It’s been over a year now since the COVID-19 pandemic began and surely some people are wondering when it’s going to be over. This is the state of the COVID-19 pandemic as of right now. People are looking to take…
Author: Jacob Shank
2021 Senior Predictions
Jackie Barber: Jackie marries an investment banker from New York. They travel the world with their two border terriers and end up settling down on a country club in the Hamptons. Braden Bohn: Braden will try college while making singing…
Little Women Preview
Although a musical can’t be performed in person, Bethany is staging Little Women this year. The show is based on the book Little Women, written by Louisa May Alcott in 1868. It is a coming of age story about the…
New Faculty Member: Bradley Kauffman
This year Bethany got a new choir director named Bradley Kaufman. Funnily enough, this isn’t his first time teaching here. He directed the orchestra here in 2005-2007. However, his wife’s and his careers have taken them a lot more places…
What Happened After January 6th?
It has been a crazy month on Capitol Hill in Washington. Six days into the new year, while Congress was attempting to finalize President Joe Biden’s victory over former President Donald Trump, rioters stormed the capitol, halting the proceedings on…
Top 10 Christmas Movies
A CHRISTMAS STORY I think we can all relate to a Christmas that isn’t perfect. We’ve all had that one Christmas where everything seemed to go wrong, but ended up being okay. I put this as number one because I…
Free Speech at Bethany
Free speech is, according to the government, a right that all people deserve no matter what. This means that there are no laws that can restrict someone’s right to speech. Or if those laws exist they will at least be…
Different Kinds of People in Zoom Meetings
For the past couple of months, me, and most likely my fellow students, have been in tons of zoom meetings. We have had the privilege of seeing a lot of other people in zoom meetings too. These are just some…
Update on The Great Strides Capital Campaign
Bethany Christian school’s capital campaign, which launched publicly in mid-2019, has been going very well and is getting better with time. Some new developments have made this project very exciting. This capital campaign, entitled Great Strides, has the intent to…