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Luca Lombardi

Luca Lombardi is a Business Marketing major with minors in Photojournalism & Spanish at Bethel University in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He likes eating homemade Argentine food, going for walks around Saint Paul, and taking pictures of things that occur in his everyday life.

The Clarion •

[PHOTO] Bethel’s accessibility has come a long way, but has more to go

Freshman Hill has no accessible dorm rooms. Not every bathroom on campus has Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant push buttons that automatically open the door. There is only one lift across the entirety of Bethel University’s campus.
These things all pose a challenge for sophomore Ashton Lafleur. Lafleur uses either a walker or a wheelchair to get around, and the lack of accessible doors and hallways around campus cause him difficulty. There are entrances and exits that should have a...
The Clarion •

[PHOTO] Government dismantles DEI, Bethel University responds

In the wake of the government dismantling the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion [DEI] program, Bethel University and those involved in the DEI program on campus, known as Inclusive Excellence, are reevaluating its policies on who is included as well as making sure no laws are violated. 
An executive order was issued January 20, 2025 by the White House and stated that institutions needed to dismantle their DEI programs within sixty days. For institutions such as Bethel, this meant that no discrimi...
Mild Du •

Doodh-wala: The Milkman of Titram

This web documentary is a Textura production from the Bethel University (St. Paul, Minnesota) journalism program and the Sambhav Nature Farms community organization (Titram, Haryana, India). Directed by Sarah Bakeman. Produced by Luca Lombardi and Mild Du. Videography by Sarah Bakeman, Mild Du, Madi Kremer, Alyssa Malyon and Hersh Singh. Translations by Suraj Kumar, Kumar Mukesh and Hersh Singh.

For more about the Textura social justice journalism program, visit SeekTextura.com.
The Clarion •

Turnwall residents temporarily evicted due to mold

It was a warm, late summer day as junior Sophie Jacques moved into her North Village dorm at Bethel University Aug. 15, where she would be residing for the 2024-25 school year. As a student-athlete, she moved in two weeks before the academic year started for preseason volleyball practices. Jacques had no idea that nine days later, she wouldn’t be standing in her North Village dorm but rather in a hall ten minutes across campus that lacked the amenities she expected to have for her junior year....
BETHEL EDITING •

Through the lens of a video editor

Q: When did you start getting into video editing, and when did you know you wanted to become a video editor?A: I started getting involved in videography during my second year of university in Guatemala at Michael Polanyi College with the Liberal Arts program. We had the opportunity to take a film course as an elective, and I really enjoyed it, so I decided to dig deeper into the subject. While I was taking that course, I had the chance to meet someone who is now my mentor, and she taught me all...
The Clarion •

Combat and Christ: Bethel’s interpretation of a popular tale

Senior Cadie Logston entered stage left. Her blue and white makeup glistened under the spotlight  and her long fur cape dragged behind her as she walked to center stage. Logston stood there, towering over her minions, who awaited her next orders. Her voice echoed off the walls of Bethel University’s soon-to-be sold-out black box theater. 
Logston plays the White Witch in Bethel University’s fall production of C.S. Lewis’ “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” which debuts Friday, Oct. 18. 
Dire...
ROYAL REPORT •

Is print dying at Bethel?

Freshman English and philosophy student Laura Hunt lounges in one of the chairs in the center of Bethel University’s library, kicking her black Converse high tops up on the ottoman in front of her while she reads and annotates the pages of “Basic Writings of Existentialism,” a book assigned for one of her philosophy classes.

Reading — it’s an integral part of studying at Bethel. Students can be found scattered throughout campus with books. Some are seen holding a worn, discolored, broken-spined
ROYAL REPORT •

From paper to producing

Soraya Keiser watches the fireworks go off in explosive pops, illuminating the Midwestern sky with red, white, and blue. This Fourth of July, she’s not celebrating in her home city of Milwaukee. Instead, Keiser is on the tail end of her time with a family who had immigrated there from Guatemala, where she had interviewed and spent time getting to know them.

Keiser spent over a year going back and forth from Guatemala to the U.S. while producing a documentary entitled “Border of Dreams,” which s
ROYAL REPORT •

Bethel University’s ‘resident scholar’ photography professor

Beyond his work at Bethel, Thompson’s individual work focuses on hope and failure in the American landscape — a theme he’s made photographs of in locations such as abandoned amusement parks, a run-down cinema and empty rest stops. To him, these locations express the idea of hope for something that was once grand, but that now falls apart. His colleague, Kenneth Steinbach, another professor in the art department at Bethel University, speaks of Thompson’s work.

“Gestures people make, such as maki