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“Su­per 8” lives up to ex­pec­ta­tions

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Hav­ing heard very pos­i­tive state­ments made about J.J. Abram’s movie, “Su­per 8,” I was ex­cited to fi­nally get the chance to watch it over this last week­end. The movie lived up to the re­views I’d heard and read, de­spite a few per­ceived flaws. It is a PG-13 Sci-f... More »

Bethel hosts its 64th an­nual Christ­mas con­cert

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The 64th an­nual Bethel Col­lege Christ­mas Con­cert warmed hearts with cheer and mer­ri­ment as the mu­si­cians and vo­cal­ists brought in the hol­i­day sea­son with song. All three of the Christ­mas con­certs were very well at­tended. It was also the first Christ­mas con­cert... More »

Oak­wood de­feats Manges Hall in an­nual foot­ball game

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The fresh­man dorm, Oak­wood Hall, won the an­nual Oak­wood vs. Manges tackle foot­ball game Tues­day, Nov. 8, se­cur­ing the “Cheap Tin Jug,” a makeshift tro­phy awarded to the win­ner, for a whole year. This is the first year that Oak­wood has de­feated Manges. The last... More »

Cold­play’s new al­bum Mylo Xy­loto

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As a chronic Cold­play lis­tener and huge fan of the band’s mu­si­cal pur­suits I rank their lat­est al­bum Mylo Xy­loto as some of their best work to date. The band’s al­bum is a mu­si­cal ex­pres­sion of the early New York City graf­fiti scene and his­toric re­sis­tance move... More »


Van­Dosen, Wal­stra win corn­hole tour­na­ment

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Ryan Van­Dosen and Ty Wal­stra emerged vic­to­ri­ous in the corn­hole tour­na­ment held dur­ing them men’s soc­cer game on Sat­ur­day. The two con­tes­tants beat our 14 other play­ers to be named the win­ners. Corn­hole is a game in­volv­ing toss­ing bean­bags or “corn bags,” (hen... More »

Q & A with Bilbo Bag­gins

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The Bea­con caught up with Aaron Den­linger, who played Bilbo in the stage pro­duc­tion of “The Hob­bit” at Bethel Col­lege. Were you sur­prised that you were cast as Bilbo? How did that come about? I was sur­prised just to be cast in the show!  I love the book and re... More »

Taste of Cul­ture

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Se­nior Hes­bon Mwangi was in­spired to host his own ra­dio show af­ter con­stantly be­ing asked about his home in Ruiru, Kenya. Mwangi hosts one of Bethel Pi­lot Ra­dio’s more pop­u­lar shows called Taste of Cul­ture. Mwangi, or Hezzy as he refers to him­self on Taste of ... More »

Sub­kirke hosts live mu­sic

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Sub­kirke has pro­vided South Bend, Ind. with a venue for live mu­sic for years, but now Bethel stu­dents have a spe­cial op­por­tu­nity to at­tend con­certs there. The con­cert hall, which is lo­cated lit­er­ally just down the road from Bethel Col­lege, has be­gun a spe­cial ... More »


Char­ity Wa­ter ben­e­fit con­cert

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Bethel’s Char­ity Wa­ter group is hav­ing a ben­e­fit con­cert to help raise re­main­ing funds. Over the past seven weeks, Char­ity Wa­ter has re­ceived roughly $3,000 of the $5,000 needed to sup­ply a well. A gen­er­ous donor has of­fered to match the next one thou­sand doll... More »

Zeit­geist! per­formed at Ever­est Rohrer

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Zeit­geist! hit the stage in the Ever­est Rohrer au­di­to­rium on Thurs­day, March 10. The show, which was based loosely on the mu­si­cal en­ti­tled “In The Heights”, was per­formed by the Voices of Tri­umph and the Col­le­gians, both com­prised of the mu­si­cal tal­ent of Beth... More »

St. Patrick’s Day

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Did you know that St. Patrick’s Day is more than just wear­ing green, drink­ing beer and eat­ing Irish food? In fact, all of those tra­di­tions are Amer­i­can spin-offs from an ori­gin much dif­fer­ent. In­ci­den­tally, wear­ing green is ac­tu­ally con­sid­ered un­lucky in Irela... More »