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Stu­dent Coun­cil elec­tions come and go

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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 »

Beam seeks new in­tra­mural dodge­ball com­mi­sioner

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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 »

Stu­dents eval­u­ate pres­i­den­tial elec­tion

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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 »

Chapel now op­tional for stu­dents in fi­nal se­mes­ter

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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 »


Am­phithe­ater is largest class gift yet

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“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 »

Bethel fresh­man serve Mishawaka

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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 »


Am­bush code cracked?

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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 »

Pi­lots rally on the road to snap 17 game skid

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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 »