In­tro­duc­tion

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 the Bethel Bea­con. We plan to pro­vide you with rel­e­vant and in­ter­est­ing news and opin­ions you can be en­ter­tained by. We have a big­ger staff this year and will be pro­vid­ing eight-page news­pa­pers for you to pe­ruse.

Speak­ing of a big­ger staff, I would like to high­light some of the mem­bers of our team.

 First, we have Travonte Mar­ley. He is a Pho­tog­ra­phy Ma­jor from Ham­mond, In­di­ana. He loves pho­tog­ra­phy and can’t wait to cap­ture all the news be­ing brought to you this year. 

Next, we have Clay Siden­ben­der; he is a Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Eng­lish dou­ble ma­jor. You can find him on the “side­lines snap­ping pic­tures at BU sport­ing events or talk­ing with ath­letes.” 

Next is Bri­anna Dens­more. Her ma­jors are Eng­lish & Writ­ing and Busi­ness Ad­min­is­tra­tion. She loves to spend her free time ei­ther out­side or read­ing a book or some­times both of those. 

The next writer is Sumer Schlin­der. Her ma­jor is Eng­lish & Writ­ing. She wants to pur­sue a ca­reer in jour­nal­ism and cre­ative writ­ing. Some of her hob­bies in­clude read­ing, writ­ing, play­ing vol­ley­ball, trav­el­ing, camp­ing, watch­ing movies, and drink­ing cof­fee. 

Next is Corey Bridge­man who is a psy­chol­ogy ma­jor. His hob­bies in­clude writ­ing, gam­ing, and lin­guis­tics. 

We will also see the re­turn of D.C. Bolling who is a se­nior in his last se­mes­ter study­ing Com­mu­ni­ca­tions at Bethel. He has been a part of the Bea­con for a while with his col­umn, DC's Take, where he gives his thoughts on the lat­est movie to come out. 

And we have a quote from one of the jour­nal­ists, “My name is Neli, like the rap­per, but I can’t drop bars. I’m 75 per­cent cof­fee, 24 per­cent hap­pi­ness, 1 per­cent tears, and yes that is my In­sta­gram bio.” 

Fi­nally, we have me, Josiah Hack­ett. I am an Eng­lish Ed­u­ca­tion and Mu­sic dou­ble ma­jor with a mi­nor in the­atre. My as­pi­ra­tion in life, among many oth­ers, is to be a teacher in high school and in­spire our youth to pur­sue dis­course re­gard­ing lit­er­a­ture. Fun fact about me, I used to have a bipha­sic sleep­ing sched­ule that be­gan dur­ing my time in Spain.

I would also like to high­light some of the sec­tions we will have in our pa­per. We will have sports as re­ported by many of our jour­nal­ists who are in­volved in ath­let­ics. So, you will get a first-hand ac­count of the many of the sports here on cam­pus. We will have opin­ion pieces from vol­un­teer writ­ers such as D.C. Bolling and Corey Bridge­man. We will share rel­e­vant and in­ter­est­ing news hap­pen­ing on cam­pus, in the area, or in our coun­try. Also, we have an op­por­tu­nity for those who are adroit at art. If you are so in­clined to show­case your artis­tic abil­ity by draw­ing comics, please sub­mit orig­i­nal draw­ings you would like to see in the news­pa­per.

We like to hear your opin­ions in the pa­per as well. We have a reg­u­lar sta­ple, The Nut­shell, where we ask you per­ti­nent ques­tions and pub­lish your an­swers. If you have sto­ries you would like to see in the pa­per, in­ter­est pieces that you would like to con­tribute, events you would like to show­case, or if you just to want to talk to some­one at the Bea­con, con­tact us at bethel­bea­con@bethelu­ni­ver­sity.edu. 

Thank you for sup­port­ing this pa­per by read­ing this let­ter. We hope to in­form and en­ter­tain you with our words, a dy­ing art­form soon to be rekin­dled by our gen­er­a­tion once again. 

Your Bethel Bea­con ed­i­tor,

Josiah “Jo” Hack­ett