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Another boringly typical freshman arrived at Bethel College wedged between suitcase, stereo and the informative text, So You’re A College Student! It was me, fresh out of high school, money and, suddenly, courage. The residences looked mazelike, the school buildings conglomerated with innumerable staircases built purposely to confuse me. Everything seemed incredibly complex. Registration was an unrewarded effort as I scraped together a variety of cast-off classes. Dwarfed on all sides by “upperclassmen,” I was jounced through an unending line. When had the other freshmen been informed about this inscrutable process, “registration?” I must have missed that lecture. “Someday, said pitying, smug expressions above me, “Someday you’ll understand this. As for now . . . you’re a freshman.” Cruelty was not the intention. Everyone kindly answered ridiculous questions. “No, no. The cafeteria is two buildings over, one level down ” They continued their abstracted helpfulness, but I remained apart from this educated, friendly mass screaming greetings to old college buddies. I stood out— dumb, absurdly young—the classic depiction of the naive freshman. I experienced “initiation” when a group of boisterous R.A.s serenaded the newcomers to Bethel with unrelenting bugle blasts in an early morning rendition of “Taps.” I saw the experience as reminiscent of the joy of ice-water showers and visits to sadistic dentists. Having hurdled the titanic blockades of Welcome Week and registration, I began to sense the feeling of oneness in the student body. The divided campus didn’t really divide us. No longer harrassed by the dilemas of State Fair crowds and adjustments to neurotic roommates, weathered Bethelites emerged from sardine-can rooms on Arona, showing signs of real benevolence toward stumbling “freshies.” Few listeners act impressed when I relate my conversion to this group of over seventeen hundred addicted to Bethel College. They don’t realize the significance of the change that is occuring as I extricate myself from the lowly mold “freshman” and advance to accept the title, “student.” ROCHELLE NIELSEN
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Passages Bethel College 1977 Gazing forward, questioningly peeking ahead through foggy passages— We cannot turn the crisp, new pages of our lives: we must only wait and wonder. NEECY TWINEM
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