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Clayton Sidenbender

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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 years com­pet­i­tively for Bishop Noll I... 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 play­ers have been Lak­ers in­clud­ing ... 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 peo­ple and we ran quickly out of dri... 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 place in­side Good­man Gym on Jan. 17 ... 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 many years.  What made the idea a ... More »

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Stu­dent Ath­lete of the Week: Gage Ott

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Every­one knows a team-ori­en­tated sport such as bas­ket­ball re­quires a good per­for­mance from each team mem­ber. How­ever, re­plac­ing NC­CAA first team All-Amer­i­can Gage Ott, will be dif­fi­cult. The se­nior had the best sea­son sta­tis­ti­cally in his four sea­sons at Bethe... More »


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A ser­van­t’s heart: the Chris Hess story

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This fall, wom­en’s golf coach Christo­pher Hess reached his fifti­eth na­tional tour­na­ment ap­pear­ance as a head coach and as­sis­tant coach at Bethel Col­lege. Hess has coached teams in four Bethel sports since 1994: men’s bas­ket­ball, wom­en’s bas­ket­ball, men’s golf ... More »

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Stu­dent Ath­lete of the Week: Kama Hardy

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This week, the Bea­con shines the spot­light on wom­en’s soc­cer player Kama Hardy. She has been a star player from the mo­ment she stepped on cam­pus, start­ing all fif­teen games her fresh­man cam­paign and lead­ing the team in both shots (20) and goals (4). A com­mon m... More »

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March Mad­ness up­set busts Bethel com­mu­nity brack­ets

 - Brianna Densmore and Clayton Sidenbender

For any­one even slightly fa­mil­iar with col­lege bas­ket­ball, March is syn­ony­mous with one thing: March Mad­ness. Every year, mil­lions of Amer­i­cans fill out brack­ets pre­dict­ing who they think will win it all in the NCAA tour­na­ment, in­clud­ing many here at Bethel. “... More »