March 15 marks the annual World Consumer Rights Day. For the past week, the Bethel Beacon has published a series of stories regarding consumer rights and environmentalism. We’ve discussed Bethel’s building a Unity Garden on campus, as well as Dave Warkentien’s... More »
Do you hate Valentine’s Day? That may depend on your relational status, of course; singles tend to be more anti-Valentine’s Day than couples. However, the fact that Dr. Cristian Mihut, associate professor of philosophy, is married hasn’t stopped him and his ba... More »
Valentine’s Day at Bethel College generally means a few things: obnoxious Snapchats, random gift-giving for no reason, obnoxious couples in the Great Room and campus-wide pranks. Essentially, the single introvert’s nightmare. I steeled myself for all this and ... More »
In case you haven’t noticed, Bethel is a small school. It sports a student body of around 2,000 students, compared to nearby Indiana University South Bend’s 8,000 or, for an even more unfair comparison, Notre Dame’s 12,000. So it’s not every day that a staff o... More »
“Pro-women, pro-life! Pro-women, pro-life!” This cheer rang out in the cold streets of South Bend last Friday, Jan. 27, as hundreds of people marched in front of the South Bend courthouse, as they do every year. The March for Life takes place every year around... More »
The presidential inauguration is generally a distant event that we, the general public, can only witness via our own television. But two Bethel students got up close and personal to the swearing in of President Donald Trump last Friday. Sophomores Ethan Hunt a... More »
8 seconds, and it’s gone. This is the world we all know as Snapchat, and Bethel has jumped on the here-and-gone bandwagon with its very own Snapchat story. Jessica Fuller, coordinator of Bethel’s summer LEAD teams and social media coordinator, said that she fe... More »
Seniors of Bethel, your votes are in, and the senior gift has been chosen. Bethel’s upperclass student council, which helps decide and pay for the senior gift, unveiled the choices for senior gift a few weeks ago: a prayer walk around campus and a statue of ou... More »
This year, in mid-December, when almost all Bethel students will have scurried home for the holidays and the campus is cold, silent and snow-covered, something will be happening that may just add a little warmth to the blanketed Bethel College. During the past... More »
On Monday, Nov. 27, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a student at Ohio State University, drove his car into a group of students and exited the car with a knife. 11 students were hospitalized after the attack, which ended with Artan being shot by Ohio State police office... More »
We are currently beginning our third full week of Donald Trump’s being President-elect of the United States. Since the announcement was made early last Wednesday morning, Nov. 9, reports have flooded television networks and radio networks of nationwide protest... More »
There have been several changes to the Bethel campus throughout the past semester, ranging from food to class options. Although there have been a few controversial changes at Bethel, there has also been a recent change that is quite beneficial for the media co... More »
