By Jennifer Scott Alonzo Jamison is the new men’s basketball head coach. He gladly took the job after last year’s coach, Mark Yoder, stepped down from the job. “My dream to be a head coach has been fulfilled,” Jamison said. “Now I have to take the next step with the kids.” When Yoder stepped down, [...]
Read more...By Megan Leary Men’s and women’s basketball have something not all teams on campus have—both a varsity and a junior varsity (JV) squad. The two squads allow more players to be on the team and an opportunity for younger players to develop confidence before reaching varsity level. The JV team plays other JV squads from [...]
Read more...By Naomi Graber Wisdom can be found in unexpected places. And while I appreciate that, I find it disconcerting how my wisdom is often found in random YouTube videos. During the last presidential campaign, I went on more than my share of YouTube related rabbit trails following the hilarious genius of Tina Fey as Sarah [...]
Read more...By Arthur Kaufmann The other day I was at the Iron Horse Pub tackling a pile of homework and drinking a cold brew. For a moment, just a moment, I forgot where I was and started envisioning how nice it would be to keep a six-pack of beer in my dorm fridge for brain-frazzled emergencies. [...]
Read more...By Martin Olson School children are often surprised or discomforted by running into their teachers at the store or on the street, anywhere outside of the classroom. Even into adulthood, students may find it difficult to remember the lives of teachers that have nothing to do with school. And yet, there is so much more [...]
Read more...By Bethany Thiesen Darin Derstein, senior from Ford, will be giving his senior seminar presentation at the beginning of May. Many students participate in a senior seminar course as a part of Bethel College’s undergraduate research requirement. Undergraduate research provides students direct experience with the methods and processes of inquiry of the student’s discipline. The [...]
Read more...By Jocelyn Wilkinson When I was in high school, I had a fantastic history teacher that used to tell her students, “If you get a bad grade, that’s the grade you get. You just gotta eat it.” This was her way of telling us that we were now responsible and if we didn’t like how [...]
Read more...By Daniel Lassman Spring has vibrantly injected itself into all aspects of the landscape. The prairies now swim with butterflies, young forbs, and all manner of moles, mice, and the occasional hawk. The invasive honeysuckle in the woods now makes the understory a thicket of green, tinged with paleness. In the distance, new leaves on [...]
Read more...By Joe Kondziola The humanities are the better discipline for the simple reason that there are an infinite number of ways to express your rational and irrational thoughts. It has been argued that mathematics is the only way that one can completely express an idea of how to make something work. Then how do you [...]
Read more...By Casey Schunn As some may know, Bethel College is home to a new source of teambuilding and exercise: the Discovery Adventure Course. These series of structures have been built for the sole purpose of challenging individuals physically and mentally, forcing them to think about how they could best use their teammates to accomplish a [...]
Read more...By Megan Leary Let’s face it. Nerds rule. The whole STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) group of majors is far superior to the counterpart of arts and humanities. Engineering in particular shines bright as one of the best career options out there, but the rest aren’t bad either. Chemists, biologists and mathematicians are out [...]
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