Bethel University - Spire Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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11 Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth. Shelley

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Campus life is a complex of activities, attitudes, and interaction. A spirit of worship and meditation permeates corporate experiences in the chapel and convocation, and encourages a personal dialogue with God. Studying, discussing philosophies, contemplating, defining goals, stimulate scholarship. Yet this life would be incomplete without the more informal friendship among students and staff. The Coffee Shop, after-game mixers, dormitories, provide occasions for mingling in casual conversation. Such campus events as Nik Dag. Homecoming, and Sno-Daze augment the social calendar.

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Freshman girls chat casually between Dean's orientation, workshops, and chapel. Welcome Week began: a time of confusion, brick buildings, empty rooms, new faces. In the daytime the faces were smiling and searching. At night there v ere gnawing fears, loneliness, uncertainty. Personalities v ere exaggerated: too loud or too quiet, too serious, too slapstick. Every hour brought a new line for registration, health exams, meals, testing. Five buses, each loaded with sixty strangers, carried class and staff to Big Trout Lake. The days were hectic and exciting. The president and deans were introduced. The welcome staff presented the student's-eye point of view” in buzz sessions. Initiation. Buses returned tired novices to a campus now filled with foreboding upperclassmen. They came back, not as individual faces, but as a class, cohesively unified, obvious in green beanies. Welcome Week closed with the Moods program, an introduction to the collegiate way of life. The Tuesday sun brings out Frosh for vigorous recreation 12