There's more to life at Bethel than classes & seminars

Beyond the green is a place students to share the joys and hardships of being a Thresher.

  • Mudslam, AKA The Dirtiest Volleyball You Have Ever Played

    Mudslam, AKA The Dirtiest Volleyball You Have Ever Played

  • Mod Life: Finding Fun Amidst Stress

    Mod Life: Finding Fun Amidst Stress

Concert Choir Tour 2015

Concert Choir Tour 2015

The choir's annual spring break tour took them into churches of various denominations in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, where they experienced amazing hospitality from an equal variety of people.
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Bethel in bloom

Bethel in bloom

It seems like we just turned around and suddenly it's spring all over the Bethel campus.
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Spring Fling 2015

Spring Fling 2015

Above is a photo from 2015's Bubbert Awards fun. The Bubberts capped off Spring Fling week, which also included Ultimate Trivia, laser tag, Capture the Flag and Bethel Olympics. Plus an Iron Chef Cook-off with a secret ingredient...
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The end of another school year

The end of another school year

Wrapping up, finishing up and moving out, as another school year ends. Our bloggers appreciate coffee, friends, beautiful coffee, summer plans, study breaks and ... coffee.
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Busiest Month of the Year!

Hey Everyone,

Okay now that September is over hopefully things are starting to slow down. I know personally that September was a month filled with busy days that consisted of mountainous amount of homework, being gone every friday and saturday out of state for volleyball matches, trying to attend bible study and other teams games, and squeezing in time with friends when possible.

Looking back on the month there were many exciting things going on at Bethel. The Volleyball team is now 15-8 and 6-1 in conference. We are done with non conference matches and now can concentrate on our conference goals. The soccer teams are playing their hearts out against tough competition day in and day out. I am never surprised by the copious amounts of bruises and lumps they all get from their brutal games. The football team is battling a lot of injuries, I personally had a friend go through shoulder surgery, and another had back surgery in the last two weeks. Never forget about all these athletes, that while they are at Bethel filling their minds with a whole lot of knowledge, they also are sacrificing their bodies to bring pride to our teams!

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Persecution

 

On Friday night, the Student Activities Committee hosted a campus-wide game of Persecution. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the game, allow me to fill you in: Persecution seeks to mimic to some extent the lives of the early Anabaptists as they fled religious persecution in the 16th century. The point of the game is to work one’s way from safe house to safe house (located in different areas around campus) without getting tagged by a person carrying a broom. If one is tagged, one must go to the jail, where the jailer subjects the prisoners to ridiculous rules. A prisoner may be set free from jail, but only at the jailer’s discretion. Once a person has been to all six safe houses, they receive the password to “heaven.” The game is played at night, wearing all black, and the “Anabaptists” travel in groups of 4 to 10, depending on whom in the group has already been tagged. Essentially, it’s a giant game of Tag, with multiple people who are “it,” and lots of secret passwords.

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Tie-dye extravaganza

One of the best things about Bethel is life on campus. I’m not sure what percentage of students live on campus, but it’s very high. This makes for a very tight-knit community.

My floor in Haury Hall is actually two girls’ halls, but we do most everything together. This past Sunday our two RAs, Lindsey and Jordyn, organized a tie dye party for the 30-some girls on the floor. For most of us it was a fun way to spend time with friends we had already met, but I also talked for the first time with some girls who I had said hi to when passing in the hallway but had never really talked to before.

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Domination

This past Thursday, one of the most exciting fall events at Bethel took place. Every year, the volleyball team plays at least one game against our rival opponents, the Tabor College Blue Jays. It seems that every season, these two teams are evenly matched, making for an unforgettable game. This year, the meet was held at Bethel, in Thresher gym, and boy was it unforgettable! I like to think that almost the entire student body was in attendance. Some of the boys on the basketball team even painted their chests to spell THRESHERS. Everyone was cheering and standing for the duration for the entire five-game match, and for good reason. The games were very intense! Read More

Student Announce

One of the little joys of coming to Bethel is a thing called Student Announce. This is something that you don’t really think about when you’re examining Bethel, but it’s a nice little tool that is really only available at colleges like Bethel.

Because Bethel is such a tight-knit community, it is possible to e-mail all Bethel students at once. This, my friends, is student announce. Student Announce by itself is a handy tool (if you choose to use it–you can also opt out) for selling books or hearing Student Life announcements, but it gets really hilarious when you start using it for jokes.

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Basketball practice already?

I play basketball here at Bethel and our practices start tomorrow!  That is September 28th!  This is very early for any basketball team to start and I can’t believe it is here already!  Conditioning is over with and it is time to get down to the fun stuff!  I have to admit that it is weird to be starting basketball while volleyball and football and other fall sports are just in the middle of their seasons.  It will give us a lot of time to prepare!

Our team looks very good this year.  We have a lot of seniors and a lot of freshman and then just one sophomore and one junior.  We will have a lot of experience with our seniors and  a lot of raw talent with our freshmen.  It will be interesting to see how this dynamic plays out.  I hope we are able to push each other in practice and make each other better.  Our freshmen are really great girls this year!  It should make for an exciting season!  We may start practice early, but our first game is not until Nov. 4th.  So… enjoy all of the fall sports right now, but be ready for men’s and women’s basketball this winter because both teams have been working very hard!

Fall Fest

Fall Fest is less than a week away and I can already feel the excitement. Fall Fest is like the homecoming of Bethel, it is full of alums and people from all over the community. People are able to visit different tents on campus and explore something new. I know for the women’s basketball team, we will be selling Russian Pancakes. This is always exciting. There will be a lot of food, games and festive activities for everyone. Oh and don’t forget soccer plays at 12:00 and 2:00 at Thresher Stadium against Friends. The football team will be playing against Bethany College at 7:00 pm so come out and support your Threshers for an all day event of fun and excitement.

From Grouchy to God

Stress, stress and more stress. That is where I found myself this past week, not to mention the week before. I was constantly complaining about all the work to be done for my classes and the jobs I hold here on campus. Ask my roommate, and I’m sure she could tell you that I was downright grouchy! Amongst my exceedingly full schedule I somehow found myself sleeping at 10:00 am last Wednesday morning. That next hour at 11:00 am, Bethel has scheduled a time for Chapel lead by our campus pastor Dale Schrag. Although all students are encouraged to attend, no one is required to fill up that hour of your week at a church based service. Read More

In Praise of Study Groups

Study groups are amazing. I know that sounds super nerdy, and it probably is, but the fact remains that study groups are probably the best way to prepare for a test.I have an Organic Chemistry test this Monday, and I just spent 2 hours in a study group, comparing material that I did know, material that I didn’t know, and concepts that I was a little shaky on with 3 of my classmates. And in nearly every case, we were able to fill the gaps in each other’s knowledge. Study groups can be super intense and incredibly stressful with the wrong mixture of people, but with the right group, studying can be pretty fun, especially when the topic-specific jokes and puns start flying!

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Working Woman

I never had a job in high school. I was too busy with activities and my parents kept telling me that I would have plenty of time to work later in life. Knowing that I would no longer have my parents’ money for the necessities of dorm food and movies I decided to get a job in the bookstore.

My two hours a week at the bookstore have so far been extremely entertaining. I get to take the outgoing mail to the post office, stuff students’ mailboxes, answer the switchboard phone, and other random things that Mary and Shirley find for me to do. They know all of Bethel’s secrets and are the people to talk to for many random questions. The bookstore is pretty much the center of everything that happens on campus.

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