Cam­pus Clubs Avail­able to Stu­dents

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 join­ing a club.  

For a club to be rec­og­nized by the Stu­dent Coun­cil, it must have at least ten mem­bers, a fac­ulty ad­viser, and a con­sti­tu­tion.   

Stu­dent Coun­cil Pres­i­dent Paul Cooke, a se­nior bio­chem­istry ma­jor, would love to see more club in­volve­ment on Bethel’s cam­pus.  

“I would re­ally like stu­dents to know that the Stu­dent Coun­cil func­tions for them,” said Cooke. “If they have some­thing they would like to do through the Stu­dent Coun­cil, we will take ideas and in­quiries all the time about that.”  

Cooke hopes to see both the growth of cur­rent clubs and the for­ma­tion of two new clubs every se­mes­ter, and he would love for the Stu­dent Coun­cil to be able to be in­volved as much as pos­si­ble.   

“Whether it’s start­ing a club, cre­at­ing an event, ask­ing a gen­eral ques­tion or con­cern on cam­pus, that’s what we’re here for,” said Cooke.   

Be­low is a list of the clubs al­ready avail­able.  

CUR­RENT STU­DENT CLUBS  

The Com­pany: Bethel Uni­ver­si­ty's The­atre Club  

Cur­rent Pres­i­dent: Matthew An­der­son  

An ex­cit­ing and ac­tive club for stu­dents in­ter­ested in the­atre arts. Some op­por­tu­ni­ties for travel. All ma­jors wel­come.  

Ad­vi­sor: Jo­han God­waldt  

The Green Club  

Cur­rent pres­i­dent: Rachel Woods  

Our mis­sion is to raise aware­ness of en­vi­ron­men­tal is­sues and pro­vide easy, prac­ti­cal, and sim­ple ways of en­gag­ing in cre­ation care on Bethel's cam­pus.   

Ad­vi­sor: Katie Weak­land  

The Writer's Club  

Cur­rent pres­i­dent: Nicholas Weimer  

As mem­bers of the Writer's Cir­cle, our mis­sion is to cre­ate an in­clu­sive com­mu­nity of writ­ers here at Bethel Uni­ver­sity so that we may cul­ti­vate our art, find in­spi­ra­tion for writ­ing, and glo­rify God's story through our writ­ing.  

Ad­vi­sor: Jen­nifer Ochstein  

*Amer­i­can En­ter­prise In­sti­tute Club (AEI)  

Cur­rent pres­i­dent: An­drew Aguilar  

Amer­i­can En­ter­prise In­sti­tute Club is a non­par­ti­san group ded­i­cated to wide-rang­ing con­ver­sa­tion and ed­u­ca­tion on is­sues of gov­ern­ment, pol­i­tics, eco­nom­ics and so­cial wel­fare.  

Ad­vi­sor: Aaron Schavey  

*Black Stu­dent Fel­low­ship (BSF)  

Cur­rent co-pres­i­dents: Tyler Hop­kins and Ash­Lee Grant 

The black stu­dent fel­low­ship serves to cre­ate, cul­ti­vate and chal­lenge stu­dents at Bethel Uni­ver­sity through com­mu­nity ser­vice, phil­an­thropic ven­tures, en­ter­tain­ment, and qual­ity pro­grams. We aim to ed­u­cate the Bethel Uni­ver­sity com­mu­nity about the cul­ture and her­itage of African-Amer­i­cans. All stu­dents of Bethel Uni­ver­sity, re­gard­less of eth­nic back­ground, who pos­sess an in­ter­est and con­cern for the African-Amer­i­can her­itage, are el­i­gi­ble for mem­ber­ship.  

Ad­vi­sor: Theo Williams  

*Stu­dents for Life  

Stu­dents for Life is at­tempt­ing to be rec­og­nized by Stu­dent Coun­cil this se­mes­ter and needs only a few more mem­bers.  

The pur­pose of Stu­dents for Life shall be to de­fend and pro­mote hu­man life in all forms. This shall be ac­com­plished through ed­u­ca­tion of the Bethel Uni­ver­sity com­mu­nity about the is­sues of bioethics, and through pro­vi­sional and fa­cil­i­ta­tion op­por­tu­ni­ties for Bethel Uni­ver­si­ty's Com­mu­nity to serve, pray, and en­gage in peace­ful po­lit­i­cal ac­tivism.  

Ad­vi­sor: Chris­t­ian Davis  

*In­ter­na­tional Stu­dent Fel­low­ship  

This club op­er­ates with­out a stu­dent pres­i­dent.  

In­ter­na­tional Stu­dent Fel­low­ship ex­ists to as­sist in­ter­na­tional stu­dents in their ed­u­ca­tional ex­pe­ri­ence at Bethel Uni­ver­sity. In both a col­lec­tive set­ting as well as in a one-on-one set­ting, the In­ter­na­tional Stu­dent Fel­low­ship ad­viser as­sists stu­dents with le­gal doc­u­ments. The In­ter­na­tional stu­dent fel­low­ship also spon­sors so­cial events through­out the year.  

Ad­vi­sor: Sue Mat­te­son  

*These clubs are not cur­rently rec­og­nized by Stu­dent Coun­cil.  

PO­TEN­TIAL CLUBS  

En­ac­tus: The Bethel Uni­ver­sity Busi­ness Club  

En­ac­tus is at­tempt­ing to raise in­ter­est and aware­ness about the club this school year with the hopes of start­ing again next fall.  

En­ac­tus al­lows stu­dents to ap­ply the knowl­edge they learn in the class­room in the “real world” and make a dif­fer­ence in our com­mu­nity. The club runs ser­vice pro­jects, spon­sors mock in­ter­views, of­fers learn­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties such as panel dis­cus­sions and spe­cial speak­ers, plans the an­nual busi­ness eti­quette ban­quet, and sup­ports a wide va­ri­ety of Bethel events.  

Ad­vi­sor: Lori Stutz­man  

DE­PART­MENT CLUBS  

Ed­u­ca­tion Club  

This club op­er­ates with­out a stu­dent pres­i­dent.  

The pur­pose of the ed­u­ca­tion club is to pro­vide op­por­tu­ni­ties for out of class­room skill de­vel­op­ment and to give stu­dents a chance to hear from cur­rent pro­fes­sion­als on top­ics that are rel­e­vant to stu­dents en­ter­ing di­verse class­rooms.  

Ad­vi­sor: Su­san Lee  

Psy­chol­ogy Club  

Cur­rent pres­i­dent: Lau­ryn Buzal­ski  

The psy­chol­ogy club is a stu­dent-led or­ga­ni­za­tion, open to all those on Bethel Uni­ver­si­ty’s cam­pus, specif­i­cally those who may have a par­tic­u­lar in­ter­est in the study of psy­chol­ogy. The mis­sion of the club is to cre­ate an op­por­tu­nity for stu­dents to learn how to in­te­grate Chris­tian­ity into the field of psy­chol­ogy. These op­por­tu­ni­ties in­clude, but are not lim­ited to: meet­ing to dis­cuss thoughts on the psy­chol­ogy and/​or Chris­t­ian are­nas, be­com­ing ac­tive mem­bers in the com­mu­nity, en­cour­ag­ing oth­ers to em­brace lead­er­ship roles, build­ing the con­fi­dence of fel­low mem­bers, and hear­ing from pro­fes­sion­als in the field to gain aca­d­e­mic and ca­reer in­sight.  

Ad­vi­sor: Norm Spivey 

The club de­scrip­tions are taken from the Stu­dent Life Hand­book.