beyond the green

Hello!  My name is Samantha Askew and I am a senior here at Bethel.  I transferred here last year from Dodge City Community College.  I also grew up and went to High School in Dodge City.  I am a History major and I am also getting my Secondary Education certification.  I chose history because I love to learn from the past and I want to teach it to others.  Most high school students say that history is their most boring subject.  I want to change that common opinion and show students that history is very exciting!

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Hello all you voracious Bethel readers out there. It’s my pleasure to begin a blog for the “Beyond the Green” blog, but before I take you on a verbal tour of the college, let me introduce myself.

My name is Ben Histand, and I’m a fifth-year senior most recently from North Newton, Kansas. I’m a Business Administration major, and I’m also a member of the cross country and track teams, but like most Bethel students, I don’t fit into a specific mold. I do a lot of different things on campus, some of them more official than others: I’m a member of Men’s Ensemble, and we’ve got bi-semester concerts; I’m not in the Bethel College band or Orchestra, but I still get together and play with others and jam for the fun of it; last year I organized a meditation group and a film club.

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My name is Claire Unruh and I grew up in Clay Center, Kansas. I am entering my third year at Bethel College, dual majoring in Biology and Bible & Religion, with an anticipated minor in Chemistry. Upon graduation from Bethel, I plan to eventually enter medical school, specializing in surgery.

When I say that I am majoring in both Religion and Biology, I often get strange looks, as if the two areas were mutually exclusive. To me, they are not. In fact, they are complementary. However, I’ll leave that particular bit of introspection to your personal discernment. Religion and Biology have interested me for years. There’s nothing I love better than a solid discussion of personal or communal theology, and nothing that gets me more excited than human biology. I think that they are both wonderfully complex and fascinating subjects. The biology classes at Bethel have taught me how to study well, to effectively read a textbook, and the importance of multi-colored highlighting. From my Bible & Religion classes, I have learned how to think and not just mindlessly regurgitate facts and processes, as well as learning to evaluate societal themes and the importance of adopting a personally relevant theology.

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This past weekend was planned to be an awesome filled weekend!…But due to weather, intramural softball was rained out on Saturday. MudSlam was canceled due to bad weather–but it was actually sunny so some people still played! Allen Wedel was pumped that he still got to play MudSlam. He had been looking forward to MudSlam for a looong time! Send off for Summer was the only thing not canceled!

Students stood in line for free t-shirts (the first 75 students) and the Student Life staff grilled the hot-dogs and hamburgers. There were inflatables, pie was thrown into faculty faces, and students played catch with a football. This was very fun for everyone and it was a great time to spend with friends before heading into finals and then moving home for the summer. Even though softball and MudSlam was canceled, the weekend still ended up pretty good. Send off for Summer is always an event students look forward to.

…Now the weekend is over, it is on to studying for finals!

Uh oh for fun, get ready for the best weekend of your college careers. This weekend is going to be filled with so much fun and excitement.

Starting on Friday, after classes end there will be a game of capture the flag in the dark!!! Yay! Then on Saturday it is the annual intramural softball games where there is a lot of fun and excitement. Even if you’re not a participant, many go to lay out in the sun and cheer on their peers and of course barbecue. You can’t have a softball game without a barbecue. Last but not least, there is Sunday. Who can forget mud-slam, that icky sticky rolling around in the mud all day volleyball game which implies win or go home!!! After you’re all washed up from the mud, you should go to send off for summer.

Yay my favorite part of the year because it is the last time to spend time with your buddies before everyone leaves for the summer. Remember the first 75 people at send off for summer get free t-shirts.