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Row House bur­glary

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 Dur­ing the early morn­ing hours of Sept. 7, the Row House, one of Bethel Col­lege’s perime­ter hous­ing units for women, was bur­glar­ized.  The in­truder is be­lieved to have bro­ken into the house through a base­ment win­dow. The thief then crept up­stairs where he sto... More »

Spir­i­tual Em­pha­sis Week

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Spir­i­tual Em­pha­sis Week is well un­der way here at Bethel. On Mon­day, Clint Ussher be­gan the week with a call for Chris­tians to wake up and start liv­ing out their faith in a more rad­i­cal way. Ussher has con­tin­ued to speak at both morn­ing and evening chapels thr... More »

Year­book tran­si­tions from print to dig­i­tal

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This year’s stu­dent year­book staff is in charge of chang­ing the face of the Bethel Col­lege year­book. They will make the tran­si­tion from a printed book to a DVD book. Due to bud­get de­ci­sions, Bethel de­cided to dis­con­tinue print­ing of the col­lege’s year­book “Hel... More »

Stu­dents learn about 5S­tar

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This week stu­dents met to learn more about 5 Star and how they could get in­volved. 5 Star is an or­ga­ni­za­tion that re­cruits col­lege stu­dents who vol­un­teer to run an af­ter-school pro­gram at lo­cal mid­dle schools. Dur­ing these af­ter-school meet­ings, the youth are ... More »


Stu­dents travel south for the se­mes­ter

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On Wed., Sept. 1, at ap­prox­i­mately 9 a.m. a group of stu­dents said good­bye to their fel­low friends and class­mates as they drove off in a char­ter bus to­ward Chicago to catch a plane headed for the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic. This group of stu­dents will be gone for the ... More »

New ad­min­is­tra­tive struc­ture

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There’s a new ad­min­is­tra­tive struc­ture  at Bethel Col­lege  this year. Four new deans were hired  to serve as heads of the new di­vi­sions. Pre­vi­ously, the sys­tem was bro­ken down into sep­a­rate schools. With this new struc­ture, the only re­main­ing school is the Sch... More »

Dr. Nor­man V. Bridges: a life well-lived

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Af­ter ac­cept­ing the po­si­tion of pres­i­dent of Bethel Col­lege, Dr. Nor­man V. Bridges, Ph.D., in­her­ited an ed­u­ca­tional in­sti­tu­tion strug­gling to sur­vive. But dur­ing his 15 years in of­fice (1989-2004), the col­lege be­came highly rec­og­nized and flour­ished, cre­at­ing ... More »

Bethel ranked 16 by US me­dia group

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Bethel Col­lege jumped up four spots this year, rank­ing them num­ber 16 out of 94 schools, among the Mid­west’s Best Bac­calau­re­ate Col­leges in the 2011 edi­tion of “Amer­i­ca’s Best Col­leges” by U.S. Me­dia Group. This is the high­est spot Bethel has ever earned. Each... More »


New school year be­gins

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On Thurs­day, Aug. 26, Bethel of­fi­cially opened its doors to a new school year. Some stu­dents—such as ath­letes, fresh­men and stu­dent ori­en­ta­tion lead­ers—moved onto cam­pus a full week be­fore school be­gan. Boxes, bags and crates of var­i­ous sizes clut­tered the cam... More »

Am­bush may end dif­fer­ently than planned

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Though many play­ers have great sto­ries and mem­o­ries to share about this year’s ver­sion of Am­bush, the game may end dif­fer­ently than orig­i­nally planned. The 15 re­main­ing play­ers are not only look­ing for a quiet place to study or a sim­ple way to de-stress with f... More »

Gay rights group vis­its Bethel

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A group that claims it’s com­mit­ted to the non­vi­o­lent de­fense of sex­ual and gen­der mi­nori­ties vis­ited Bethel on April 16. Soul­force be­lieves re­li­gion is the main rea­son for mis­in­for­ma­tion about les­bian, gay, bi­sex­ual, trans­gen­der, queer and ques­tion­ing peo­ple. ... More »