Student Council (StuCo) elections are finished. However, most people didn’t seem to know that the elections were going on at all. The Beacon spoke with Student Council President, sophomore Chris Scott, about this problem and other StuCo issues. When asked abou... More »
Travis Beam, the intramural director at Bethel College, is looking for a dodgeball commissioner to organize the weekly games held on Wednesdays. Also new to this year, students of other colleges will not be allowed to attend dodgeball or any other on-campus in... More »
Republican, Democrat or independent? In the next few weeks, millions of American students will be asking themselves that question. The U.S. presidential election on Nov. 6 is right around the corner. Voter turnout among college-age citizens has been on the ris... More »
New this school year, seniors in their last semester at Bethel College will no longer be required to attend chapel. Bill Bemis, the assistant director for student development, said that the new rule was decided last year. The idea was passed around to faculty ... More »
“We all benefit from the sacrifices of others.” That’s the motto of Terry Zeitlow, vice president for institutional advancement, here at Bethel College. And sacrifice is precisely what it would take for the graduating class of 2012 to raise the funds for the n... More »
While Sodexo will still have some involvement, by next fall, the new Sufficient Grounds will be mainly run by Bethel students. More »
At the beginning of every year at Bethel College the new freshman class gets involved in community service. This year about 300 students, including some transfer students, worked in Mishawaka. The students worked with members of the Mishawaka Parks Department ... More »
Junior Adam Forrester believes he may have cracked the code for the current game of Ambush. “Everybody kept coming to me and asking who this person or that person was that they had,” said Forrester. “From there I saw a pattern in the way the names are listed.”... More »
After traveling five hours to Mount Vernon Nazarene and dropping the first game of the double header, the Pilot baseball team got back on track as they snapped their distressing 17 game losing streak. Bethel lost game one by a score of 12-1 before coming from ... More »
Bethel alumnus and former Pilot Basketball Assistant Coach Todd Gongwer quit his day job in 2009 and wrote a book titled LEAD… for God’Sake!.The book slowly garnered success and has received praise and endorsements from some of the biggest names in sports, suc... More »
On Saturday, April 17, the office of service learning will host the fourth annual Labor for Your Neighbor event, beginning at 9 a.m. The work ends at noon, with a cookout immediately after. “Early in the week we’re focused on getting the word out,” said Dean C... More »
