By Erin Bradley For this year’s Fall Festival theatrical performance, the Bethel theater department is bringing a well-loved musical to the Krehbiel Auditorium stage. The Secret Garden is based on the children’s classic novel by Francis Hodgson Burnett. The book was first published in 1911 and then re-imagined for the stage by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright [...]
Read more...By Emma Bradley The campus is alive with the chatter of hundreds of people, both young and old. Booths selling a variety of foods and items cover the green. Bethel students, alumni, and families, along with members of the greater community surrounding the college gather together one weekend in October to celebrate Fall Festival. While [...]
Read more...By Marike Stucky Beyond providing the Bethel campus with a good laugh as students run frantically across the Green, clutching nerf guns and socks, the Humans vs. Zombies (HvZ) club is breaking records. Fifty-six students participated in the last game, the highest number of participants the club has ever seen. Kris Dubach, junior from Topeka, [...]
Read more...By Katelyn Melgren The Bethel campus is a network of people, involving various levels of work to ensure all aspects of the institution are running smoothly. There are financial supporters, small business owners, sponsors, staff, faculty, commuting students, on-campus students, and volunteers. Bethel has a wide variety of ways to get involved, and it can [...]
Read more...By Emily Simpson The annual STEM symposium has always been a big part of Bethel’s Fall Festival activities. Not only does it give students more insight into what’s possible with a science major, but it gives them opportunities to meet and network with Bethel alumni. The goal with the symposium is to rotate science fields [...]
Read more...By Jordan Esely-Kohlman The Bethel College Corporation was chartered 125 years ago with the purpose of “The building and maintaining of a college in the interest of higher Christian education under the auspices of the Mennonite Church of North America.” The cornerstone for the Administration Building was laid a year later, on October 12, 1988. [...]
Read more...By Emily Simpson On Friday, Oct. 5th, the seats in Krehbiel Auditorium were filled for this year’s Groundbreakers Emerging Artists (GEA) convocation, featuring DJ Carbon. The GEA series was born when Nathan Bartel took over the position as convocation coordinator in 2011. Bartel wanted to create a convocation series that would not just continue through [...]
Read more...By Erin Bradley Basing the opening of his convocation speech off of two quotes, “If history were taught in the form of story, it would never be forgotten” (Rudyard Kipling) and “If you inherit land, you must farm it, if you inherit a story, you must tell it” (Swahili proverb), former president Dr. Harold Schultz [...]
Read more...By Emma Bradley As the typical trickle of people into Krehbiel Auditorium for convocation began on Sept. 17, Kansas State Representative Mike Pompeo started greeting and chatting with students. Pompeo opened his talk with a description of the original intent of the United States Constitution. “It’s not just a piece of paper,” Pompeo said. “(The [...]
Read more...By Marike Stucky In celebration of Bethel’s 125th anniversary comes a new exhibition at Kauffman Museum, entitled “Threshing Stone: Mennonite Artifact and Icon.” The exhibit opens to the public Oct. 6 to coincide with Fall Fest and ends Jan. 20. Rachel Pannabecker, director of Kauffman Museum, described the primary purpose of the exhibit, saying “it’s [...]
Read more...By Emily Simpson Returning students may remember last year’s Multicultural Club. This year it’s getting a facelift. The new Multicultural Student Union (MSU) is going to be more active, more inclusive, and perhaps spicier thanks to new Warkentin Court RD Caleb Lazaro. Having a diverse cultural background, Lazaro really connects with the concept of MSU. [...]
Read more...By Emily Simpson Bethel has always been heavily involved in the fine arts, and the FAC art gallery is one demonstration of that involvement. The gallery showcases not only many artists’ works, but also various artistic mediums, including sculpture, paint, and installation. Rachel Epp Buller recently took over coordination for the art gallery, and has [...]
Read more...By Logan Palenske A new school year brings change and this was especially evident in the Bethel College men’s and women’s soccer programs. For the first time the men and women will each have their own head coaches, allowing for more focus on team and individual players. The two men who hope to lead their [...]
Read more...By Erin Bradley One major obstacle that faced the Bethel College football team before the season even started was the resignation of former Head Coach Travis Graber and the search for an interim. On July 27, two weeks before athletes were on campus, a month before the first game, Graber officially resigned, effective immediately. With [...]
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