ICT News • 13th April 2024

A sacred space

Blues from the 1950s echoes from the speakers. The theater is packed. The front row is reserved for the elders.

“Welcome to the First Nation sensation, Creator’s favorite musical, Bear Grease!”

Applause fills the black box of Gremlin Theatre in St. Paul, Minnesota.

The all-Native cast of “Bear Grease” – a Native twist on the classic musical, Grease – steps out on the dimly lit stage. Sandy, Danny and Rizzo – or “Rezzo” in this cast. And the “beauty school dropout” Frenchie, played by Monique

The Clarion • 3rd April 2024

Gen-Z: The future of the church

“I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.”

After taking a ministry class at Wheaton College, Johnson couldn’t see herself in any other profession. But when people told her that they couldn’t support her ordination because of her gender and told her to read 1 Timothy 2:12, she feared that the only thing in her life — preaching — wasn’t fit for her.

Since transferring to Bethel, Johnson is sure ministry is where God called her to be. While touring Be

The Clarion • 23rd February 2024

Opening the conversation

Hailey DuPrée, Ilene Amayarapalo and Spencer Vang pull their chairs closer to one another. They just finished watching the 1955 Disney movie “Lady and the Tramp” in the Underground, and because the first Real Talk event of the spring semester is on Valentine’s Day, they have a discussion surrounding interracial relationships — a theme present within the film.

Though “Lady and the Tramp” is loved by many, Real Talk opened the conversation to discuss the implication of the movie depicting chihuah

The Clarion • 23rd February 2024

Feeling in color

Jayden Richards sat with his friends in the Monson Dining Center and observed fellow students grabbing meals and conversing with peers.



People-watching – something that most students at Bethel University are guilty of. But not everyone sees people the same way.

“It’s really funny when their colors don’t match,” Richards said confidently. His friends looked at him with confusion and asked Richards what he meant. He explained that different colors have different feelings — and some colors d

The Clarion • 14th February 2024

Healing Cupid’s wound

I must warn you: I’m about to be cynical. A party pooper, if you will.

I’m going to say it: I’m a Valentine’s Day hater. I think the only time I remember genuinely enjoying the frigid day in the middle of February was when I was in third grade and I came home from school with a paper bag full of half-eaten blue raspberry Fun Dips and heart-shaped Reese’s.

But since then, when Feb. 14 rolls around, I can’t help but want to avoid that day at all costs. I don’t know what sparked this animosity. M

ROYAL REPORT • 8th December 2023

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

The Clarion • 5th December 2023

Connecting for a change: The Urban Village

Bethel alum Tu Lor Eh Paw sits on the small, wooden stage with seven younger girls, their voices echoing throughout the mural-painted walls as they sing along to Bruno Mars’ “Grenade.” As program director at The Urban Village, Eh Paw runs karaoke tonight by connecting her phone to the bluetooth speakers and playing songs that the teenage girls can’t help but sing along to.

Across the room teens giggle with one another, relaxing on couches or playing guitar. Adidas backpacks, The North Face wint

The Clarion • 5th December 2023

We walked so iPad kids could run

Picture this: It’s 3:30 p.m. and you’re sitting on a musty, bumpy school bus full of screaming kids after a long eight hours filled with running the FitnessGram PACER test and learning mx+b equals the slope of the line. Your best friend asked you to keep her Snapchat streaks while she’s on vacation, you noticed your first pimple in the mirror and someone else has the same rainbow-checkered Vans as you.

But as the school bus pulls up to your stop, you remember that you have two hours until your

The Clarion • 14th November 2023

Cheer Night kicks off Homecoming Week

Bethel University students dressed in an array of colors flooded through the doors of the Robertson Center Gym last night for the kickoff of Bethel’s Homecoming events. Flags waved above them as the gymnasium echoed with screams, cheers and claps of students who had anticipated this moment for days.

Cheer Night is an annual Bethel Homecoming tradition in which each dorm competes against one another by coming up with their own cheer to show off the most school spirit.

“Extravagant.” That is the

The Clarion • 14th November 2023

Cat naps and dog days: Emotional support animals

As fire alarms blared throughout Lissner Hall, students filed through hallways and down stairwells to make their way to the Lakeside Center. Most were unbothered, keeping calm and chatting as they waited for the drill to end.

When the alarms went off in Lissner 312, however, the fire drill wasn’t so simple. For Izzy Friesen’s emotional support cat, Charlie, the alarm was a new and overwhelming sound. At the first screech, Charlie ran into Friesen’s room, hunkering down in his favorite spot – he

ROYAL REPORT • 27th October 2023

Telling a story through a lens

Talia McWright, a videographer for ‘Border of Dreams,’ depicts the emotion of immigration through her footage.

Talia McWright stood behind the camera she borrowed from Bethel University, filming Abel and his family who immigrated to Kansas in 1996 from Mexico City. McWright has always had a hobby for photography, but filming the Border of Dreams documentary was a project that the executive producer, Scott Winter, trusted her to do.

Knowing how immigrating to the United States has affected Abel

ROYAL REPORT • 15th November 2023

Influencing for a purpose

Bethany Werth sits down at her dorm room desk in Lissner Hall, flicks on her three desk lamps, props her phone up and hits record. She isn’t filming herself getting ready for a Good Morning America interview, unboxing a PR package she got in the mail or what a day in her life looks like as a micro influencer — the type of content that makes up the majority of her TikTok account, @thegirlwithmonolids. As she sits down with a half-eaten container of noodles in front of her, Bethany discusses the p