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Bethel stu­dents ‘open’ to show­case tal­ents

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Every Tues­day from 7 p.m. un­til when­ever stu­dents feel like leav­ing, Suf­fi­cient Grounds hosts an “Open Mic Night” event for Bethel Stu­dents. “Open mic night started as just an out­let … some­thing for the mu­si­cally tal­ented peo­ple that don’t get an out­let,” said... More »

Elec­tion re­sults are in

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The votes are in and re­sults have been de­clared. The fol­low­ing are just a por­tion of the of­fices won in Tues­day’s elec­tion: Pres­i­den­tial: In­cum­bent De­mo­c­ra­tic can­di­date Barack Obama has se­cured an­other term as Pres­i­dent of the United States, with Vice Pres­i­den... More »

Sandy’s ef­fect spreads fur­ther than her winds

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While the threat of Hur­ri­cane Sandy has passed, the ef­fects are still be­ing felt across the East Coast and even here at Bethel Col­lege. Bethel is home to stu­dents from all dif­fer­ent ar­eas, in­clud­ing those af­fected by the storm. Eliz­a­beth Platt is a ju­nior majo... More »


Elec­tion Day draws stu­dent, fac­ulty re­sponses

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Elec­tion Day is swiftly ap­proach­ing, and the pres­i­den­tial can­di­dates of the two ma­jor po­lit­i­cal par­ties are bat­tling it out over the swing states in the fi­nal days be­fore the polls open Tues­day. The Re­pub­li­can nom­i­nee, Mitt Rom­ney and run­ning mate Paul Ryan wi... More »

‘Com­mies’ event is biggest yet

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The third an­nual Com­mie Awards were put on Thurs­day night, Oct. 25. This year’s event had the biggest turnout yet, with roughly 125 peo­ple in at­ten­dance, ac­cord­ing to the Bethel Col­lege Com­mu­ni­ca­tion De­part­men­t’s Face­book page. The red car­pet, for­mal at­tire ev... More »

New club ‘perks’ Bethel stu­dents’ in­ter­est

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Bethel caf­feine ad­dicts can re­joice as the school is start­ing up a Spe­cialty Cof­fee and Tea Club this 2012-2013 school year. Led by its pres­i­dent, Neil Sil­veus, the club will be fo­cused on widen­ing stu­dents’ knowl­edge of the pop­u­lar bev­er­ages, as well as givin... More »

Old swing is a new thing

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Bat­tell Park filled with the sounds of swing mu­sic and ex­cite­ment as Bethel once again raided it for Wednes­day night swing. What started as fun be­tween friends has turned into an an­tic­i­pated—and grow­ing—weekly event for stu­dents at Bethel Col­lege, draw­ing almo... More »


News­boys con­cert sells out

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De­spite what some stu­dents be­lieve was a lack of pub­lic­ity, the News­boys con­cert on Sun­day, Oct. 14 in Weikamp, sold out. The event, when first an­nounced, seemed like a pretty big deal. The News­boys, one of the most well-known and in­flu­en­tial Chris­t­ian con­temp... More »

Bethel Stu­dents Give Blood, Give Back

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Last Thurs­day, Oct. 4, Bethel con­tin­ued the tra­di­tion of host­ing a blood drive through the Red Cross. The drive, which was held in the Good­man Gym­na­sium, was open to the pub­lic. In five and a half hours the Red Cross was able to col­lect 79 units of blood from ... More »

Pro­fes­sors take to the court for ‘noon hoops’

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Stu­dents pass­ing through Wiekamp Gym­na­sium in the mid­dle of the day might find some­thing other than a quiet af­ter­noon work­out. On des­ig­nated days dur­ing the week, some Bethel pro­fes­sors and staff mem­bers get to­gether for what Dr. Robby Prenkert calls the “Lunc... More »

Stu­dents find deals at trendy re-sale store

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Clothes lit­ter the closet floor of fresh­man Brit­tany Boggs as she searches for an out­fit wor­thy of her date this com­ing week­end, but with­out an up­date her wardrobe seems to be lack­ing. As a col­lege stu­dent Boggs is al­ways low on money and stores at the mall ar... More »