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Mid­week Small Groups Be­gin Again

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MISHAWAKA– Bethel’s Small Groups will be tak­ing place start­ing Wednes­day, Sept. 21, 2022.  The small groups are of­fered to bet­ter meet the re­quests for com­mu­nity and con­nec­tions on the cam­pus.   Any­one is wel­come to at­tend mu... More »

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Ed­u­ca­tion De­part­ment Hosts Movie Night

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MISHAWAKA – On Sept. 18, the Ed­u­ca­tion De­part­ment hosted an out­door movie night at the gazebo by Look­out Pond. The de­part­ment also pro­vided snacks for at­ten­dees.   Stu­dents be­gan con­gre­gat­ing about 7:30 p.m., and the movie, “... More »

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Bethel Wel­comes New Stu­dent Life Em­ploy­ees

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MISHAWAKA–Stu­dent Life wel­comed three new em­ploy­ees for the 2022-23 school year: Al­li­son Nicholas, An­drea Arm­strong and Thomas Car­pen­ter.  Nicholas grew up in In­di­ana and grad­u­ated from Bethel in the spring of 2022. She curre... More »

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Wom­en’s Vol­ley­ball Starts Sea­son

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MISHAWAKA—Af­ter two suc­cess­ful sea­sons un­der Head Coach Katie Weiss that in­cluded a NC­CAA Na­tional Cham­pi­onship and two twenty plus win sea­sons, the Pi­lots have started 8-4 while play­ing in three tour­na­ments and ex­pe­ri­enc­ing ... More »

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Psy­chol­ogy Club Re­leases Cal­en­dar of Events

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MISHAWAKA- The Bethel Psy­chol­ogy Club kick­started its events for the 2022 fall se­mes­ter on Fri­day, Sept. 9, with vol­ley­ball, out­door ac­tiv­i­ties and smores. The Psy­chol­ogy Club events, though de­signed with psy­chol­ogy ma­jors in... More »

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Bethel Pre­sented An­nual Op­er­atic Ir­reg­u­lars

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MISHAWAKA– Bethel’s 2022 Op­er­atic Ir­reg­u­lars took place on Sept. 9 and 10 at 7:30 p.m. both evenings in the Ever­est-Rohrer Au­di­to­rium.   The Op­er­atic Ir­reg­u­lars pre­sented an op­er­atic trio (three cham­ber op­eras). The shows inc... More »

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Rem­edy Live Re­turns to Bethel Uni­ver­sity

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MISHAWAKA- Chapel ser­vices are once again in full swing on the Bethel Uni­ver­sity cam­pus. Bethel of­ten brings in a va­ri­ety of guest speak­ers to ad­dress the stu­dent body dur­ing chapel ser­vices. On Sept. 9, a Chris­t­ian Or­ga­ni­zat... More »

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BU A Capella Group Start­ing Soon

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MISHAWAKA- A new group is mak­ing its ap­pear­ance at Bethel this school year: a stu­dent-led a capella mu­sic group. Stu­dent Kyle Moorer orig­i­nated this idea and re­ceived per­mis­sion from Becky Branch, ad­min­is­tra­tive as­sis­tant of ... More »

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Stu­dent Coun­cil Elec­tions Be­ing Held Soon

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MISHAWAKA- The start of a new school year at Bethel Uni­ver­sity means it is time for a stu­dent coun­cil elec­tion.   The up­per­class­men and un­der­class­men coun­cils have elec­tions every fall se­mes­ter to elect their pres­i­dent, vice ... More »

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Bethel Men’s Soc­cer Looks to Re­peat 2021 Sea­son

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MISHAWAKA—Bethel men’s soc­cer is com­ing off a suc­cess­ful 16-5-2 sea­son where the Pi­lots won the Cross­roads League cham­pi­onship over In­di­ana Wes­leyan. By win­ning the Cross­roads League, the Pi­lots also qual­i­fied for the NAIA Ch... More »

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Bethel Brings Back Bat­tle of the Bands

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MISHAWAKA—Bethel is bring­ing back a clas­sic and well-loved event: the Bat­tle of the Bands! Au­di­tions for the event will be on Sept. 19-20 in Kelly Au­di­to­rium, and the per­for­mance will take place on Oc­to­ber 2. The bands will b... More »

Over­watch 2 Beta

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MISHAWAKA – This past week has seen the Over­watch 2 beta re­leased via Twitch drops, giv­ing over one mil­lion view­ers ac­cess to this build of the game. I got to play a few games thanks to the ac­cess of a friend of mine, and there are a few changes I no­ticed in my short time.It is worth not­ing that I was, at best, an Over­watch fan when I first tried the orig­i­nal game. I started play­ing on the PlaySta... More »

Open­house Hon­ors Pro­fes­sors Leav­ing Bethel or Re­tir­ing

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MISHAWAKA- On Wednes­day, April 27, 2022, Aca­d­e­mic Ser­vices hosted an open house in theWeaver Ro­tunda in honor of four pro­fes­sors who are leav­ing Bethel, ei­ther as re­tirees or forother op­por­tu­ni­ties.Melyssa Geever, ad­min­is­tra­tive as­sis­tant to the vice pres­i­dent for aca­d­e­mic ser­vices, over­sawor­ga­ni­za­tion for this event.“This was an all fac­ulty and staff get to­gether for some of the pro­fes­sors who ar... More »

Bethel Uni­ver­sity Pre­pares for Fi­nal Ex­ams with a Mid­night Break­fast

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MISHAWAKA- Mid­night Break­fast took place on April 30 at 12:00 a.m. and was or­ga­nized by­Cam­pus Ac­tiv­i­ties. This tra­di­tion oc­curs every se­mes­ter on the Fri­day night right be­fore fi­nalexam week; stu­dents gather to­gether in the Din­ing Com­mons at mid­night for break­fast andgames.Ac­cord­ing to Shawn Holt­gren, the vice pres­i­dent for stu­dent de­vel­op­ment, Mid­night Break­fasthas been a tra­di­tion at Bethel sinc... More »

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Stu­dents Host Base­ball and Soft­ball Tail­gate

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MISHAWAKA – The stu­dent sec­tion at Bethel Uni­ver­sity, called the Wiekamp Wackos, hosts dif­fer­ent events for the sports teams and games, in­clud­ing re­cent base­ball and soft­ball games.  The Wackos hosted a tail­gate dur­ing the ba... More »

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Bethel Stu­dents Re­turn from Study Abroad Trips 

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MISHAWAKA – One of the many op­por­tu­ni­ties that stu­dents have while at­tend­ing Bethel Uni­ver­sity is to take a se­mes­ter abroad. These trips al­low stu­dents to learn about and ex­pe­ri­ence new cul­tures while they study. At the start... More »

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COVID-19 Up­dates

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MISHAWAKA- On Wednes­day, Jan. 19 Bethel Uni­ver­sity made the tran­si­tion to their Yel­low or Mod­er­ate COVID-19 risk level. The cam­pus had pre­vi­ously been un­der the Blue level but due to an in­crease in COVID-19 cases, they moved ... More »

Carry the Love Vis­its Bethel

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MISHAWAKA- Carry the Love, an evan­ge­list mis­sion group fo­cused on col­lege cam­puses across the United States and Eu­rope, vis­ited Bethel’s cam­pus dur­ing GO Week. They brought mu­sic and a mes­sage of evan­ge­lism to the stu­dents. Tues­day night, Jan. 25, the group held a wor­ship night at Shiloh. Then, on Wednes­day night, Jan. 26, they did a take-over of Ves­pers, a stu­dent-led chapel night. At Ves­pers, th... More »

How the COVID-19 Na­tional Man­dates Af­fect Bethel

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MISHAWAKA—New fed­eral man­dates have been re­leased that fed­eral work­ers and con­trac­tors are re­quired to re­ceive the vac­cine. This poses ques­tions about what is re­quired of schools na­tion­wide, as well as lo­cally.  Ac­cord­ing to the As­so­ci­ated Press, over half of the largest pub­lic uni­ver­si­ties are not re­quir­ing vac­ci­na­tions for stu­dents to re­turn to cam­pus this fall. The As­so­ci­ated Press pub­lished a ... More »

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Video Game Re­view: Mon­ster Hunt Rise

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MISHAWAKA – Mon­ster Hunter Rise re­leased on March 26, and it pro­vides plenty of new con­tent for fans of the se­ries to en­joy.  I will be the first to say I have not fol­lowed the Mon­ster Hunter se­ries with too much care. As far... More »

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Fac­ulty Pro­file: Vicki De­Bolt

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MISHAWAKA–Vicki De­Bolt, D.O., a grad­u­ate of Bethel, has made the most of her skills and abil­i­ties to serve peo­ple around the world by teach­ing them about health. She has been teach­ing at the uni­ver­sity since 2011, and cur­rent... More »

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Es­ports Hosts First In-Per­son Com­pe­ti­tion

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MISHAWAKA—De­spite launch­ing the es­ports pro­gram in Sep­tem­ber, the team com­pleted its in­au­gural sea­son in the fall with­out com­pet­ing in an in-per­son event. Most of their events are nor­mally held ei­ther here on cam­pus, or at th... More »

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Apex Leg­ends Com­ing to Nin­tendo Switch

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MISHAWAKA–One game that has taken up the most of my time with my com­puter is a lit­tle ditty called Apex Leg­ends. It’s a free-to-play bat­tle-royale video game fea­tur­ing a di­verse set of char­ac­ters. The game is con­stantly re­cei... More »

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Grad School Tips: Ki­ne­si­ol­ogy

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MISHAWAKA—Rachel Lind­vall, DHSc, is a fac­ulty mem­ber of the De­part­ment of Ki­ne­si­ol­ogy and a leader in work­ing on the men­tal game in sports. She founded a com­pany called The Mind­ful Pro­ject that works on ath­letes and their men... More »

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Track and Field Con­cludes In­door Sea­son

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MISHAWAKA—The Bethel track and field teams ex­pe­ri­enced the de­f­i­n­i­tion of a rocky sea­son. From lim­ited com­pe­ti­tion to the NC­CAA Na­tional Cham­pi­onships be­ing can­celed, they could­n’t catch a break. They did, how­ever, have their ... More »

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Spir­i­tual Life Hosts Col­le­giate Day of Prayer

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MISHAWAKA—Thurs­day, Feb. 25, was rec­og­nized by Chris­t­ian col­leges across Amer­ica as the Col­le­giate Day of Prayer, and Bethel’s Spir­i­tual Life team hosted a va­ri­ety of events en­cour­ag­ing stu­dents to par­tic­i­pate. At 7 a.m., 2 p... More »

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Men’s Bas­ket­ball Says Good­bye to Se­niors

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MISHAWAKA—The men’s bas­ket­ball team hosted its se­nior-night fes­tiv­i­ties on Feb. 17 dur­ing its game ver­sus the Saint Fran­cis Cougars. The team ended up los­ing that game, 87-82, but its se­nior class has left its foot­print on th... More »

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Stu­dents Host First 12-Hour Mu­sic Com­pe­ti­tion

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MISHAWAKA—A mu­si­cal event was held this year that is slated to be­come an an­nual tra­di­tion. On Sat­ur­day, Feb. 13, nine stu­dents par­tic­i­pated in 12 hours of prac­tic­ing and com­pos­ing mu­sic. These stu­dents, sep­a­rated into three g... More »

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Wom­en’s Bas­ket­ball Says Good­bye to Se­niors

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MISHAWAKA—Sat­ur­day, Feb. 20, the Bethel Wom­en’s Bas­ket­ball team cel­e­brated the ca­reers of its two se­niors. Both Jes­sica Er­win and Kelsey Brick­ner are leav­ing Bethel Uni­ver­sity with dec­o­rated ca­reers.   Kelsey Brick­ner, an exe... More »

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Fac­ulty Pro­file: Dr. Reg Klopfen­stein

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MISHAWAKA– Reg Klopfen­stein, D.M., started off his ed­u­ca­tion jour­ney at the Wheaton Col­lege Con­ser­va­tory of Mu­sic, grad­u­at­ing in 1980. He went on to fin­ish his grad­u­ate de­gree two years later. He had many pieces of ad­vice for... More »

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McKenna Liebenow Per­forms Se­nior Recital

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MISHAWAKA–McKenna Liebenow, grad­u­at­ing se­nior, per­formed her se­nior recital Sat­ur­day, Feb. 20. As a per­cus­sion­ist, she used a range of in­stru­ments, from a marimba to a floor tom, and she played a range of pieces writ­ten from ... More »

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Vol­ley­ball 2020 Cham­pi­onship Re­cap

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MISHAWAKA—The 2020 Pi­lots’ vol­ley­ball sea­son was noth­ing short of spec­tac­u­lar. A sea­son ago, the Pi­lots fin­ished 13-23, 6-12 in the con­fer­ence, and fin­ished eighth in the Cross­roads League with a quar­ter­fi­nal exit in the conf... More »

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Bowl­ing Team Joins WHAC

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MISHAWAKA—The Pi­lots’ bowl­ing team has faced sev­eral chal­lenges in kick­ing off its pro­gram. From hav­ing its in­au­gural sea­son cut short to hav­ing an un­usual off-sea­son and now hav­ing to bowl in six tour­na­ments in six week­ends,... More »

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Cam­pus Safety Up­date

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MISHAWAKA–The Cam­pus Safety Log for Jan. 24 through Feb. 8 records five fire alarm in­ci­dents, a cam­pus pol­icy vi­o­la­tion, a main­te­nance is­sue, a stu­dent med­ical/​in­jury in­ci­dent and one theft from a ve­hi­cle in the ath­let­ics lot... More »

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Belle­feuille Named In­terim Pres­i­dent

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MISHAWAKA—On Jan. 25, Board Chair­man Randy Lehman an­nounced that Vice Pres­i­dent for Aca­d­e­mic Ser­vices Bar­bara Belle­feuille, Ed.D., will be fill­ing the role of in­terim pres­i­dent for Bethel Uni­ver­sity ef­fec­tive June 1.   Bellef... More »

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Es­ports Gains Ac­cess to New Fa­cil­ity

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MISHAWAKA – Bethel Uni­ver­si­ty’s Es­ports team has ac­cess to a new prac­tice and com­pe­ti­tion fa­cil­ity: the re­cently-con­structed Ben­dix Arena in South Bend’s Cen­tury Cen­ter.  Gam­ing is a fairly seden­tary hobby, so the lo­ca­tion is... More »

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Ath­lete of the Week: Thomas Jack­son

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MISHAWAKA—Se­nior Thomas Jack­son kicked off the 2021 In­door Track & Field sea­son in an ex­plo­sive way. How­ever, this did not mean the start of the sea­son was easy. Like every­one else, COVID-19 proved to be an ob­sta­cle.  “It’s b... More »

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Bethel Per­form­ers Pre­pare for Recital Sea­son

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MISHAWAKA–Recital sea­son is some­thing most per­form­ers look for­ward to. It will be stress­ful, and it causes anx­i­ety, but it sums many ex­pe­ri­ences for se­niors as they look to­ward their fu­ture ca­reers, whether they be per­for­manc... More »

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Com­pet­i­tive Cheer Kicks Off Sea­son

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MISHAWAKA—The com­pet­i­tive cheer team started their sea­son on Jan. 23 at the Wild­cat In­vite. Head Coach Lucy Phipps is in her sec­ond sea­son as the team’s head coach, her third sea­son over­all with the team, and has seen ma­jor i... More »

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Grad­u­ate School Tips: The Mu­sic De­part­ment

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For mu­sic stu­dents con­sid­er­ing grad­u­ate school, Bethel’s mu­sic fac­ulty of­fers some help­ful ad­vice.  Pro­fes­sor of Mu­sic Reg Klopfen­stein, D.M., em­pha­sizes the need to pre­pare now while in un­der­grad­u­ate stud­ies. This cre­ates th... More »

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The Art De­part­ment Moves Un­der­ground

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MISHAWAKA–When the fall se­mes­ter ended, the Fine Arts De­part­ment be­gan their re­lo­ca­tion into the base­ment of Ever­est-Rhorer. This was a sig­nif­i­cant move that re­quired col­lab­o­ra­tion with the mu­sic and the­atre de­part­ments.   Th... More »

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Win­ter Sports Up­dates

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MISHAWAKA – As of Jan. 18, Bethel has four teams in-sea­son: the Men’s and Wom­en’s Swim­ming and Div­ing teams and the Men’s and Wom­en’s Bas­ket­ball teams.   Af­ter in­ter­view­ing all three of the coaches for these teams, one theme ... More »

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Bethel Hosts Suc­cess­ful Win­ter Term

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MISHAWAKA—Be­tween the fall and spring se­mes­ter, Bethel of­fered stu­dents the op­por­tu­nity to take ad­van­tage of the un­usu­ally long win­ter break by en­rolling in a 3-week ac­cel­er­ated on­line class. A to­tal of 8 classes were of­fered... More »

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Stu­dents En­joy the Ice at Howard Park

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MISHAWAKA – Bethel Uni­ver­si­ty’s Cam­pus Ac­tiv­i­ties hosted an ice-skat­ing event for stu­dents at Howard Park on Sun­day, Jan. 17.  The event started at 9:15 p.m. and will lasted un­til around 11:15 p.m., with a split in the mid­dle... More »

UP­DATE: Civil Rights Her­itage Trip Post­poned

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The Civil Her­itage Trip sched­uled for the 2021 spring break has been post­poned to the fall se­mes­ter due to the threat of COVID-19.   Stu­dents were re­quired to ap­ply in or­der to be ac­cepted for the op­por­tu­nity, but fi­nal se­lec­tion of the ap­pli­cants has been de­layed as well.    Ap­pli­cants’ in­for­ma­tion will be kept on file un­til next se­mes­ter, and they can still be con­sid­ered for the trip with­out hav... More »

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Big Changes Ahead for Art De­part­ment

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MISHAWAKA- Stu­dents wish­ing to take ce­ram­ics in the fall 2020 se­mes­ter were in­formed the class was would not be of­fered due to the Ce­ram­ics Lab’s in­d­con­ducive­ness to so­cial dis­tanc­ing. Chad Jay, as­sis­tant pro­fes­sor of art, sa... More »

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Bethel Adapts and Ex­pands Tra­di­tions

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MISHAWAKA—Every year dur­ing the days lead­ing up to fi­nals week, the Bethel com­mu­nity en­joys a num­ber of tra­di­tions to help them de­stress and un­wind. This year, most of those tra­di­tions have con­tin­ued, though COVID-19 has give... More »

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Es­ports Com­pletes In­au­gural Sea­son

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MISHAWAKA — While many ath­letic teams across the coun­try have had is­sues com­plet­ing a full sea­son dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­demic, one sport is vir­tu­ally im­mune to this prob­lem.  Dan Wort, the Bethel Uni­ver­sity es­ports head coac... More »

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Cam­pus Safety Up­date

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MISHAWAKA–The past few weeks have been rel­a­tively quiet for Cam­pus Se­cu­rity, with only a hand­ful of in­ci­dences be­ing re­ported since Oct. 18. Re­ports in­cluded an an­i­mal com­plaint, a sus­pi­cious ac­tiv­ity/​per­son in­ci­dent, a prope... More »

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The­atre In­dus­try Uni­fies De­spite COVID-19

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MISHAWAKA–One of the in­dus­tries most im­pacted by the pan­demic has been the the­atre in­dus­try. In a world where rev­enue is de­pen­dent upon draw­ing size­able crowds, adapt­ing to a so­cially dis­tanced so­ci­ety has proven dif­fi­cult. B... More »

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Lilly En­dow­ment Inc. Grants Bethel $1 Mil­lion

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On Sept. 30, 2020, Bethel re­ceived a $1 mil­lion grant from Lilly En­dow­ment Inc., a phil­an­thropic or­ga­ni­za­tion that sup­ports com­mu­nity de­vel­op­ment, ed­u­ca­tion and re­li­gion.   In the Oc­to­ber of 2019, Bethel was in­vited to par­tic... More »

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Minecraft Steve Has a Lot of Po­ten­tial

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MISHAWAKA – It has been just over a week since the an­nounce­ment of Minecraft Steve’s in­clu­sion in Su­per Smash Bros. Ul­ti­mate, and he is fi­nally in the game.  I am not the best Smash player in the world, nor am I a Smash Bros-... More »

Tuckey Hosts Fall Door-Dec­o­rat­ing Con­test

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MISHAWAKA–Tra­di­tion­ally, Tuckey Dorm, in Sailor Hall, holds an an­nual door-dec­o­rat­ing com­pe­ti­tion for the Christ­mas sea­son. This se­mes­ter, how­ever, since stu­dents will not be on cam­pus for the month of De­cem­ber, the res­i­dent di­rec­tors de­cided to hold the com­pe­ti­tion in Oc­to­ber with a fall theme in­stead.   Win­ners were an­nounced on Fri­day, Oct. 9. The first-place win­ner was room 112 with a pump­kin ... More »

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Bethel Adds Win­ter Term Op­tion for Stu­dents

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MISHAWAKA–This school year, Bethel is im­ple­ment­ing a win­ter term. This will al­low stu­dents to take ac­cel­er­ated ver­sions of classes on­line be­gin­ning Dec. 7, 2020, and fin­ish­ing De­cem­ber 30, 2020. There will be no classes held ... More »

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Stu­dent Ath­lete of the Week: Emma Mott

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MISHAWAKA–Se­nior Emma Mott has ce­mented her­self as one of the most sto­ried ath­letes in Bethel Uni­ver­sity ath­let­ics his­tory. In her three years at Bethel, Mott has bro­ken the wom­en’s 5k race time on six sep­a­rate oc­ca­sions. She... More »

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Stu­dent Coun­cil Meets For First Time This Year

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The newly elected mem­bers of this aca­d­e­mic year’s Bethel Stu­dent Coun­cil met for first time Sept. 21 at 9 p.m. The meet­ing took place in the Trustee Board Room on the fourth floor of the Aca­d­e­mic Cen­ter.  Ex­ec­u­tive Coun­cil Pr... More »

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Wild­fires Rav­age the West Coast

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Wild­fires are burn­ing across 4.5 mil­lion acres in Ore­gon, Wash­ing­ton and Cal­i­for­nia and de­stroy­ing more than 700 struc­tures, rekin­dling a long-time de­bate: Is cli­mate change real, and if so, how does it play into the cur­rent ... More »

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Beth­i­cal News Taken Over by New Hosts

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MISHAWAKA—Sid­ney Sprunger and Justin Ras­mussen brought the news and the fun­nies to Fri­day chapel au­di­ences dur­ing their time as the Beth­i­cal News hosts, but this school year a new duo is tak­ing over.  Se­niors Gabrylle Perkins... More »

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Bethel Food Ser­vices Adapt to Keep Stu­dents Safe

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MISHAWAKA—As Bethel pre­pared to bring stu­dents back to cam­pus, one of the ar­eas to re­ceive the high­est scrutiny was cre­at­ing a safe en­vi­ron­ment for eat­ing. The Din­ing Com­mons un­der­went a se­ries of changes, in­clud­ing added foo... More »

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In­tra­mu­rals Host­ing Olympics and Other Events

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UP­DATE: the Pi­lot Olympics open­ing cer­e­mony was post­poned to Sept. 24 at 7 p.m. MISHAWAKA–De­spite COVID-19, Bethel is proud to an­nounce there will still be in­tra­mu­rals this year.  Pick­le­ball is start­ing Mon­day, Sept. 14, at 9... More »

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Bethel Hosts Con­cert Fea­tur­ing Isaac Pittman

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MISHAWAKA–Mu­si­cian Isaac Pittman was sched­uled to join Bethel Uni­ver­sity for a spring chapel last school year; how­ever, due to COVID-19 and stu­dents go­ing home, that chapel was can­celled.  Thank­fully, Pittman was will­ing to b... More »

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Bethel Earns High Rank­ings

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Bethel Uni­ver­sity is listed on Money Mag­a­zine’s, “Best Col­leges for Your Money” and is rec­og­nized as a Col­lege of Dis­tinc­tion for the year 2020. Each of these recog­ni­tions comes with dif­fer­ent method­olo­gies for choos­ing the s... More »

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Bethel Names Mc­Cabe as Pro­fes­sor of the Year

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MISHAWAKA–For more than thirty years, Bethel Uni­ver­sity has rec­og­nized its pro­fes­sors’ ex­cel­lence.  Sub­mis­sions for pro­fes­sor of the year open early in the spring se­mes­ter and typ­i­cally run through late Feb­ru­ary dur­ing which ... More »

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Bethel Wel­comes Ian Thomp­son to Cam­pus

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MISHAWAKA- Bethel Uni­ver­sity re­cently wel­comed Ian Thomp­son into the new role of stu­dent sup­port spe­cial­ist. Thomp­son plans on work­ing to de­velop her role as the year un­folds. The new staff mem­ber is here to sup­port and ed­uca... More »

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Win­dows and Mir­rors Se­ries Com­ing to Bethel

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MISHAWAKA—Dur­ing the past few months, racial ten­sion in our coun­try has soared. Shoot­ings, protests and ri­ots have fre­quently dom­i­nated the me­dia.   But even be­fore all this tur­bu­lence be­gan, Bethel was al­ready ini­ti­at­ing var... More »

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Cam­pus Safety Up­date

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MISHAWAKA—As stu­dents re­turned to cam­pus, the Bethel Cam­pus Safety De­part­ment re­ported higher vol­umes of ac­tiv­ity.  One of the re­ported in­ci­dents oc­curred on the evening of Au­gust 24 and in­volved two males in a red truck. In ... More »

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House­keep­ing Staff Works Hard to Keep Us Safe

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MISHAWAKA–The pan­demic has im­pacted stu­dents’ lives in both class­rooms and dorms. This means stricter clean­ing pro­ce­dures and keep­ing a safe dis­tance from fel­low stu­dents and staff; specif­i­cally, stu­dents are ex­pected to pick... More »

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Well­ness Cen­ter Adapts for COVID-19

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MISHAWAKA—Bethel is mak­ing many ad­just­ments due to COVID-19. In par­tic­u­lar, the Well­ness Cen­ter staff is en­act­ing a few sim­ple poli­cies to en­sure they are still able to care for the phys­i­cal and men­tal health of stu­dents.  “A... More »

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Stu­dent Coun­cil Un­der­goes Changes

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MISHAWAKA—The Stu­dent Coun­cil serves Bethel’s com­mu­nity in a va­ri­ety of ways; from plan­ning events, to choos­ing the se­nior gift, to ap­peal­ing for changes to poli­cies, they serve as voices and rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the stu­dent bo... More »

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COVID-19 Im­pacts Com­muter Life

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 COVID-19 has changed many as­pects of col­lege life, its reach ex­tend­ing be­yond res­i­den­tial stu­dents and into Bethel’s com­muter com­mu­nity. Near the end of the Spring 2020 se­mes­ter, Bethel Uni­ver­sity no­ti­fied stu­dents it would ... More »

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Stay­ing Safe on Cam­pus in a Pan­demic

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MISHAWAKA–Most stu­dents likely never ex­pected part of their col­lege ex­pe­ri­ence to oc­cur dur­ing a pan­demic, but Bethel has in­stalled sev­eral pro­to­cols to en­sure cam­pus life is as safe as pos­si­ble.  “Any stu­dent who is not feel... More »

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Bethel Still Plan­ning for Sum­mer in Spain

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MISHAWAKA–Bethel’s semi-an­nual Sum­mer in Spain pro­gram is still be­ing planned for next year and will be­gin May 27, 2021. This 6-7 week trip gives stu­dents the op­por­tu­nity to travel to Spain to see mu­se­ums, cathe­drals and cult... More »

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Xenoblade Chron­i­cles is Back and Bet­ter Than Ever

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MISHAWAKA – Xenoblade Chron­i­cles: De­fin­i­tive Edi­tion is a re­worked ver­sion of a nine-year-old clas­sic. Fans have been over­joyed at the over­hauled vi­su­als and au­dio, as well as all the new changes to the game­play it­self.  I wa... More »

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COVID-19 Can’t Stop Chapel

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MISHAWAKA—COVID-19 has al­tered our lives in many ways, and al­though stu­dents are back on cam­pus for the fall se­mes­ter, many of them are still learn­ing to adapt to a new nor­mal.   One of the most sig­nif­i­cant changes con­cerns c... More »

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May Term Con­tin­ues, Moves On­line

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MISHAWAKA- With many changes hap­pen­ing around Bethel’s Cam­pus, May term and sum­mer classes have been added to the pile.   Ac­cord­ing to Jeanne Fox with the reg­is­trar, May term is a 3-week ses­sion dur­ing the month of May where ... More »

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Two Bethel De­part­ments Change Their Names

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MISHAWAKA – Bethel’s Aca­d­e­mic Poli­cies and Cur­ricu­lum Com­mit­tee ap­proved name changes for two de­part­ments in a meet­ing on April 2.  The Sign Lan­guage In­ter­pret­ing De­part­ment was re­named to the De­part­ment of Amer­i­can Sign Lang... More »

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Bethel’s Es­ports Team Plans are Com­ing To­gether

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MISHAWAKA – Bethel’s Es­ports di­rec­tor re­cently dis­trib­uted a wealth of in­for­ma­tion to in­ter­ested stu­dents con­cern­ing the time­line for the de­vel­op­ment of the fledg­ling team.  Daniel Wort is the new di­rec­tor of Es­ports for Beth... More »

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Well­ness Cen­ter Of­fers On­line Coun­sel­ing

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MISHAWAKA – While Bethel Uni­ver­sity has sus­pended in-per­son classes and meet­ings un­til the end of the school year, the Well­ness Cen­ter has con­tin­ued of­fer­ing coun­sel­ing ser­vices on­line for Bethel stu­dents. The Well­ness Cen­ter... More »

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New Wel­come Cen­ter Sched­uled for Sum­mer Open­ing

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MISHAWAKA – Be­cause of the coro­n­avirus, the new wel­come cen­ter’s ded­i­ca­tion has been post­poned un­til sum­mer­time. How­ever, there are plenty of rea­sons to look for­ward to the com­mence­ment cer­e­mony and plenty of de­tails con­cerni... More »

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Ten Tips for Work­ing from Home

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With the… never mind. We know what is go­ing on. There’s only a cou­ple more weeks of school left and it’s time to fin­ish strong; here are some tips to help you out.   Have a Sched­ule   One thing that is af­fect­ing stu­dents the ... More »

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Easter: A Short Story

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Dark­ness is all around me like a deep sleep; sud­denly a light­ning bolt strikes my chest and with a sharp in­hale I am jolted up­right. I be­gin to cough and look around in dark­ness; I feel for some­thing, any­thing around. My hand... More »

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2020 Spring Sports Can­celled

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MISHAWAKA—The Na­tional As­so­ci­a­tion of In­ter­col­le­giate Ath­let­ics (NAIA) can­celled the 2020 springs sports sea­son in a March 16 press re­lease.   “All pos­si­ble sce­nar­ios that would have sup­ported a spring sports sea­son were seri... More »

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Trav­el­ing Stu­dents Share Their Sto­ries

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MISHAWAKA – Two stu­dents share their ex­pe­ri­ences com­ing back to Bethel Uni­ver­sity as travel bans — na­tion­wide and state or­ders — come into play due to the coro­n­avirus (COVID-19).   Han­nah Mi­hut, Eng­lish and phi­los­o­phy dou­ble-... More »

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Trump Signs Coro­n­avirus Re­lief Bill

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MISHAWAKA – On March 27, Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump signed a $2 tril­lion coro­n­avirus re­lief bill. This bill is in­tended to aid those who are ex­pe­ri­enc­ing un­em­ploy­ment dur­ing the pan­demic. It is also in­tended as a stim­u­lus for the... More »

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Holt­gren Over­sees On­line Tran­si­tion

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Like many ed­u­ca­tional in­sti­tu­tions, Bethel Uni­ver­sity moved all classes on­line for the rest of the spring se­mes­ter. The March 20 an­nounce­ment came nine days af­ter the World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (WHO) an­nounced that COVID-19 is... More »

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An­i­mal Cross­ing: Not as New Hori­zons

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MISHAWAKA – Yet an­other re­view of An­i­mal Cross­ing is on the hori­zon, as that is all I have played in the in­ter­ven­ing week of self-iso­la­tion.  Yes, I am still play­ing An­i­mal Cross­ing: New Hori­zons, and still hav­ing a great dea... More »

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The Nut­shell: Tran­si­tion­ing to On­line Classes

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MISHAWAK, IN – This week, we asked stu­dents through email, “How are you feel­ing about the new on­line classes and how is it af­fect­ing your col­lege ex­pe­ri­ence?” The stu­dents have asked to re­main anony­mous.   “It sucks. To put i... More »

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Re­view: Nin­tendo Di­rect Mini

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MISHAWAKA – Mar. 26 saw Nin­tendo re­lease one of its minia­ture game pre­sen­ta­tions ad­ver­tis­ing all the news sur­round­ing the com­pany.  Though it has­n’t been a long time since the last Nin­tendo Di­rect, fans have been clam­or­ing fo... More »

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Cam­pus Safety Up­date

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MISHAWAKA—With most stu­dents be­ing off cam­pus be­cause of the re­cent out­break of coro­n­avirus, ac­tiv­ity on cam­pus has dwin­dled sig­nif­i­cantly. How­ever, there are still a few things to re­port in terms of cam­pus safety.  There was... More »

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Coro­n­avirus Af­fects Bethel and Lo­cal Com­mu­nity

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MISHAWAKA- Coro­n­avirus is at­tack­ing the health of thou­sands of in­di­vid­u­als across the globe and im­pact­ing busi­nesses, com­mu­ni­ties and our health­care sys­tems.  “[Coro­n­avirus is] a new dis­ease that causes res­pi­ra­tory ill­ness in... More »

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Bethel Hosts Im­mi­gra­tion Sum­mit

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The Coun­cil for Chris­t­ian Col­leges and Uni­ver­si­ties (CCCU) held its Re­gional Im­mi­gra­tion Sum­mit at Bethel Uni­ver­sity on March 10. The sum­mit took place in the Ro­tunda of the Ever­est-Rohrer Fine Arts Cen­ter from 2-7 p.m.  The ... More »

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Bethel’s Wom­en’s Soc­cer Serves in Guatemala

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MISHAWAKA – Ten mem­bers of Bethel’s wom­en’s soc­cer team trav­eled with the coach­ing staff to Guatemala over spring break to work along­side En­gadi Min­istries. They worked in Zone 18 of Guatemala City, in the com­mu­nity of El Par... More »

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An­i­mal Cross­ing: New Hori­zons

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MISHAWAKA – The pop­u­lar an­i­mal-themed life sim­u­la­tor game has fi­nally ar­rived on store shelves and is ready for play­ers to jump right in.  First and fore­most, I would like to make it per­fectly ob­vi­ous that I is­sued a shame­ful... More »

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Bethel Of­fers On-Cam­pus Sum­mer Jobs

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MISHAWAKA – For many col­lege stu­dents, sum­mer is the best time to find work and save up for the school year; how­ever, find­ing a sum­mer job can be dif­fi­cult and stress­ful. Stu­dents may not be aware that there are mul­ti­ple stud... More »

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Bethel Es­ports: One Step For­ward, Two Steps Back

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Es­ports, oth­er­wise known as elec­tronic sports, are com­pe­ti­tions re­volv­ing around video games. This field of com­pe­ti­tion be­gan with Atar­i’s 1980 “Space In­vader Cham­pi­onship” and is grow­ing quickly for its rel­a­tively young age,... More »

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Be­hind the Screens: Con­sole Wars

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MISHAWAKA – Sony’s and Mi­crosoft’s “next-gen” gam­ing ma­chines have found them­selves at odds year af­ter year, and in 2020 they seem to be at the start­ing line once again. With the up­com­ing re­lease of both the Playsta­tion 5 (PS... More »

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Stu­dent Coun­cil Shuf­fles Around Bud­get

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MISHAWAKA – On Mon­day, Feb. 24, Stu­dent Coun­cil voted unan­i­mously to trans­fer mul­ti­ple parts of the bud­get into the dis­cre­tionary bud­get. Ex­ec­u­tive Trea­surer Ja­cob Kersey said they are tak­ing $375 out of the fac­ulty ad­vi­sors’... More »

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Ath­lete of the Week: Kory Goodrich

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When se­nior Kory Goodrich en­tered Bethel Uni­ver­sity in the fall of 2016, he did not know if he be­longed on the team. The sup­port from his team­mates kept him grounded.  “I would say the sup­port I’ve got­ten from my team­mates ha... More »

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Movie Re­view: Zootopia

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MISHAWAKA- Dis­ney has played a ma­jor fac­tor in the de­vel­op­ment of most of our lives; it has in­spired princesses to be­come the war­riors and in­formed princes that there is more than just beauty. Dis­ney has taught chil­dren for d... More »

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Bethel Host­ing Mid­west Im­mi­gra­tion Sum­mit

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MISHAWAKA – Bethel is host­ing a Mid­west Im­mi­gra­tion Sum­mit to dis­cuss the na­tion’s ris­ing ten­sions on the topic of im­mi­gra­tion and the re­li­gious and leg­isla­tive con­cerns therein. The sum­mit will hap­pen on Tues­day, Mar. 10, in... More »

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Up­per­class­men Or­ga­nize Car­ni­val

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MISHAWAKA—On Fri­day, Feb. 21, the up­per-class com­mit­tee or­ga­nized a car­ni­val for Bethel stu­dents in the Good­man Gym­na­sium from 7-10 p.m. The car­ni­val in­cluded fish-pong, bal­loon darts, a can toss, ring-a-pop and plenty of foo... More »

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Artist of the Week: Vanessa Steiner

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MISHAWAKA—This week, the Bethel Bea­con high­lights Art Ed­u­ca­tion ma­jor Vanessa Steiner, the cre­ative force be­hind the Se­nior art show­case “Still Sov­er­eign.”   Steiner came into Bethel as an El­e­men­tary Ed­u­ca­tion ma­jor, but swit... More »

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Nom­i­nate the Pro­fes­sor of the Year

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MISHAWAKA—Every Bethel pro­fes­sor is amaz­ing in one way or an­other, and nearly every stu­dent has a fa­vorite pro­fes­sor, or per­haps a long list of fa­vorites; how­ever, it can be dif­fi­cult for stu­dents to find op­por­tu­ni­ties to dem... More »

New In­for­ma­tion Re­vealed About New Hori­zons

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MISHAWAKA – “An­i­mal Cross­ing: New Hori­zons” had its own ded­i­cated Nin­tendo Di­rect this week which re­vealed a boat­load of new in­for­ma­tion.  Many Nin­tendo fans and gam­ing fans in gen­eral are un­fa­mil­iar with the “An­i­mal Cross­ing” se­ries, prob­a­bly be­cause it looks and sounds like a game for peo­ple who’re old enough to un­der­stand what money is but not old enough to un­der­stand why mommy and daddy now ha... More »

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Gen­e­sians Per­form­ing Dur­ing Spring Break

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Gen­e­sians, Bethel’s the­atre troupe, will be trav­el­ing dur­ing spring break to per­form shows to a va­ri­ety of au­di­ences. They are pre­sent­ing “Click, Clack, Moo” and “Ten Miles to Jeri­cho” to schools and churches lo­cally and beyo... More »

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Bethel Med­ical Ex­perts Dis­cuss Coro­n­avirus

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MISHAWAKA – The re­cent strain of coro­n­avirus, which has im­pacted more than 76,000 peo­ple world­wide, has yet to af­fect In­di­ana and the lo­cal com­mu­nity. Amer­i­cans have con­tracted the dis­ease only due to re­cent travel to af­fecte... More »

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Cam­pus Safety Up­date

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The Cam­pus Safety Log for this week can be viewed here: https://​bea­con.bethelu­ni­ver­sity.edu/​wp-con­tent/​up­loads/​2020/​02/​log-2-21.pdf More »

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Bowl­ing Sea­son Fin­ishes Strong

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Bethel Uni­ver­si­ty’s new bowl­ing teams gar­nered much at­ten­tion this sea­son for their in­di­vid­ual per­for­mances. Fresh­men Ameer Lawrence and Myles Moser each won the bowl­ing pro­gram’s first in­di­vid­ual tour­na­ment wins. Fresh­man La... More »

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Bethel Hosts An­nual BABE Week

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Mishawaka — Bethel Uni­ver­sity hosts its an­nual Babe Week Feb. 16-20 for all fe­male stu­dents.   Babe Week stands for “Be Au­then­tic Be Em­pow­ered,” and ac­cord­ing to the wom­en’s res­i­den­tial di­rec­tors, Michelle Ma­son, Shupe Hall, ... More »

WHO Up­dates on Coro­n­avirus

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MISHAWAKA – On Dec. 31, 2019, the World Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (WHO) con­firmed the first case of the Novel Coro­n­avirus in Wuhan, China. The dis­ease has since spread around the world, with con­firmed cases in Eu­rope, Aus­tralia, Africa and North Amer­ica. Ac­cord­ing to the Cen­ters for Dis­ease Con­trol, the first U.S. case of the virus was on Jan. 15. The pa­tient con­tracted the virus dur­ing a trip to Wuhan ... More »

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VIP Event Caps Off IHeartBU Week

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MISHAWAKA- Bethel Uni­ver­sity In­sti­tu­tional Ad­vance­ment Of­fice in­vited alumni and donors to a VIP event af­ter the men’s and wom­an’s bas­ket­ball games to cap­stone this year’s fundrais­ing event, IHeartBU week.  The VIP event was ... More »

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From the Asst. Ed­i­tor

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Salu­ta­tions, Bea­con Read­ers!  Con­grat­u­la­tions—you are hold­ing in your hands the first print edi­tion of the Bea­con this decade! You should re­ceive three print edi­tions this se­mes­ter, so keep your eyes peeled for those in the c... More »

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The Nut­shell: What are Your Plans for Spring Break?

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MISHAWAKA – The time has come for an­other Nut­shell for The Bea­con. This week, we asked Bethel stu­dents what their plans are for Spring Break.  Corbin Knight, a fresh­man Chris­t­ian Min­istries ma­jor, said, “I have no plans for S... More »

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Valen­tine’s Day: A Short Story

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1 p.m.:  This Valen­tine’s Day, I find my­self sit­ting at my desk, star­ing into the dis­tance – al­though “dis­tance” should be re­ferred to by its proper name – Grant. We’ve been to­gether for al­most three months. I’ve never caught... More »

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Artist of the Week: Hope Nofziger

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MISHAWAKA – This week, we shine the spot­light on Hope Nofziger, a se­nior the­atre arts and deaf stud­ies ma­jor. Nofziger is star­ring as Dorothy Gale in Bethel’s up­com­ing pro­duc­tion of the “Wiz­ard of Oz.”  “I have thor­oughly enj... More »

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Ath­lete of the Week: Emma Jankowski

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MISHAWAKA – This week we are high­light­ing Emma Jankowski, a record-break­ing track and field star. Jankowski is a ju­nior ex­er­cise sci­ence ma­jor who has bro­ken sev­eral Bethel Uni­ver­sity records and was re­cently named Cross­roads... More »

Bethel Bea­con Re­sumes So­cial Me­dia

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MISHAWAKA—The Bethel Bea­con is mak­ing its pres­ence on­line known again. We will be post­ing reg­u­larly on Fri­days on both In­sta­gram and Face­book.   On In­sta­gram, be­side post­ing reg­u­larly about our sto­ries, you will see pro­files of our writ­ers. You will learn about what sort of ar­ti­cles they write and what they like to do for fun. You will see posts on sto­ries about Bethel hap­pen­ings and up­dates on Th... More »

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Bethel Joins Col­le­giate Day of Prayer

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MISHAWAKA—On Feb. 27, the en­tire na­tion will be cel­e­brat­ing the Col­le­giate Day of Prayer. Peo­ple across Amer­ica will pray for spir­i­tual re­vival on col­lege cam­puses around the coun­try. In honor of this day, there will be a ful... More »

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A Dude Re­views Dude Week

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MISHAWAKA – Dude Week has fi­nally come to an end, and it’s time to look back at all the pan-dude-mo­nium that took place.  On Mon­day night, Feb. 10, a slip and slide ran the length of one of Oak­wood’s halls. The in­no­v­a­tive gen... More »

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Im­peach­ment Sets Un­known Fu­ture Prece­dent

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WASH­ING­TON, D.C. — Fol­low­ing the im­peach­ment and ac­quit­tal of Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump, po­lit­i­cal pun­dits and politi­cians spec­u­lated the fu­ture of im­peach­ment.   Some crit­ics ar­gued the De­mo­c­ra­tic Party ma­jor­ity House voted to ... More »

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Wel­come Cen­ter Con­struc­tion Pro­gress­ing

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MISHAWAKA—Every­one knows the process of build­ing the new Wel­come Cen­ter on cam­pus has been a slow one; how­ever, af­ter break­ing ground, con­struc­tion of the build­ing has been mov­ing quite rapidly.  Joe Zap­pia, di­rec­tor of Physi... More »

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Cam­pus Safety Re­port

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View this week’s Cam­pus Safety Log here: https://​bea­con.bethelu­ni­ver­sity.edu/​wp-con­tent/​up­loads/​2020/​02/​feb-7-14.pdf More »

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BOB Talks High­light Bethel De­part­ments

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MISH­WAKA- Every month, Best of Bethel Talks (BOB Talks) high­light and honor var­i­ous de­part­ments around Bethel’s cam­pus; friends of Bethel, com­mu­nity part­ners, pro­fes­sors, stu­dents that rep­re­sent that spe­cific de­part­ment, and ... More »

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Bethel Pre­sents I Heart BU Week

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MISHAWAKA—There are many ways peo­ple cel­e­brate Valen­tine’s Day; for cou­ples there are choco­late boxes, roses and mean­ing­ful gifts—for sin­gle peo­ple there is dis­counted candy (the day af­ter Valen­tine’s Day) and sit­ting on a co... More »

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Well­ness Cen­ter Of­fers Group Op­tions

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MISHAWAKA – Re­la­tion­ship trou­bles, stress, de­pres­sion and anx­i­ety and past trauma. With these emo­tions swirling around in the minds of col­lege stu­dents – all while jug­gling a busy sched­ule – it is of the up­most im­por­tance for... More »

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Bethel Re­leases Fall 2019 Dean’s List

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MISHAWAKA – Three weeks ago, Bethel Uni­ver­sity re­leased the Fall 2019 Dean’s List. Nearly 450 stu­dents made the list this past se­mes­ter; but what ex­actly is the ben­e­fit to be­ing on it?   Ac­cord­ing to Cor­po­rate Fi­nance In­stitu... More »

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Tak­ing Small Steps to a Health­ier Lifestyle

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MISHAWAKA – Play­ing video games can be both a hobby and a pro­fes­sion; how­ever, since both hob­bies and jobs take up size­able por­tions of an av­er­age per­son’s life, it would be a good idea to bal­ance out those rather in­ac­tive ho... More »

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Ath­lete of the Week: Ameer Lawrence

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Fresh­man Ameer Lawrence be­came a ris­ing star in the Bethel men’s bowl­ing team’s in­au­gural sea­son. He won his first in­di­vid­ual tour­na­ment at the Siena Heights Uni­ver­sity Halo In­vi­ta­tional on Sept. 28.   Lawrence bowled four ye... More »

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The Nut­shell: Fa­vorite Su­per­bowl Com­mer­cial

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The Su­per­bowl is one of the most widely cel­e­brated sports events in Amer­ica. In light of the less sport-savvy among us, this week’s Nut­shell fo­cuses on the best part of the Su­per­bowl–the com­mer­cials! Bethel Bea­con read­ers, wh... More »

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Cam­pus Safety Log

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This week’s Cam­pus Safety Log can be found here: https://​bea­con.bethelu­ni­ver­sity.edu/​wp-con­tent/​up­loads/​2020/​02/​log-2-5.pdf More »

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Bethel Boys Cel­e­brate Dude Week

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MISHAWAKA – Dude Week has ar­rived, mean­ing that all the boys’ dorms on cam­pus are about to get a lot more ram­bunc­tious.  The Dude Week dates this year are Feb. 10-14. Dur­ing this time, the res­i­dents of Oak­wood-Slater Hall, Ma... More »

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Bethel Base­ball Hosts Hit­ting Clinic

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MISHAWAKA—On Feb. 7-8, Bethel’s base­ball team hosted a hit­ting clinic for young base­ball play­ers. The hit­ting clinic was held on cam­pus in the base­ball team’s in­door fa­cil­ity. There were youth base­ball teams from the area sig... More »

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Book Re­view: The Nightin­gale by Kristin Han­nah

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The Holo­caust, al­though it oc­curred about 75 years ago, still pen­e­trates mod­ern Amer­i­can me­dia to­day. With books like Num­ber the Stars by Lois Lowry and The Boy in the Striped Pa­ja­mas by John Boyne, the lat­ter which re­ceived ... More »

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Ath­lete of the Week: Kelsey Brick­ner

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MISHAWAKA- This week’s Player of the Week is Kelsey Brick­ner who re­cently reached her 1000-point mile­stone in bas­ket­ball.  Brick­ner is a Ju­nior Ex­er­cise Sci­ence ma­jor, in­ten­tional with her choice to come to Bethel.  Brick­ner ... More »

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Bethel Starts Mid-Week Meet­ings

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MISHAWAKA – Most Bethel stu­dents are aware that they are re­quired to at­tend chapel three days a week. Last week, Bethel re­sumed Mid­week Small Groups. In light of this, there has been some con­fu­sion about chapel at­ten­dance and... More »

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Artists of the Week: Ash­lin Townsend and Bekah Scott

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MISHAWAKA, IN – This week’s Artists of the Week is vo­cal per­former Ash­lin Townsend, a Mu­sic Ed­u­ca­tion ma­jor with a fo­cus in vo­cal mu­sic, and pi­anist Bekah Scott, a Pi­ano Per­for­mance ma­jor; who both re­cently per­formed in their... More »

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Nut­shell: How Did Kobe Bryant Im­pact You?

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With the pass­ing of NBA leg­end Kobe Bryant at age 41, Bethel Uni­ver­sity stu­dents and pro­fes­sors ex­pressed their grat­i­tude and grief for the man known as “The Black Mamba.”  “I am life­time LA Lak­ers fan and all of my fa­vorite ... More »

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In­tra­mu­rals Be­gins Again

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MISHAWAKA—We are well into the spring se­mes­ter and every­thing has started up again, in­clud­ing in­tra­mu­rals.   The first event in­tra­mu­rals played a part in was last Fri­day when they part­nered with Cam­pus Ac­tiv­i­ties to put on gl... More »

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Bethel Hosts An­nual Lead­er­ship Week­end

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MISHAWAKA- The an­nual Lead­er­ship Week­end con­fer­ence took place on Bethel’s cam­pus Jan. 31-Feb. 1; this year’s guest speaker was Mark Mat­lock, an in­sight leader for Barna Group who trav­els the world spread­ing the Word of God. ... More »

Ca­reer Fair Com­ing to Bethel

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MISHAWAKA—This year, the Of­fice of In­sti­tu­tional Ad­vance­ment is team­ing up with Global En­gage­ment and Ca­reer Ser­vices to bring a Ca­reer Fair to Bethel’s cam­pus.  The Ca­reer Fair will take place from 2-5 p.m. on Wednes­day, March 18, in the Wiekamp Gym­na­sium. The Fair is be­ing or­ga­nized ex­clu­sively for Bethel stu­dents rather than be­ing open to the pub­lic as it has been in pre­vi­ous years. Stu­dents fr... More »

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Snow­ball Dance Brings in Record Crowd

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The Bethel Uni­ver­sity Stu­dent Coun­cil hosted the first school spon­sored dance on Jan. 17.  While the coun­cil ex­pected be­tween 50 and 200 at­ten­dees, over 500 peo­ple showed up to the event.  “We had or­dered food for about 180 p... More »

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Cam­pus Safety Re­port

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MISHAWAKA—The snow is here, the roads are icy, and some­times cars just won’t work right. What many stu­dents do not know is that Cam­pus Safety can help with some of those things.  Along with keep­ing cam­pus a safe place for stu... More »

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Up­com­ing Cam­pus Events

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Sun­day, Feb­ru­ary 2 @ 7pm – Su­per Bowl Gath­er­ing  Come hang­out with your fel­low stu­dents in the Acorn and en­joy the Su­per Bowl. Cheer for your fa­vorite team or just en­joy spend­ing the evening with friends.  Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 7 ... More »

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The­atre De­part­ment Seeks Stu­dent Help

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The The­atre De­part­ment is look­ing for Bethel stu­dents in­ter­ested in get­ting in­volved back­stage for Wiz­ard of Oz, which runs March 26-28. Dressers, hair and makeup, stage crew, ush­ers and more are needed.   Con­tact the As­sista... More »

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MLK Cel­e­brated at Weekly Chapel

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MISHAWAKA — On Jan. 20, Bethel Uni­ver­sity cel­e­brated Mar­tin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Day through wor­ship, dance and by invit­ing a panel for ques­tions at its weekly Mon­day chapel.   The Coun­cil of Di­ver­sity and In­clu­sion at Bethe... More »

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Look­ing Back on GO Week

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MISHAWAKA – With the end of Bethel’s Go Week, it’s time to re­flect on the chapel ser­vices fea­tured as part of the con­fer­ence.  On Mon­day, Jan. 20, Bethel chapel-go­ers sat in on a panel about the his­tory and mod­ern in­ter­pre­tat... More »

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Bethel Pub­lishes Com­mu­nity Im­pact Re­port

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MISHAWAKA, IN – As a Chris­t­ian uni­ver­sity, Bethel has im­pacted the lo­cal com­mu­nity and the lives of its stu­dents for more than 70 years. But just how far does that im­pact reach?   Matt Lentsch, Bethel Uni­ver­si­ty’s Vice Presid... More »

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Player of the Week: Tre­Vion Crews

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MISHAWAKA—This week’s Player of the Week is a star-ath­lete from our bas­ket­ball team, Tre­Vion Crews, a ju­nior sports man­age­ment ma­jor who re­cently reached the thou­sand-point mark in his bas­ket­ball ca­reer.   “It means a lot to ... More »

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An­der­son Re­ceives Hon­or­able Men­tion at KCACTF

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MISHAWAKA — Matthew An­der­son, se­nior lib­eral stud­ies ma­jor, re­ceived hon­or­able men­tion at the Kennedy Cen­ter Amer­i­can Col­lege The­atre Fes­ti­val (KCACTF) Re­gion 3 for Sound De­sign, in Madi­son, Wis.   An­der­son had a great time p... More »

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Stephen White Wins First Place at KCACTF

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This year, a group of Bethel stu­dents at­tended the Kennedy Cen­ter Amer­i­can Col­lege The­atre Fes­ti­val (KCACTF), in Madi­son, Wis­con­sin, from Jan. 7-12. The group in­cluded Stephen White, a ju­nior the­atre per­for­mance ma­jor who won... More »

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Stu­dent Coun­cil Raises Snow­ball Bud­get

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The Bethel Uni­ver­sity Stu­dent Coun­cil had their first meet­ing of the spring se­mes­ter Jan. 13 at 9 p.m. Af­ter prayer and roll call the stu­dent body pres­i­dent, Paul Cooke, dis­cussed up­dates to the dance.  The dance which took p... More »

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Player of the Week: Grant Gelon

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MISHAWAKA—It is no se­cret that Bethel is full of tal­ented and skilled ath­letes who are al­ways win­ning awards and break­ing records. Stu­dents and fac­ulty hear about the many things Bethel ath­letes ac­com­plish in sports, but not ... More »

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Face­book Bans Deep­fakes

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MISHAWAKA – Face­book’s re­cent ban of deep­fakes, a type of video edit­ing which trans­forms the sub­ject into some­thing un­rec­og­niz­able, is a step to­wards com­bat­ting mis­in­for­ma­tion for the up­com­ing 2020 elec­tion. How­ever, pol­i­cyma... More »

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Bethel Goes Green

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Mishawaka, IN—Re­cently, you may have no­ticed bright green boxes be­ing car­ried by stu­dents walk­ing across cam­pus; they are the new reusable to-go con­tain­ers for the Din­ing Com­mons. You may even be con­fused since last se­mes­ter ... More »

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Let­ter from the Ed­i­tor

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Greet­ings, Bethel Bea­con Read­ers!  How are you all do­ing? That was a rhetor­i­cal ques­tion, of course, this let­ter be­ing posted on­line and all. But wait, per­haps it is­n’t a rhetor­i­cal ques­tion; I want to know how you are do­ing.... More »

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The Snow­men Kid­nap­pers: A Christ­mas Story

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Chloe stopped walk­ing.  Snowflakes drifted down around her.  The air was silent.  But Chloe knew she had heard some­thing.  She stared down at her pur­ple snow-boots al­most cov­ered in snow and lis­tened again, wait­ing.  There it... More »

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Bethel Hires New Bas­ket­ball Coach: Steve Drabyn

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MISHAWAKA—Cam­pus is buzzing with talk about the suc­cess of the bas­ket­ball team this sea­son. So far un­de­feated, the coach­ing staff and play­ers must be do­ing some­thing right, and a good part of that credit goes to Steve Drabyn,... More »

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A Closer Look at Course Eval­u­a­tions

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MISHAWAKA—As the fall se­mes­ter closes, Bethel stu­dents are un­doubt­edly re­ceiv­ing a slew of emails, re­mind­ing them to fill out the eval­u­a­tions for the courses they’ve just about com­pleted. Some stu­dents are ready to jump on th... More »

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Bethel Soc­cer Ends Sea­son

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MISHAWAKA, IN—Bethel Uni­ver­sity Men’s Soc­cer ended their sea­son by falling just short of the Cross­roads Cham­pi­onship Tour­na­ment by a tight one-score, over­time loss to Hunt­ing­ton, a team ri­valry game. The coach­ing staff was no... More »

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Poké­mon Sword and Shield is Re­leased

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I may be an 18-year-old adult male, but I am a five-year-old boy at heart. The im­por­tance of this is that I of­ten find my­self en­joy­ing things that are child­ish in de­sign. I fully ac­knowl­edge that. How­ever, I posit that a game... More »

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D. C.’s Take: Knives Out

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Noth­ing says bring­ing fam­i­lies to­gether than sit­ting down to watch a wealthy fam­ily get at each oth­er’s throats in fig­ur­ing out how to han­dle the fact some­one might be a mur­derer. Sounds fun, right? At least that’s what to ex... More »

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Up­date: Bowl­ing Team’s First Sea­son

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MISHAWAKA—Bowl­ing is a sport like no other. There are many tech­niques and strate­gies in­volved, that make it more com­plex than one might imag­ine. This is Bethel’s bowl­ing team’s first sea­son, and so far, it has gone well.  Chr... More »

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Anx­i­ety Man­age­ment Group Meets Mon­days

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MISHAWAKA—Be­ing a col­lege stu­dent means deal­ing with stress and anx­i­ety about grades, ex­ams, ath­let­ics, so­cial well-be­ing, and much more. Some­times the weight of it all can be over­whelm­ing. Bethel’s Well­ness Cen­ter (lo­cated e... More »

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Bethel Hosts “Para­phrase” Open Mic Night

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Para­phrase, Bethel’s open mic night, took place on Nov. 15, open­ing up the au­di­to­rium to a plethora of stu­dents wish­ing to share their artis­tic tal­ents in a stress- and judge­ment-free zone. This pas­sion pro­ject of Stephanie F... More »

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Stu­dent Coun­cil Or­ga­nizes Canned Food Drive

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MISHAWAKA—The Un­der­class Stu­dent Coun­cil Of­fi­cers have or­ga­nized a canned food drive com­pe­ti­tion de­signed to in­volve stu­dents in the Thanks­giv­ing sea­son by giv­ing back to the com­mu­nity.  Lacey Bark­dull, a sopho­more art ed­u­cat... More »

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NCAA to Pay Ath­letes for Use of Their Like­ness

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Mishawaka— NCAA di­ver­sion is de­clar­ing that stu­dents in there di­vi­sion should get paid on top of their schol­ar­ships. NCAA wants ath­letes to be paid for the use of their name, but within cer­tain guide­lines:  As­sure that stu­den... More »

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Bethel Stu­dent Cho­sen by AEI to Per­form Re­search

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MISHAWAKA—Bethel Uni­ver­sity is home to many bright in­di­vid­u­als, and some­times they are rec­og­nized for their in­tel­li­gence and hard work by in­di­vid­u­als or or­ga­ni­za­tions out­side the “Bethel Bub­ble.”  One such in­di­vid­ual is Abby ... More »

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Nut­shell: How Soon Is Too Soon for Christ­mas Mu­sic?

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MISHAWAKA — Time for an­other nut­shell, pi­lots! This week: When is it ac­cept­able to play Christ­mas mu­sic – be­fore Thanks­giv­ing or af­ter?   “I think it’s ac­cept­able to play Christ­mas mu­sic af­ter Thanks­giv­ing, but not be­fore,” s... More »

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Measles Makes Im­mune Sys­tem More Vul­ner­a­ble

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MISHAWKA, IN—Measles, once a rarely en­coun­tered vi­ral in­fec­tion in the United States, is mak­ing a come­back.   Measles is a vi­ral in­fec­tion which can be im­mu­nized against by re­ceiv­ing the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vacci... More »

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Bas­ket­ball Team Starts Off the Sea­son Strong

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MISHAWAKA—With a record of four wins and no losses, the Men’s Bas­ket­ball team has a great start to the sea­son. But what makes this team so suc­cess­ful? And will this con­tinue through­out the sea­son?  Steve Drabyn, Head Coach of... More »

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Bethel Uni­ver­sity is Build­ing a Track Fa­cil­ity

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Mishawaka— Bethel Uni­ver­sity is build­ing a new track fa­cil­ity. The ded­i­cated fa­cil­ity will al­low stu­dent-ath­letes to prac­tice for their sport. One of the prob­lems some ath­letic teams face cur­rently, is hav­ing to fight for tim... More »

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Fresh­men Class Try­ing Out New Soft­ware

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MISHAWAKA – Fresh­men or trans­fer stu­dents to Bethel are prob­a­bly fa­mil­iar with Wil­helm, who is not only Bethel Uni­ver­si­ty’s mas­cot but also the name of the au­to­matic text-mes­sag­ing soft­ware, a tool de­signed to aid stu­dents an... More »

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Ath­letic Staff Wel­comes New Trainer

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MISHAWAKA—As of this past month, Bethel’s staff wel­comed a new ath­letic trainer, Doug Cas­sell.   Cas­sell will be the ath­letic trainer for Rugby, Wom­en’s Soc­cer, Wom­en’s Bas­ket­ball, and Base­ball. With around 20 sports teams an... More »

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Ad­den­dum: Pres­i­dent Throws Pump­kin Party

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The ad­dress for the Nov. 8, fall party to be held at the home of Pres­i­dent Chenoweth was omit­ted in a pre­vi­ous story Pres­i­dent Throws Pump­kin Party. The ad­dress is 61619 Dog­wood Road, Mishawaka. The Bea­con re­grets this er­ror.... More »

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Cam­pus Safety Re­port

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MISHAWAKA—The Cam­pus Safety Of­fice has been be­yond busy lately. Along with the mul­ti­ple re­ports of things be­ing stolen from ve­hi­cles, many sus­pi­cious per­sons seen on cam­pus, and the oc­ca­sional fire alarm go­ing off in one of t... More »

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Scrip­ture 66: Read­ing from Cover to Cover

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MISHAWAKA—With cozy lights and com­fort­able couches, the Shiloh Prayer Chapel looked dif­fer­ent this week­end, but not just be­cause of the dé­cor. Stu­dents took turns sit­ting in the chapel while read­ing the Scrip­tures, pray­ing, a... More »

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In­tra­mu­rals Kick it into High Gear

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MISHAWAKA, IN—Stu­dent ath­letes are not the only ones who can play sports on cam­pus. In­tra­mural sports pro­vide all stu­dents with the op­por­tu­nity to play in a mod­er­ately com­pet­i­tive en­vi­ron­ment. This year, there are plenty of o... More »

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Grad­u­ate School Tips: Psy­chol­ogy De­part­ment

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MISHAWAKA – Any Pi­lots look­ing to go to grad school for Psy­chol­ogy should take a peek at these use­ful tips from Bethel’s Psy­chol­ogy De­part­ment. Pro­fes­sor of Psy­chol­ogy Stephanie Carl­son, Ph.D., gave three use­ful tips to succe... More »

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AEI Pre­sents “The Pur­suit”

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MISHAWAKA—On Wednes­day, Nov. 6, the Amer­i­can En­ter­prise In­sti­tute [AEI] will be show­ing “The Pur­suit” at 7 p.m. in the Aca­d­e­mic Cen­ter, room 342. Free Chick-fil-a is be­ing pro­vided for at­ten­dees who reg­is­tered for the event b... More »

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Bethel’s Golf Teams Find Them­selves in Florida

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PALM COAST, FL – Bethel’s golf teams made it to na­tion­als and spent the du­ra­tion of the com­pe­ti­tion in sunny, scorch­ing Palm Beach, Florida. Both the men’s and wom­en’s teams played ex­tremely well to make it that far, and they... More »

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Three Ways to Stay Healthy This Fall

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MISHAWAKA, IN—With the changes in weather come flu sea­son: de­creas­ing sun­light, a de­creased mo­ti­va­tion to ex­er­cise, and et cetera. All of these can com­bine to make quite the mis­er­able fall sea­son. How can some­one who wants to... More »

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Rogue Pi­anos Con­nected to Van­ish­ing Stu­dents?

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Note: the fol­low­ing story is fic­ti­tious. Any cor­re­la­tion to ac­tual peo­ple or events is co­in­ci­den­tal.  MISHAWAKA—Bethel has been blessed with an abun­dance of lovers of mu­sic and tal­ented mu­si­cians, and as a re­sult there is a p... More »

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Bethel Finds Ways to Limit Plas­tic

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MISHAWAKA, IN—Most would agree that Bethel has a vi­su­ally pleas­ing cam­pus. Lots of trees and flow­ers with plenty of birds, squir­rels, and other crea­tures make it feel very nat­ural and green. How­ever, Bethel uses a lot of sing... More »

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Nin­tendo Pro­vides Ring Fit Ad­ven­ture

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MISHAWAKA, IN – Put on your ex­er­cise clothes, grab the near­est slightly-bendy gam­ing pe­riph­eral, and strap an­other gam­ing pe­riph­eral around your thigh, Pi­lots. It is time for Nin­ten­do’s spir­i­tual suc­ces­sor to “Wii Sports.”  T... More »

Plas­tic Bags Stran­gle Stu­dent

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MISHAWAKA—Plas­tic waste has been in the news re­cently. It is be­ing touted as one of the great mon­sters af­flict­ing the world and the en­vi­ron­ment to­day. What may not have been said was just how real of a mon­ster plas­tic can be.   The prob­lem started at the be­gin­ning of the se­mes­ter when more and more stu­dents be­gan ask­ing for to-go con­tain­ers, pri­mar­ily made of plas­tics, Sty­ro­foam, and other non-bio... More »

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A Closer Look at Bethel’s Coun­sel­ing Ser­vices

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MISHAWAKA—For sev­eral years, Bethel has pro­vided coun­sel­ing ser­vices to its stu­dents. Ac­cord­ing to a flyer dis­trib­uted by the Well­ness Cen­ter, the Well­ness Cen­ter Coun­sel­ing Ser­vices pro­vide: “Pro­fes­sional, short-term men­tal ... More »

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iPhone 11 Re­leased

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MISHAWAKA – Ap­ple has re­cently re­leased its new smart­phone, the iPhone 11, and proved two things in the process: the de­vel­op­ers still haven’t learned to count, and if there’s a price tag on some­thing, some­one will buy it.  To... More »

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Bethel Alum­nus Leads Po­etry Read­ing

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MISHAWAKA—On Wednes­day, Oct. 16, Bethel Alum­nus Spencer French ‘19 re­turned to Bethel’s cam­pus to lead stu­dents in a po­etry read­ing. A to­tal of 11 stu­dents and two pro­fes­sors at­tended the event.  French se­lected nine po­ems fo... More »

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D.C.’s Take: Zom­bieland: Dou­ble Tap

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“Zom­bieland: Dou­ble Tap” has fi­nally come out af­ter years of ask­ing for a se­quel to fi­nally hap­pen, but it had many a dif­fi­cult task to get through if you ask me. This is a se­quel where the orig­i­nal came out in the­aters ten y... More »

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Pi­lots Stay Un­de­feated

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MISHAWAKA–The Bethel Uni­ver­sity Base­ball team has had a great start to the sea­son con­tin­u­ing to stay un­de­feated.  They con­tinue their win­ning streak 11-0 vic­tory against Ran­dall Uni­ver­sity and keep push­ing with a strong start... More »

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Pi­lots Race to the Fin­ish

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MISHAWAKA— Cross Coun­try is get­ting close to the to the NC­CAA? Jor­dan Shoe­maker and Ja­cob Ropp ran their sec­ond-best times of the sea­son. We talked to the head coach of Bethel Uni­ver­sity Cross Coun­try team Ryan Som­mers and as... More »

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Pres­i­dent Throws A Pump­kin Party

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Falling leaves, flan­nels, pump­kins, ap­ple cider, and bon­fires are things that evoke pleas­ant mem­o­ries of fall. In just a few weeks, all of this will come to­gether when Bethel Uni­ver­si­ty’s own Pres­i­dent, Greg Chenoweth, hosts ... More »

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Bethel Sports Teams Work Notre Dame Se­cu­rity

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MISHAWAKA–Bethel Uni­ver­sity sports teams be­gan the 2019-2020 school year by work­ing se­cu­rity through the com­pany Per Mar Se­cu­rity Ser­vices on Sat­ur­days at the Uni­ver­sity of Notre Dame, to raise funds for their teams.  Dif­fere... More »

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FIC­TION: Goose At­tacks Bethel Stu­dent

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MISHAWAKA – A vi­o­lent goose has joined Bethel Uni­ver­si­ty’s pan­theon of Hal­loween hor­rors.  Rooty Arch­man, who said, “My name is­n’t go­ing in this, right? I don’t want my friends to know I ran away from a goose,” is the only st... More »

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Bethel Pro­fes­sor Gives Art Pre­sen­ta­tion

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MISHAWAKA, IN—This Tues­day, Oc­to­ber 15, Bethel’s own Kari Black, Ad­junct Pro­fes­sor of Ce­ram­ics, will be giv­ing a pre­sen­ta­tion for the Art League. This or­ga­ni­za­tion sup­ports the South Bend Mu­seum of Art, a lo­cal, ac­cred­ited mu... More »

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Re­view: “Un­ti­tled Goose Game”

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MISHAWAKA – Nin­ten­do’s re­lease of the non-tit­u­lar goose in, “Un­ti­tled Goose Game,” has play­ers flock­ing to their Nin­tendo Switches.  The goose sim­u­la­tor that no one was ask­ing for, nor ex­pect­ing, but that every­one is deeply g... More »

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Look­ing at Stu­dent Ath­letic Schol­ar­ships

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MISHAWAKA–At Bethel Uni­ver­sity, ath­letic stu­dents are of­fered schol­ar­ships for play­ing a sport. Ath­letic schol­ar­ships are non-guar­an­teed, aid agree­ments be­tween an ath­lete and their uni­ver­sity. Uni­ver­si­ties coaches award thes... More »

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“Mario Kart Tour” (ture)

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MISHAWAKA–Nin­ten­do’s mo­bile ver­sion of its clas­sic kart rac­ing fran­chise, Mario Kart, drifted into the App Store on Sept. 25, and has kept many a player en­rap­tured by its iconic game­play. How­ever, not every­one is ready to hea... More »

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New Ad­mis­sions Event Com­ing to Bethel

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MISHAWAKA—Many have prob­a­bly heard about the G2BU event com­ing up. G2BU is a three-day, two-night event, tak­ing place Oct. 24-26. It is an event for per­spec­tive stu­dents and is an im­mer­sion into Bethel and what cam­pus life lo... More »

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Re­view: Three Sis­ters

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MISHAWAKA–Di­rected by Clarence Gilyard, Amer­i­can ac­tor, col­lege pro­fes­sor, and au­thor, the com­plex story of “Three Sis­ters” was per­formed at the Kelly Au­di­to­rium by stu­dents in­volved in the the­atre de­part­ment on both Fri­day a... More »

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Cam­pus Safety: Storm Dam­age Re­port

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MISHAWAKA—Most are aware of the re­cent thun­der­storms and the dam­age they have caused on cam­pus. How­ever, there are other dam­age re­ports stu­dents may not be aware of.  Paul Neel, Di­rec­tor of Cam­pus Safety said,” We had two rou... More »

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BU gives Baugo stu­dents glimpse into their fu­ture

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Bethel Uni­ver­sity (BU) held an event called, “Walk Into My Fu­ture” on Sept. 26.  Baugo Com­mu­nity Schools (BCS) and BU part­nered to ig­nite ex­cite­ment for BCS stu­dents be­gin­ning their ed­u­ca­tion. Four hun­dred Baugo El­e­men­tary st... More »

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Bethel Alumni Re­ceive Awards

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MISHAWAKA–At Bethel, great minds are cul­ti­vated and bril­liant young lead­ers learn to step forth from the shad­ows. While every Bethel grad­u­ate is unique and bril­liant in their own way, every year Bethel chooses a se­lect few to... More »

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“Link’s Awak­en­ing” for the Third Time

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“The Leg­end of Zelda: Link’s Awak­en­ing,” the 26-year-old ac­tion, ad­ven­ture RPG from every­one’s fa­vorite, fam­ily-friendly game com­pany, Nin­tendo, has got­ten a brand-new look. The old ti­tle’s re­mas­ter re­leased on Sept. 20, 2019... More »

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Cam­pus Ac­tiv­i­ties Brings New Events to Cam­pus

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MISHAWAKA — Bethel Uni­ver­sity stu­dents might be won­der­ing who all is re­spon­si­ble for the plethora of ex­cit­ing ac­tiv­i­ties around cam­pus. Stu­dent En­gage­ment Co­or­di­na­tor, An­nelotte Letens, plans and over­sees all the events aroun... More »

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A Look at Bethel’s Stance on Sex­u­al­ity

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MISHAWAKA, IN—In the past, we have had speak­ers in chapel dis­cuss the topic of sex­u­al­ity and the LGBTQ com­mu­nity and what is bib­li­cal and ac­cept­able, but what is Bethel’s stance on sex­u­al­ity? Many stu­dents have asked this que... More »

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“Three Sis­ters” to Be Per­formed at Bethel

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MISHAWAKA — Bethel’s The­atre De­part­ment will per­form its Fall Stu­dio Play, “Three Sis­ters,” on Fri­day, Sept. 27, and Sat­ur­day, Sept.28. Both days have a 7:30 p.m., per­for­mance in the Ever­est-Rohrer Au­di­to­rium, and there is an... More »

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Meet Bethel’s New Fac­ulty

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Pick­ing up right where we left off last time, we’re fin­ish­ing our list of new fac­ulty mem­bers for Bethel Uni­ver­sity.  Dr. Laura Mad­dux, our new As­sis­tant Pro­fes­sor of Sign Lan­guage In­ter­pret­ing, is com­ing to us from the Lone ... More »

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Meet the Ben­netts

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MISHAWAKA—Meet Johnny (’17) and An­nie (’16) Ben­nett, Bethel grad­u­ates and a re­cently mar­ried cou­ple who have come back to Sailor and the dorms they each served in as RAs, to be the new Res­i­dent Di­rec­tors. An­nie grad­u­ated in 2... More »

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A Look at Bethel’s Tech Teams

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MISHAWAKA– Every pro­duc­tion on Bethel’s stages in­volves a plethora of peo­ple work­ing hard be­hind the scenes to make sure every­thing runs smoothly. For chapel and the­atre, a por­tion of those peo­ple com­prise the tech teams.  Br... More »

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Light­ing Strikes Cam­pus

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MISHAWAKA — On Thurs­day, Sept. 12, light­ning struck Bethel, re­sult­ing in some tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties across the cam­pus.  Late Thurs­day night, the Mishawaka area ex­pe­ri­enced thun­der and light­ning show­ers.   Around 11 P.M., stu... More »

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Dr. Haas De­liv­ers Sec­ond Amend­ment Lec­ture

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MISHAWAKA– Tues­day, Sept. 17, marked the 232nd birth­day of the Con­sti­tu­tion of the United States. To cel­e­brate the event,  Dr. John Haas, As­so­ci­ate Pro­fes­sor of His­tory, de­liv­ered a pre­sen­ta­tion con­cern­ing the his­tory and con... More »

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In­tra­mu­rals Start Up

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MISHAWAKA, IN—In­tra­mu­rals are en­joyed by a wide va­ri­ety of stu­dents on cam­pus. For the most part in­tra­mu­rals have been sports such as sand vol­ley­ball, bas­ket­ball, soft­ball tour­na­ments, and fut­sal. But there has been some expl... More »

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New fac­ulty hired at Bethel Uni­ver­sity

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MISHAWAKA — Bethel stu­dents will be see­ing a lot of new faces on the fac­ulty team, this year, so here’s a com­pre­hen­sive guide to some of the new mem­bers of the Bethel Uni­ver­sity fam­ily.  Katie Weak­land, As­so­ci­ate Pro­fes­sor of... More »

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Wor­ship Nights Com­ing Soon

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MISHAWAKA — Start­ing Fri­day, Sept. 20, Bethel Uni­ver­sity will be­gin hold­ing stu­dent wor­ship nights.  The idea was put into mo­tion by se­nior Stephen White. He is one of the lead vo­cal­ists for two chapel bands, is a cam­pus guid... More »

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Em­pha­sis on Spir­i­tual Em­pha­sis Week

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MISHAWAKA —This past week has been spir­i­tu­ally chal­leng­ing, and al­to­gether eye-open­ing for stu­dents on cam­pus. It was a bless­ing to be able to have Nirup Alphonse with us to en­cour­age stu­dents in their walks with God through ... More »

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Cam­pus Clubs Avail­able to Stu­dents

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MISHAWAKA—On a cam­pus dom­i­nated by sports, some­times it can be dif­fi­cult to find other ways to get in­volved. Thank­fully, there are many other op­por­tu­ni­ties to be part of the Bethel com­mu­nity, not the least of which is by join... More »

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“Just Keep Swim­ming” 30 Min­utes away

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MISHAWAKA, IN—I felt my fins get cold, or what was that word again? Oh yes, feet. My feet were cold as I got closer to jump­ing into the chlo­ri­nated wa­ter. I knew what was to come: chipped nails, frayed hair, dry skin, and ble... More »

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Cam­pus Safety Re­port

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MISHAWAKA, IN — The cam­pus safety re­port will be an up­date ded­i­cated to in­form­ing stu­dents and staff about oc­cur­rences on cam­pus. It will also fea­ture tips from the cam­pus safety of­fice to help keep every­one on cam­pus safe.  ... More »

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Bethel IT re­leases new app

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MISHAWAKA — The In­for­ma­tion Tech­nol­ogy (IT) De­part­ment re­leased its new app to the Bethel Uni­ver­sity stu­dent body on Au­gust 23. While the ap­p’s re­lease date came as a sur­prise to many stu­dents, IT planned to cre­ate an app for... More »

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In­tro­duc­tion

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Hello Bethel Uni­ver­sity! Here’s to a new school year and new school name! My name is Josiah Hack­ett, and I am the new ed­i­tor for the Bethel Bea­con. I am ex­cited to show­case and col­lab­o­rate with the bud­ding jour­nal­ists here at... More »

Crush for Crush Re­turns!

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Anne Clouse  Staff Writer  Mishawaka- A Crush for a Crush is back! From Feb­ru­ary 7th to Feb­ru­ary 9th, from 11am-1pm at a table out­side the din­ing com­mons, or­ange fla­vored Crush cans will be avail­able for pur­chase dur­ing this an­nual Valen­tine’s Day sale. Whether you are a stu­dent or a fac­ulty mem­ber, you can buy a Crush for any per­son on cam­pus, pro­vid­ing you tell them what build­ing the soda can sh... More »

Mid­week Bible Stud­ies

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Anne Clouse   Staff Writer  Mishawaka – As Bethel starts a new se­mes­ter, a va­ri­ety of new Mid­week Small Groups are avail­able for stu­dents to at­tend. Stu­dents are re­quired to at­tend for five weeks, but each group runs for eight weeks, with new con­tent each time. Ac­cord­ing to Tom Car­pen­ter, Di­rec­tor for Com­mu­nity Life, the pur­pose of small groups is to pro­vide stu­dents with a spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence sm... More »

GO! Week Re­cap

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Emily But­nariu  Staff Writer  Mishawaka – The Week be­tween Jan­u­ary 22nd and Jan­u­ary 26th Bethel was able to ex­pe­ri­ence a week full of cul­ture in many dif­fer­ent as­pects. Bethel had guest speak­ers who have served ei­ther lo­cally or over­seas and this helped bring the bethel com­mu­nity closer. In this week we had Ge­off King, Michaele LaV­i­gne, and Je­remy Tice speak at our cam­pus to open the hearts and mi... More »

Bar­b’s Barn Bash!

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Grace Dodd Staff Writer MISHAWAKA— On Oc­to­ber 27th from 7-9pm, Bethel con­tin­ued one of their newer yearly tra­di­tions known as Bar­b’s Barn Bash. This event is where Pres­i­dent Barb Belle­feuille hosts a fall cel­e­bra­tion at her home.  The event is called a Barn Bash be­cause Pres­i­dent Barb has a Barn and farm­land which is able to host a lot of peo­ple. Though the event was planned to take place at Presi... More »

Bas­ket­ball Open­ers

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Carla Mon­taruli  Staff Writer  Mishawaka- The Men’s and Wom­en’s bas­ket­ball teams started their sea­son 2023-24 on Oct. 26 with both games at home, against Calumet Col­lege of St. Joseph (Ind.). The Wom­en’s team won 90-24, while the Men’s brought the sec­ond win of the evening by 24 points (101-77). There was great ex­cite­ment in Wiekamp gym while the team was lead­ing the game. Play­ers from both teams ... More »

Spring Reg­is­tra­tion!

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Ella Blank  Staff Writer  Mishawaka – Spring reg­is­tra­tion is here! Make sure to sched­ule your ap­point­ment with your ad­vi­sor to get classes sched­uled for next se­mes­ter. Course sched­ule book­lets can be found in the Of­fice of the Reg­is­trar and in the Cen­ter for Aca­d­e­mic Suc­cess, as well as most other aca­d­e­mic de­part­ments. Some tips and tricks re­gard­ing ad­vis­ing are as fol­lows: Show up to your ap­point... More »

New Vol­ley­ball Coach – Robert Frost

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Carla Mon­taruli   Staff writer   Mishawaka- Bethel Uni­ver­sity wel­comed Robert Frost as a new fig­ure in the ath­letic de­part­ment, the Head Coach of the Wom­en’s Vol­ley­ball team. He earned a Bach­e­lor’s De­gree in Ed­u­ca­tion and Youth Min­istry from Moody Bible In­sti­tute in 1999 and a Mas­ters in Sports Man­age­ment from Cleve­land State Uni­ver­sity.  Be­fore coach­ing at Bethel, Frost coached at the Uni­ver­sity ... More »

DC Up­dates for the Se­mes­ter

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Carla Mon­taruli   Staff writer   Mishawaka- This year the Din­ing Com­mon in­tro­duced some changes, go­ing tray­less and in­tro­duc­ing a new line, ‘Sim­ple 3’. All on-cam­pus Bethel stu­dents are re­quired to fol­low a food plan. Spe­cial di­ets can be ac­com­mo­dated, and di­etary ad­vice can be ob­tained by ap­point­ment. There are two op­tions that stu­dents have to eat on cam­pus: the DC, which is avail­able seven days... More »

Study Abroad Op­por­tu­ni­ties!

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Carla Mon­taruli Staff Writer Mishawaka- Bethel Uni­ver­sity of­fers sev­eral op­tions to study abroad in dif­fer­ent parts of the world. There are three types of pro­grams that al­low stu­dents to grow and learn through trav­el­ing: Se­mes­ter Abroad, Sum­mer Study Travel, and Task Force. Study­ing abroad for a full se­mes­ter can help you learn about a new cul­ture and get aca­d­e­mic credit, as well as, earn aca­d­e­mic... More »

Foot­ball Frenzy Re­cap!

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Ella Meyer  Staff Writer  Mishawaka – Foot­ball Frenzy is al­ways an ex­cit­ing event on cam­pus. We place our bets on whether we think the North Side (Oak­wood and com­muters), or South Side (Manges and Founders) will take the win. Even if foot­ball is­n’t your fa­vorite, it’s still fun to watch your friends play and get some pop­corn or a drink from Trav­elin’ Tom’s Cof­fee Truck. I spoke with two play­ers fr... More »

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