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Josiah Hackett

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Ben Rec­tor’s “The Joy of Mu­sic”

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MISHAWAKA—Ben Rec­tor’s re­lease on March 11, “The Joy of Mu­sic,” is his sev­enth al­bum, not in­clud­ing his two live al­bums and his Christ­mas al­bum, which is at an EP length. This is the first al­bum to fea­ture artists other than him­self, in­clud­ing well-known rappe... More »

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Fear­less Fly­ers to Re­lease a New EP or Al­bum 

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MISHAWAKA–Fear­less Fly­ers, a band fea­tur­ing Nate Smith on drums, Cory Wong on his sig­na­ture gui­tar, Mark Let­tieri on bari­tone gui­tar and Joe Dart on bass, re­leased new sin­gles every week dur­ing the month of Feb­ru­ary, pre­mier­ing on YouTube on Wednes­days and on ... More »

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Chris Ren­ze­ma’s Get Out of the Way of Your Own Heart

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MISHAWAKA—Chris Ren­ze­ma’s re­lease of Sept. 3, 2021, blends the many styles of folk, in­die rock, and Con­tem­po­rary Chris­t­ian Mu­sic. He has worked with Hank Bent­ley be­fore on his sec­ond al­bum and Bent­ley has re­turned to work on this al­bum as well. This al­bum is c... More »


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Stage Re­view: Around the World in 80 Days

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MISHAWAKA–Crash! Bang! Boom! This pro­duc­tion had it all, rang­ing from re­peat­able bits, Waluigi wahs and cal­cu­lated mo­tion. On this trip around the world, the ac­tors took the au­di­ence through a sur­vey of a British-dom­i­nated world, ac­com­pa­nied by slap­stick comed... More »

Cory Wong’s Wong’s Café

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MISHAWAKA—Like most of his al­bums, Cory Wong’s re­lease of Jan. 7 is strictly in­stru­men­tal. Fans of Cory Wong and Vulf­peck were ini­tially con­fused about who was go­ing to re­lease this al­bum. For the past few years, the band Vulf­peck, in which Cory Wong is a majo... More »

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Cody Fry’s Sym­phony Ses­sions

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MISHAWAKA–Cody Fry’s new re­lease on Jan. 21 is one which fea­tures an or­ches­tra back­ing Fry’s and Ben Rec­tor’s voices. It was re­leased as an al­bum, al­though it only con­sists of seven songs and 23 min­utes in run­time. Tra­di­tion­ally, al­bums need to have 30 min­utes... More »

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Fi­nals Ac­tiv­i­ties Re­sume Due to Blue Level

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MISHAWAKA—Ac­tiv­i­ties for fi­nals week will be start­ing a lit­tle ear­lier than fi­nals week. On Thurs­day, April 22, stu­dents will have the chance to smash com­puter parts with a sledge­ham­mer. Stu­dents are re­quired to sign a li­a­bil­ity waiver and to wear gog­gles.   O... More »


From the As­sis­tant Ed­i­tor

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Hello Bethel Read­ers,  Thank you so much for tak­ing the time to read what we have worked so hard on. I hope you en­joyed my cross­words. I’ve had a blast mak­ing them. They were dif­fi­cult be­cause I did them by hand. This is an ex­pe­ri­ence I rec­om­mend fully. I’d st... More »

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Bethel Uni­ver­sity Plays Hap­pen­ing Soon

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Note: This ar­ti­cle orig­i­nally ap­peared in the March 24 print edi­tion of the Bethel Bea­con. MISHAWAKA—“Flux” and “The Obelisk” are two one-act plays writ­ten by a stu­dent play­wright named Au­tumn Owens. While plays writ­ten by stu­dents have been per­formed in event... More »

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Look­ing at Math and En­gi­neer­ing Ma­jors Be­yond Bethel

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MISHAWAKA—Here is a spe­cial edi­tion of grad­u­ate school tips, this one for math and en­gi­neer­ing ma­jors. This edi­tion is a lit­tle dif­fer­ent be­cause it will look at the tran­si­tion for en­gi­neer­ing ma­jors from Bethel to Notre Dame or Trine, then their tran­si­tion fr... More »

Po­etry: Vari­a­tions on Night

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One   By Au­tumn Owens  i am the clock turn­ing mid­night  a quiet recog­ni­tion of an un­spec­tac­u­lar event,  a reg­u­lar­ity, a com­mon­al­ity,  a for­mal nod to the night­time of a new day  i am the girl in her bed  with her eyes on the ceil­ing,  and her heart in the star... More »