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In­side Scoop: ASL Club

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The Amer­i­can Sign Lan­guage Club here at Bethel is open to stu­dents of all ma­jors with an in­ter­est in learn­ing ASL and know­ing about deaf cul­ture. The club is fo­cused on the con­tin­u­ous use of the lan­guage, giv­ing back to the deaf com­mu­nity, plan­ning events to r... More »

Week­end away for Manges Hall

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Twenty-eight young men from the Manges Res­i­dence Hall piled into cars and headed to Fre­mont, In­di­ana last Sat­ur­day for the Manges Hall re­treat. The re­treat was held at the home of Luke Frey, a res­i­dent in Manges. The week­end in­cluded praise and wor­ship, time a... More »

Cast your cares

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We have now come to the most in­ter­est­ing part of the year. Sleep-de­prived stu­dents stag­ger through class af­ter class, fin­ish­ing (or for­get­ting) re­search pa­pers and prepar­ing for (or ig­nor­ing) fi­nal ex­ams. Con­sump­tion of cof­fee and en­ergy drinks greatly in­creas... More »

Where is God hid­ing?

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By Melisa Pee­bles On March 23 and 24, Bethel hosted the 9th An­nual Phi­los­o­phy Lec­tures, fea­tur­ing re­spected Philoso­pher Dr. Michael Rea. Not only does he hold a po­si­tion as pro­fes­sor of phi­los­o­phy, but he also di­rects the Cen­ter for Phi­los­o­phy of Re­li­gion at t... More »


Arthur re­tir­ing to a life of ex­cit­ing mys­tery

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For the last 25 years soon-to-be-re­tired, Car­olyn Arthur, di­rec­tor of re­ten­tion and fresh­man year ex­pe­ri­ence (FYE), has been col­lect­ing mur­der mys­ter­ies that take place on col­lege cam­puses. “I carry around a list of the books I have so I won’t ac­ci­dently buy t... More »

Go­ing back to Bethel Col­lege’s Root

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I first met Dr. Clyde Root, di­rec­tor of li­brary ser­vices, through my brother. Dur­ing his time at Bethel, my brother worked as Dr. Root’s as­sis­tant in the li­brary, run­ning er­rands and in­dex­ing pe­ri­od­i­cals. Most no­to­ri­ous of these pe­ri­od­i­cals was the dread magaz... More »

Jes­sica Risinger: Bethel’s harpist

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Q: What made you choose to come to Bethel? A: I wanted to go to school some place close to home, so that I could live at home, and it would be eas­ier for me … so I ap­plied to some col­leges in the area and for here they had a mu­sic schol­ar­ship, so it was kind o... More »

Ruth’s Recipe’s

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  Ruth Ol­son is se­nior vo­cal per­for­mance ma­jor at Bethel Col­lege. Her sig­nif­i­cant food al­ler­gies are one of the rea­sons she chooses to have a health­ier lifestyle. She will be shar­ing a unique recipe each is­sue. Healthy Blue­berry Muffins (one dozen) 2 cups whol... More »


‘Char­lot­te’s Web’ on stage March 25, 26 & 27

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Bethel’s spring play “Char­lot­te’s Web” will hit the stage on March 25,26 and 27 in the Ever­est Rohrer Chapel/​Fine Arts Cen­ter. The shows on March 25 and 26 will be­gin at 7:30 p.m. There will be two shows on the 27th, one at 2 and the other at 7:30 that night. ... More »

Grad­u­at­ing se­niors pre­pare for real world

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Amidst the warmer spring weather and melt­ing snow piles, se­niors are wrap­ping up their fi­nal year at Bethel and prepar­ing for life out­side of the bub­ble. From at­tend­ing grad­u­ate school to search­ing for a job, se­niors have a rough but ex­cit­ing road ahead of the... More »

Se­niori­tis; wide­spread pan­demic feared

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It’s that time of year. With only five weeks un­til the end of the year, se­niors across the Bethel cam­pus are be­com­ing in­fected with the par­a­lyz­ing con­di­tion known as se­niori­tis. Most dic­tio­nar­ies re­main silent on this im­por­tant sub­ject, but Wik­tionary.org (an ... More »