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Clayton Sidenbender

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Ed­i­to­r­ial: Chill­ing at the jazz cof­fee­house

 - Philip Arndt and Clayton Sidenbender

Ed­i­tor’s Note: The Bethel Col­lege jazz en­sem­ble and jazz combo per­formed at their an­nual jazz cof­fee­house on Fri­day, March 16. Two of our own staff at­tended the event, and be­low, they re­late their ex­pe­ri­ences at this unique event. Philip Arndt:  Upon en­ter­ing ... More »

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Stu­dent Ath­lete of the Week: Ja­cob Macri

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This week the Bea­con fo­cuses the spot­light on ju­nior Ja­cob Macri. From the time he first stepped foot on Bethel Col­lege as a fresh­man, Macri has gar­nered at­ten­tion around the con­fer­ence and the NC­CAA. His first sea­son as a Pi­lot, he was named Cross­roads League... More »

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Stu­dent Ath­lete of the Week: Ka­mala Glenn

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This week, the Bea­con sat down with ju­nior bi­ol­ogy ma­jor Ka­mala Glenn, a guard on the wom­en’s bas­ket­ball team. She im­proved sta­tis­ti­cally and led the team in points (15.9 PPG), as­sists (3 AVG), and steals (2.1 AVG). She also scored a ca­reer game high 29 points... More »

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Ko­rean stu­dents speak on the Olympics uni­fi­ca­tion

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North and South Ko­rea shocked the world when they an­nounced they had ne­go­ti­ated to com­pete to­gether un­der one Ko­rean flag in this year’s win­ter Olympics. The tem­po­rary uni­fi­ca­tion has sig­naled mixed re­ac­tions from many of the South Ko­rean peo­ple. Ko­rean stu­den... More »


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Stu­dent Ath­lete of the Week: Erik Es­cobedo

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This week, Erik Es­cobedo gives the Bea­con an in­sight into his life as a track and field ath­lete and how he has main­tained his suc­cess all through­out his col­le­giate ca­reer. Es­cobedo is a seven-time NC­CAA in­door and out­door na­tional cham­pion, win­ning in three se... More »

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Stu­dent Ath­lete of the Week: Ha­ley Brown

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This week we get to know vol­ley­ball se­nior out­side hit­ter Ha­ley Brown. Start­ing in the mid­dle blocker po­si­tion, Brown brought her­self to spots on the All-Cross­roads League Sec­ond Team and Cross­roads League All-Fresh­man Team her fresh­man year. For the rest of h... More »

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Oak­wood’s main dude looks back on legacy

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Com­mu­nity at Bethel Col­lege will never be the same when Josh Hart­sell steps down as res­i­dent di­rec­tor of Oak­wood-Slater Hall at the end of the school year. Like David Slater and Bill Be­mis be­fore him, Hart­sell has left an im­pact on hun­dreds of stu­dents and sta... More »


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Stu­dent Ath­lete of the Week: Samuel Biek

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This week, we high­light start­ing cen­ter mid-fielder and team cap­tain of the soc­cer team Samuel Biek. Biek hails from a lit­tle town in Ger­many called Bad End­bach, which is an hour north of Frank­fort. Biek has been an of­fen­sive force since he signed with the tea... More »

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Stu­dent Ath­lete of the Week: Kaitlin El­sasser

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This week we’re high­light­ing a no­table de­fender in Bethel wom­en’s bas­ket­ball his­tory: se­nior for­ward Kaitlin El­sasser. She re­cently en­tered the 500-re­bound club dur­ing a game against In­di­ana Wes­leyan, only the 20th Bethel Lady Pi­lot to do so. She cur­rently ran... More »

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Bethel fac­ulty, staff and stu­dents com­ment on up­com­ing net neu­tral­ity vote

 - Wesley Lantz, Joshua Goodwin, Emily SeCheverell, Clayton Sidenbender and Philip Arndt

On No­vem­ber 21, Fed­eral Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Com­mis­sion (FCC) chair­man Ajit Pai an­nounced that the FCC will be tak­ing a vote on De­cem­ber 14 on whether or not to re­peal the Obama-era rules re­gard­ing what’s known as “net neu­tral­ity.” Net neu­tral­ity refers to a set of ... More »