centre’s faculty, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, questioned whether or not it was incorrect to claim that coverage of the outbreak “shows just how deeply the legacies of racism and colonialism continue to drive paranoia and xenophobia in the United States and Europe.”

Robin Wright, fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center agrees with this professor, writing for CNN that the Ebola virus “is increasing racial profiling and reviving imagery of the ‘Dark Continent’.”

We know almost nothing of the thousands who have perished in West Africa, and artist André Carrilho argued that “people in the African continent are more regarded as an abstract statistic than a patient in the U.S. or Europe.”

These viewpoints only echo the sentiments of our own Associate Professor of International Studies Dr. Lori Hartmann-Mahmud, who wrote “how sad that in our panicked quest to protect ourselves, we lose sight of the humanity of the victims.”

Google Trends and other social media metrics confirm unconscious prejudice by noting massive spikes of activity only in response to cases on United States soil. These societal attitudes only strengthen the argument that our public discourse is driven by decidedly Amerocentric viewpoints.

“Centre, in the name of saving face, canceled a study abroad trip to a country with fewer diagnosed cases of the Ebola virus than the United States of America. ” Any semblance of a healthcare infrastructure in Liberia and Sierra Leone can be destroyed by civil war and America can exacerbate the conflict by consuming conflict diamonds, but when a virus of African origin is present on American soil, only then do the affairs of West Africa become objects worthy of the attention of public consciousness.

We as a society must take a step back

and realize the vastly distorted notions and conceptions of Africa that are driving public discourse, ones that culminated in Navarro College in Texas issuing rejection letters to students from Nigeria, citing Ebola as the reason for rejection. The hysteria has become so pervasive that it has permeated our institutions of higher education—places that are supposed to endow us with the skills to think critically and swim against the currents of public opinion to demand facts and a rational explanations.

The Ghana trip’s cancellation is nothing less than an example of the hijacking of our learning environment by a horribly misinformed and increasingly xenophobic populace.

This cancellation, however, is just one chapter in a much larger story of the stereotyping of the African continent.

It now falls to individuals themselves to ward off this creeping xenophobia and to not only better educate themselves, but to better educate the people around them.

In the end the equation is simple: public opinion drives public policy, and public policy in the case of Ebola determines just how much more horrendous we let this epidemic become.

The Centre Mindset, or: How grades run our lives

By CHAD CARTER STAFF WRITER

As the end of the semester draws closer, the school will begin its bi-annual epidemic of students studying for finals. Ask any of these students why they are spending large blocks of time reviewing their class materials, and the answer will almost certainly be, “So I can get a good grade on the final.”

It’s a commonly accepted fact: students study much harder for the final exams than they ever have for the class. And it’s all so they can come out of the semester not with a better understanding of the subject, but with a better grade.

How is it that the complex process of learning has been distilled down to a few numbers and a letter? Perhaps it’s time to take a closer look at the shortcomings of the grading system.

There are numerous problems with the grade system, but they come down to three main issues.

First, grades are often external motivators.

This is clear in the example of students studying for finals. Sure, these students might be motivated internally to strive for good grades, but that’s as far as that motivation goes, and it

leads to grades sometimes defeating their own motivating purpose.

We’ve all probably taken an “easy A” class at some point during our academic career. For those of you who haven’t, imagine being able to do very little work and still receive a good grade. Imagine never doing the reading, never studying for tests, and never being stressed whatsoever about the class. It can be a truly wonderful experience.

“Even if you know that you could put in more effort, you know what would be satisfactory to the professor and you can just do what will get you the grade instead of what will get you the better comprehension,” junior Elle Enander said.

Now, those of you who have taken one of these classes, how much do you remember from the class? I would guess very little, just like the amount of work you put in.

“In my experience, the classes that have been the hardest, I’ve also learned the most. The classes where it’s very difficult to get good grades, I retain better,” sophomore Sam Morrow said.

What was the purpose of that easy class, then, except as a “GPA booster”?

People have taken an entire semester of a class for the sole purpose of in-

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creasing a number they could feel defines them or their experience at Centre.

This is the second problem with grades.

“People think grades represent who they are as a person,” junior Nick Montejos said. “It puts people in a bad mood.”

We can take grades personally, especially when the grades are in subjects that directly affect future plans.

“Some people are not getting the grades that they want, and they are changing their life paths because they don’t think that med schools and grad schools will accept them,” Enander said.

These people are considering changing what was possibly their personal calling simply because of a number assigned to them by someone else, which flows into the third problem with grades: the “someone else” is not always impartial.

We do our best work for it to be evaluated by a professor, who often has no idea what we put into it. Grades, although they purport to be objective, can be highly subjective depending on the professor.

“Professors don’t always tell you how they’re grading. You have to go

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see them to find that out,” Montejos said.

Montejos recalled a time he asked a professor about why his grade on a paper was low, and the professor answered, “I just didn’t agree with what you were saying.” While that professor was more direct than most, professors’ personal philosophies indubitably have an effect on the way they grade.

“Certain professors expect so much of you, which is great except when they give out grades. Some professors ideologically refuse to give A’s,” Morrow said.

This isn’t bad on its own, except that there are other professors who give out A’s like candy.

The issue here is inconsistency.

Across different professors, people in the same class can know the same things and put in the same effort, but have very different grades.

“Different philosophies about grading cause this difference between what your grades are and what you actually deserve,” Morrow said.

What, then, can be done to fix the problems with the grade system? Unfortunately, this is and has been the status quo in American education for a very long time.

“In the current framework of edu-

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cation, it’s probably as close as we can get,” Enander said.

Our education is built around the grade system. It would be near impossible to throw it out and start over with a better system.

It is possible, however, to make changes to the current system while still staying within the framework.

Montejos suggested a more integrated implementation of professor feedback, with some form of grade coupled with an evaluation by the professor of how well the student understands the subject. Morrow had a similar idea.

“If we lived in a perfect society, perhaps a professor would write an essay of recommendation on a student with an in depth evaluation of that student’s performance, work ethic, and grasp of the material,” Morrow said.

This evaluation could be used in applying for graduate school and jobs, and could possibly carry more weight than a GPA in these circumstances.

Is it possible for the grade system to be completely flawless and fair? Of course not, every system is flawed. In the long run, however, it is worth it to consider the problems with the current system and try to find possible solutions.

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Centre to move 2,000-Year-Old Hut to Campus

By GRAY WHITSETT

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Being an institution that is rapidly approaching its bicentennial, Centre College is no stranger to the annals of American history. Home to numerous buildings that were built well before the turn of the twentieth century, and supplemented by Danville’s awareness of and concern for historical preservation, the Kentucky college prides itself on integrating old residences, repurposing original facilities, and weaving a profound legacy of antiquity throughout the campus experience.

“We’ve made an effort to work with the citizens of Danville to represent and honor the heritage of the ‘City of the Firsts,’” Director of Facilities Management Wayne King said.

The Rubeus Hagrid of Centre College, King pointed to several ready examples of preservation.

“Several current residential facilities trace their roots back to well over a century,” King said. “The Ruby Cheek House was built circa 1860 and the Breeze House dates back to the 1890s. Even now we’re finalizing the plans to move the Fifth Street house to Greek Park.”

Considering the costs associated with renovating aged structures, this record is commendable. But now the college has

plans to take this habit to new heights.

In a recent press release, President John Roush confirmed rumors of a bold addition to the picturesque campus–the addition of a Native American hut dating back to the beginning of the Common Era. Determined to be at least 2,000 years old, the Paleoamerican eight-by-eight foot structure will be situated directly behind Nevin Hall in the green space between the dorms and Beatty Avenue.

“The hut serves a dual purpose,” Director of Student Life and Housing Ann Young said. “On the one hand, we’re assisting Danville in its obsessive mission to protect anything over a decade old, and on the other we’re taking another step to address our housing issues.”

As Young explained, the hut will serve as a single-residence for which students can apply to live in during the regular housing process.

“Unfortunately, due to the fact that the hut is almost as old as Jesus Christ, there won’t be any heating, plumbing, or running water,” Young explained, “but the erratic temperature changes and irregular shower warmth shouldn’t be too out of the ordinary.”

Young also said the administration was already looking into an awkward plaque desperately rationalizing this poor decision, similar to the Lincoln addition.

But some aren’t happy with the move.

“I really do believe in the mission of historical awareness,” Wayne King said, “but you reach a point where it’s just not worth it. These decisions become problems on my desk, and that’s a lot of extra work without much gain.”

It did seem rather odd to pump so many resources into something with such few benefits. After some digging, it was clear that this wasn’t strictly up to Centre.

“Due to the fact that the hut is almost as old as Jesus Christ, there won’t be any heating, plumbing, or running water...”

“It’s something we’re really excited about,” Chairman of the Danville Architectural Heritage Board Les Letton said. As head of Danville’s premier governmental agency, the AHB exists “to protect historic areas and buildings,” and is challenged in supremacy only by the Danville Cemetery Committee. It is also worth noting that the AHB meets more often than the Danville Human Rights Commission and has more members than the Danville Ethics Board.

“This hut is dear to Danville tradition,”

Chairman Letton continued. “It’s where the first pre-Columbian constitution was signed, and we’re pretty sure one of Daniel Boone’s ancestors camped near it after crossing the Land Bridge. To tear it down would be to sever a portion of our history with which the community identifies.”

Indeed, with one-fourth of one percent of Danville’s citizens identifying as Native American, the hut’s destruction would anger several tens of people.

But this explanation seemed shaky at best, and Chairman Letton felt obliged to clarify.

“Look, the AHB used to be the laughing stock of the Danville political community.

The Sister Cities Committee always got more funding and the Beautification Committee got all the publicity. And don’t even get me started on the Streetscape guys. I brought us back from that. I restored our great committee.”

Still, the story only felt half complete.

That is, until a surprise interviewee stepped forward.

“My only condition is that you can’t use my name,” Mayor of Danville Bernie Hunstad said.

A veteran of small town politics, Mayor Hunstad is ending his term this year, and felt it was time to speak about Chairman Letton and the AHB. “The AHB started out as something

noble, seeking to forward a meaningful goal. But now…well, Letton’s let the power go to his head. He’s got this plan to collectivize all of the historic homes in the city and move large portions of the population there. He’s got to be stopped.”

Mayor Hunstad looked visibly ill. “I tried to come forward earlier, but my family and I live in an old plantation-style home and I feared for our lives.”

Ultimately, Centre still plans to move forward with the project, despite, or perhaps as a result of, Danville politicking.

“It’s time for a change of leadership,” Chairman Letton said. “It’s time for a historic revolution, and it might make some people uncomfortable, but that’s the nature of it–a revolution is not a dinner party.”

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As such, all content within this article is purely fictional and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Cento or Centre College.

In addition all quotations used in this article are purely fictional and do not necessarily reflect the views of the individuals quoted.

Haven’t we totally missed the point of Yik-Yak?

By MASON McCLAY STAFF WRITER

Recall a moment during which you lost yourself, mentally, in a crowd. At a concert, perhaps, hidden among countless bags of sweaty skin, or possibly walking through a downtown crowd during a summer festival. In these crowded contexts, most of us experience a sense of anonymity, triggering a certain repertoire of behavior, given the situation. This phenomenon has been studied by Western psychology for over half a century; it has become such an interesting facet of the human psyche that we have attributed a term to the phenomenon: deindividuation.

As thrilling as we find losing oneself in a crowd to be, deindividuation has actually been demonstrated to be a cause of an arsenal of antisocial behaviors, including the act of verbally and physically abusing others.

A study conducted in 1979 by Robert Johnson of Arkansas State University demonstrated that when deindividuation was induced by the Ku Klux Klan having participants wear costumes, the participants were more likely than the control group to increase a “shock” level to an individual as punishment for providing wrong answers on a learning task.

Our temporary access to social media has provided us with quite a paradox.

Built to help us connect, many platforms lead us to build artificial lives founded on a nearly narcissistic sense of identity.

A new social media platform, YikYak, brought this irony to the forefront of hundreds of college and high school campuses, storming through cyberspace and threatening to change our digitally constructed sense of self.

If you’re unfamiliar with the mobile app, Yik-Yak is essentially an anonymous Twitter, allowing users to post any message under the veil, and security of, anonymity.

Needless to say, Yik-Yak has produced an environment founded on the fertile grounds that anonymity allows: deindi-

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The popular app Yik-Yak boasts the tagline: “Upvote what’s good & downvote what’s bad. No profiles, no passwords, it’s all anonymous.”

viduation. And as such, the application is riddled with the frustrations we have long inhibited within most social contexts. Personal attacks frequent the “yakosphere,” along with expressions of self-hatred and extreme prejudice. Ultimately, Yik-yak provides us with a shattered window of a building left to be vandalized, allowing us to hesitantly peer into the disturbed psyche of the current generation of students, as well as its breeding process.

Yet it has its allure, innocently resting as the Pandora’s Box of our generation that with a few jostles has set loose a platform of destruction that we feel compelled to contend with. And the more we contend, the further we isolate ourselves.

Those that often opt to spend their free time exploiting the yakosphere, ex-

pressing their personal disdain through ad-homonyms and unexpected cruelty constitute the population that needs to be most aware of its callous influence.

Deindividuation has long been held responsible for the act of cyber-bullying; however, in the sarcastic subculture of Internet memes and social networks, a new form of cyber-cruelty has been hyperevolving: trolling.

Though it is a relatively new culture, trolling has developed rapidly and ruthlessly, to the point of prevalence that it has grabbed the attention of psychologists interested in investigating the dark tetrad of human personality. A study conduct by Delroy Paulhus at the University of British Columbia last February investigated the correlates of the dark tetrad between

those that participate in trolling versus those that exhibit more appropriate online behavior. Strikingly, but maybe not surprisingly, the study concluded that the fourth dark tetrad trait, sadism, was “associated most robustly with trolling, and, importantly, sadism was specific to trolling behavior.”

A brief glance through the yakosphere reveals what makes this application so appealing to bullies and trolls–there is almost infinite ammunition: students expressing stress and worry about coursework, others rejoicing in a new accomplishment, and the few seeking serious life advice, at times underlining their desperation with suicidal contemplations.

Trolls have a field day, every day.

As a platform that literally sets the

conditions as perfect for trolls to act freely under the bridge of anonymity, yik-yak invites the entirety of Danville’s populace to observe the cruelty of our College’s students berate the unexpected and taunt the stressed, looking onto what appears to be a casting director piling unrehearsed actors onto a stage with dim-lighting, only to criticize their insecurities.

Now, remember the Arkansas State University study mentioned above; half of the deindividuation group wore nurse uniforms, and interestingly, these participants decreased the shock levels to the “learner” throughout the experiment.

This was the first study that demonstrated that deindividuation might actually promote prosocial behaviors, given appropriate social cues.

Albeit rooted in rarity, the yakosphere has exhibited several examples of anonymity’s influence on prosocial behavior.

For example, yaks involving positivity or clever humor are often the most popular. And more importantly, the app has served as a forum of assured confidentiality, allowing students to discuss issues and concerns they find unable to confide with the open public. This all occurs without an identity, making it an underworld free of the veil of the subtle social anxieties, expectations, and constructs that constantly manipulate us into repressing uncomfortable truths.

Although Yik-Yak appears to have so far provided most campuses nationwide with tumult and tension, and even serves as a database of indexed examples of hatred, depression, and insecurities of our fellow students, reality holds that the yakosphere is here to stay. And it is with this reality we should be motivated to utilize the potential of positive social cues to catalyze our capacity for kindness. By being more cognizant of the obvious unhappiness many of us bear, no matter how it is expressed, we may be able to alter the unfavorable course we force yik-yak to construct, and provide an atmosphere in which we can foster mindfulness, kindness, and courage.

The reasons why Sororities should have parties, too

By MICHELLE KIM CENTO WRITER

We’ve seen them in countless movies, such as 22 Jump Street, Bad Neighbors, and several spin-offs of American Pie, as well as in the headlines of the news.

More often than not, they are paired with the subjects of rape, underagedrinking, drugs, and vandalism. College fraternity parties are the talk of the town almost everywhere you look, especially among our peers. They are known for being wild, problematic, and do not exactly ensure a good night’s sleep for any parent of a college student.

The blame is often cast upon the fraternities, seeing as they host these events, but are they really the source of problem? More specifically, do the fraternities deserve to be burdened with one hundred percent of the blame?

Fraternities are often portrayed in mass media with a negative connotation, much more often than are sorori-

ties. Films like Sorority Wars and Sydney White that are centered on the topic of sororities tend to focus more so on the recruitment process, friendships, rivalries, and relationships, rather than party hosting. The reasoning behind this is most likely due to the fact that many of the sororities’ national organizations have their own risk management and recruitment policies prohibiting them from hosting parties. This is the case with the sororities on Centre’s campus, even though the College itself does not mandate any policies against sorority parties.

All of the national organizations of the four sororities represented on our campus–Alpha Delta Phi, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Delta Delta Delta, and Kappa Alpha Theta–also have their own chapter policies enforcing alcohol-free housing, or a “dry” house. They are, however, permitted to host events where alcohol is present, as long as the alcohol is provided by a contracted third-party vendor

that only serves to the girls and guests over the age of 21. Nonetheless, their national organizations do mandate several more restrictions pertaining to alcohol than their male counterparts.

“The main issue in us being allowed to throw parties is that all of our houses are dry. I know a lot of chapters at bigger schools rent out bars and other venues on a weekly basis to have their own parties, but there aren’t that many bars in Danville and our chapters simply don’t have the means to rent out venues like that,” Kappa Kappa Gamma member and social chair Natalie Tate said. “So even though it would be fun to have our own parties besides formals and some date parties, it’s just not logistically possible.”

In my opinion, our sororities should host parties so that the responsibilities can be shared and a fair reputation can be established among each Greek organization.

Hosting parties involves a lot of effort, beforehand as well as afterward. A

lot of planning is involved and there is an unspoken pressure of throwing the best party possible. Even in a school as small as Centre College, the aftermath of the parties tend to be a scary sight, especially for the brothers who are responsible for cleaning up the messes made. There are also many risks included in being held accountable for anyone who attends these parties.

Many of the fraternities on campus have been or currently are on probation for previous violations that may not have even been their fault. Some of these violations include not ending the party at the appropriate time, allowing more than the allotted amount of people inside the houses, or not swiping in everyone’s ID cards. If these rules are broken, it is the fraternities that suffer the consequences on the attendees’ behalf.

It is highly stressed that Greek life is very different on our campus than is it on many others, with which I definitely agree. One of the main focuses and dis-

tinguishing factors of our school’s Greek system is philanthropy. A majority of the events that our sorority chapters do host are fundraisers, usually targeted towards a specific charity. Our campus enforces many strict rules against hazing and “dirty rushing,” and regulates our parties much more than most other campuses, so I don’t think sorority parties would bring about any new problems.

I believe our peers are mature and responsible enough to handle throwing parties, despite whoever is hosting. The fraternities throw parties as a means for the rest of the student body to socialize, dance, and simply have fun, which is why Greek life is undoubtedly one of the most cherished aspects about our campus. I understand that the policies of our sororities’ national organizations are the determining factor in whether they host or not, but it is not fair that fraternities are given a bad name and are punished because they decide to take on the responsibilities that others do not.

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Faculty sees dip in class attendance after these four games are released

By JOHN WYATT

NEWS SECTION EDITOR

Time management is an ongoing struggle for everyone at Centre.

Between classes, extra-curricular activities, and social lives, it’s hard to find time to just relax.

Gamers though, somehow manage to find that hour or three to play our favorite video games, sometimes foregoing a night out or that reading our professor assigned in class last week, to squeeze in time with a few rounds of playing.

With next-gen consoles, such as the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4, on the market for almost a year now, video game developers are getting into the swing of this console generation, with several blockbuster games already released, and several more that are scheduled for the rest of the year.

Below are just a few of the games that will come out before the semester is over; just in time to ruin your GPA. 1. Master Chief Collection (Xbox One) For over a decade, the Halo franchise has almost singlehandedly dominated the first-person shooter genre. The first title, Halo: Combat Evolved, made the Xbox into the platform that it is today and was the

original Xbox’s flagship launch title.

Its follow-up, Halo 2, was held up as a masterpiece, especially for its simple, yet addicting, online multiplayer option.

For years following, its creator, Bungie Studios, released several entries into the series, selling millions of copies of each game, while receiving exceptional reviews each time.

Now, almost 14 years removed from the original game’s launch, Microsoft is collecting all of the Halo games that feature iconic protagonist Master Chief onto one disc for the Xbox One. Fans can play all four games, with enhanced graphics and frame rate.

The biggest selling point of the collection, however, is the completely rebuilt Halo 2.

Bungie completely rebuilt the game’s graphics onto the Xbox One engine, making the game look like a brand-new next-gen game.

While some fans worry that the games might lose the charm that made them so much fun when they first debuted, developers calmed fans’ fears by explaining that all of the games’ original codes stand intact; to the point that any glitch found in the games (think super-jumps in Halo 2) are present in the Xbox One versions of this game.

In a time when several brand-new,

next-gen games are slated for release, a collection of four games dating back to 2001 is one of the most talkedabout and anticipated releases this year.

2. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Multi-Platform) Another year brings another Call of Duty. In a time when game journalism can run rampant with bias and bribery, games often fall victim to their own hype.

However, Call of Duty managed to provide gamers with a consistently well-made product. While several gamers gripe (and rightly so) about the games’ predictability, a game always releases to favorable reviews from critics; a feat that is easier said than done.

This year’s entry into the series is titled Advanced Warfare, and seeks to up the ante within the cinematic department, something for which the series has been well-known.

On top of adopting a futuristic time period, actors, such as Kevin Spacey, have lent their likeness to the game in the hopes to deliver a more engaging, thrilling story to fans.

In terms of actual game play, fans can expect the same features and feel to the game that made it so popular in the first place. Zombies and Call of Duty’s heralded multiplayer returns,

with new maps, weapons and other features.

3. The Evil Within (Xbox One, PS4) The survival horror genre is faint ghost of what it once was. Older series such as Resident Evil have strayed far from the original feel of survival horror games, in favor of more actionoriented gameplay.

The Evil Within aims to restore the genre to its former glory. Taking the role of a detective, the player must investigate a supernatural and grim world, all the while dodging monsters and villains out to get them.

Harkening back to the older survival horror games, ammunition for weapons is scarce, and the player must use stealth and the environment to survive.

Make no mistake about it—this game punishes players for their mistakes. Even on normal difficulty, reviewers have commented on the sheer number of times they died before figuring out a level.

Several critics who played the game have commented on the mix of horror styles within the game. Critics praised the game for towing the line between the eerie and the grotesque.

The player could be haunted by apparitions in one segment and chased by a crazed killer in the next.

The game borrows influences from several different horror genres, but, according to critics, manages to sew them together into one cohesive and terrifying experience.

4. Assassin’s Creed Unity (Xbox One, PS4) Much like the Call of Duty series, the Assassin’s Creed series is one one of the poster children for an annual model, releasing a new game each year. Like Call of Duty, gamers criticize the series at times for its lack of innovation and repetitive features game-to-game.

However, Assassin’ Creed Unity marks the series’ first solely nextgen game. Following the trend of placing its story within a significant time period in history, Unity is set in France during the French Revolution.

In terms of game play, there does not appear to be any dramatic overhaul; just the same parkour and combat-based game play that made the series loved by so many.

Unity does however introduce a four-player coop into the game’s story, something previously unheardof within the Assassin’s Creed series.

Developers also promise that gamers can play with different styles of combat, choosing weapons and fighting styles that fit their own preferences.

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For those students who turn to playing video games as a break from school work, four new editions are available of popular games, including Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Multi-Platform) and Master Chief Collection.

Creating Frankenstein: Lab Experiments gone wrong

By CHADWICK CARTER STAFF WRITER

It’s the standard, generaleducation science experience—the lab. Three long hours of careful manipulation of variables are all spent to try to produce the exact same results as the rest of the class.

Occasionally, though, the monotony is broken by something more exciting— and accident.

Mistakes in the laboratory have the potential to be even more memorable than the effectively completed experiments. Many lab accidents are dangerous, harmful, and scary— generally not a laughing matter.

Some accidents, however, combine just the right amount of bad luck and poor foresight with non-harmful results to create truly entertaining stories.

Assistant Professor of Psychology Dr. Aaron Godlaski researched the relationship between alcohol and aggression in graduate school at the University of Kentucky.

This research was the subject of his thesis, dissertation, and several other studies in order to assess an individual’s personality with various tests, administering alcohol, and observing the individual under circumstances that generate aggression. His research experiences

additionally produced some comedic stories.

“Basically what I did throughout graduate school was get people drunk and then shock them,” Dr. Godlaski said.

One 2006 study of his involved testing the concept that drinking different alcoholic beverages causes different effects, although the alcohol in them is chemically identical.

“Basically what I did throughout graduate school was get people drunk and then shock them.”

“We wanted to see if there actually was a difference between brewed alcohol and distilled alcohol. It’s a pretty common expectancy that when you drink hard liquor you’re gonna get crazier, so we wanted to see if people actually did,” Dr. Godlaski said.

The problem with previous studies on this subject was that participants

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knew which type of alcohol they were drinking, so the expectancy of different effects played a role in the results.

To combat expectancy effects, Dr. Godlaski came up with a novel idea: fortifying non-alcoholic beer with distilled alcohol to the alcohol content of normal beer. This way, people would think they were drinking beer, but really they’d be drinking distilled alcohol.

“In seven years of working there, the non-alcoholic beer condition in that study was the only time I ever saw anybody get sick from being dosed, and they weren’t even being dosed with alcohol. People got drunk, they said funny stuff, I got hit-on a couple times. But no one drinking alcohol ever threw up,” Dr. Godlaski said. “In theory it was a great idea, and I would have been able to publish it. But sometimes a good idea on paper doesn’t pragmatically pan out.

Sometimes you’re asking a college student to drink six beers in 35 minutes, and that’s not necessarily a good idea. They might be totally into it, but it might not end well.”

Professor of Chemistry Dr. Ed Montgomery’s lab accident story took place during a tumultuous time in American history. It was 1970, shortly after the Kent State shootings, on the campus of the University of Kentucky.

“Students were marching from one side of campus to another. The

National Guard was shooting tear gas,” Dr. Montgomery said.

An organic chemistry graduate student in the Chemistry-Physics building, nicknamed “Izzy,” was using a steam generator to heat up organic materials. Because these materials are generally flammable, using an open flame is unsafe.

“Izzy was a guy who, if something broke, he broke it. There were people who just did not let him in their lab.”

“Izzy was a guy who, if something broke, he broke it. There were people who just did not let him in their lab,” Dr. Montgomery said.

The steam generator had two safety valves, and Izzy removed and replaced one with a bolt. As for the other valve, Izzy “screwed [it] down as tight as could be.”

“Suddenly the steam generator blew up. Izzy was standing right next

to it. It broke every piece of glassware in the lab,” Dr. Montgomery said.

Izzy was, miraculously, unharmed from this generator explosion.

“One of the funniest things that I’ve ever seen in my life is Izzy standing in the middle of this demolished lab explaining to the fireman that they use steam instead of a flame to heat organic materials because the steam is safer—and this fireman is just looking around at these absolute shambles,” Dr. Montgomery said.

In the context of the violence and bomb threats of the time, the event made waves across the area.

All the hospitals in Lexington were placed on emergency status to receive the casualties that were expected to arrive from the university after the steam generator accident.

“All because Izzy screwed down the safety valve on the steam generator,” Dr. Montgomery said.

As for where Izzy is living these days, Dr. Montgomery can only guess.

“I have no idea what’s become of him,” Dr. Montgomery said. “For all I know he’s running a meth lab.

He accepted the fact that disaster followed him.”

While the lab experiments can sometimes be dull, the occasional accident can always spice things up a little. Do not take the lab too seriously, because for all you know, a mistake here and a deviation from protocol there might make for a great story.

Thursday, November 6, 2014

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Features

Dr. Chris Haskett on Life, Death, and Composting

“In a very small way it reconnects me to the process of growth and production”

By ADAM FALLUJI STAFF WRITER

Centre professors have amassed years of insight and experience that they readily offer to those who seek them out. This makes getting to know your professors not only advantageous, but an essential component of what the Centre experience truly has to offer.

To this end I decided to talk to Assistant Professor of Religion Dr. Christian Haskett to see if I could shed some light on his interests outside of the classroom.

Dr. Haskett invited me over to his house to hold our interview. I had been to his house once before for his firstever Burrito Night, a relaxing evening for all students to enjoy creating and consuming burritos at home with him and his family.

Dr. Haskett told me that he maintains two hobbies above all— fishing and composting.

While out in his backyard, Dr. Haskett showed me the corner section where his compost pile was maintained.

“I get palettes and make them into square boxes with zip ties or a mesh thing. I never like to spend too much money on this. [I spend] 25 dollars per-year at the most. I’m kind of a cheapskate,” Dr. Haskett said. “You can use all manners of things that come out of your kitchen for the compost because it all rots.”

Despite it not being his particular area of study, Dr. Haskett was knowledgeable of the process “In Buddhism we talk a lot about impermanence—death, birth, rebirth and so on. And so what I like about compost is it’s naturally occurring.

You don’t have to make it happen and it’s pretty remarkable that if you get the mix right, being the right balance of carbon and nitrogen, it heats up and it’ll actually get up to 160 degrees. [It becomes] hot-enough that you’ll have little pockets of methane in there that will explode and so you get these little burned bits in there,” Dr. Haskett said. “So you mix all that together and depending on how actively it’s

managed it’ll eventually turn into dirt somewhere between two weeks and six months later.”

Once I had a greater appreciation for the process behind the practice, I began to ponder what about composting drew Dr. Haskett’s interest.

“I have a dark side. Death and destruction and mayhem have a certain appeal to me and compost is all about stuff dying and breaking down. And out of that comes something that’s, I guess, fertilizer,” Dr. Haskett said. “I never stick around long-enough to find that out. But that’s what they tell me they do with it. So I think it works for that.“ Dr. Haskett has a personal connection with the process, epecially since the hobby was always a part of his dream of eventually settling down in a town like Danville.

“I think somewhere in the murky depths of history,” Dr. Haskett said, “I had this notion that I would probably end up teaching [in] someplace like [Danville] and we would have a little more land and we would farm and raise our own crops.”

Dr. Haskett also combines this outdoor hobby with his life as a professor.

“We’ve had a Halloween party here over the past two years and so we get about 45 pumpkins. We have students come over and carve them up and then dump the remains in the compost,” Dr. Haskett said. “But nobody ever gets all the seeds out. So we have at least two or three pumpkins to grow.”

Especially due to our society’s push toward becoming a friend to the environment and paying attention to our carbon footprint, Dr. Haskett points out that his hobby fits right into this pattern of going green.

“We have recycling programs and we have attention given to resource usage. [Composting is] an amazingly easy thing to do,” Dr. Haskett said.

Apart from sharing his house with students, Dr. Haskett likewise shares insight that he has drawn from his experience with composting to anyone and everyone. When thinking about his backyard hobby, a deeper meaning comes to the surface that relates to his

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By using ordinary items from his trash can (above), Dr. Haskett (top) has been able to easily create a backyard hobby, a compost pile.

lectures at Centre.

“In a very small way it reconnects me to the processes of growth and

production and reproduction,” Dr. involving puppies, but rather the Haskett said. “It’s a different kind really dead, stinky, rotting stuff. That’s of natural connection. Not the kind chipper, isn’t it?”

The unofficial rules that every Centre student lives by

By MORGAN KING STAFF WRITER

with significant others, affectionately called “date tables” by students. Along the side, the high tables also known as “Observation Stations,” offer views of all you need to see in Cowan, while keeping conversation between friends.

The outside eating space lets you have relaxed conversation without the usual babble of Cowan behind you.

The round tables seem to be another mess altogether, reserved for large friend groups, fraternities, and sports teams.

At Centre, we are all aware that there are some unofficial rules that exist on campus that seem quite ridiculous to any other college student.

Many might find it absurd that we make a point not to step on the Centre Seal, for example.

These unofficial rules might be second-nature for the upperclassmen, but first-years are still learning what makes Centre so special. Although 2. The Walk Sign Is Still On there are many such rules, we can “If there is only one car coming break down three of them and help the Centre Community create the much- down Main Street, then there is no needed peace to focus on the real need to press the button and change the light,” junior Mary Marston said. problems (like tomorrow’s test).

“It is just a courteous gesture to wait for the one lone car to pass instead of 1. Cowan Table Names The front tables are used for dates stopping it for you to walk by.”

It can also be said that the less you can hear the phrase, “Walk Sign is On,” the better.

3. Courtesy Space From finding a place to sit in the library a respectful distance away from another in spaces such as a cluster of couches or table. Give each other space in such defined areas helps students from feeling crowded and leaves open opportunities for friend group to join one another later on.

4. Using the Toaster and Microwave Do not change the setting on the toaster in Cowan until the bagel before yours is out. Be respectful of when you leave your dish in the microwave.

Stand close by so that you can be ready to remove it when the timer goes

off so the next person can put theirs the academic buildings or Sutcliffe to in.

North campus , students walk through the Campus Center for some relief. It 5. Laundry also is a great way to stop and chat to a. Empty your pockets before friends who are working in there. putting your clothes in the washer and b. If the walk to Greek Row seems dryer. Any food reside you may have too long and too cold, another great left will affect the next person’s wash shortcut to stay warm is walking cycle. straight through Breck and out the b. Make sure to double check the other side.The best, and yet the most dryer for all of your items. Finding unused, shortcut that exists for Centre another person’s underwear in students is the elevator in Crounse. By the dryer with your clothes is an the time you are an upperclassmen, uncomfortable situation. that walk to visit a professor just has c. Be mindful of when your clothes too many steps. will be finished. It creates an awkward “I feel like most seniors use the dilemma for the person who next elevator when going to the fourth needs the machine when your clothes floor. I mean, I sometimes use it to go are finished and they are under a time to the third floor,” senior Klea Xoxi crunch to start their next cycle. said. “But it’s something you definitely 6. Shortcuts don’t do at first until you learn the a. To stay warm when walking from rules to make life easier.”

The ten things you didn’t know about playing soccer

By MASON McCLAY STAFF WRITER

Soccer, the sport of the gods, has eluded my skillset for years. And in light of the praise and attention the soccer players are getting, for their incredible victories, I have decided to “kick” out of my bubble of fear of all things team-oriented and delve into my inner Soccerates.

Through trial and error and with the guidance of Centre’s own center back, Henry Lynch, I have torn through the turf and analyzed the ten best pieces of advice provided to me by representatives of the Colonels.

Before reading ahead, be warned that the experiences described are in fact real, graphic, and potentially insulting. Reader’s discretion is advised.

Tip 1: “When I took my first Physics course last semester, I learned a lot about aerodynamics and hydrodynamics. The dorsal fins of sharks, for example, help streamline its movements. My fade mimics this function, and makes me a more agile player.” Jacob Trumbull ‘16 Result 1: While playing against an opponent, the streak of long red hair not only made me more

hairodynamic, but also seemed to distract him enough for me to get by with ease.

Tip 2: “It’s okay to skip leg day, but if you do, double up on one-handed push-ups.” Henry Lynch ‘17 Result 2: Because of my pride in quad strength, it was actually very difficult for me to skip leg day. But I fought through my urges and opted for three-quarters of a one-handed push-up, twice the normal amount.

Results were negligible.

Tip 3: “When you’re in the zone and have an extrasensory focus, allow your mind to flow with the ball, and then stare your opponent in the eye as if you’re about to kick the ball right through him.” Fabien Celestien ‘17 Result 3: This trial brought with it the focus of a hawk searching for prey and the intensity of a proton within the Large Hadron Collider. It was so intense that my ball’s trajectory went far beyond 60 meters directly into my opponent’s goal. Thanks for the advice, Fabien!

Tip 4: “Don’t watch soccer on TV. It’s not very interesting, and while the pros might seem good, they use a lot of poor techniques that’ll cause you to learn the game wrong if you watch it too intently.” Henry Lynch ‘17 Result 4: With 12 simple steps,

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sport-watching had become sportdreaming, which has actually been shown to improve skills!

“It’s all about team bonding.

When you’re together, you become one with your teammate...”

Tip 5: “If you’re having a bad hair day, chances are so is another teammate.

Take to the field with the knowingness that you’ll be in solidarity against bad hair. Your teammate wins and loses with you, after all. Don’t feel so alone” Luke Hart ‘17 Result 5: Let’s be honest—my hair is basically flawless. Rather than subjecting myself to a “bad hair day,” I took Luke’s advice as a metaphor: your team will be there to fight with you no matter how you feel, so it’s okay to lean on them for support. This

tip helped immensely in the latter half of my trials out on the field with the teammates.

Tip 6: “If you play in practice as you would in a game, you’re able to find your rhythm much more naturally and quickly.” Dylan Spencer ‘17 Result 6: As my life’s motto is, “Pursue with thy hardest, or sullenly retreat to thine abode,” I had no doubt that I had been acting on this piece of advice all along.

Tip 7: “If you lose the ball, the priority is to get it back, no exceptions.

Don’t be demoralized by losing it. Go get it.” Fabien Celestien ‘17 Result 7: Adamantly adhering to this advice, I intentionally gave the ball up to test my responsive motivation. In conclusion, I went a bit too hard, tripped, and got a grass stain on my favorite shorts. Never again.

Tip 8: “If you can’t afford the salon fee for a fade, wear headbands, but only when your hair is not long enough to wear headbands.” Luke Hart ‘17 Result 8: My hair has perpetually been this awkward middle length for the past three years, so it was no problem for me to practice with the “vanity band.” However, my hair is too thick and unwieldy to be constrained by the likes of a thin piece of synthetic, so I constructed my own

metalloid band that had the added benefit of blinding my opponents by reflecting sunrays into their corneas.

Tip 9: “You gotta be creative, think outside the box, and be unselfish. You gotta do your do, man.” Luke Hart ‘17 Result 9: It was set up perfectly: I had my pilot friend fly above Danville and create a smiley face from fumes on a cloudless day. At the same time, I had a friend ready to run onto the field and place a soccer ball by the goal, since I still did not know how to dribble. When all were distracted by the smiley, the new ball was placed by the goal. I still missed horribly.

Tip 10: “This is a piece of advice I’ve never given anyone, but I finally feel comfortable revealing it here. It’s all about the team bonding. When you’re together, you become one with your teammate, an extension of their existence, if you will. Eventually this bond becomes so real in a spiritual sense that when you touch your hair with you teammate’s, it fuses together to form a spiritual bridge. Then communication is instantaneous and synchronous. Never again will a game be lost when this connection is established.” Anonymous Result 10: This was by far the most ethereal piece of advice given during a sports interview of this kind.

Thursday, November 6, 2014

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Downtown Danville opens its doors to artists

By THOMAS SACCENTE STAFF WRITER

Danville is home to a thriving community of artists and craftspeople.

These are people who make it their lives’ goals to strive for a creative method to express in a way that is unique to their particular skill set and personal taste something entirely new.

These people come from a wide variety of backgrounds, ranging from professional artists to those who just do it as a hobby, and many of them are a part of the Centre College community.

Therefore, it only makes sense that Danville would welcome an event like the upcoming Downtown Gallery Hop. The Downtown Gallery Hop is a critical part of Danville’s history and culture. Created around 20 years ago by the Arts Commission of Danville/ Boyle County, the event is a biannual festival dedicated to celebrating all of the artistic talent the town and surrounding areas has to offer.

It is a festival in which nearly twodozen businesses pool their resources and open their doors past their normal closing times to allow the viewers to see the works of local artists.

The core concept is that people are invited to visit a number of specific businesses in downtown called “Hop Stops” where various works of art will be held. Each Hop Stop will house a particular type of work, which will allow visitors to enrich themselves in a wide variety of different art before the night is out.

Visitors can view the exhibits in any order they choose, as well as partake in the drinks and snacks available. In some cases, they will also be able to interact with the artists themselves.

There will also be maps available so that people can choose what they want to see and where at any moment.

In the case of this year’s festival, on Fri., Nov. 14 at 5:30 p.m., 21 different businesses will feature the work of

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The Gallery Hop hopes to showcase both the array of businesses around Danville and the many talented local artists from the area.

over 45 artists.

In addition to more traditional work, such as paintings, there will also be fiber art, woodworking, jewelry, and much more on display.

The performing arts will also be represented, as both the Danville Dulcimers and Centre College’s Moments in Motion Dance Club will be showcased at the Gallery Hop. All of this has been made possible

thanks to a generous grant given to the Arts Commission of Danville/ Boyle County by Kentucky Utilities.

Executive Director of the Arts Commission Ann Nichols states that, more than anything, the festival allows for artists to share their work with a wide audience, providing them with a means through which to connect with the people of Danville that they could not otherwise do. She believes that the

Gallery Hop will also give the citizens themselves the opportunity to get together and have fun as well.

“We don’t have galleries in Danville or in any other part of Boyle County,” Nichols said. “And so the Gallery Hop provides them the opportunity to display their work to the community, and hopefully sell their art as well. It’s also about people coming together in a downtown location, having a good

time, and enjoying the evening.”

The Downtown Gallery Hop will succeed in bringing attention to the participating businesses and may introduce them to people who would not have gone into their store otherwise.

In addition, their willingness to support the Gallery Hop will no doubt provide good publicity in the weeks to come.

However, more than anything else, the businesses that are participating in the Gallery Hop are all doing this in order to express their own support for local artists.

One of the businesses that is a Hop Stop is the Maple Tree Art Gallery on West Main Street, which sells a variety of products including customized picture frames, oil paintings, handmade wooden bowls, and offers an extensive lamp making/repairing service.

Owner of the Maple Tree Gallery Julie Nelson says that she wants to participate in the Downtown Gallery Hop in order to give exposure to artists who have not had a chance to get it in any other way.

“Since our business relies so heavily on the work of local artists, we wanted to be a part of the Gallery Hop in order to expose their work to people who perhaps haven’t had a chance to see them,” Nelson said. “We also hope that someone will see the work of a local artist or two and buy some of it as a holiday gift.”

The Downtown Gallery Hop is a fantastic Danville tradition. It is a complete, unadulterated celebration of the talented artists who have taken the time and effort to manifest their talent in ways that a wide audience can appreciate.

Not only that, but the talent that will be on display at this festival will vary greatly and offer something that even people who aren’t normally interested in local art to enjoy.

Everybody is welcome to come to downtown to take in some great art by local artists and just generally have fun with one another.

Vestiary offers a new style to Danville

By LAURA HUMBLE STAFF WRITER

Are you tired of the same shopping options in the Danville area? Would you like a greater variety when shopping for clothes without having to drive to Lexington? Check out Vestiary, the newest boutique in downtown Danville.

The store opened July 16 under the ownership of Lexington native Cassie Baeker.

“My husband grew up here [in Danville], and works around here. He wanted to buy a house here because real estate is cheaper, and I always wanted to own a clothing boutique, and the opportunity is right. There is a lot of competition in Lexington. We noticed this building was for sale and the price was right so we went for it,” Baeker said.

Previous to opening up her boutique, she worked in real estate which Baeker cites as “so very different.”

Vestiary is located on 126 S. Fourth St., right next to Los Tacos Amigos and Jane Barleycorn’s. It is an open and spacious place with a wide selection of clothing on racks lining the walls.

The store’s name has Latin origins from “vestiarium” and Old French and English roots, directly reanslating to mean “a room or building in a large establishment in which clothes are kept.”

Vestiary caters toward younger women, but with tastes that appeal to women of every age group in their wide variety of products. The store is currently in the process of expanding, possibly to include men’s styles within the near future.

“The [clothing] style I am going for here is young adult/contemporary.

When I go to market in Atlanta, I focus on texture and make sure everything is good quality. I love fashion Vestiary hopes to provide fashionable clothing options for young women in the Danville area. Their apparel includes anything from dresses and and read fashion blogs. I try to bring elements of Fashion Week and the trends of the season here, but for less. young moms in here, and older womSo far business is booming as more ity that Baeker boasts.

I also try to discover new brands. I’m en as well. It’s very diverse,” Baeker learn about the great new downtown “Its a great store to have on a colgoing for affordable and fashionable,” said. shopping addition. lge campus. Their prices are affordBaeker said.

Centre students who have visted “I would love to expand more and able for college girls and the quality The clothing selection ranges from the store have been very satisfied with more. People have told me they want of the clothes is great,” Leftwich said. nice dresses to sweaters to jackets to the selection and atmosphere. Some more shoes, but I want to focus on “I love this store and find myself buyt-shirts to flip-flops to an assortment have become frequent shoppers and clothing first and go from there. I’m ing something every time I go in. I’m of jewelry. The brands that Vesti- several have been to the store for pur- not sure what will happen,” Baeker never disappointed.” ary sells include Ark & Co., C. Luce, chases ranging from casual wear to said.

The store has run promotions for Champagne & Strawberry, Hatley, formal dresses.

The clothing is stylish for sure. the community as its becomes more Havaianas, Jealous Tomato, Kentucky “I was living on campus this sum- Centre women are likely to find at established. On Election Day, Vestiray for Kentucky, Luna, THML, and Ya mer when it first opened and am a least one item that interests them. offered ten percent off for anyone who Los Angeles. The stock also includes frequent customer,” senior Olivia This reviewer found several she liked. came in wearing an “I voted” sticker.

Kentucky for Kentucky clothing to Leftwich said. “They have a wide seThere is also a table full of a broad Vestiary also offered specials durecelbrate their local conections. lection, from big comfy tops to formal range of affordable jewelry, some sales ing Centre’s Homecoming wekeends “My market is Centre students and dresses and accessories. Great clothes racks in the back and a few shoes. The and Halloween candy to shoppers as a high school students. I also get a lot of to either dress up or dress down.” clothing is definitely of the good qual- personal touch and examples of their

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skirts to jewelry, accessories, shoes, and more.

community connection.

Vestiary participates in Shop Second Saturdays sponsored by the Heart of Danville and the Danville Cultural District Present. The event encourages local shopping with the rewards of earning Downtown Dollars.

The store posts new additions to their stock on their Facebook pages as well as information on special promotions or discounts. Check out the page and their website for more iformation and updates.

It is open on weekdays (Monday through Friday) from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It is closed on Sundays.

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Arts & Leisure

Fall issue of Vantage Point soon to be released

By MORGAN KING STAFF WRITER

On Sun., Oct. 26, Centre College’s student-produced literary magazine Vantage Point had its last call for submissions for the fall issue.

The literary magazine comes out with a new issue every fall and spring and, as always, many students eagerly looking forward to the next issue.

“I remember last year we were a couple weeks behind with the issue and we had so many people asking about when it was coming out. That was so exciting to see the campus be excited for all of the hard work we put in,” junior and Treasurer and Publicity Editor for Vantage Point magazine Ashley Barker, said.

There is a high caliber of student submissions and according to the Faculty Advisor and Paul L. Cantrell Associate Professor of English/Director of Creative Writing Lisa Williams, this makes for a well-put together magazine.

“Creative writing—poetry, fiction, non-fiction—differs so much from student to student in such specific ways, that I think each issue is excitingly different,” Williams said. “Editors and student readers bring their own appreciations and aesthetics into the issues as well by selecting work.”

The past issues of Vantage Point are filled with works from distinguished alumni. The first issue of Vantage Point was published in 1967 and contained poetry from famed Kentuckian poet, George Ella Lyon, a Centre graduate (Centre Class of 1971).

Past issues have also included work from notables such as Alfred P. and Katherine B. Jobson Professor of English Dr. Mark Lucas (Centre Class of 1974) and Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Bob Nesmith (Centre

Class of 1988).

The magazine has works of poetry, flash fiction, short stories, and most recently, creative non-fiction.

“Vantage Point has only started publishing creative non-fiction in the last few years, which also reflects the rise in popularity of that as a genre and as a part of our creative writing program,” Williams said.

The magazine also allows an creative outlet for artists on campus.

Vantage Point has recently asked for student illustrators to work with the authors in order to produce illustrations to complement the stories.

After the submissions are collected, they are sent out to people called “general readers” who read a submission packet and rate each piece. The pieces are scored by a one, two, or three rating.

One means that the general reader would not recommend the piece for publication and three means that they highly recommend it. The averages of all ratings from the general readers are what is considered when selecting the stories for publishing.

For junior Emma Comery, being a reader is one of the best things about Vantage Point.

“Being a ‘general reader’ for Vantage Point is awesome. People tell me to read poetry and fiction and analyze it. Since this is what I want to do with the rest of my life, I love this process,” Comery said.

Vantage Point editors also have to consider the ratio of poetry to fiction writing when making selections.

“We usually do see more poetry than prose, because poetry is shorter.

Some say that it is easier. Fiction is definitely more time consuming because it is longer. There is not a necessarily a better one between them though. The magazine needs and wants both,” Barker said.

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The fall 2013 Issue of Vantage Point included illustrations from Lesley College. This issue hopes to use illustrations done by Centre artists.

The Vantage Point staff tries to include the entirety of the campus community in the the production of their magazine.

“Not a lot of people know that there are a lot of writers on Centre’s campus, and not just in the English department, but in all majors. Those that are in the Math and Science departments have an outlet where they can submit

their writing that they don’t have in their classes,” Barker said.

Vantage Point offers a lot of great opportunities to the campus community. Each issue makes a different impact.

“Individuals reading the journal will find things to connect with, will find consolations, and fascinations, and surprises of their own. They

might even find company they didn’t know they had—others on campus who think about things they do, or who are interested in the same feelings and topics; others who write and approach problems or thinking in creative ways,” Williams said.

Look out for the upcoming issue of Vantage Point coming out in early December.

DramaCentre’s Boeing Boeing set to open on Nov. 12

By HAYLEY HOFFMAN MANAGING EDITOR

The cast and crew of DramaCentre’s upcoming production of Boeing Boeing is hard at work preparing for opening night.

Known as one of the most widely performed comedies in recent times, Boeing Boeing follows the seemingly ideal life of womanizer Bernard, who is engaged to three beautiful airline stewardesses without each knowing of the others. When speedy Boeing jets throw off Bernard’s careful planning, all three women arrive in his Paris apartment on the same day and imminent catastrophe looms.

Professor of Dramatic Arts Dr. Tony Haigh said that this play “falls into” the tradition of farce, an ancient form of drama.

“This play was written in French originally and translated into English, so it’s a modern French farce that’s falling in that tradition. It’s got all of the elements you need—a chaotic situation involving lovers, and doors,” Dr. Haigh said. “It has more to do with romantic relationships and situations that get out of control—lost letters, misunderstandings, one person coming into a room when they shouldn’t be. It’s all the timing of people coming and going, which is what makes all the fun.”

The cast memorized their lines early on in the rehearsal process, which gave

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DramaCentre’s production of Boeing Boeing opens on Wed., Nov. 12 and runs through Sat., Nov. 15 at 8 p.m. each night in Weisiger Theatre.

them free reign to experiment with onstage movement. As the hilarity of this play is found in the timing, Dr. Haigh spent many rehearsals helping the “brilliant” cast understand the rhythms and patterns of comedy.

“It’s difficult to do. It has been interesting working with these young actors because when the timing works, they suddenly go, ‘Wow, that’s so cool,’” Dr. Haigh said. “It’s that revelation that just by pausing here or taking a breath there,

you can create laughter.”

This play is unlike anything audiences have seen from DramaCentre in recent years as the department has a reputation for performing what Dr. Haigh calls “serious and hardcore stuff.”

“[This play] is entirely frivolous,” Dr. Haigh said. “For me, it was a real pleasure to explore the other side of the dramatic world. It’s wonderful for me, as a director, to experience that shift in pace. It’s good for the actors, too, to shift out of one role and into another.”

Perhaps the biggest contrast comes in the size of Boeing Boeing’s cast—a group of just six actors as compared to Macbeth’s thirty.

“I’ve actually done several large-cast shows, so for me, a chance to do a show with a small cast is a chance to get into depth with the actors in a way I’m not always able to with a larger cast. This small cast is very experienced,” Dr. Haigh said.

“It’s a team effort. I’ve got people in the room who are giving me advice and being a set of eyes so when I try things, I can tell if they’re laughing or not. I can ask if something works, and they help feed things as we try different ideas. That’s what makes it fun.”

Dr. Haigh hopes that this sidesplitting show will give audiences the chance to laugh at life and “how chaotic it gets.”

“We’ve got a great cast and they’re having so much fun doing it, and comedy is hard to do. Edmund Kean, one of the great actors of the 18th century said on his deathbed, ‘Dying is easy, comedy is hard,’ and it really is,” Dr. Haigh said.

“That’s what makes comedy fun, I think, and it should be fun. It should be fun for the actors and fun for the audience.”

In the Rotation: FlyLo’s dialogue with death

By JOHN WYATT

NEWS SECTION EDITOR

Since music began, death is a theme with which every genre attempts to explore in order to gain a deeper understanding of its mysteries.

Death is one of the issues every human being must grapple with at some point in their life. It transcends cultures, races, languages, sexual preferences, religions, and genders.

Hip-hop beat maestro, electronic pioneer, and all-around musical genius Flying Lotus (FlyLo for short) enters into this discussion on the End with his LP You’re Dead released on Oct. 6, 2014.

Despite universal praise among critics, FlyLo is not exactly a household name. The L.A. based producer, nephew of famed jazz saxophone legend John Coltrane and wife/pianist Alice Coltrane, began to make waves in the SoCal music scene as a beat-maker, submitting several songs to Cartoon Network’s late-night segment [adult swim]—several of which have been used.

Tune into [adult swim] on any given night and you may very well hear a beat produced by FlyLo in between Family Guy and an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force (which now sports a new theme song produced by the man himself).

His sound expanded quickly though, as he begun incorporating more elements of soul and electronic music into is repertoire. Several critics cited him as

bringing the pure elements of soul music and hip-hop into the digital twenty-first century.

As his beats grew more experimental and his sound broadened, FlyLo’s fan base also grew. Now, the producer is one of the most respected figures in music among fans, critics, and fellow musicians/artists alike.

You’re Dead is arguably the most focused album in FlyLo’s body of work.

Before he released the album, the artist told people that he set out to make a jazz album in an effort to reclaim the genre.

Tired of hearing “elevator s---” as he called it in one interview, FlyLo wanted to take jazz back to the days of pioneers such as Herbie Hancock (who makes an appearance on the album) and Miles Davis.

This is incredibly apparent right out of the gate on You’re Dead. The first track hits hard with a wall of different sounds.

It’s hectic and chaotic, as sounds bounce back and forth between heavy-hitting acoustic jazz drumming and more digitalized drum hits, with guitars and bass joining in on the musical conversation throughout.

FlyLo brought in several studio musicians to work on the album and the various forays into jazz fusion create brief, yet bold and intense, moments throughout the album.

After a few minutes of very jazz-dense tracks comes the song, “Never Catch Me.” In one of the few tracks that could theoretically stand as a single, FlyLo

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brings hip-hop force and fellow WestCoast child Kendrick Lamar to ride shotgun on one of my favorite beats to come from the producer.

The gospel-like piano melody that comes in over the fading jazz tracks that emerges before it create a sense of fog being cleared, creating a space for Kendrick and the beat to come crashing in.

Kendrick’s verse is one of the most poetic I’ve heard from him, as the young mc philosophizes on his own mortality and his acceptance of whatever comes next (“Analyze my demise, I say I’m super anxious/Recognize I deprive this fear and then embrace it”).

Kendrick shows why he is one of the most adaptive, versatile, and insightful rappers in the industry today.

Right after this track is one of the more troublesome spots for me. “Dead Man’s Tetris” is one of the other rapfocused tracks on FlyLo’s album, but the heavily modulated/synth beat sticks out a little too much against the other tracks for me.

Also, Snoop Dogg makes an appearance on this track, which I find an odd choice. While he has jumped on any and every track across nearly every genre lately, this beat doesn’t quite fit his voice or the overall theme of the album as he delivers a pretty standard verse.

The second half of the album takes the acoustic jazz sound of the first half and drenches it in the traditional FlyLo/ electronic territory, featuring lots of heavy synths and bouncing drum circles

that segue into each other and ultimately build up to the climax of the album, “Coronus, the Terminator.”

The moody track opens with a soft rain effect as a trance-like beat slowly begins to shape the song.

As the beat builds, these whispering, angelic vocals rain down on the track.

The song becomes an ethereal warning to all those listening (“The days of man are coming to an end/So come with me”).

Marcus Moore from Pitchfork described the song as the “moment when angels come for your soul,” and that encapsulates the feelings and emotions here perfectly. The combination of the haunting melody, eerie backing vocals, and soothing beat creates an epic moment in the album and captures the frightening moment of crossing over.

After a string of electronic tracks featuring some superb bass lines from singer/bassist Thundercat, we get the final track of the album, “Protest.”

The track, though only about two minutes long, encompasses all of the sounds throughout the album. Starting off with an upbeat, choir of children singing, it slowly fades into improv between drums and bass.

The two voices meander for a few seconds, attempting to form some sort of structure, but always collapsing upon themselves.

There’s one final buildup between the two, until it fades out, giving way to a head-nodding, [adult swim] type beat from which FlyLo built his name. This

final moment is the resolution of the album, one of acceptance of death and the beyond. The acoustic voices in this track frantically fight to form something, but ultimately disassemble to the albums biggest release.

It is a moment of letting go on whatever is left in this world, and giving oneself up to whatever lies beyond.

Sonically, You’re Dead represents what FlyLo does best: taking the sounds and essence of a genre and bringing it into the twenty-first century and the ever-expanding electronic genres. The mix of jazz, fusion, hip-hop, gospel, and electronic music create a unique experience that only FlyLo could deliver.

While the tracks on the album are unusually short (the album is only 38 minutes), they move at a purposeful and thought-out pace, building an idea and abandoning it as soon as it’s established.

This is not an album to break up into singles or to play at parties. To receive the full experience, one must sit down and experience every sound and emotion from beginning to end.

Thematically, the album takes listeners on a journey and forces them, in their own way, to grapple with death just like FlyLo attempts to do.

From the chaotic moments of panic, to the frightening aspect of the unknown, to the calm and tranquil acceptance, You’re Dead encompasses all of the emotions and experiences that come with something as heavy as death and shoves it in the face of the listener.

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SPORTS Section Editor-Matt Cox

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Men’s Soccer battles through a tough schedule

By EMMA PRESBERG

ations. When you play a schedule like this, its just about getting ready for conference,” Head Coach Jeb Burch With only a week left before the said.

Southern Athletic Association (SAA) First-year defender Jesse DiLuzio Tournament, Centre Men’s Soccer has spoke on the intensity of the men’s proved that it is not going down with- soccer program. out a fight. Despite having one of the “It is expected that you can ease most challenging schedules in the con- into things, but then you’re playing top ference, and possibly the country, the ranked teams in the country within the team has continued to press on, work- first week,” DiLuzio said. ing hard during every game of the seaThe team used the challenging conson. ference and scheduled non-conference Despite a tough 2-1 loss to Millsaps games as a way to bond as a team and College on the Sun., Oct. 26, the team build resiliency. They faced tough ophas compiled a 4-1-2 record in confer- ponents, questionable referee calls, ence play, and going 8-3-5 overall. and experienced a few unlucky bouncEven though they have faced quality es along they way. opponents, the team has only given up “The more we can fail the better [off 13 goals all season, with a 0.76 goals we will be]. You want to be able to fail against average, which means that they and still win and that’s what our kids are allowing less than a goal per game. have been able to do. At the end of the Coming into the season with a chal- day, without those set backs, without lenging schedule the Centre Colonels that adversity, its hard to get better,” had three goals: be regular season Burch said. conference champions, win the SAA This grinding schedule allowed conference tournament, and make it Centre to broadcast its all around skill to the final four of NCAA tournament level along with its fantastic leadership play. With such a tough schedule at and team chemistry. the beginning, including a three-game “The seniors are great and they’re stretch against 23-ranked Thomas excellent leaders because they’re so More College Saints, 13-ranked Ohio good. If they tell you to do something Wesleyan University Battling Bishops, you know its right and they can back and second-ranked Kenyon College it up,” first-year forward Noah WesleyIVY DUGGAN | THE CENTO Lords, pre-season was all about getting Chevalier said. experience.

“I think we just have a great team. Senior defender Jeremy Carlson clears a ball from the back line. He has been named the SAA Defensive Player of the Week twice this season.

“Experience is knowledge. And with I think we have really great chemistry, knowledge you can learn how to man- and I think we have really great leaderThis team’s leadership and chemis- sistent defense has pulled the team Junior Sean Dunn and sophomore age emotion, referees, and tough situ- ship,” Burch said. try is especially important with eight through this season. Senior defender Henry Lynch are key pieces in the stelseniors graduating this year. However, and co-captain Jeremy Carlson leads lar defense that has kept opposing the team has a strong foundation of re- the defense, and was named SAA De- teams away from senior goalkeeper turning players to continue to carry the fensive Player of the Week for games Ohan Missirian-Dill, who has recorded program. played between Oct. 13 and Oct. 19. every minute in goal this season.

“We’re used to graduating good He was recently honored with the SAA The team also gained some valuable classes every year. But this program Defensive Player of the Week for the players in its first-year class, especially has always had another good class second time for games played through DiLuzio, Wesley-Chevalier, and forready to take over. They’ve all achieved Nov. 2. ward John Herd. great things,” Burch said. “We’ll miss “We’ve gotten good contributions Carlson has been named to the All them like we miss all our classes, but Great Lakes Region Team twice during from our first-years,” Burch said. “But, there’s going to be another class ready his senior career and has been an All I don’t want to act like this is some to take it over and Centre is going to Conference performer for each season first-year class that is better than ankeep winning games.” other. They’re always good.” on the field.

Senior midfielder Pavel Terselich Coming off a 5-1 victory on Senior The team’s defense, the solid back was named SAA Player of the Week line, has one of the best records in the Night against the Oglethorpe Univerfor games played between Oct. 6 and conference, only allowing three goals sity Stormy Petrels, the Colonels are Oct. 12, he leads the Colonels with 50 during conference games. ready to take on the upcoming chalshots on goal, five of which have found “I mean, these guys hardly make lenge of the SAA tournament. the back of the net, and in points with any mistakes,” senior forward and coThe team will look to run the table twelve. in the conference tournament and captain Cameron Miller said.

While Centre’s defense seems to be With Terselich and Carlson gradu- avenge their lone conference loss to its strong suit, the offense certainly ating, underclassmen players will have Millsaps College. The Majors were also has proven itself. With 275 shots all big shoes to fill but the team is up for the team that eliminated the Colonels season, 147 in conference play, and 24 the challenge. from the 2013 SAA tournament. goals scored this season, the team is a The Southern Athletic AssociationSophomore forward Christian force with which to be reckoned.

Gateskill-Fuqua is second on the team conference tournament will take place “We could beat every team four or in shots with 35 in total, two of which Nov. 7-9 at Hendrix College in Confive nothing if we just have the right have resulted in goals. Gateskill-Fuqua way, Ark. The Colonels will open the mentality and confidence in front of is also second on the team in assists tournament against Sewanee UniverIVY DUGGAN | THE CENTO goal,” DiLuzio said. and points with three and nine respec- sity of the South who they played to a Senior Andrew Amend looks to move the ball upfield during action earlier this season.

The Colonel’s talented and con- tively. two overtime 1-1 tie earlier this year.

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The true motive behind Donovan’s retirement

By CAMERON MILLER CENTO WRITER

There is a right way to retire, just do not ask former LA Galaxy and United States Men’s National Team (USMNT) forward Landon Donovan for tips.

Donovan is fortunate he resides within the United States, because the abrupt way he has chosen to end his career would only be tolerated in America’s sports model of retirement.

Donovan was not selected to play for the United States and travel to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. For the record, neither was Ronaldinho, Kaka, Nasri, or Tevez for their respective nations.

So, his so-called “snubbing” was not special in this regard. While many believe this to be a mistake by Klinsmann, it should not be the major reason (which some may attribute it to) for our beloved 32-year old international hero to retire not only from the USMNT but also from Major League Soccer (MLS).

Americans watched the USMNT travel to Brazil and prove they could not only win without Donovan, but that they could compete with the world’s best by advancing to the knockout stages.

Americans have been actively watching the MLS more frequently bringing in big name players, far beyond the pedigree of Donovan. This is the natural progression of any successful sport. Eventually even the brightest stars fade and become replaced by new ones.

Why is Donovan any different? His list of achievements speaks for itself.

Donovan is both the MLS and USMNT leader in goals scored and assists. He is a five-time MLS cup champion, and played in arguably the two toughest first division soccer leagues in the world, Bundesliga in Germany

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Landon Donovan celebrates after scoring his 50th international goal against Guatemala in 2013. Donovan leads U.S. strikers with 57 career goals.

and Barclays Premier League in England.

He was the face of American soccer for nearly two decades, and deservedly so. Yet, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, or Zinedine Zidane did as much for the sport of soccer, if not more than Donovan. This is hard for Americans to accept.

Thus, as athletes begin to age and approach retirement their performance level drops, but their desire to continue to play and to earn their sal-

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ary remains.

“It becomes a model not based on winning, but making money,” Assistant Professor of Philosophy and avid American sports enthusiast Dr. Daniel Kirchner said.

When we consider our American athletes to be special compared to the rest of the world, then the objective side of sports becomes compromised.

We overpay our aging stars for a variety of reasons outside winning.

We allow for nonsensical acts such

as a “Farewell Season” to occur in Major League Baseball. We allow past their prime National Basketball Association superstars to gobble up so much salary space that their team will inevitably fail as a result of their blatant selfishness.

One specific spectacle that is memorable is the Farewell Game that occurred roughly a month ago. Klinsmann actually re-instated Donovan back into the USMNT to allow the public to watch him play one more

half of soccer for all the adoring American fans.

The game was a scheduled international friendly amongst two competing nations hoping to improve their squads for the upcoming qualification games that matter. The match against Ecuador resulted in a 1-1 tie.

We, as a nation, turned this friendly match into what a true American soccer fan and Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Chair of the Environmental Studies Progam Dr. Brett Werner, could only describe in one word as “bizarre.”

Donovan is not special. But ... he was a wonderful player for the U.S., and he will rest amongst other American soccer greats such as Brian McBride, Cobi Jones, and Claudio Reyna.

When a player’s career is still active, organizations must treat their athletes according to what they are currently worth, not based on what they were in the past. Thus, separation in treatment between active and retired is necessary.

If the athlete is retired, then we can become subjective. If the athlete is active in their career, then we must remain objective in order to preserve the integrity of the game.

Donovan was cultivated in a subjective soccer model, and when met by the world’s standard of being objective, the clash was evident. His immediate retirement was a poor response to this clash of opposing ideals, and we as fans are the ones who will suffer.

If we want to watch our athlete’s age with grace, or retire on top we must be stern in our practice of objective measures within sports models.

This is a model that will not only produce more winning results, but more rational/humble athletes.

Therefore, I do not blame Donovan for his retirement. In fact, it is quite predictable, though sad to say.

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Centre looks to add club rugby to athletics program

By ALEX MULHALL STAFF WRITER

If you look at the US News’s top 50 ranked liberal arts colleges in the country, Centre is the lone school that does not give its students the opportunity to play organized rugby. Visiting Instructor of English and rugby enthusiast William Weber is looking to change that.

A graduate of Sewanee University of the South, Weber played on the university’s rugby club. The sport is ingrained into the athletic culture of the campus.

“The club was actually founded in the 1980’s,” Weber said. “Based on my most recent visit, it seems to be as strong as ever.”

Rugby is an interesting sport that sometimes gets a bad rap for being too physical or violent. This is due to America’s lack of actual exposure to the game. The images that make their way to our Twitter feeds and Facebook pages, and therefore become American’s cultural definition of the sport, are usually showing the more extreme side.

“Rugby is definitely violent, but the violence is channeled into the gameplay,” Weber said. “To play the sport well, you have to be aggressive, but that aggression is controlled by the rules better than most sports.”

Some critics of the sport point to the lack of protective equipment as a reason they believe it to be unsafe for competitors. This, too, is an unfair criticism.

“Rugby actually has a lower inci-

dence of injury than football,” Weber said. “The lack of padding actually keeps players from tacking each other at full speed because there is no buffer between people. Tacking someone is going to hurt you as much as it hurts them.”

Bringing the sport to campus has been a bit of a challenge, but progress is being made. A meeting with Athletic Director Brad Fields and the College Counsel has allowed for the tentative formation of a club team.

“For now, we cannot engage in fullpaced, full-contact rugby or schedule matches against intercollegiate competitors,” Weber said in an email.

However, the club will be allowed to advertise, recruit, and practice on campus. Weber’s eventual goal for the club is to become as prominent as the other members of the National Small College Rugby Organization, the equivalent of Division III rugby.

Some of the schools in this organization are members of the Southern Athletic Association, the division all other Centre athletics participate in.

Weber is a certified coach who believes that after a few months of practice, Centre will be able to compete with schools around the region.

The prospect of the club sports is intriguing to many students on campus. More than 20 Centre students have expressed their interest in participating in a rugby program.

Senior Andrew Ledford, who hasn’t played in organized athletics since playing football in high school, is intrigued by the addition of a rugby program at Centre.

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Sewanee University of the South’s club rugby team battles for a loose ball. Centre’s rugby program would likely play other SAA opponents.

“Clubs sports are a lot more flexible than other organized sports, so I’d definitely be interested,” Ledford said. “And rugby seems to be pretty close to football, so that’s even more interesting.”

For now, Weber will focus on training a core group of players in the rules and intricacies of the game.

“We’ve got the ball rolling now so hopefully, we can become established and get a team together to compete by

next spring,” Weber said.

If you are interested in joining the rugby club at Centre, there will be recruitment and informational meetings coming soon. Be on the lookout for posters and emails.

Player Profile: Senior Anne Mitchell stands out

By MATT COX

SPORTS SECTION EDITOR

Senior forward Anne Mitchell has been an integral part of Centre Women’s Soccer’s (CWS) success during her years at Centre. Recently she was named the Southern Athletic Association (SAA)’s Player of the Week for her performance against conference foes Birmingham Southern College (BSC) on Oct. 24 and Millsaps College (Millsaps) on Oct. 26.

Mitchell scored once in the Colonels’ 3-0 victory over BSC and tallied two goals in the game against Millsaps.

She currently leads the team this season with nine goals, seven assists, and 25 total points (goals are worth two points and assists are worth one).

Mitchell also ranks in the top five players in the SAA for goals and points.

Soccer has always been an important part of Mitchell’s life and played an essential role in bringing her to Centre.

“I’ve been playing soccer since I was three or four. I fell in love at a young age and I’ve always enjoyed it. I actually found out about Centre through the soccer coach [Jay Hoffman] and I decided it was a good fit all around,” Mitchell said.

The SAA has recognized Mitchell for her excellent play throughout her Centre career. She was named an AllConference player as a first-year and sophomore.

During her sophomore season, Mitchell gained national recognition and was named to the Great Lakes Region Second Team.

She has gained the respect of the other members of CWS, as well as the coaches. Mitchell was elected by her teammates to be a co-captain her senior year.

“Anne looks at the team with a

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Senior forward Anne Mitchell moves past a defender during action earlier this season. She leads the team in goals, assists, and total points.

bigger picture mentality,” Assistant Coach Jessica Chiesely said. “She considers what’s best for the team.”

Mitchell notes the changes in her life due to becoming a captain of CWS. “I feel like I’ve grown as a person through having been captain and

dealing with coaches. It’s added to the Centre experience,” Mitchell said.

Coming to Centre with admirable skills, Mitchell’s game has continued to steadily improve. Her sharpened skills have contributed to this year’s team’s 12-5-1 record.

“Her knowledge of the game has improved, She’s one of the hardest working players at Centre, and has developed into a natural leader,” Head Coach Jay Hoffman said.

On Fri., Nov. 7 at 2:30 p.m. the fourth seed Centre will host the fifth

seed BSC in the SAA Conference tournament.

The winner of that game will play the winner of the one seed Berry College and the eight seed Millsaps College on Sat., Nov. 8 at 12:00 p.m. If the two higher seeded teams win, Centre will look to avenge their 3-0 loss to Berry College earlier this year.

A Behavioral Neuroscience major and Mathematics minor, Mitchell is heavily involved on campus as well.

She is the president of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, a member of the Omicron Delta Kappa, Omega, and Psi Chi Honor Societies, and a member of the Behavioral Neuroscience and Psychology Club. She has also found time to travel abroad.

“I’ve gone abroad twice: Once was a trip to Sweden with my high school team, and the second one was a trip to Ireland in 2012 with CWS,” Mitchell said.

The three-time member of the National Soccer Coaches Association of American (NSCAA) All Academic Team has aspirations that reach beyond her success on the field and in the classroom at Centre.

Mitchell is currently in the process of applying to Xavier University, Pfeiffer University, and the University of Colorado to obtain a Master’s Degree in Health Administration. She will meet this new challenge with the same passion to succeed that she has in all areas of her life.

“She is the type of person you know will do well no matter what they do. I think she came in [to Centre] with a purpose, and always had in mind what the path is going to be,” Chiesly said.

Whatever the future may hold for Mitchell, she will continue to represent Mother Centre with the class, integrity, and leadership that she has shown during her time on campus.

Until the Whistle Blows: A Summary of Sports

By ALEX MULHALL STAFF WRITER

The sports world has been a very busy place since my last column, so I’d be remissed to not try to touch on every major sport, complete with my picks for the end of each season.

I’ll probably miss some things, so don’t be offended if I slip on something you think is important.

NFL: The Denver Broncos look like they might run away with the league this year. They beat a very good San Diego Chargers team 35-21 on Thu., Oct. 23, but the game was never as close as the score might indicate.

That being said, the Broncos were dominating the league at this point last year and Peyton Manning was putting on an absolute clinic for the league.

None of that mattered however, in the Super Bowl XLVIII, where they were destroyed by the Seattle Seahawks in one of the most lopsided Super Bowl victories in history. The difference between this year and last: there is no clear-cut contender in the National Football Conference.

The Arizona Cardinals have a fantastic defense, but are unproven on the offensive side of the ball, especially as far as their quarterbacks are concerned.

The Dallas Cowboys offense has been prolific and runningback DeMarco Murray is on pace to break the single season rushing record, but they are playing with a defense made of spare parts and a gimpy quarterback.

Way Too Early Picks: The Denver Broncos will face the Green Bay Packers in a Super Bowl shootout.

Peyton Manning will win his second championship 41-35.

NBA: After an extremely turbulent offseason, the National Basketball Association regular season tipped off on Tues., Oct. 28.

The defending champion, San Antonio Spurs, will be facing the Dallas Mavericks in a matchup between two first ballot Hall of Famers in Tim Duncan, the best power forward ever, and power forward Dirk Nowitzki, the best foreign born player to grace the league since center Hakeem Olajuwon.

The other opening night game features the New Orleans Pelicans and

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star center Anthony Davis, one of the great young players in the league, versus the struggling Orlando Magic.

There are obviously many other exciting storylines around the league.

Legendary guard Kobe Bryant will retire after this season, as will the Nets’ Power Forward Kevin Garnett (most likely).

Oh yeah, and Forward LeBron James headed back to Cleveland. You might have heard something about that.

Way Too Early Picks: This one’s really a toss up, but I think LeBron will bring a long awaited championship to Cav’s fans, edging out the Los Angeles Clippers in six games.

NCAA Football: The first College Football Playoff rankings came out and not one, single person complained. Just kidding.

Unsurprisingly, the Southeastern Conference (SEC) dominated the bracket. If the playoffs were to start this weekend, we would see a matchup between one-seed Mississippi State University Bulldogs and fourseed University of Oregon Ducks on one side of the bracket and two-seed

Florida State University Seminoles vs. three-seed Auburn University Tigers on the other side with the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs and the University of Alabama Crimson Tide on the outside looking in.

Those six seeds are ranked in the AP Poll at first, second, third, fifth, sixth, and fourth, respectively. That’s not terrible, but there is still plenty of room for controversy.

The University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish, who lost at Florida State University by one score in a very controversial game, is ranked eighth in the Associated Press poll but fell to 10 in the College Football Poll rankings.

And that’s just the first controversial placement.

With the way this season has gone so far, don’t be surprised to see a major shakeup in the playoff picture in two weeks time, when the playoff committee is set to release their second round of rankings.

Way Too Early Picks: For my four playoff teams, I’m going to go with Mississippi State, Florida State, Alabama, and Texas Christian University in some order, with Notre Dame and Oregon as the next two out. I’ll

take the Bulldogs over the Crimson Tide in a classic game, 34-30.

MLB: By the time this goes to print, the World Series will have wrapped up.

Right now, I think the Kansas City Royals pull off a Cinderella story and beat the San Francisco Giants in 7.

That’ll be the end of the season, so most of the big time news will come in the form of blockbuster trades and free agent signings. Those haven’t happened yet, so there’s not really much I can say.

The Giants defeated the Royals in Game 7 by a score of 3-2. The Giants’ Madison Bumgarner was named the MVP for the World Series amassing a 2-0 record, 31 strikeouts, one fantastic save, and a stellar 0.25 Earned Run Average.

Way Too Early Picks: The Chicago Cubs beat the Houston Astros in 7 games. This is my column. I can do what I want.

And finally, I want to give a huge shoutout to the Centre College Colonels football team for making it to 8-0 and a number 25 ranking in the polls.

Keep working hard out there, guys.

We’re all proud of you.

Thursday, November 6, 2014