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New Task Force Trip Launches to Ap­palachian Trail

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MISHAWAKA—A new task force trip will be launch­ing sum­mer of 2022, hik­ing a sec­tion of the Ap­palachian trail in the Shenan­doah Na­tional Park. This sec­tion of the trail spans about 100 miles but it is yet to be de­cided how much of those 100 miles will be hiked o... More »

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Amy Coney Bar­rett Nom­i­nated by Trump for Supreme Court

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MISHAWAKA– As Trump at­tempts to push his nom­i­na­tion of Amy Coney Bar­rett through the Sen­ate as quickly as pos­si­ble to se­cure her con­fir­ma­tion, many De­moc­rats are fight­ing this move and call­ing its con­sti­tu­tion­al­ity into ques­tion by re­fer­ring to the events of 2... More »

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Wild­fires Rav­age the West Coast

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Wild­fires are burn­ing across 4.5 mil­lion acres in Ore­gon, Wash­ing­ton and Cal­i­for­nia and de­stroy­ing more than 700 struc­tures, rekin­dling a long-time de­bate: Is cli­mate change real, and if so, how does it play into the cur­rent wild­fires?  The fires burn­ing the W... More »


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Bethel Still Plan­ning for Sum­mer in Spain

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MISHAWAKA–Bethel’s semi-an­nual Sum­mer in Spain pro­gram is still be­ing planned for next year and will be­gin May 27, 2021. This 6-7 week trip gives stu­dents the op­por­tu­nity to travel to Spain to see mu­se­ums, cathe­drals and cul­tural ex­hibits and earn nine Span­ish... More »

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The Im­por­tance of Prac­tic­ing So­cial Dis­tanc­ing

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MISHAWAKA – Just two weeks ago, col­lege stu­dents from all over the coun­try cel­e­brated spring break, ig­nor­ing the coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) and ne­glect­ing warn­ings from health care of­fi­cials and the au­thor­i­ties to prac­tice so­cial dis­tanc­ing.   In Florida, though s... More »

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2020 Spring Sports Can­celled

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MISHAWAKA—The Na­tional As­so­ci­a­tion of In­ter­col­le­giate Ath­let­ics (NAIA) can­celled the 2020 springs sports sea­son in a March 16 press re­lease.   “All pos­si­ble sce­nar­ios that would have sup­ported a spring sports sea­son were se­ri­ously con­sid­ered by mul­ti­ple NAIA g... More »

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Trav­el­ing Stu­dents Share Their Sto­ries

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MISHAWAKA – Two stu­dents share their ex­pe­ri­ences com­ing back to Bethel Uni­ver­sity as travel bans — na­tion­wide and state or­ders — come into play due to the coro­n­avirus (COVID-19).   Han­nah Mi­hut, Eng­lish and phi­los­o­phy dou­ble-ma­jor, and Maryann Brandt, Wor­ship ... More »


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Trump Signs Coro­n­avirus Re­lief Bill

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MISHAWAKA – On March 27, Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump signed a $2 tril­lion coro­n­avirus re­lief bill. This bill is in­tended to aid those who are ex­pe­ri­enc­ing un­em­ploy­ment dur­ing the pan­demic. It is also in­tended as a stim­u­lus for the gov­ern­ment. The bill of­fers $1,200... More »

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Coro­n­avirus Af­fects Bethel and Lo­cal Com­mu­nity

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MISHAWAKA- Coro­n­avirus is at­tack­ing the health of thou­sands of in­di­vid­u­als across the globe and im­pact­ing busi­nesses, com­mu­ni­ties and our health­care sys­tems.  “[Coro­n­avirus is] a new dis­ease that causes res­pi­ra­tory ill­ness in peo­ple and can spread from per­son ... More »