By Martin Olson Tactic One: Wear a Decoy Ring – The ring is the most auspicious difference between someone single and someone engaged. By wearing a decoy ring, you avoid dangerous questions along the line of “So when are you thinking of settling down?” and can fend off those desperate for marriage. As an added [...]
Read more...By Allison Yoder Forensicators put in many hours preparing and perfecting the final product they perform. Natalie Stucky, senior from Moundridge, stated that “the process starts in the summer—researching and writing takes about eight hours for a first draft.” Stucky went on to say the addition of gestures and perfecting the delivery takes even more [...]
Read more...By Erin Bradley Bethel’s operating budget for the 2011-2012 school year consisted of salaries and benefits (56.1%), academic affairs (7.3%), admissions department (2.0%), business affairs (16%), church relations (0.8%), advancement development office (1.3%), marketing and communications (0.6%), President (0.5%), student life (1.3%), food service (6.4%) and capital and debt payments (7.7%). “We have various funds,” [...]
Read more...By Erin Bradley At the end of the 2010-2011 school year, the Bethel College Board decided to change the Fall 2011 schedule by starting the semester a week earlier than normal. This change was due to many things, one main reason being the athletic schedule. The Board decided they did not want to make the [...]
Read more...By Jordan Esely-Kohlman 1. Triage your studying for separate classes. Many students make the mistake of thinking they will need to study equally for every subject. Assess each class individually and, if one is giving you more trouble than others, plan on spending more time studying for that subject. After assessing each class, make a [...]
Read more...By Allison Yoder With Christmas break approaching, many students on campus face their last semester at Bethel College. They also face the reality of presenting a senior seminar. Seniors Julia Huxman, Wichita, and Peter Regier, Newton, give insight to their own pursuits of the senior project. Huxman is majoring in Communication Arts and Business. When [...]
Read more...By Arthur Kauffman No longer a closeted topic, issues of human sexuality were recently brought to the forefront of campus conversation with the convocation series entitled “Seeking Common Ground: Sexual Identity in Church and Society” and the theater department’s production of “The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later.” Both the convocation series and “The Laramie Project” [...]
Read more...By Megan Leary As the new convocation coordinator this year, Assistant Professor of Literary Studies Nathan Bartel brought a new series to the convocation schedule, “Seeking Common Ground.” The “Seeking Common Ground” series began this year with the topic of “Sexual Identity in Church and Society” over four lectures. “When I took the reins from [...]
Read more...By Allison Yoder After viewing 50/50, I bestow 4 out of 5 Threshing Stones to this heart-wrenching, honest film. The movie genre “cancer comedy” sounds oxymoronic. The two words simply do not fit together. Or so I thought. With a script written by Will Reiser and directed by Jonathan Levine, 50/50 is an original story [...]
Read more...By Allison Yoder “Pretty Road” and “Some Skunk Funk” are a few of the tunes that will be played at 8:00 p.m., December 2nd in Krehbiel Auditorium during the Bethel College Jazz Ensemble Concert. The concert will begin with sounds from Jazz Ensemble Two, followed by four charts played by Jazz Ensemble One. Jazz Ensemble [...]
Read more...By Martin Olson This spring, Bethel College Wind Ensemble is playing at the Kansas Music Educators’ Association annual conference. The ensemble was picked over a large number of other submissions from groups all over the state made last May to be featured at the KMEA event this spring. However, due to our unusual term structure [...]
Read more...By Rachel Voran As a culmination to a semester of growth, the Bethel College Chamber Orchestra concert Thursday, Nov. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in Krehbiel Auditorium featured not only student performers, but a student conductor as well. Rachel Voran, a senior Music Education major from Newton, conducted the orchestra on a piece she selected and [...]
Read more...By Samantha Wilkerson On Nov. 1, Bethel hired its first competitive cheer and dance coach, Jill Fenske of Valley Center in the half-time position. Fenske is a 2009 graduate of Washburn University where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in management and marketing with a minor in sociology. She is currently employed at First Student Inc. [...]
Read more...By Jordan Esely-Kohlman It’s the most wonderful time of the year, at least for sports fans. College basketball is in full swing. The college football season is quickly approaching conference championship games and the bowl season. The NFL season is more than half over and playoff contenders are emerging. And, finally, the NBA lockout is [...]
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