Luca Lombardi

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....

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...

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. 
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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

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

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